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i am LOVING my new artwork from Ryan Alexander. of course i love the graphic punch with the black and white but i REALLY love what it says. it is stuff moms say every day….use kind words…..share everything…..NO Bad Attitudes….and my favorite one his shop has lots of other cool posters too. leave a comment here to be entered to win one from Ryan's etsy shop. but really…..only one of you will win. 🙂
This would look good in an African house. 🙂 Love It! I live this. I need this right now. A constant reminder to me and the kids of what is important and what we all need to do! LOVE it! I have been looking at these on Pinterest. Thanks for the chance to win. OMGOSH! I LOVE this!!! Oh I hope I win, pretty please pick me!!! Perfect for our house! Very cute! Good for the kids AND the parents. 🙂 Please pick me! I love the beginning!!! I have been eying these for WEEKS. Pick me!!! You’re right, though, I’ll definitely just have to break down and buy one unless Lady Luck is on my side this time. . . Beautiful poster and I know exactly which wall i would hang it on. so positive! complete <3! I LOVE this!! I will hold off buying one just in case I’m lucky and win one!!! thanks Meg for sharing! It’s like having my Mom in the house! Love it! LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing!! Well, if I don’t win, I am soooo going to his shop to buy one. I LOVE it!! oh.em.gee. pick me! i am so in looove with this!! I love, love, love this! Total awesomeness… I’ve honestly never won a contest in my entire life. I’m okay with that… but it sure would be nifty to win this loveliness… I already have visions of this displayed where all 7 of us see it lots of times each day. Gonna have to check out his store. Yippee!!! Thanks for the chance. Maybe it’s going to sound silly but I think senior citizens/retirees/grandparents sometimes need to be reminded of these words of wisdom. I love this! Love his signs! Marry me reminds me of my daughter who just married in May. That song was one of the background songs for their video. oooooo pretty! i would like one. yes, yes i would. Love this! What a beautiful reminder. I have the perfect spot for this in my house 🙂 I would LOVE to win this poster!! So, so cool. Its perfect!!! I love art with text!! All the different sayings are perfect!! Very cool! Fun and meaningful! Oh this is awesome!!!! Yes, I agree, Hands are for hugging not hitting. (: would fit perfectly in my humble abode! I have been looking for a family rules picture for our family room, and this would be perfect….makes me so happy to think of this in my house! Love love LOVE! Would love to win this! Thanks for the awesome giveaway. 🙂 Love IT!! love his artwork… Love these rules! It would be super to have these posted in our home! I would hang this over my bed and read it every single day! I think its such a great idea and would love to own one!!! I LOVE this, Meg! These are def words to live by! I think I need a copy! This is Beautiful!! I love it!! is there a link to the etsy shop somewhere? LOVE IT!! come on lucky comment #800! come on luck comment #800! thanks for the great giveaway!! Beautifully done. Wonderful words. I would frame and give it a prominent home in my house. thanks, kathy Love the poster! I WANT THIS! This is awesome! I keep thinking I’ll make my own. It’s been more than a year and this sums it up perfectly anyway, so… I got this print and would looooooove another:) I like it! LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!! What a great reminder!! Pick me!! I would LOVE this for my home!! What a great giveaway! Thanks! <3 That’s an awesome poster! I love how bold and striking it is. So absolutely perfect… Especially with 4 kids 6 and under. I neeeeeeeed this! love it! and my house is so boring so please pick me! 🙂 Awesome artwork!!! I know exactly where I would hang it!:) I have been wanting one of these, but didn’t want to go through the trouble of making my own. this is PERFECT!! i LOVE this!!! thank you for all the awesomeness contained in this blog! I HAVE to have one of these! Hope I win! What a great poster, & I love it with the mini globes! So cool! What a great poster. I also love the “only speak words” poster. Great saying to remember every day. I love it!! Can’t wait to look around the etsy shop! I love it! I already ordered one for myself but would love to have another to give away to a friend 🙂 Amy what a perfect poster! and I love how you have the books lined up by color! Wow! That is great! 🙂 I love it! I love everything about it. I hope I win one though I will head over and look at the other stuff and bookmark it in case I don’t win;) I love it! Hands are for hugging not hitting…I’m going to need to post that all over my house… yes! I need those reminders for myself! love this!!! would love to have one for my new home 🙂 LOVE this!! With my number 2 on the way… I will have to remind them of these things MUCh more often! I love that LOVE JESUS is #1!!! lOve “hands are for hugging not hitting” too! With raising 3 boys there is ALOT of hitting going on around here! One day they will hear me ( I hope! )! I love that it says LOVE JESUS right at the very top! LOVE this : ) FAVORITE thing you’ve shared on your blog EVER! i would love to have it hanging in my house. i already know the perfect spot for it. I love this and I love that you can do a custom family rules sign as well. I also saw in Ryan’s shop that boys sign that will be great for my son’s room. I had been looking for a family rules sign and think I found the “one”. Thanks for sharing. I also love how it starts with “Love Jesus” Fantastic poster! I can’t wait to check out the rest of his posters! Would love one for my classroom! That poster is beyond words AWESOME! Oh my goodness!! I LOVE this!! I also agree with every single one!! I love it!! And it’s just what I need in my house! Fun! Fun! And what a reasonable price for the poster too! awesome! *sheepish* Just as much for me as for my kids. Wonderful words! Here is my comment. 🙂 Sorry, that’s all I’ve got this morning… I haven’t had my coffee yet. LOVE this poster! What a great giveaway! Gorgeous! I’d love one! I love love love this poster! I love black and white artwork… Way cool… Love the print. Going to check out his other stuff. LOVE IT!!! Oh, Meg….this would be a lovely consolation prize since I didn’t get to attend your amazing craft weekend 🙂 ..wink, wink….Amen..I am off to try to obey those rules and I love that it starts with LOVE JESUS!! Blessings, Becky J. <3 Love it! Love that! I’m going to check out his shop now! Oh I LOVE how his first rule is to Love Jesus! That is so awesome! Love this! Oh, wow — that looks so great in your house! Love the messages. I would love to win one! I love that the first thing says LOVE JESUS. so true. pick me to win please! 🙂 love, love, love this! coveting your as we speak. Great poster — love the bold graphics! Love it! All of it! Love this! I have wanted something like this for a while!!! Thanks! love it! love it! I love this poster!! LOVE, LOVE, DOUBLE LOVE IT!!!! Love these “house rules”. This poster is a must have for any house!!! Yes, please!!! Love, love, love! Thank you for posting this! Just ordered one for our home! Can’t wait for it to arrive! And how sweet are you to bless someone with this print! Happy Weekend! Thanks for the inspiration! This will look so much better than my written list of rules hanging up! Fab.u.lous!!!! Love it love it love it!! So needed for this house! Great giveaway–thanks! It’s so cool 🙂 I love that “Love Jesus” is right there at the top 🙂 Dance Crazy is also very cool! I ams o buying this if i don’t win it!!!!! Very cool! love it – and yes this sums everything up! awesome thanks for sharing, if i do not win i am totally getting this! love it and, honestly, N-E-E-D it for our homeschooling room! I Love Love Love this poster…. All the Golden rules in one spot! I have just the perfect place for it! Thanks Meg! Must.have.this!!! I love, love, love every single thing about it! Thanks for always sharing your wonderful finds! Great idea. Putting it on my wish list. I am in love with this! I need to have this in my house. I dont know what is most awesome: the poster, the globes or the color coded books! lol Those rules are perfect for us! That is awesome! Oooo…pick me! I too lurve big artwork! 🙂 Oh my gosh! I’ve been coveting one of his posters for months!!! 🙂 love love love this! Perfect! Love it! I saw these on Etsy. I love this sign! So perfect! Fabulous!!! share everything except bad ideas.. ha! love it! thanks for the giveaway! If I win I will give this to my sister– She’s loved this print on Etsy for a long time. I couldn’t love this more!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, these are awesome-would love to win one! This poster perfectly expresses so much! Love it! I’m so sad that so many people are discovering your website now! It’s great for you, but bad for us who have been around for a while! LOL 660 comments!!!! Wow! Anyway…I LOVE this sign! I am loving all the subway art on pinterest and would love to win this! 🙂 Love, love, love the Family Rules!!! There are a zillion comments already on this post, but someone’s go to win, right? I hope it’s me! Love it! I think my kids would try and hide the sign, because I’d be pointing at it all the time! So many awesome reminders. great, great, GREAT poster! i would hang this right in the middle of our living space! my girls are little now… so this would be a great set of rules to go over for years to come! 🙂 Love it! So true and I hope that I win 🙂 okay, so hard to choose – very cool stuff. i love the family mission statement … and of course, the family rules one, too!!! Love it. May have to pick up a “boy” print soon… Love it too! I’d love to win it. Oh man, i’m the last to leave a comment! Does the last comment ever win!?!?!? Anyways, love the print too….very fun and very true! I am that girl that doesn’t have a family yet but dreams of the day I can share these things with a husband and many children, I love them all so much already, and know that even though I imagine my perfect family right now, we will need the reminders like these… I think that poster is one I want to read every day. Love this print! Am looking for something just like this for our house! pick me. pick me. please pick me. 🙂 totally what i needed to see/hear/read today. LOVE the poster. Thanks for sharing! I wanna win this!! This looks totally meg! 