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i bought the smallest bag. robin eggs are my fav. and now they are gone and that is out of the way. see ya. it was closing in on me.
next year, i hope you add september’s (indian lakes) to the list. they have a bleu cehsee-stuffed burger that is excellent. btw, i do hope to ping you once the weather gets nice to check out the stump smoker.~ carpetbagger Ooh, your craft room is looking good! Keeping things clean and organized can be a little hard, but when you see results like that, you can’t help but work hard to make sure that things are kept in such a state. Well, invest in ways to store some of that stuff later on to prevent an accumulation of clutter! Cleaning up our closets means cleaning the clutter and all stuff that are scattered. This is a routine that we have to maintain in order for us to be able to have the cleanliness that we deserve. hanks a lot for sharing your points of view with us. Keep up the good work You literally have the best craft room that I have ever seen. Please share where all of the inspiration came from. Is it things that you have been collecting over time? It looks like a room of things that you love. WOWEE…I am in awe of your craft room, it’s absolutely incredible! Love the room…so fun and filled with bits and pieces and it made me want to jump in there and get crafty. I can so relate, I have been trying to clean my bead table for a month, thanks for the incentive! I can’t even tell you how jealous I am of your craft room! I LOVE it! Even when it’s messy, I wish it were mine. Although that’s actually true of your whole house…I have looked at the pics of your house many times. 🙂 I have to admit – I covet your craft room. I LOVE it! It’s about the size of my living room, and my craft room is a table and a dresser in our dining room ha! But just looking at your pictures was the inspiration I needed to finish sewing my kids’ Easter outfits. I love how colorful and just packed to the gills your craft room is! It is bursting with creativity. After this post I just want to color, sew, stamp, cut, and glue! i just love your craft room. all the treasures and vintage goodies. all the light. and most of all, all the love!! That room makes me smile as I know that it does you too! Happy Easter. Love the room Meg! It looks just like your pillows. So fun and vintage looking. I am glad you enjoyed your trip and I have enjoyed your pictures. Will be back tomorrow! Thanks for the daily inspiration. Hi Meg! Being the 84th to comment, I doubt you’ll see this but I just had to say how much I LOVE your craft space and every wonderful, perky thing in it! The pictures of it alone are uplifting. You are such a creative gal and I know you inspire many, including me for sure! Hope you have a wonderful Easter! XO Ann Oh my goodness! Your chalkboard wall is gorgeous- I am so going to erase all my white words and add colored chalk!!!! Love it. Love the verse. The bird with a french fry poster is awesome! My daughter and I have a spot where we park and throw fries to pigeons; they land all over the car and we laugh until our bellies hurt. Weird dream! Speaking of weird dreams, my daughter woke up the other day and said, “Mommy, I dreamed you were feeding me washcloths for breakfast and I didn’t want them but you said don’t waste the food you made.” Wonder what that says about me? 😉 I sooooo LOVE your craft room! I need to make mine more colorful like yours, although is just a mini version, it could be a lot more inspiring. I’ll keep looking at your pictures and maybe I’ll get to it…when I have time. I totally get the not wanting to waste time sleeping 🙂 looks fantastic (once again)! good for you! Lovely room! If my spare space could look pretty instead of just junky I would indulge myself an area for crafting. You manage to impart that prettyness to your area. Meg, Where do you buy your pom pom trim? I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE your craft room. Love the happy colors, love the detail 🙂 I want to live in that craft room:) AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! If this is really your craft room, I am SO jealous! i want to spend all day long in there too!! Long time lurker…first time commenter! Can you come to Texas and make my house feel as fun and warm as yours? I bet when people walk into your home they feel the LOVE, I do from here. Great job! Yours is so colorful and fun. I just redid mine…you can see it at http://www.juliejohnsonblog.blogspot.com... yummy!!!! Meg, Great photos. So artistic. You have inspired me to finish up my craft room/office. LOL at your dream. I had a wierd dream where I was looking for a date for the prom……until I remembered, “oh wait, I’m married” where did that come from. have a great day. Ok. That’s it. I am getting in my car and driving over… AZ isn’t too far, right? LOL. Have a great day! Wow I LOVE your craft room…everything just looks so shabby chic and pretty! Wish I could come around and play : ) it is amazing how happy pom poms make me 🙂 I’m pretty sure we have the same cutting board 😉 And I was having weird dreams until a wild pack of dogs decided to wake us up at 1:30 am and scare the bejeeze out of us. I agree with what purejoy said. Simply lovely. I absolutely love it! It IS so happy! Love the stuff you added – so very cute! Someday. Someday I will have a craft space like this. I love it! Fun, Fun, Fun !!! I just love all the happy in your craft room — all the color is so inspiring. You have my dream craft room! I love it! Love your dream! 🙂 such a happy space – love it! and love the stack of fabric ready for pillows – ’cause i need your pillows! I simply adore this room – it’s fabulous! I’m also cracking up over your dream – priceless 🙂 Pretty darn sure your craft room is THE BEST i have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV IT!!!!!!!!! Wowweeee 🙂 Great job!!! That room makes ME happy….and it’s not even mine….annnnd I can’t even sew 🙂 Simply FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!! Have a blessed Holy Thursday 🙂 awesomeness. pure awesomeness. that was fun! Beautiful and inspiring room! I often get discouraged that I have to go to sleep. There’s just so much I want to do. I guess that’s why kids don’t like to sleep. 🙂 I love EVERYTHING about your craft room… I feel so much better… Sure would love to come and play! give waffle a hug for me 🙂 heavenly!!!!!!!!!! what a lovely space to create in! I always find cleaning the craft room is so hard to find time for because it’s time I could be sewing, quilting or doing something creative! you’ve done a lovely job! A pocketful of sunshine, Meg. It’s so important to have a happy place to “escape” to far from the maddening crowd. Hello Megan. Your craft room is just de-lovely. I would want to play in there all night too. But sleep is important so, even with the strange dreams, it was probably the best choice 😉 LB x Lions and tigers and bears OH MY! I love it. I want one… it’s so happy! Enjoy! meggie it’s me again when i say i’d take the chandelier off your hands i mean i’d buy it$$ ok, 3 things: Are you selling these upcoming pillows on etsy?? I want a pillow so badly 🙂 what did you toss?? what?! i want it! meggie i’ll take the chandiler (sp) off your hands?? i cleaned today w/my daughter in law and you need sunglasses it so clean…. I have 3 of the little red/white polka dot boxes I spyed on top of a pile in one of the pics.. 50% off Vday clearance! I love them! I NEED one of those red/white polka dot bags hanging on your still needs to be painted door.. 🙂 Red and white polka dots are my favorite! oh I heart heart heart your special crafting space. such carefully placed INTERESTING and unique pieces. Mine is so bland and looks like it stepped out of a flat-packed store (because it has). I am inspired to go thrifting and paint some chalkboard paint on something! Love the hooks on the door. I also LOVE the littl red shelf. Too cute! LE SIGH! Oh I love love love your space! How fantastic! Where did you get the print that says “Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry”? I love that! what a fun space! I’m in love….. I agree! You are SO far from white trash! Best place Evah. I still adore that white/green chippy cabinet with the pink felt flower thingys. And your verse. And your “I am here to serve with JOY”. Oh, and your dream. From one crazy dreamer to another – good one. 🙂 UUUMMM If I promise to pick up after myself can I come and live in your craft room? a happy happy place.. i loved my visit. lovely! Thanks for showing us. I have the exact same thoughts about having to sleep but unfortunately I’m not sleeping well these days at 8 1/2 months pregnant. 🙁 Kelly I wanna live in your craft room! I’ll help you make pillows! I was thinking to myself, I wish that I had a craft room like Meg’s. The funny thing is that I could have one–not a beautiful light-filled one (it’s in the basement) but I could MAKE IT NICE if I ever made the time to paint the drywall, to hang stuff up, to out in some storage and a couple of tables…IT’S UP TO ME. And I am inspired by your room. this looks like the perfect place to create something bright and fun! Love the chandelier. As much as I love to sleep, I too, wish I didn’t need to. It just takes up so much time! 