🙂 Good rules! I already have a spot for this in my house! Oh, my goodness. Love! Great sentiments to reflect well-lived family life. And life in general as children of God! Love it! Even though my boys are nearly…..ok mostly grown…it still applies! I want one so bad!!! Pick me. Love it. if you love Jesus first, all the rest will fall into place 🙂 Love this poster!!! Love it! Can it be mine? Please oh please!! I want in! I have looking at several similar items and refraining from spending the money for a while now. Maybe it will be my lucky day! Oh this is great! Playroom wall here you come 😉 Soooo perfect – love love love!!! so perfect! we need this! I just read an art blog http://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2008/11/ny-city-destination-subway-scrolls.html where the author marveled at how the subway letters were larger or smaller to take up that particular space. I love how he uses this to as artwork! Very cool. I’ve been following for a few weeks now. I am not crafty, I don’t craft, sew, paint walls or things of the sort. But I LOVE seeing all your beautiful creations. I have have huge empty walls and would love one of these posters! This is SUCH a cool print! LOVE it!!! Love it! I always think I’m going to make one but lets face it…I’m not, so I need to win one! I love it! His wife was right! 🙂 I love it! This is awesome!!! I’d hang it in our office/homeschool room. LOVE this print!! I have it pinned…would love to win it but if not, I’m buying it!! I love this and would adore hanging it in our home! PLEASE pick me!!! So I don’t have to have this tattoed on my forehead! Really like this! Would love to win one! Thanks for the chance! Love it! LoVe this art. Love the message, love the size. Love, love love! Oh pretty please, pick me! I love these posters! I love it and I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one thinking/saying these things on a daily basis! 🙂 I love this artwork! Oh my! LOVE IT! I love this poster! Love his stuff!! “Speak words that make souls stronger” Great poster! Love this! Love that! Must check out his other work. I need one of these!!!!! It is so perfect…all of it I like “no whining”. Would love this in my home!! **fingers crossed** Oh this is a good one!!! Love all the rules! Love me some graphic goodness! Please send one Down Under! Freakin’ LOVE it!!!!! thanks for the chance to win. LOVE that!!!!! Love it…So great! It literally brought tears to my eyes. (Yes, this momma is T-i-R-E-D.) But, it’s such a beautiful sentiment that I would love to display proudly. Wish I knew how to upload a pic of the empty easel on my hearth where this would go. xo This is incredible! Perfect for my family! LOVE this! Hope to win! love.it. So true and since some people are visual learners rather auditory or vice versa what a nice way to encourage good habits 🙂 Love it, it’s perfect! The poster looks great! I’d love one! This poster is pure awesomeness! I love the rules and I love graphics and differents size fonts. So excited for the chance to win something! I love this blog and try to check on it every day! I could not have read that poster in a more appropriate time. Im almost in tears because my kids keep fighting. I NEED that poster NOW 🙁 I could not have read that poster in a more appropriate time. Im almost in tears because my kids keep fighting. I NEED that poster NOW 🙁 I want this poster!! I am suddenly and madly in love with his “Only Speak Words” print. Admittedly, I am also coveting it 🙂 Fabulous!!!! I don’t have kiddos, but plenty of others to choose from! I would love to win this – what a beautiful idea. that poster is AWESOME!! i love his stuff and already have his shop as one of my favs on etsy. was hoping to get a print for christmas, but now would be even better!! The poster is amazing. you have also inspired me to sort my books by color. 🙂 Pick me I want some cool art for my walls!! If only one who can win .., may it be someone wonderful. Great words to live my life by and model for my family!! I ALWAYS say “hands are for hugging not hitting”! LOVE it! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Looks awesome 🙂 And good thing he listens to his wife 😉 hehe love it! Love this! just what we need ! Love it Cool Sign. love it. LOVE. like absolutely MUST HAVE love. This would be a perfect addition to my home! I love it! That is one of the best family rules I have read so far! Love it! Love It!! Wow what an awesome size! I have many favorites on that list but my fave is #1:) That poster is awesome. Those rules rock. Mama likes. 🙂 Awesome poster! I would love to win one! I love it! I would love to have it in my house, toooooo! 😀 Sounds like wonderful rules to me…I love it. Thanks for sharing and for the offer….Blessings! Mica We have been looking for something to fill a wall in our apartment! LOVE THIS! Love it! Okay – a MUST for my Sunday School classroom of Kindergarteners and first graders! Love, love, love this! Love this so very much. And I love how you introduce us to all of these different artists! Love it! Perfect set of rules! So fun! I love it! I’d love an inspirational poster for my K5 class! Or for parents right outside the door! Oh.my.word. It’s awesome! Thanks for the chance to win! Love it! I want this soooo much!!! i LOVE it!!! Love it! Very oh-so-cool. 🙂 This is wonderful!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS POSTER! I also want to come to your next craft weekend, Meg! I have to go write a family mission statement! Such a cool idea. Would love this!! Oh how I love this…makes my heart happy. Great poster! This is fantastic!!! I would love to win it, I know just where I’d put it! What a fantastic giveaway! love it! LOVE those subway art posters!! Would look great anywhere! OMG, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!!!! And I agree with everything too…..would love to have one in my own home!!!!! Please, pretty please!!!! I wonder if he has it in spanish 😀 That is awesome! Love his work….fingers crossed! I NEED this!! Love it! That is too perfect! I’ve been working on some kind of list myself of house rules and that is perfect. It’s art and a reminder to the kids. Wow, what a great set of rules. You’re right… I should just hop on over and make sure I get one! I love these types of posters 🙂 I’m hoping this competition is open to Australians too! pick me! pick me! I would love to have this print! Love love love!!!!! LOve this, and i know exactly where it would hang. 🙂 Simply and perfectly put! Wow, that is so beautiful! Would love one for our house!! My kids need to be reminded of these things now and then…heck, we all do 🙂 I love every single word! Totally things I say day in and day out! It would be great just to point to his art hanging in my breakfast nook! I love that it’s big and graphic and black and white! 🙂 Love it all, have the perfect spot for it 🙂 Love!! That is just perfect! I saw one of these the other day!! Loved them!! And so true! I would totally put that in my classroom! I would LOVE that sign. How neat!! Love them!!! Great posters to live by! I would love to own one:) I love this! Hope I win!!! Love his stuff! well, who wouldn’t want one? Agree with every word! I love “share everything.. Except bad ideas” so true!! Yes, please. 🙂 i think i should win. because it’s still hot in california and my due date is today and i’m still pregnant. yep, that would make my day 😉 I like the family rules, but I think I like the Marry Me one better. This could be because our ‘family’ isn’t quite married yet and has no kids, LOL. Awesome!!! Love this print, the rules are perfect! Oh I just love that! I’m so grateful to your blog for introducing me to some great etsy shops! WOW!!! Such an awesome poster! Rules for a happy halthy family, I love it 😉 that is awesome!!! i SO need one of those…esp for the ‘no whining’ part 😉 I love this art!! I’ve been on the look out for a way to display our family rules and this is perfect! We really need one of those posters in our house =) Awesome! I would love to have one! Thank you for the opportunity!! I love this!! I will be ordering one for sure. We’re getting ready to move to a new house and this would be perfect for us! oh my gosh! this sign sounds just like me! lol. I would LOVE love love one. and once I get a house of our own I am planning on getting one of these! and maybe one of those great signs from Jones Designs (or something like that?). He has got some GREAT stuff going on….good man to listen to his wife! We have one more family rule that is the number one, at the top of the list rule….”be nice to your mom.” Best rule ever. Love it!! Hope it’s me! love love love LOVE I got this several months ago and it hangs in our kitchen. Everyone that comes over loves it!! I couldn’t have said it better myself! LOVE IT!!! Fabulous! What a perfect reminder for everybody! Oh my goodness! I have been wanting a family rules poster/canvas/SOMETHING! I really hope I win! Thanks! A very excellent give-away! I LOVE this! I just added his shop to my etsy favorite! Those would make great Christmas gifts for any family too! Thank you for the chance to win and God bless y’all Checking out his site as soon as I leave this comment! What a great list of “rules.” Love it, fits perfectly on your bookshelf too. Um… Yes. Our family needs that. These are great! I love them all and already have a spot picked out… Oh my! Awesome! It would look FAB in my basement playroom. All my accents are black & white! I love it. Pick me! 🙂 I adore the Wedding Vows, just so sweet…even after 18 years of marriage it still rings true! :O) This art work is awsome. I have the perfect place to hang it where my children will see it all the time. Love love love this I need this for my house! Especially the part about whining. Oh my gravy! I just love that poster! Awesomeness! That is great!! If I don’t win it (fingers crossed!) I might just have to buy one anyway. Thanks! couldn’t have said it better myself. Love the family rules! This is so cool, love everything about it!!! Words of Wisdom on a Poster… who woulda thunk it??! love love love this!!! i have been wanting one for a while 🙂 now i know where to get one if i don’t win 🙂 I would love to put this up in our family room! love it. it would go perfectly in our house. Love this! Would love to add it to our playroom! love this! i would love one…thanks for the chance! Love the power of words in a room. It seems that i glance up at them just when i need to be reminded 🙂 this is wonderful! what timing….i think i just uttered half of these to my girls! i would love, love this so perhaps if i just point to the poster they’ll always attempt at being the best they can be. i love love love this! I love that the first rule is to love Jesus. That is the best rule. Thanks for a chance at winning something. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Great stuff – a must for our new house! Thank you 😉 Luv, Luv, Luv this! So cool… Would love this in my home! Have the perfect spot 🙂 love it! needed a bday gift for a fabulous friend – this is perfect! AND i pinned it for future use:) Love it! Only one child in my house though – so it would need a slight alteration 🙂 I wanna win! I love that poster! i LOVE his shop! full of awesome prints. Love this!!! Love this! I LOVE it! I have been wanting to paint one of these for our home, but it would be so much quicker to win one 🙂 Awesome! I know exactly where I would hang this. Oh.my.gracious…I LOVE this poster!! Crossing my fingers that I win. If I don’t win, I will definitely be purchasing one from his shop. Fabulous find. that is so cool it’s like really smart subway art! I love it! This looks so much better than my handwritten, large print lettered list on the fridge. LOVE the message & design! I love it and agree with all of it too! I love the LOVE JESUS across the top and sharing in your siblings joy… love. I love that so much!! love it — and would love to win! LOVE it! I hope that lucky winner is me. 🙂 oh wow meg ~ i would be over the moon if i won this!! LOVE this poster! We could really use this in our house right now!!! love it! What an awesome poster! love this poster. agree with 100% of the rules. pick me pick me!!! love this awesome poster! awesome poster! love ALL of what it says! Love the one he sent you & the Definition of a Boy – a noise with dirt on it- is a perfect fit for boy number 2 at my house! LOVE IT!!! Awww I love this poster, so true! My family would love this poster. I’ve been looking for something for the new babes. I think a poster would be perfect! I’m gonna go look right now! Love it! I want one for my 2 little boys!! This is exactly how I want them to grow up! so. want. a. piece. of. his. work. for. my. house! AWESOME! I’m so glad he emailed you too…or I may have never discovered his shop 😉 With a 1 year old and a 5 year old so far, I know this poster would get a lot of use at our house! I love it! And I have to admit that if I don’t win, I will just go buy one. Thanks for the link to Ryan’s shop – will be using it for sure! Actually, this might make the perfect housewarming present for a friend of mine…hmmmm….. I love this! he must have followed me around for a day and listened to everything I say to my daughter! Awesome poster! Love this!!! I wanna win. I wanna win. Would love one!! That is so cute! love it! wow that IS awesome! Think I say all of those things on a daily basis lol 🙂 So sweet! Just bought one in red for our home. Should I be so lucky as to win one, I have just the friend in mind that I would give it to:-) For Pete’s sake, would you pick me? Really, Pretty please? Love, love, love, the family rules 🙂 Love this poster! That poster is totally perfect! Love it! super cool! I want one 🙂 Great words for families! Love it! I want one too. I love your blog and I love this poster! I love this! Perfect rules, and I too have written them out in colored marker and taped them to the wall. Love this one. Sooo need this!!! The kiddos have been fighting too much this week. i’m not kidding when i say that i literally got tears in my eyes when i read the “marry me” print from his shop! my husband and i are musicians and we met in college…that line “i promise to sing to you / when all the music dies”….killer!!! love it! Love it! Love it! Love it! Oh my goodness! How I love this! #1. love. this. if i don’t win, i will be getting one. i love everything it says. awesomesauce. What is not to love about this? Fantastic looking and full of wisdom. Score. I think Ryan is going to be thanking his wife for the increase in business! Yay… I LOVE this group of rules! Love my family & would love a poster like that in my home. Good luck everyone. :0) Fabulous!! I have been window shopping for one of these for a while. ~Words to live by!~ I love big, graphic word art too! Oh my word…that is amazing!!! I LOVE how big it is and the words are perfect! Love these! I am just beginning to redecorate my dining room (which is also now our homeschool room). We spend a whole lot of time together in there and this would be so awesome to see every day! As soon as i saw it i wanted it badly! Just perfect!! What a special keepsake for your family!! ok. so every time i stalk, i mean READ your blog it just makes me smile. thanks for who you are.for sharing your faith and for the chance at the give-away. Love it! Whoa! Love this! I love this poster! I have had it “pinned” on one of my Pinterest boards for a couple of months. Love it!!!! i would love to win this! I love that it is made with a Christian perspective! I love it and all that it emcompasses! I love it!! As a mom of 4 girls those are the same things I say and pray for on a daily basis I love it, only I think I would want “I am the Vine, you are the branches; apart from me you can do NOTHING” nearby. A lot of this stuff is just not possible w/o the Spirit. Thanks for the giveaway Ryan & Meg! I say that stuff all the time! Love it! Perfect! For a house full of boys! 3 sons, 1 husband and 1 golden retriever!!! Love it!!! I love it! I must have one!!!!!!!!! OH MY! Would love to win – thanks! This is GENIUS! I love it so much. The b&w poster with your rainbow books? Brilliant! how perfect…all i’d have to do is point at the poster and move on! Love this!! It will be perfect in our house and is much needed! 🙂 I would hang it right in our entry way! “Dear Lord, please, oh please, oh please, oh PLEASE let me win this one!” Totally love this and just ordered one! Thanks for sharing!! I love the family rules prints too – except we are a one kid family so it doesn’t fit for us – sadly. If I won though I’d totally want one of the Only Speak Words print – in green – it’d be awesome in our house on our yellow walls!!!!!! Oooh, how neat! Love! Sigh…I love this and I love talented people. This rocks! Really fun giveaway! Enter me!!! So many awesome reminders…think I need this as much as my kids! How do you score such awesome giveaways?? I love it! I want to buy or make one myself. Thanks for sharing! I love it!! Words I say each day…love it! It is the same set of lines which every mother tries to teach her kids I couldn’t covet this more. And now I’ll ask forgiveness for coveting. But, seriously. I Want This. Love this! Meg, I know you hear this all the time but, your house is fabulous! Thanks for the opportunity! very cool!!! i know just where to put it!!!! this is fantastic!!! I love this! I must have one!!! Phenomenal! My house could use some reminders! Love this!! Would love to win one to hang in my dorm room! 🙂 Your blog makes me SMILE every day!!! Thank you for your awesome words and amazing pictures 🙂 Oh my stars, I have been eyeing this for.ever! Such truth in those words. again, I love when you highlight artists 🙂 I love finding new treasures. Thanks for the chance to win a poster. Love it! The encourage your siblings made me tear uP thinking about my boys! I love it! It would look so great in our new home. Thanks so much <3 Such a COOL Poster!!! I am in the process of turning our basement into a playroom for my little boy, so this would be PERFECT! awesomeness in a frame…I have just the spot for it, too 🙂 This is fabulous. Love the rules! Love the top one especially! I love this!! It would be awesome to have this! love! 🙂 What great reminders 🙂 I’d love one! Love it! WOW!!! What a great statement piece! Plus, it would probably save me alot of talking and I could just oint to sign! ha 🙂 Outstanding! Just checked out his Etsy site as well…so happy! I absolutely LOVE this poster! Awesome! Thanks for the giveaway! i love that poster!! its so good! Very cool and graphic! I love it hung behind the globes! This is great! I love how big it is. We have a small one and one of the phrases is “we do second chances”, my kids like to point to that one alot! Love it!! I like how simple it is but yet BIG for big impact! I love this! I’ve been wanting one forever! I’ve been stalking this etsy shop for months!! I love love love this print….best “family rules” out there!! How great! Looove this, i agree w/ everything it says! Great poster… how many times a day do I find myself saying some of those phrases! I love it. I love how the most important things are the biggest. All the little things add up to the big things!!! 🙂 I LOVE reading your blog. Seriously. For real. 🙂 Love it! I also really like the ‘Only Speak Words’ print too! Sing silly… i do that, but a i need a reminder every once in a while to not take life so seriously… as in “sing silly” 🙂 thanks for sharing it! I’m smiling and not being so serious! Oh, that really is fantastic! I would really love to win that poster!!! The Alexander’s rules RULE! 🙂 I’ve seen lots of versions of the ‘family rules’ but I really love this version! So cool! amazing. love it. must have it. That would really be put to good use at my house!! Love IT! These are all the things that you want to tell them each day but do not get the chance because you are simply too busy. It would be nice to have the reminder that they could read for themselves. Your site offers such inspiration to me……I do not know you but I know that if I did we would be wonderful friends. 🙂 Happiness to you and your family. SWEET!!! Oooooh, I would love this for my entry way. What a nice reminder to all. 🙂 Oooooh, I would love this for my entry way. What a nice reminder to all. 🙂 now, THAT is cool!! I love this. My son and I both need to practice what these words say. Always nice to have a reminder. ooh, me, me, me! My 4 kids get tired of hearing me say these things over and over and over…maybe if it’s hanging on the wall they will just remember!! This would make me so happy! This is fabulous! Love it, love the message it sends and love the typography. Thanks for sharing 🙂 Beautiful! So cool, I love them! Love this! I’ve seen lots of family rules posters floating around blogs, but I LOVE that this one starts with Love Jesus. So perfect. Love it! LOVE this poster – and I don’t even have any kids yet!! I absolutely LOVE this poster! I hope I win..cause it’s going in our new family room! Exactly my thoughts for expectations in our family. I’ve been meaning to DIY something like this for awhile, but this is so much cooler! I love it! All the right rules to live by. Oh wow-I just love that and love that the first thing on the top of the list is Love Jesus! Love, love, love this print too 🙂 All my kids are grown and we are on to grandchildren and still, this print is valuable advice, eben for this season! Love it! And how you displayed it!! Just perfect! I know right where it should go, too! Love the rainbow sorting of books underneath as well. 