🙂 Fun seeing the Snap on Tools holder in your pictures. You purchased that at my garage sale a couple of years ago. I orginally bought it at Round Top in Texas. Oh *sigh…. so lovely. i’m watching the clock waiting, just waiting for the play room to become my craft room. my kids are only 5 and 2 1/2 – i think i’m going to be watching the clock for a very, very long time. but it’ll be worth the wait when i get there! 🙂 have a wonderful weekend and easter!! I want your craft room;) It’s lovely. And you literally made me LAUGH OUT LOUD! I feel ya…I have so many things to sew and paint! When my hubby came home from work today and asked what we were having for dinner, I cheerfully replied, “leftovers”! (Cause, ya know, microwave=more time to craft!) He’s not as enthusiastic about that as I am…? Time to go all out and plug in the crock pot! 🙂 dude. i would never leave. i’d leave to go menus by the phone and tell my family to order carry out. i’d put in a cot. and a coffee maker. and a portapotty. seriously. never leave. i’d order in a basin of water and take sponge baths and open up windows when the stank of me got too bad. geesh. what a perfect room. it made me want to go thrifting. ohmyword. i was in heaven for just a second. ooooooh…house pics….you know how i feel about looking at your house. i’ll take any glimpse i can get. Cleaning a craft room is so fun. I love the rediscovery of goodness, the promise of crafts to come. Thank you so much for sharing your space. I cannot wait to have a craft room again! Yours is just beautiful and so cheery! Love it! So it is breaking a Ten Commandment to covet your neighbors wife….is it still breaking a commandment if you are coveting your online friend’s craft room? Just curious. Your creative space is so fun and colorful. I LOVE THAT CARD…a bird with a french fry. It just cracks me up:) i know it’s a sin, but I covet your craft room! this looks like such a fun place!!! thanks for sharing! It is a very happy place! Great room. So inspirational. I want one just like it 😉 Oh, it is just lovely! What a great room! Now, can you spare some time to come and help me clean my space? Yum! Makes me want to come play in your craft room! Love your chalkboard wall… especially the verse written on it. 🙂 That’s EXACTLY where we’re living right now. 🙂 Everything looks lovely. The black wooden Snap-On Tools box caught my eye. I was a Snap-on Tools distributor some twenty years ago. Still buy them and use them everyday at my business. Best mechanic’s tools you can get. Really enjoy your blog. Proud of you for going to Haiti, enjoyed the pictures. Oh Meg! Everything is just so lovely and happy. I want this room, actually I want your whole house. Or maybe just a sprinkle of whatever happy dust you use. Now you’ve got me longing for a craft room. Everything is so bright and cheery in there, and love the red lockers. Jackie
i love that! the chair! i want the chair! i mean, you really can’t carry it with your bag… can you? LOL! ♥ I have been wanting to order a bag since you posted a while back about a bag you had from her:) I actually did order a camera sleeve for a friend of mine and she loves it! love it! I wonder if one of her bags would work well for a diaper bag?! Kelly I love Elisalou’s bags. I have a big one in some cute pink fabric and it carries everything. oh, cute! Im into bags too, its a sicknes!! I love the colors in this one, and isnt it funny that we notice the chair too, lol!! xoxo LA Beautiful bag, but are you kidding me….your bag is that organized! And it stays that way??? Oh, wow. That bag is drool-worthy!! Oh so cute 🙂 Headed over there right now 😉 I can’t resist a new bag 😉 I love the bag. The fabric is awesome. I just made my daughter a dress out of the same fabric. Check it out: http://livingchangerously.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-just-cant-do-straight-lines.html Thank you for this site! LOVE her bags! I LOVE my Elisalou bag. Very well made and sturdy, and super duper cute. I am going to ask for a second one for my birthday next month. LOVE this bag! Off to shop! 🙂 ooh I love that bag!! I follow her blog too! Love the bag – reminds me of Orla Kiely bags. Its delightful and yes looks good from every angle, with or without pink chair in support. LB Love it! How great for spring! The colors are fantastic! Thats the size I need. Big enough but not too big! Thanks Meg- you are soooo sweet. I need that chair for my photos! Do you have to carry the chair with you too! HEE HEE… I love it 🙂 Happy monday Megan.
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I hear ya on the couch, I have one that is perfect for me as well. Have a great weekend with your family and I’ll do the same. All of the colors just make me happy. So fun. So chill. cupcakes do wonders, don’t they? I just want to tell you what a great eye you have for making the normal look spectacular! Always enjoy your pictures! And I really love that couch – it looks way comfortable! On my blog I have this fun art site: Deep Space Sparkles…maybe you know it…if not, go check it out. It’s lots of fun! I am reading that book right now! It is great, I am so enjoying it. What a perfect “normal” day. Cupcakes, happy music, books, and creating! You just made me SO hungry for cupcakes…. Wonderful capture of your day. It looked sooo happy. I think I have those boots! And never once have I thought of wearing them with a denim skirt and striped knee socks. I’m totally inspired. Love it! OK. I have got to get me some boots, knee socks and….well my skirt would have to be down to my cankles, I mean ankles. I need to start fighting the forties frumps. Thanks for a little kick in the pants. Have a great weekend. Hey, and at least you are working at the no sugar thing, I’m just reading about others doing it. I suppose therein lies the correlation to the cankles : ) With a day like that….your weekend has got to be fabulous… Loved the boots and the socks best of all… CUTE and fun… can’t beat that combo. Great playlist! LOVE your playlist!! Hope you enjoy your Craig time. 🙂 Okay….TOTALLLLLY just went back of the play list…how did I MISS Dancing Queen??????? Okay, now I know they (Jake and Annie) are soul mates 😉 heeee heeeee 🙂 I’m lovin’ those socks of yours!!! And I have been fighting the sugar craving HARD this week!!!! I wanted to LICK my computer screen when I saw your cupcakes 😉 And wow! You look so philosophical laying there reading…I only read magazines ;( I’m trying though….and might I recommend a little ABBA on your playlist….I can sooooo hear Annie singing Dancing Queen 🙂 It’s my Jake’s FAVORITE. When he gets home from pre-k….he asks to watch “that movie about the dancing queen!!!” Happy weekending with your sweet family 🙂 I feel the same way about my hubby. After 19 yrs. together I still greet him at the door every evening and dip his supper for him. Love your playlist! Some of my favorite songs made it 🙂 Love the playlist. I never comment (even though I should!), but your taste in music is awesome. 🙂 What a great day. Great playlist as well:)…Thanks for being my favorite. Be Ok, is one of my favorites! Love your playlist. I am in love with your playlist! Nice socks Mrs. M. so, can i just come and hang out at your house for the day? Meg, you are SERIOUSLY the COOLEST! I LOVE your blog! You make ordinary days/moments so fun and memorable for your kids – I wanna be like YOU! I’m adding some of your tunes to my playlist. Your post has turned my BLEK morning into HAPPINESS! Have a FABULOUS weekend! I’m sure the iTunes division of Apple will be sending you a thank you card soon. I just spent a small fortune on songs thanks to your wonderful suggestions! I am reading that book right now and LOVE it! Francis Chan is amazing. Also – thanks for the playlist – I am going to have to check some of those out. Sounds like a fun day. HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE :D. Hope you all have a great weekend… I love that playlist! Very similar to a mix CD I made for friend. This was a great blog to read for a little cheer after looking at the local news. Thanks for all the vivacious pictures! =) Sounds like the perfect end to an awesome week … cupcakes, color, music and family! thanks for making ME smile too Meg… sounds like a good day to me! i too look forward to our weekends together 🙂 take care, susan I love how you make ordinary things look fabulous! Happy Friday to you too!! I dig your socks. And Calvin asked “Who’s that?” so I finally got to tell him all about Annie and how she doesn’t mix up all of her watercolors into a big puddle of brown. 😉 Pretty pics as always. Judging by that playlist, you must have been an XRT fan when you lived in Chicago! Sweet pics Meg. Love your funky socks. Have a great weekend. will you be my mom?? youre the coolest!! Enjoy your day with your boyfriend:-) i need to get francis chan’s new book…thanks for that reminder i think that’s a great book! i’m still in the process of reading crazy love. Happy Friday is RIGHT!! I want to see YOUR painting and your boots rock! That is so funny…my husband is Craig and my entire family calls him Craiggers. Fridays are definitely the best! I am already loving it! Love Annie’s outfit too…and those cupcakes look REALLY good. 🙂 I am so glad it is Friday too! Happy Day to you and many many blessings! lots of links coming up.