🙂 BTW-Phil 4:8 is our memory verse for the week. Working on a family photo wall right now and this would be perfect in it!! Awesome poster! Oh my goodness – I love, love, LOVE this! So perfect! That is awesome! I also fell in love with his “boy” art!! How do you just pick one? I found this piece on another blog and I have already listed it on my ” I would love to have list” for Christmas. I’m keeping my fingers crossed but would LOVE it as an early surprise! Love love love this! We are working on a family mission statement and this is a GREAT place to begin. Also would make a wonderful gift. My pastor just moved into a new house and they have small children – perfect housewarming gift! So glad you shared. Love it! Off to check out his store… I read your blog every day, but never leave a comment. So I dont want you to think I am just commenting to win! But I LOVE what this poster says! And I also LOVE your blog! Awesome poster. I would love one. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!!! Love the look and love the “treat others as you want to be treated” philosophy! If only everyone lived this way 🙂 Oh my goodness! LOVE!! Awesome! I agree with them all as well. 🙂 These are great! I love it for all the same reasons. Seriously–that is the Cutest display ever!!! Love the poster, envy the globes…and How in the Heck do you keep the books so beautifully color arranged (I’m pretty sure that one of my sons would fiddle with them just to mess with me ;)) great piece! i will be adding this to the home sometime soon! this would be a great reminder for my kids! Would love to have this to hang in our house! This is great!!! I love it! This is one of my favorite ‘rules’ art that I’ve seen out there. I love it! I think the aqua blue one would be perfect in our playroom!!! Love it! I’ve been eyeing one similar to this, but I like this one alot more. Funny how when I was reading this I could only hear my mom’s voice in my head 🙂 love it. love it, and need it…would save me from reciting the same speach over and over!! Love your new artwork! Love the design and the words couldn’t ring truer! How perfect. I am so into subway art right now. These posters are great! Love!!! Want one bad! Oh my goodness! YES PLEASE! Great words to live by! Love it! Thanks for the chance to win. LOVE THIS!! LOVE this and LOVE your blog. i would LOVE to hang this in my HOME! love this… pretty much say all those things numerous times a day. So cool! You know I love this – so I’m gonna enter and win something!!! Love this poster! I love it…. and love that I could use those reminders as much as my kids could! Thanks for the chance to win – absolutely love it! this is awesome! thanks for the giveaway! That’s a great poster! love this lots and lots … and lots. 🙂 oh my gosh! I need this ASAP!! Love love love it!! I LOVE this!!! I love these rules!! WHATEVER would I do without your cheery blog Meg? As I read the words of your artwork I had 4 little boys lined up on the couch all hitting each other! Guess what I told them?!! “Hands are for hugging NOT hitting”!! My NEW favorite saying!! Thanks for sharing wow! fantastic! *squeal* i am crossing my fingers! have a wonderful day! love your blog! I LOVE It. We have a lot of those rules. I say them 9 billion times a day. Now I could just point to it. It’s an awesome print! Love it! =D Love it! I also like the gallery-wrapped canvas version and “only speak words” print. I like getting acquainted with new-to-me etsy shops. would LOVE this! i agree with all those rules. and i love that it starts with “love jesus.” Love it! Love it! Would LOVE to win. Your website is an inspiration! I don’t have kids, but would love to win this as a gift for a friend. So inspiring! swoon! I am in love with this print! I’m off to find a wallspace big enough! i love that its big too! so fun!! Love it!!! LOVE it! Gotta HAVE it!!!! Great rules!! Wonderful words to live by……..every single day! Sing silly. Dance crazy. Yep, love it! LOVE this! Would hang it in the playroom! This is so awesome!!! I’m in love. Perfect words. Really run artwork! Love the poster!!! lovethis!! i need one. LOVE!!!! Your blog is the ONE THAT I HAVE TO READ EVERY DAY!!! I’ve been wanting to make a family rules subway poster since they started showing up on blogs last spring but could never decide what to put on it. This one is PERFECT, love the graphic black and white!! If I don’t win I will beg for it for Christmas!!! Love it!!! What a great gift!!! I always love the things you feature, but really– I. love. this. poster. I want to win one!!! ooh! I want one! How cool! Love this! Want this. Would like to say I’ll make one if I don’t win, but more that likely, I’ll just add it to my ever-growing list of “things to make” which never seem to get made. I really should win it. That would make things easier for everyone. Okay. Just for me, but whatever. Love the poster! Thanks for the chance to win! Pretty please pick me? (I used my manners!) Everything aboout this poster is fan-freakin-tastic. LOVE i love it, soooo perfect. Love!!! Need!!!! love this. i hope i win!!!!! (duh.) i’ve been looking around for a great family rules poster. i think this is it. love the first line. biggest rule in our house. 🙂 I have seen the house rules before and love them. Would love some of my own 🙂 I love that his wife told him to email you and he did. so sweet. LOVE…redoing the playroom,so this will be perfect. PS love the globes, I have found my first one, now to find more all because of yours. LOVE YOUR STYLE!!! awesome. the perfect print for any house! I LOVE that print! Thanks for a great giveaway! Love this! love everything about this! This is perfect!! LOVE it! Oh please let me win!! Love it! whoever wins will be lucky! that poster is awesome… the words are perfect for all families. i love that loving Jesus is at the tip top. Love, love, love this! Thank you for the opportunity to win! Oh, I would love to have this in our home! Love it and need one for my house! That is perfection! Would LOVE to see that hanging in my home :o) LOVE it! Love family rules, but some are a little too “cutesy” for me. But these are great. I love the top 2 lines. Love Jesus. Encourage your siblings. Share in their joy. Hallelujah! Gonna go get one of these. Or two. 😉 So awesome! I think my favorite is that it says HAVE FUN, sometimes life can be too serious. Such a good reminder for myself! Just a few weeks ago I came across this etsy site through a friend’s pinterest (I do not have one, but I enjoy looking at her choices). I love this print! I even have two spots that I would consider putting it up – next to the time out spot (yes I have one of those) or in the family/kitchen area. I love your blog! Thanks for the chance to win. I ADORE this print! The saying is SO perfect! I would love to have this print hanging in our kitchen for a great reminder each morning! I LOVE it!!! Every time I see these sort of prints I think it is the one I will finally order … just haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Love it! LOVE THIS! I love this! I have the perfect place in mind for this poster! : ) some days i need these reminders more than my kids do. thanks for sharing! 🙂 The prints are terrific! Thanks for sharing. Love what it says. Love the visual reminder for our family. Very cool. Would love to have one for our house! Super Cool Art with a great message! I would absolutely LOVE that! It’s is amazing! Would love to have this!! If not, I’ll just have to go buy one.. 🙂 love it!!! I agree too and would love this poster!! Thanks for being faithful in the blogging world to keep us inspired & hopeful. Love it. I want, I want! Love it. ooo, ooo, I love this! thanks, Meg, you always introduce us to the coolest things! LOVE LOVE LOVE this!! Must have it! I have been wanting one of these forever!!! I was contemplating trying to make one. Favorite!!!! I love big, unfancy, wordsy art. So great. I love the “Hands are for hugging not hitting” too! u are so lucky to be sent such fun goodies all the time. i love love love this print. Love this! This is perfect! Oh boy, what a fabulous giveaway! Great art, love it! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Love it! That is EVERYTHING I repeat a million times a day!! 😉 Love it! Love it 🙂 i love THAT one. SOOOO cute. and i know right where i would hang it. 🙂 Wonderful family rules! I would love to have one of these! Love it! I would love one in my Kitchen! Thanks for all the links to such cool things! Pretty please—-I would love this! I really love it!!! I will have to order one unless I win of course! Plain, simple and straightforward. Rules for everyone and every age. Thanks for sharing! What a great poster…such great words! I’d love to win! I love this. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love the size. love the words. how fun!!! I would love to win this print! What a great giveaway! I would LOVE this, too!! The golden rules … are the best rules, hands down. Love it. Good truth without being sappy. Thanks for sharing! Oh baby..I want this! OH MY GOSH – I would LOVE that!!! I have had this print for awhile and still love it to pieces!!! Love it! I have just the place for one of these! Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know just where I’d put this! 🙂 Love it! I love that! I would LOVE to win! love this!! i agree with all of it, but love that hands are for hugging not hitting. We used to say that alot in our house! Thanks for sharing! Woah- love that!!! Pick me please 🙂 Love the reminder of the simple rules to make our homes a happier place!!! I think I would want mine w/ a green background and white letters… a rebel, I know! ;o) Love it! Very good daily reminders. 🙂 I want it! My kids need it! 