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ok…enough links. i am working in the kitchen today. I am 3 chapters deep into Crazy Love (well, i was a few months ago). Can’t wait to finish…new years resolution?? Glad to hear you like it… That book looks great … can’t wait to read it!! what is a stick pen? a straight pin? Thank you for introducing me to Frances Chan Cute stuff! I love Annie’s dress. Makes me want another little girl!! 🙂 lol love that headband!! Just wanted to say, I found your blog today and i LOVE IT! the pictures, words, scrapbooking etc! my new fave! I always feel like I’m wearing a helmet, unless I actually wash and style my hair to give it a bit of fluffiness. 🙂 That mom hair, ugh! Although, you do not look like you have it. Francis Chan knows how to put things in perspecitve. He has a gift and I am glad he shares it so well. When I mentioned that Crazy Love will “step on your toes a little” my brother-in-law responded with “well, it ran over my whole body.” So true, especially the lukewarm chapter. Oh my gosh, I am so so happy to see that you loved Crazy Love! Francis Chan has a serious gift, and it really is such an incredible book! Good recommendation! lots and lots of pretty!!! you do not have mom hair. I just ordered that book this week. It’s supposed to be here today! I’m so excited. Well… I was thinking that your hair looked super cute! Does that mean that I have/like mom hair?! I sure hope not! Love CRAZY LOVE!! I’m reading it right now and it’s rocking my world. My minister always says that when you hear something and it makes you say ‘ouch’ then it was what you needed to hear. I said ‘ouch’ over and over and over again when I read Crazy Love. In fact, I am on the waiting list at the library to read it again. LOVED it! i can’t wait for the craft post(s)!!! i love your crafts. alex has a list for hobby lobby so we can do the seed bead ornament from last year. i love it. thank you for all the wonderful links! and i don’t think i’ve said how much i love love LOVE your vintage ornaments. such eye candy – dipped in a little bit of envy – that you have all of them! Luv the felt flower head band! Too cute.. I used Scrapbookpictures.com last year for my xmas photos after you mentioned that you used them and I loved them! I used a photo from summer and then used one of their frames to put around it to make it more Christmasy. I got a ton of compliments on them. Thanks for the tip!! Such colorful fun things you have going on in your house, and on your blog!! I enjoyed this post, as I do all of them! I am in the kitchen too! I have read Crazy Love twice now…once alone and than once with a small group and watched the video that went along with it. Life changing for sure….a true conviction of the heart. I will have to check out the book…I just ate a cupcake for breakfast, shhhh, don’t tell my kids! They had oatmeal, lol Kim you do not have mom hair Crazy love is one of my favorite books! It is such a life-changer! That headband is so not “mommish”. Very cute. Thanks for the book tip. I am trying to get out of my US trash phase and read a book or two. I have big, lofty goals. 🙂 the francis chan book is on my list of books to buy soon. my youth minister has gone on and on about it. The mom hair comment cracked me up. When I cut mine after our girl was born someone said to me, “Oh you are going for the mom cut now?!” I wanted to deck her. I didn’t…well I did in my head. great post. can’t wait to grab a cup of coffee and check out all the links! annie has a new outfit.
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Hi. I came to your blog via The Macs. I was ready about Jess and the Craft Retreat. Sounds lovely. Your girl is sweet, but I want to kidnap your dog! Waffle kills me :o) Awww Annie is getting so old looking and looking more and more like Talby. Are you growing her bangs out? She is too pinkalicious! Love it! annie is better than any professional model out there, isn’t she? just LOVE those things…makes me wish abbey was little again. okay, okay, i’ll go shopping now. Super cute outfit! All her stuff is adorable. Hello! I just found your blog and I love the color and fun here. Happy Holidays! Love your big photos! 🙂 What little girl wouldn’t love that dress??? So colorful and fun!!! TOO CUTE!!!! I love the colors! ok now I am fueled to go make more stuff for my girls that I have even less time to do because I have orders to fill such is my life. But I love it! In all seriousness, love her stuff and your daughters sense of style, my little one likes to dress bright and blingy. Is it just me or do you have ideas swimming around in your head 24-7? Love your pictures Meg… So fun!!! What a *happy* outfit – I love it!! And how amazing is God?! Such an awesome thing He is doing through so many with Project 320!! Yay! I purchased the same skirt thanks to your link! My little Zoe loves clothes and this is perfect for her. Anything to avoid the crowds! 😉 I found your blog from Ashley Ann and I love it! =) so very cute! LOVE her style!!!! think i could get away with it? probably not. I was wondering the same thing as Diana – are those the same Cheezits? Very precious pics of Annie. Oh my goodness!!!! That IS THE happiest outfit I have ever seen!!!…I wonder if she could make an adult size?? 🙂 Wow…I love all of Julie’s clothes! I think I’ll have to get my litle Bug a post-Christmas gift! How long is she offering the discount? love it. oh my word…i am totally in love with that skirt!!!! i am soooo off to look around! and i love that you have your own discount code…super fun! OH MY GOODNESS! Cutest outfit every. I’m off to check it out:) Wow~ that is absolutely adorable!!! I am newer to your blog and just wanted you to know how much I enjoy it. 🙂 It’s perfect! I actually just spied that sweater in our second hand shop. It even came with matching (clashing) tights. But it was a size too big. Now I’m thinking I should grab it anyway. Very photographic worthy!!! Cool shop! Love the outfit., she’s such a cutie! Her outfit makes ME feel happy! Annie is adorable 🙂 Love the pic with Waffle the intruder so doodleish HA! WEEEEEEEE!!! Ok…I am in HEAVEN just seeing how you paired this outfit with the tights and the sweater!!!!! SOOOO ADORABLE! Thank you!!!!! i love what a free spirit annie is How CUTE! I love everything about her new outfit! P.S. Be sure and check out my blog today – there is an award there for you! :o) Have a great day! That little creature of yours is as cute as can be!!! Just love the pics!!! She looks sososo cute!! annie always looks happy, but i’d say she’s super cheerful in that outfit!! how cute! *GASP* are those the cheezits from your craft room??? ROTFL!!!! mmmmmmmmm, tasty! I love how she is a girl who knows what she likes!