🙂 all people should live by these ‘rules’. The world would be a kinder place. I’ve sign the family rules artwork before but THIS is by far my FAVORITE!! It’s awesome! Lovely! Thanks for the opportunity!! I love these kinds of things as well and could definitely find a great place for one! Love that! So nice! Very nice! Reminds me of a the “rules for life” that I posted on our kitchen chalkboard… Be Kind, Be Grateful, Say Your Prayers 🙂 He is an awesome artist! Love the posters! How awesome, love this. Would love to have this in my house Awesome! I love it! Thanks as always for the giveaway! Love it! I LOVE that poster! I think I need one. I love that! Oh I am so hoping that I win this! I love everything about it! It is perfect. We just repainted all of our living spaces and are trying to find simple art work that means something to our family and reflects our faith. This would be fabulous in our dining room where we homeschool. =) LOL, talk about God’s answers for us! Yesterday was incredibly difficult and I got a call from my son’s teacher before the day even began! THIS is fabulous! 🙂 Great poster. I may spring for the boy one if I don’t win, that is. I love this! I have the perfect spot for it in my kitchen. I LOVE that poster and the rules are perfect!! i love all the color in your home. and those posters are awesome. Hi Meg! Really, really, really LOVE it and want one for me and my family ! Please pick me…hahaha Take care. 🙂 Have this pinned! Love it. Love the boldness but especially the first line! 🙂 Oh my gosh!! I love it! I’d love to win, but just in case I’m heading over to his Etsy. Everything that makes up a families love is in that poster! I would love one to hang in my kitchen! What a great print! I think I say “Hands are for hugging not for hitting” at least once a week. It would be such a unique way to post the house rules. Thanks for the chance! I love this kind of big, bold artwork. Oh my goodness. I.love.this. This would be divine in our home!!! Sure hope I win! =) That is wonderful… I think I will make my kids memorize it. 🙂 those are the perfect rules! great poster. Heading to his site now! This is fabulous!! Maybe just what my daughter & son-in-law need for their house as they welcome new baby soon…it’s never too early!! 🙂 Love this! Have these rules in our home! Would be great to have them displayed so beautifully! 🙂 I need one of those for the playroom! Good advice … every word! 🙂 I need one of those for the playroom! Good advice … every word! 🙂 Expecting our first baby in just a month and would LOVE to have one of these hanging up to remind us all what life in our house should look like! Love it! Oh! I so want one of these!! This is awesome! I love it! Couldn’t say it any better myself, and since my kids are in the fighting stage, we NEED this. Love it! This is what our house will love by when we have kids (and I suppose it already does now with just the two of us). Looks awesome with the globes and colorful books, Meg! Wow, awesome love love it… Thanks for a chance to win… this WILL hang in my house someday. i LOVE it! AMAZING poster!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!! thanks for the chance to win it, meg!! Love it! Headed over to see what else he has 🙂 So wonderful! Thanks for sharing! These rules should apply even to the oldest of us! ;0) my girls are both considered “adults” and I continue to say these things! 😉 LOVE LOVE LOVE it! and would love to put it on my wall!! Love it!!!! I LOVE the family rules poster. So cool. Totally awesome!!! Okay, that is AWESOME!! Must obtain!! 🙂 Love this! Love this! It would look great in our house! This poster rocks! awesome…would love to have one for our home! lovely… In love with it all. If I don’t win, I will be purchasing. I love the marriage ones too. this is my favorite of all the house rules posters out there right now. so perfect 🙂 I have been eyeballing this since I saw it on Pinterest. I LOVE this print. It is perfect. ( : Love it. love, love, love, So much!!! Neat piece. Thanks for the chance to win! WOW! Love the words, so simple yet so POWERFUL! Fave line: Encourage your siblings…Share in their joy. I would love this for my home! Love this. It would look great in my school room. : ) I would love this! YES PLEASE!!! I already have a spot for it! I would love this for my family! It would be perfect in my living room under my “family” sign. LOVE it!!!!! <3 I have placed my order!! Thanks for sharing these are awesome! Oh…this makes my HEART so happy. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. xoxo Well DUCKTAPE my MOUTH and HANG up a POSTER!!! LOVE THIS!!! I also love that you displayed your books in rainbow fashion. So cute!!! Love, Love, Love the poster. I love the “be a Giver”. That is awesome!!! his Etsy site is cool also. I love that it says “LOVE JESUS” really big across the top! Everything else flows from that! 🙂 i’m really going to need one of those. please. love this poster 🙂 The “Definition of a Boy” art made me tear up a little. I joke around a lot about how hard it is to have all boys but they are so close to my heart. I MUST get one for their room. Great poster! Oh my gosh I would LOVE this picture!!! It is EVERYTHING I say to my kids on a daily basis!! I absolutely LOVE the one that says hands are for hugging, not hitting too!!! I love art like this. I would love a whole wall of words! Love it!! I love it! I would love one for our home 🙂 Love these words…especially that it all starts with LOVE JESUS! love it! Wow, I love that! I was actually just thinking this morning about making subway art that said many of the same things! I LOVE this! I mean like LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I love the black and white. wow – i am off to shop Love this!! So true… Now I can point to the poster to get my point across. I would love to win this for my kids. :o) Thanks for entering me! :o) I would love to win this-we all need these reminders every day! THis is OUR LIFE! LOVE IT!!!!! I want that print!!! I love it! I would love to win this! Thank you for the opportunity! Such awesomeness – I love this and might have to just buy one!!:) Great rules to live by…..all of us. 🙂 Hi I found your blog some weeks ago. And it have been inspired me so much. God help me to one day a Mommy so creative love and full of joy as you seens to be. But for now I’m just at my trainig… LOL I’m from Brazil and Im living here in USA as an au pair. this experience is changing my life. I used some of your ideas with the little girl I take are of. BTW I love the sign is so true and everything they need to know. that’s a great sign to have at home and remind then about… every single minute. =) God bless so cool! I feel like I should wallpaper my house with sayings like that some days. 🙂 How cool! Absolutely love it! Love Love Love this!! Love it, have wanted something like this for a while. Love it! I know exactly where I would put it! so cool. Good words. Great reminders for all of us. Perfection. Love this! Would love the daily reminder hanging in our house! im in love 🙂 thanks for sharing this work, simple and yet bold statements. i have the perfect spot for one !!!! I love this and it is so much better than the list of rules I made out of note paper, taped together as I added stuff and left on the microwave door (since that is where everyone ends up!) I would love something like this for my classroom–almost exactly like the family one, but adjusted to students and loving your peers. Awesome stuff! Love this! Would be perfect to hang in our kitchen where we all gather. I love this!!! It is amazing!! Sweet!! Share everything…except bad ideas! ha. I too LOVE this! Simple yet Amazing! I want these to be my new house rules…..we do some now but what a wonderful display of art to remind us how to be good to one another and appreciate and take care of the people God has blessed us with. LOVE it! Love the poster!!! this print is perfect … Oh goodness! I LOVE this! This is fabulous! I will definitely be visiting his shop. Thanks for the tip! Love it, lucky you! Yes, please! I NEED more art on my walls. For real! Love the posters- and that they are so big!! Thanks for the opportunity to win one. I have been on a serious hunt for the past week for the perfect family rules sign – this is perfect! Love it!!!!!!! Ive got just the spot for it! Love it!! I have the perfect spot for it to remind us each day!! Love the poster! Very cool!!!!!!!!!!! I love black & white! Those are fantastic! I dig oversized art, and I appreciate that it is so affordable, too. Love it!! This would be awesome in our family room – thanks!! I would love to have this in our home!!! I tell my daughter’s these thing’s all of the time, and it would look good on my mantel!!!! LOVE, LOVE this poster!!! Very cool – love what it says! Would love one of these for our house! I have the perfect place for it…and then just the goal of teaching my girls what it says 🙂 This would be awesome! I love BIG art too!! I think it’s a great idea to have a “mission statement” in the home so everyone’s on the same page. Totally rad! Oh, I LOVE that!! I’ve been wanting to make one of those family rules signs myself. For the last two years…Ha!! SO AWESOME! You are right, what every mom says (or is thinking) everyday! Would love to have this on my wall. Thank you both! 🙂 Pick me! Pick me! Love it! Today is my oldest’s sweet 16, how sweet if I could win! She is the oldest of 7 so I could use this for a reminder to ALL of the kids! Wow! These are great 🙂 I LOVE that they have one specifically for boys. I have a daughter and son and there are always more girl options then boys…I know which one I want! Love it! Saying these words this very night to my teenager. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! I have been wanting one for a long time! Good reminders for kids…..and parents too! 🙂 i would just look at them and say “go read the sign” probably 100 times a day! Awesome! I would love to have one! That’s so cool! What a nice piece of art 🙂 I love the part that says “encourage your siblings and share in their joy” I think that it is a proud mom moment when you witness your children doing this! I’ve been admiring these posters for awhile. Thanks so much for the chance to win one! Awesome-O! I would put one in each childs room :)) Sometimes i sound like a stuck record repeating all these things, now I can just hold the poster up in front of them! Wow- I love that! I could just point to the poster. so great! would love one of these : ) awesome poster!! Oh I love this poster! Maybe my kids would believe me if they read it instead of hearing me say all those things! Thanks! WOW! What a great giveaway! I love your website–full of inspiration and FUN! Thanks for the chance to win.
daddy found a helper. and she did a pretty good job too! we are busy working away today. hope your day off is awesome.
oh how i want doors like that I have dreams about living in a big old house in a small town, but I live in the city… I can’t wait to see the finished white woodwork & whatever color you decide to paint. That stairway is gorgeous, & the leaded glass & the inlays in the floor… dang i need a little of this kinda motivation…and this kinda woodwork ;o) there is a housefull of trim to paint here…and walls, but where to start…where to start????? Love white painted woodwork, and the two hands on the paint brush too. 😉 Adorable picture! That big beefy trim and door are going to be so pretty painted white. This same scene played out at my house today, only outside! We bit the bullet and painted some gorgeous cypress white. Even though it was painful the room ended up looking so much better. I’ve just showed the picture to my husband. And said ‘Why don’t you have legs like that?’ He scrolled up to the picture of you Meg. He pointed and said ‘Why don’t you look like that?’ Touche my dear!! 🙂 I give you lots of credit for painting your woodwork white. I love the crispness of white … but I don’t know if I would have the guts to do it. Good for u! Too cute! Can’t wait to see the “afters” 🙂 Boy, you are one busy woman. No rest for craft weekend! I am sure that your newly painted space will be beautiful. Enjoy your day! isn’t it like a sin or something to paint all that trim white? haha just kidding I love white trim! it really is the only way to go:) Oh Meg, my darling….I cant wait to see how this turns out! I just posted about all the projects we’re doin today on our big old house. We will never be bored in an 1860 home, for sure! Happy work day to you too!:) I know some people think painting original trim is akin to blasphemy, but oh how I love crisp white trim in old houses. the vintage fiend in me loves that wallpaper! craig has nice calves. 🙂 We rent, but I am having fun doing what decorating I can. I love your house. cant wait to see the finished project! We are woking away too. Labor Day rarely means rest for us! our second photo shoot scheduled in utah…….the models never showed. this is 7 photographers getting to have a BLAST while the other 11 practiced their action shots in sunlight. (all of these photos were taken by Kelley and Kim….both excellent photographers!)
this is powder…not paint.
it was the best time. i am so glad the models never showed. and it all came off in the shower.
Looks like so much fun. I am working with some college students who want to do a photoshoot similar to this… can you tell me where to get the powder or how to make it? The most likely thing I found was Holi powder. Though it’s possible it was simply paint powder. Paint powder can be toxic though…be careful about breathing it in! can you please tell me where you purchased your powder and how much you needed for this photo shoot. i googled and found them, but i was wondering where you found yours. what BIG creative, fun! i love all the pictures. Oh my gosh – that is so awesome! Looks so fun! Awesome!! What a great time you all had. I think you may have started a new trend!!! Colored powder shoots!! I’m dying to know what powder you used too. Could you post it in the comments or maybe a new post about the powder? This seems like a very fun shoot…love it! so funny how everyone sees that you look like an avatar character. this is a tradition in india for the celebration of holi. you look like you had a blast… i couldn’t imagine a bunch of professional models pulling this one off 🙂 Those pictures are amazing! lol I dont know if I could have done that. I would have participated from a far lol Please, email me how you got the colored powder! those pictures are amazing! so colorful and fun. and you look beautiful! That is THE coolest shoot EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This reminds me of the Indian holiday, Holi! Please, please, please share where you got the powder or how you made it whatever! I would love to let my kiddos do this and take pictures–they boys might actually smile naturally and have fun!! Just love them!!!! I really don’t think that using powder like that seems like a wise idea and it freaks me out to think that readers want to do this with their children. What kind of powder is it? Do you know the toxicity when it goes in the lungs? Very awesome! It reminds me of the movie Avatar, with all the beautiful colors. What a crazy looking band of warriors in Utah… ha ha. Would love to know what powder was used. Need to get some of the boys going crazy with it!!! Very, very cool Meg!! My daughter just started her first photography class in college and has her first assignment – action shots are part of it. I showed her these pictures and she was floored! Especially the picture of the woman flipping her hair! Like Ami said, the powders remind me of Holi as well. Here are our pictures from this year’s festival. We LOVED it too. http://tinkerlab.com/2011/04/holi-colors/ You look like you could be in Avatar. you look great! That looks like wicked good fun!!! I’m wearing the same shirt you’re wearing–today. It’s from Target, right? I LOVE it. I bought four in different colors and wish I’d bought more. I’ve lived in them this summer. Glad to know I have good taste. 🙂 Whoops, I said Kelley above and meant Crystal. Totally reminds me of Holi festival in India. What a great photo session idea! Oh Meg. Meg. Oh Meg… love this. Beautiful pictures!! Looks like this was a blast!! Like the making of “Avatar 2” LOL Awesome! 🙂 This is quite possibly the most fun I think I’ve ever seen someone have! Awesome, awesome fun!!! 🙂 Great pictures too! When you said this photoshoot was a ton of fun, I never would have thought it was quite like this! 🙂 Looks like SO much fun! Wow! These photos are incredible. So colorful and fun! Ah! “Those we Don’t Speak Of” : ) fabulous Super cute hair cut too!!! That looks like so much fun. My favorite is the profile picture of you with the violet and blue powder, THAT should be your profile pic! I want to play!!!! Awesome idea and pics. Love. Oh my wow! I have to admit I’m jealous. That looks like SOOO much fun. I bet my girls would have fun with that one. Of course someone else would have to take the pics then because I definitely would have to jump in myself ;-). Ha ha ha ha….you guys look like Avatars. TOO FUN!! So awesome! I like this website.This website helped me with prayer learning.and welcome to visit our website nike outlet stores.thank you! Are you SURE it all came off? I seem to recall some colored cleavage. 🙂 The hand on your face powder pic, the side profile all powdered up…GREAT pics. I love when things work out different then they are supposed to…better. 😉 Amazing … the colors were so beautiful and it looked like lots & lots of fun! Amazing … the colors were so beautiful and it looked like lots & lots of fun! I think you got yourself a new set of headshots! Oh my! Please, please, please let us know what type of powder was used. I would love to do this with my kids. And by the way, you are so pretty 🙂 That looks like the best time, and you guys were the best models. 😉 The pics are gorgeous! So fun seeing this on Kelley’s blog too. It looks like you’re the love child of Strawberry Shortcake & a Smurf! lol! This is great! Looks like my kind of workshop! ha! omg…this was made for you!! I would have been shocked if you were one of the photographers practicing!!! I have to say….this is Awesome! what did u use for the colored powder? OMW! It is so beautiful! FUN! Creative! Please tell us about the powder. My son is in college in San Diego and he is really into photography and has a lot of people at his disposal! Can you imagine a bunch of college kids on a photo shoot on the beach with that powder?!!! WOOHOO! I would love to see photo 16 as the new head shot photo. I love it! A lot! They are all really great though! You look like one of the people in Avatar! I’ve always wanted to participate in Holi, this is definitely cool. This is so so so awesome!!!! The expression on your face post-handprint is priceless. I love it! And these are all amazing pictures, and it looks like such fun! Can you say AWESOME? That powder looks like great fun. You guys may have started a fad! In the first few pics where your face is covered with blue powder, you look a bit like a character from Avatar (not meaning to sound mean at all… I hope you’re not offended by me saying that- I loved the movie!) WOWZAS! I went back & forth between thinking “it looks like you’re casting some sort of visible spells on each other” to….”that is so cool!” to “thats a beautiful shot of Meg.” Such a fun day indeed! It looks like Andy Warhol! coolness this is so very awesome!! what kind of powder is that? I love how vibrant those colors are! Where in the world do you find that stuff?!? What awesome photos! There are some great pics of you! i love these photos. it looks like the progression of an avatar 🙂 this is so cool and awesome and wonderful and tribal ish that i can’t stand it. love it love it love it!! i love the profile one of you with mostly turquoise on your face…gorgeous. so flippin’ rad! I think your new head shot is actually is this round of pictures. Looks like so much fun! What is that stuff, and how do I get my hands on it? I don’t understand the powder throwing.? You looked like an Avatar. Who needs models when you had a bunch of crazy people on hand! They turned out really beautiful! These are wonderful perfection! Where in the world can you get colored powder? My kids would love that! We need it before summer ends so we can then hose off. I had no idea you joined the blue man group! Rock on! Hee hee, I see why the models didn’t show up. 😉 Cool, nonetheless though. I love the color! Amazing photos. I can see why they’re called pros. OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 LOVE it! The pics turned out amazing, and ya’ll look like some hidden tribe now! LOL I bet you buy this powder for your kids before you even get back home! 🙂 Oh my I love it! looks like it was a blast these are awesome! Love the colorful closeups. Wow! That looks like so much fun!! The pictures you have posted over the past few days have been delightful. What an amazing experience you had. Fun…fun…fun! Wow! I feel so honored to have my photos displayed on such an AWESOME blog! Especially because I am super lazy and might not do anything with them myself. Thanks for volunteering to step in for the funnest photo shoot ever. You’re the BEST! I LOVE the pic of all of you. . no smile. . love the color!! i want to do this. . please share what powder you used. And did ya’ll have to protect your cameras. . or were the photographers far enough away that no powder got on them? That was COOL! brave…this cracked me up too! Reminds me of AVATAR – love it – great pictures! 🙂 AH MAZING!!!! That looks like so much fun!!! I love all the colors and the big smiles! Haha u look like a smurf. Love it ! It looks like everyone had a blast!! And honestly, those pictures are amazing! I love the one of all of you looking at the camera with serious type faces on with the juxtaposition of the color all over you all….it’s great!!! Reminds me of Braveheart! Fun! Wow!!!!!! How incredible is this? I know you did have so much fun, I mean come on, who gets to get splattered with colored powder on a given day! How cool, I love the color’s and the awesome pictures of everyone all colored up!!!!!! too cool! meg these are awesome! Thank God for Zoom lenses 🙂 I love the picture of you all with serious faces… spooky huh? looks like a fun fun fun time. xx ahhhhh-mazing! love it! Ok, this is adorable! What did you use for the colors? I think this is my favorite of all your posts so far! LOL! What fun! I love the colors. I am so going to do this with my girls! I think this is my favorite of all your posts so far! LOL! What fun! These are WONDERFUL. Can I just say, the hair shot is magnificent. that looks like so much fun! How fun!!! Where did you get the colored powder? Also, it reminds me of the Hindu festival of Holi! Gorgeous photos! that looks like the best day ever! How fun! I love the group shots at the end and the one of the girl flipping her hair. Awesome! Red and yellow, black and white they are precious in His sight! Oh. my. goodness. That looks like a blast! Great pics…loved it! I can see why you had so much fun!! You should have just had a water balloon fight afterwards…they you would have had watercolors! 🙂 do share how you colored the powder! i so want to let the kids do this with the dog! what fun! those photos are awesome! So glad you had a great time! Those colors are so vibrant! Beautiful. Wow! With all that colour I bet it was your dream come true! Looks like a LOT of fun. Kids would love that stuff, wouldn’t they? And I think one of those photos should be your new headshot. 😉 That looks like so much fun! Looks like that Indian festival when they have a massive paint fight. GREAT COLOR. what fun. 🙂 You look like a warrior! How fun! I can only imagine what the vehicles looked like before the shower… What a very cool idea. You all look like warriors! Photography warriors. That looks like SO much fun! I would definitely be one of the ones to jump in and get dirty! sean is about to start band class. while i was cooking dinner.