i had a very kind email from stephanie last week. she was sweet and full of compliments. i clicked over to her link and saw her making salsa. YUMMY. i told her to send me some….and she did! i was kidding. but she did it anyway and it was such a treat for us. we don't make our own salsa here so when we get the good stuff we are so happy. THANK YOU stephanie. it was so much fun to get salsa in the mail!
then my order from uberstitch arrived. i am LOVING the name UBERSTITCH. you must say it with a swedish accent…like farfegnugen. look at her packaging?! the fabric is folded up so nicely and wrapped in a pattern. with a map tag. love. love. love it. she had the fabric i have been searching for everywhere.
school days handwriting. it brings me pure joy. it could be the best fabric EVER. and the zebra fabric? it's made by sis boom….another awesome site. that jennifer paganelli is so talented. with this fabric i am making pillows for the kitchen sitting area with blacks and whites. the zebra print is going to recover a chair seat. and more fabric came but this was from anna maria horner. i just got the scraps. that girl has some SUPER fabulous fabrics. i would like to just sit in her studio and stare at it…for days.
her branding is gorgeous. polka dots on floral on another floral and swirly writing…be still my heart. and this package came from patricia (an artist) from pve design. another talented woman. we are surrounded by them here in blogland….YAY!…you are fueling my creative fires everyday.
it was a care package from one mom to another. she sent 3 pretty dresses to my girls that her daughter had outgrown and a stack of magazine articles on party themes to craft ideas to advice on parenting. i felt like a very blessed woman. you blog readers are so kind to me. i love every comment you leave. i appreciate every thoughtful word you say. i smile every time you say i made your day. thank you for letting me share my love of color here everyday…it's like free therapy!! IT IS hard to look at the Capitol in Washington, DC, without a frisson of excitement oh…sorry. 🙂 I think the accent you’re after is german, we swedes has nothing to do with über. 😉 Whoa! Those look GOOD! That salsa looks so yummy!! mmmm i am totally jealous of your mail! that TOTALLY beats the happy mail i was going to send. HA! 😉 Oh you are the best miss Meg!!!I must get you on my blog roll…love whenever you pop in!! salsa AND zebra stripes… almost TOO much good for one day! 🙂 love love love that handwriting fabric. I also really love your blog! Your blog is like free therapy for me. I love all the fun colors you use and your great ideas inspire me! Watch out, I will be sending my kids for you to photograph. Oh this salsa looks soooo yummy! I eat salsa almost every single day, yup that is how much I love salsa. 😉 I wanted to thank you so much for your happy things links besides your awesome blog of course. You always find the best links. My favorite of late is the miniature houses by Ana Serano and the small magazine. I am currently working on a project that has made me fall in love with miniatures! I have a feeling this small magazine might help me out a bit. If I get the project finished (hopefully soon!) then I will dust off the cobwebs and blog about it. Thanks for the inspiration! I adore that school hand writing fabric – its too die for you are so awesome, I love reading your blog. Thank you for sharing your love of color! Could write a lot but will simply say I love to read your blog daily!!!!! Isn’t this a fun blogging world we live in? I love it. Not sure what I would do without it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… YOU GET THE BEST FABRIC EVER!!! Awesome!!! Speaking of mail, did you get my email where I shared a link where another blogger made your rainbow cake for her son’s 2nd birthday? I got so hungry!! 🙂 What a visually appealing post! Pretty, pretty! Two things to share: #1. I was just–not 2 seconds ago–on the Anna Maria Horner site looking at those scrap bags before I clicked over here(insert Twilight Zone music here). #2. I love the IDEA of that school handwriting fabric, but seeing it instantly took me back to 2nd grade and my mean old teacher who constantly criticized my handwriting. Hmm. We must have the same “thing” about handwriting/lined paper, because that is to DIE for!!! I’ll have to get myself some. Wow – you had a great mail day! There’s those polka dots I caught a glimpse of yesterday. Yeah! I love it! Meg, Hi Cutie, love your enthusiasm about packaging. I hear ya. Whenever I see awesome packaging it makes me soooo happy too! I am at school late for parents night, happy to have something fun to check on before the mayhem begins… Hooray that I don’t have to GOOGLE for great sites, I just check your site and *poof* I instantly have several others to add to my favourites and browse through over tea. Meg, hon, LOVE your posts. You rock my blogging world. 😉 Thank you Meg. You give so much joy from your blog. I just love when I see there is a new post!! Your photography is amazing! I am glad you have had a great mail week. Oh, your blog is like happy therapy for ME! I love to look at your beautiful pictures – and the bursts of color everywhere. Love it all! (I’m guilty of being a very occasional commenter – so sorry!) Thank YOU for bringing color and happiness into each of my days! oh such a happy post!!! that handwriting fabric is the cutest !!!! Wow those are some great mail days! I recently hosted a craft supply swap on my blog, so I’m really looking forward to finding some fun packages on my doorstep soon! One of my fave blogs, Sweetie Pie Pumpkin Noodle, organized a penpal swap, so I love getting letters from my new penpal too! I love all the fabrics! You sure did have some fun packages! I hope you all have a lovely weekend….to say farewell to summer! Man!! You win!! You DID have a great mail week!!!! Guess I’ll be checking all these lovely ladies out!!!! Thanks Meg! You bring UBER JOY to BlogLand =) Love fun mail! Thanks for the inspiration! love getting mail. it’s like a party in my mailbox. Getting goodies in the mail ALWAYS makes my day/week/month…depending on what it is! What awesome happy mail! And thank you for the beautiful pictures you post. They are a happy spot in my day! Awww! I love how kind people can be (even people you only know online). This world really is a beautiful place if you take the time to notice it. I’m loving the fabrics and the dresses! Too cute! I can just imagine Talby and Annie in them. The hot sauce looks great too! Everyone’s been blogging about salsa and other tomato-related things lately. Colors are the fruits of my life! So THANK YOU for bringing such color into mine. Totally envious of your packages! you need to stop posting the cute things you get…because I am one of those people who hear about something and buy it….so far I bought that cute purse that you blogged about a few months ago….and today i ordered a necklace from vintage pearl……..thank goodness i don’t sew. You’re so welcome 🙂 Love Happy mail! I rarely get any mail here, it’s so expensive to mail even a card so other than bills I get zip! Love pve blog she is so talented. Can’t wait to see what you do with your new fabrics. Happy Thursday!
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Courtney Walsh - I’m not sure why I decided it would be a good idea to try and go on a sugar fast the day after Easter. I am weak too…and the kids’ robin eggs and cadbury mini eggs are calling my name from behind the cupboard door in the kitchen!!
Michelle Whitlow - I loooove Robin eggs. They’re my fave, too!! Every time one of my kids gets one, they say “it’s your favorite mommy!” That and Cadbury eggs….
Tara Caspar - Omi… I LOVE the Robin eggs. They are my favorite of all Easter candy! I get the “mini” ones so I can have one yummy bite, and they last longer. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. 🙂 It’s Easter, enjoy!
Kristi - Mine are the Cadbury Mini Eggs. I bought a bag for my daughter’s Easter basket, but it’s ok because the only other candy I got for her were Peeps, and I HATE those. Did you know they actually have a cookbook out for Peeps???
Kathryn Goertzen - I did the SAME thing . . . smallest bag possible . . . malted milk eggs . . . ate the whole bag . . . before I got home!! (I do live several miles out in the country)
Leigh - Robin eggs are the best!!! Now I’m really craving them…
Melanie - I am trying to cut back on sugar but it is hard. I haven’t had a coke in about a week but it is calling me tonight and I am giving in:(
Happy Easter.
Heather - Oh, how this post made me laugh!
Way too close to home 🙂
Trish - i did the same thing with peanut butter m&m’s the kids will never know they were suppose to be in there basket! ugh
meaghan - WEAK?!?! SERIOUSLY!?!? you went WEEKS w/o sweets! i can’t make it a day! you go girl…eat that chocolate!
Tara - the Reese’s peanut butter eggs have been the death of me this year.
Thea - I love those robin eggs too! They are such a weakness…let’s face it…any chocolate is a weakness for me! Enjoy your day! God bless and Happy Easter!
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Let’s see… I had a piece of pizza, a chocolate shake and a blueberry pancake today. So I think a little bag of candy isn’t too bad:) Walk it off girl!
Lisa - I can’t even tell you how many peanut butter eggs I had this week. It would gross you out!
sara's art house - OK- I admit- I totally copied you and went and wrote some verses on my chalkboard wall in colored chalk just like you. And then I posted a close-up pic of my jellybeans and I come here and see your cute bowl of robin’s eggs….great minds think alike 🙂
We are devouring our jelly bellies.