oh it was funny. the kids were jumping up and down to have a turn. they were laughing hysterically at the sounds it would make. it was one of those funny unexpected moments in our goofy family. annie suggested we have a band! i am going to get started on our costumes. then U2's song Yahweh came on….do you know that song?
and i had a flash memory of my grandpa when there was a slight tiny scent of lake water….aren't those the craziest memories? then my iPod battery died. these are SOME of our sponsors for craft weekend.
Your kids are so adorable! This is so funny. Adam has a euphonium (sp?) and a trombone and we’ve had similar moments of sheer LOUD horn-blowing bliss in the house. Needless to say, I’ve stashed them both in the garage for now! lol haahaa…that first picture cracked me up! my first thought…”meg married a band geek!” 🙂 hes a pretty cute geek though so i dont blame you 🙂 i can just IMAGINE the noise in your house…in a happy way 🙂 I love your family band idea…hey the Partridge Family did it!! I have every day at least 1 thing from more than 20 years ago that just comes back to me, some detail. and I think of my grandpa every day, and how I miss him. so I understand this completely. I had a STRONG reaction to a childhood memory when ironing my polyester sheers. Seriously! Warm polyester will throw you right back into the 70s. Wow! the music teacher in me just loves this post! My sixteen month old will already bring our African drum to one of us and then when he’s satisfied we’ll play with him he goes to the other drums to begin playing. Maybe we’ll have to get out my husband’s trumpet too. Was Waffle scared with all that loud noise? Kelly Thanks for sharing the U2 “Yahweh” song…I had never heard it before and loved it! I can just imagine you running and trying to hold in the “Yahweeeeeh!” part…that would have been so hard! 🙂 I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, and you are an inpiration to me! Thanks being REAL. way TOO funny! Hi Meg! This is totally unrelated to your sweet family post… but my husband just sent me this video and i was tremendously blessed by it. Thought you’d love it too! It’s good to run to! http://youtu.be/CAVgGok5m-U My hubs played the trombone in middle and high school and my 12-year old has been playing it for the past 3 years. They play together sometimes – good family fun! 🙂 the trombone photos are hilarious. your craft weekend looks amazing..if only i had a free weekend to spend! I’m sure whoever comes is going to love it. Oh man, I run to the strangest assortment of music. And it’s where I have my best thinking and the memories flood–must be the adrenaline. I use the term “run” loosely!!! In fact, I’m laced up and ready to roll, but procrastinating at the computer as we speak! I’d never heard this song before – thank you for sharing. Love it. I played the clarinet and cheered. You should really start a band.It is a good excuse to get a rocking multi-colored bus. Doesn’t that Partridge Family bus look like something you would have?! Hells yeah! When I saw U2 this summer, I had to walk through a group of picketers holding signs warning us about the “satanic” rock concert we were about to enter. Has that ever happened to you? Clearly, they had to be unfamiliar with the band. My 11 year old daughter started playing trombone last year and yeah…it’s pretty rockin! Very loud in the kitchen. Or the living room. Or outside. Or at 7 a.m. when you’re trying to sleep! This made me laugh because this has happened in our family! My husband began playing the trombone in junior high and has kept it up all these years. I play the piano and we do duets. Good times. Our kids declare that we should have an “orchestra”…one on the trombone, one on the piano, one on the guitar and one on the violin. Can’t imagine how loud that would be!! I’ve TOTALLY listend to that Norah/Dolly song while running! “Creep On In”? I really enjoy reading about your family with your “big kids!” Our family is still young and I SO very often wish and hope for my kids to NOT grow up! You and your family are giving me a little glimpse of the future and I think it looks pretty FUN! Thank you!!! My husband’s nephew played When the Saints Go Marching In for his mom’s memorial service. It was wonderful. Looks like you guys had alot of fun! I love goofy silly family time like this! Love this post…you guys are too cute! FYI, you are so NOT the first person to listen to Dolly Parton while working out. Have you heard her Christmas songs? They are always on my workout playlists around the holidays. I’m not gonna lie, one or two of Dolly’s Christmas songs sneak in the rotation during other times of the year. How embarrassing for me. aah man, how fun!! I would love to be able to play a HUGE instrument like that. Off on my first run EVER tomorrow… wish me luck, I will take Dolly with me 🙂 xx I, too, have “Creepin’ In” on my running playlist. Does that make you feel better?;-) That’s cute. My oldest daughter plays trombone. I remember how funny it was when she discovered she could make “tooting” noises with it. Fun times 😉 I played trumpet. I loved it. I still miss it. I have a secret talent of being able to look at people and guess what instrument they played in high school. I’m getting a strong vibe from you though. Were you in band? I’m guessing maybe piano or clarinet. Oh that looks like so much fun! So funny! We’ve had a trombone and a french horn player at our house. SO LOUD! Looks fun. I love music when I’m running, distracts me from the fact that I may die or pass out any second. Oh my goodness. I played the trombone in high school….marching band, pep band and jazz band. I loved being the only girl on the trombone. It was pretty amazing. Unfortunately I sold my trombone so I can’t relive the memories. That’s hilarious that Craig remembered several songs. I don’t think I could. I bet your kids’ lips were all numb and swollen afterwards. it’s so good to see he is joining band! i was in the band for 9 years, and i loved every second of it! i met some of the best people in my life through band. That’s brilliant!!! How fun!!! We are building a band one kid at a time: So far I have a trumpeter a saxophonist and a violinist… with five kids waiting in the wings… I think it is going to be so cool a couple of years from now. What a great moment in your kitchen…..the stuff that a good life is made of! That is cracking me up! We just did the same thing at our house! Except I sent them outside! I had the trombone out to take pics from Craiglist and they started playing it and laughing hysterically! Good times. 🙂 Can we see pics of your basement ? If he decides to play the drums, I know a great private lessons teacher!!! 😉 Okay, that’s hilarious. I know y’all were laughing your heads off.L Love it. I so wish I was coming to the craft weekend!!! Those are some very lucky ladies indeed!!! Can’t wait to see the family uniforms. I can’t imagine the amount of spit that came out of that thing when they were done! What a fun night! I think I have a kazoo somewhere, I must go look for it right now. We did the same thing at our house (a few years ago…ahem) when my son was going into band. Randy played the trumpet and french horn…so those came out of the basement! Hi-lar-i-ous!! I can’t decide if I’m happy that you didn’t have sound or not… 🙂 These photos are so very fun. Love impromptu family fun! You should read “Olivia Forms a Band” by Ian Falconer (kids book). She attempts to get her family to make a band. Olivia cracks me up. She’s a crazy character. My daughter loves the Oliva books! I have always admired the noble trombonists. HOW do they know exactly where to stop that slide thingy? It’s different than pushing the right button. It’s gotta be. I love Dolly Parton. Personally, I have to walk/run to music like Beyonce, and Maroon 5 to get me going. I played oboe in school, and was a cheerleader. I’ve never played a trombone in my kitchen, but I have a French Horn that I played in the living room…it literally scared the poop out of one of the dogs and then the other one started barking. Needless to say, I put the horn away. love that song. we sing it in church. love u2!! and aren’t you so grateful for the random silly moments? especially right before dinner? me too 🙂 So i had no idea Craig played the trombone…..i’m guessing he was sitting somewhere close to Vaughn because we have played out this exact same scene at our house! (without me doing the cheerleading moves:)…although i can see myself trying that out now! ) At least they both had something in their mouths so they couldn’t make up alternative words to the songs they were playing like they did in SNC! Ha! Love ya! Ok…Sean should most definitely play trombone in the school band. I taught band before I had babies and looking at his embouchure (mouth placement:-) and the way he holds the slide…pretty sure he would do GREAT! The trombonists get all the chicks, ain’t that right, Craig;-) Loved this post! because i have so much inside my head i can't complete a thought.
i took pictures this weekend for Megan Duerksen.
we think those Duerksen boys have really good taste….. and she told me that there is even another Megan Duerksen around the area. i scraped wall paper for several hours on saturday all alone.
and last but not least…….
today i want to giveaway a spot to AshleyAnn's SnapShops Photography Class! no way there is another megan duerksen. So crazy and fun! Kelly Random is good. I’ve been tripping over my thoughts for days now. I have so much to learn about my camera, this would be such a blessing to win. My kids had fun with you – in fact, Cambry said she can’t wait to take pictures again. You wouldn’t have known it at the time, though! 🙂 Meg, I feel certain you’re one of a kind! 🙂 Meg, I feel certain you’re one of a kind! 🙂 That other Megan is a sweetheart! My kids go to school with hers. Aren’t we blessed to have multiple Megan Duerksens in the area?!?!?!!! Amazon must have caught on because now it is 99 cents… man! It is still worth it though 😉 Food Gawker?! That is amazing!! All those new recipes in ONE place! LOVE it!! I should never have to wonder what I’m going to make for supper again! 🙂 definitely one of my favorite songs right now too!! I want to watch this movie. thanks for the thumbs up. 🙂 How can three of you(Megan Duerksens) exist, let alone all in the same area? Thats one of the oddest things Ive ever heard. Loved “The Fighter”. Not so much watching the Oscars last year with my 17 year old daughter continually telling me how “hot” she thinks Mark Walberg is!!! Not that I don’t agree but creepy to hear your daughter say things like that. I am a priss and kept telling her say “cute” not “hot”!!! Oh, how I love that song! You must have sent too many people to amazon though…it’s no longer free 🙁 Also, loved The Fighter. I totally wasn’t expecting to like it, but it was good! LOL on the same name thing…my husband met up with an old friend recently, Michael, who had a son Michael Jr., and a daughter Heather. Turns out the daughter Heather married a guy named Michael and the son Michael is marrying a girl named Heather. None of them like nicknames, the guys don’t go by Mike. What are the odds??? Loved The Fighter! Oh, Marky Mark. Oh, Marky. The Fighter is awesome!! We got that on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and I fell in love all over again with Mr. Wahlberg. It was so good because it was totally NOT what I was expecting either. I almost cried when the truth came out about the brother’s “documentary”. So sad. I’ll have to check out that song. Do you know if you can download songs from Amazon to iTunes? I am clueless at these things. I love the song too … I hear it every day on my blog or via internet radio! I love your Blog Meg,everyday I’m looking forward to your daily life!You bring me your life and a piece of the amazing USA in my Home… thank you! Greetings from Germany Cool song Meg! Cant believe there are 2 .. no 3.. megan duerksens! That is totally cool 🙂 xx thank you for the amazon share. i just heard it this week for the first time. makes me long for country roads. i think random is the way to roll… Meg, I have ugly wall paper and I can’t get it off the wall without destroying the drywall. What do you think about just putting texture on top of the paper and painting? I love that song! I didn’t know it was free today! Thanks for that!! Loved The Fighter…yes, it was totally different from what I expected. It sat with me for days. Silly question: Where do you buy all of your brightly colored clothes and fun jewelry? I love this pink and white striped sweater. (silly because I don’t even know you, except from your blog, which I love!). I just took her online SnapShot class!! LOVED it!! Having so much fun with my camera…I still have a lot to learn, but she has given me a great jump start and a real understanding of shutter speed, metering, ISO & aperture used to all be greek to me! 🙂 Congrats to whoever wins!! So Lucky!! Mark Wahlberg floats my boat. He makes bad hair look good (his hair in the fighter wasn’t bad though.) I have to say I didn’t love Amy Adams in the movie. I thought she was trying too hard. That song makes me want to cry sometimes. Reminds me of dating my husband. I was the city girl, he was the country boy and he showed me ALL the back roads around his Missouri hometown in his beat up Chevy truck (love those memories and miss those days). Every now and then we take our babies with us on those roads when we visit his hometown. Glad you love it too!!! I loved the Fighter. I was pleasantly surprised. Besides, who doesn’t like a little Marky Mark. I am listening to the Pistol Annies right now. Miranda Lambert and some of her friends. This girls from Texas loves it! My fav is Boys from the South. I married one! What?! Multiple megs?? That’s craziness! My post today was very ummmmm random too 🙂 THANKS FOR VOTING FOR KYLER! my blogging will be sporadic this week…….
Are you too busy making friendship bracelets? 😉 Ack! The suspense!! Yay on your pics of Kylar winning! Have a great BUSY week! We’ll miss you! Yay! I knew she would win! That child is adorable. 🙂 YAY Kyler! YAY Kyler! Yippeeeee!! Congrats Kyler! Hooray!! Love the photos! She is adorable! Congrats to her Momma for the $1000! That’s awesome!!! so glad she won! She is a cutie! Yay! Happy dance! Hooray for Kyler and for Meg’s photography skills!! |
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Donna - love that! someday i wish to be there..i can feel the love and sisterhood just from watching it:)
Sharla - You look awesome – as in beautiful and so comfortable and entertaining. Thanks for sharing!
kat @ Pretty in Pink and Green - LOVE! It’s fun how many friendly faces I recognized from the many blogs that I absolutely adore. Lucky girls to be able to share that special time together.
Sandy - Looks wonderful! And it looks as if everyone loved you!! (No surprise)
Jakfotofilms - I’m so glad you like the video! Meg, your talk was awesome and really got me thinking about why I create and what God has planned for the future of my films. Thanks. 🙂
Belinda - So many familiar faces……. and I haven’t met any of them! I love the land of blogging!!! xo
Jenna@CallHerHappy - Hey Meg-
I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you in church today. The second reading was the inspiration for your blog! Many prayers for you and your family 🙂
Jenna
callherhappy.com
Karen Gerstenberger - It looks like a wonderful event – so glad you could be part of it. And that song is lovely.
BriBedell - You are so pretty!! I love Julie talking with her baby in the front carrier 🙂
Su@TheIntentionalHome - so we got to see what you wore with those sparkly shoes 🙂
thanks for sharing!
Kerry - oh the Awesomeness!!! love the shot of you on your first Tweet :)) what a cool song too xxx
Terrie G - Looks like a super fun time! How many women attended in all, do you know? I’d love to go to something like that…but, I’m not sure I’m brave enough to go by myself! Crazy, huh?!!
AshleyAnn - I love seeing Heather laughing and smiling. I was like “I know her!”…now I just need to meet her…and about 20 other girls I saw on this clip! Thanks for sharing.
wendy, NJ - I love that I get to experience these types of events through you. thank you for sharing!
laurie - Your blog title made me think of this book and the video that goes along with it…I know you’ll love it too. In case it doesn’t work, go to Pete the Cat live telling on youtube. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U
Janie Fox - That looks like an amazing time. I wish I could have been there. You looked cute as a button, as always!
Paula @ Simply Sandwich - That was so awesome! I want a re-do on that fun day! 🙂
hannah singer - love the video! wondering why the heck i look so angry in it, though! haha!!
Jennifer Mask - Oh, I so loved watching this video. I am still bummed that I didn’t get to attend. Maybe next time… 🙂
Kimberly Dial - Awww, I loved it! I sooooo want to go! Thanks for sharing it! (What a great song too!)
Meaghan Snider - As soon as I started watching the video I thought, WHAT IS THIS AMAZING SONG! So I googled the lyrics. It’s called Whole Wide World by Mindy Gledhill. The video is as amazing as the lyrics. (Great video by the way :))
Cindy - Loved that video. And song! Do you know who sings the upbeat song that is playing?
Mindy Harris - it’s a gorgeous video..could’ve done with out the shots of my fat self dancin’ a jig, though!
Kathi - Awesome!
If I had something to blog about it would be a blast to join you.
Holly - that was a fun video for sure!