Sharla - Jolly Rancher jelly beans. Enough said 🙂
Dianne - You’re better than me…I just bought two bags each of reeses eggs and mini eggs…I’m SO weak!
tasha roe - those are my favorite too!! i cant buy them though….those and cadburry eggs. sigh. i am a sucker for seasonal/holiday candy – candy corn, conversation hearts, robin eggs. i know myself too well…i would have eaten that tiny bag in one sitting. you did good!
Dana Banana - ME TOO!! Robin Eggs are the bomb! (have only eaten part of a bag….so far)
Karina - LOL, I’m eating peanut butter chipits as I read this – too lazy even to eat the chocolate you’re supposed to eat, I go straight for the ingredients in the pantry! You are so not alone in this. And no, my pants from last summer do not fit. I must also get out and exercise – good for you for actually doing it, not just talking about it.
Laura - OMG Meg! I LOVE robin eggs too!
I bought them yesterday afternoon and ate 2/3 of the bag. The remaining eggs are calling me from the desk drawer, where I hid them from the rest of the family! I’m trying to ignore them! I might have to give in though… just to get it over with!
I’m SO glad I’m not the only one!
Tonya - oh they’re my fave too! i didn’t buy any this year….mainly b/c i never saw them! 😉
merlin - I can’t believe the timing of this post.
Just last night I had to explain to my husband and teenager how chocolate can talk, it speaks to me, serenading me into poor choices. It must. I don’t understand it, but I hear it through the cupboard door and the wall….”I’m here, all sweet deliciousness, just for you, I am here for you, melting sugary goodness, all for you”
I have a battle, arguing with the chocolate “no, not for me, you are for a specific purpose” and yet that chocolate sweet talks its way into my mouth. And then I am left wondering what happened, how did the empty wrapper get there, because I certainly had no intention of eating chocolate that was meant for somebody else. Yes, I told them sitting there looking at me incredulously, while I tried to explain the empty wrapper, “I have decided the devil lives in chocolate, that is how he disguises himself and I am so, so very weak.” “OK Mom, the devil’s in the chocolate” replies my teen, not sounding convinced.
Tegan and Tage - Easter candy is pure evil. EVIL!
And delicious.
Kelly - My mom bought Easter candy for us when she was here THREE weeks ago but wanted us to save it till Easter for an Easter basket since we wouldn’t be together. I had to hide that bag I tell you and I am sooo looking forward to it on Sunday!! 🙂 Kelly
Jessica Reed - I have the same problem… I love the cream filled Cadberry eggs. hmm…yumm… Thankfully they are TOO sweet… it takes me the whole week to finish off the pack of three. 🙂
Jennifer - My favorite is Dove Truffle Eggs. I went to 3 stores before I found them. *THAT* is weak. 🙁
Jill - They are my favorite, too! It’s just once a year, enjoy them. Though if you like malted milk balls, try to find Cadbury’s Maltesers one day. They’re English, and are absolutely fantastic.
Annie - At least you’re excercising! I keep telling my butt I need to do something, but alas – no working out for me. Instead I bought dark chocolate truffles 🙁
Ariel - I too ate the whole bag…in 24 hrs. You are stronger that I am when it comes to those little eggs….thank goodness they are gone now!
Christy - Chicks & bunnies for me, only Brach’s brand (like circus peanuts). I must eat them every Easter oh & Reese’s PB eggs, chilled. I can’t help it.
Mary - They have an Easter isle (as in island) at your store? How wonderful!
Lori - I am the same way with candy corn at Halloween. I have to buy a bag and eat it until I feel sick, then I am done! Otherwise, I spread it out and end up eating way more. At least, that’s my justification. Happy Easter!
Jennifer - I have a terrible problem with the Reece’s Peanut Butter Eggs!!!
Lorilee - I adore Robin’s Eggs too! I have bought several bags. Luckly, I usually just eat 4 or 5 every few days.
Blessings,
Lorilee
Paige - Mine are the Cadbury mini eggs…..just walk away. If I buy a bag, they are gone! Immediately!
Nicolle W. - my favorite too! One of the reasons I always look forward to Easter….
Esther Harper - oh my dear, I can totally relate but mine is marshmallow peeps…lol
Lee Ann - You are so NOT alone!
Amy - oh I know how you feel. I am glad the big Cadbury creme eggs only come in singles (don’t tell me about the smaller pack, i know). I love, love , love those things!