adrienne - good for you for getting those lockers painted.. projects tend to sit around forever at my house before i finally get to them. feeling right at home in the craft room 🙂 LOL!

Rachel - I love the “you paid for these” comment! My husband would say the exact same thing. They’re absolutely lovely 🙂
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Michelle - I LOVE this posting! That is exactly how my desk at work (kindergarten teacher) and my home work areas look. I do manage to get things done, but I have no idea how to do it in a neat and orderly work area. How do some people do that? I love your stacks and piles. I think you deserve a pile-it’s lisence too! I’m proud of mine!

marie - love reading ur blog almost daily so much that i made the rainbow cake for my daughters 4th bday today! everybody thought it was awesome! thanks for the recipe!

Kristy - you are a lucky girl to have a room for your stuff. mines all over the house. oh to have a room, how lovely it would be :O)
have fun on your weekend. i think wrapping gift sounds great. i have a gift wrapping night at my home, some christmas music, little snack, beverage, tape, paper, ribbon and friends. its a great night :O)
have fun!

Stephanie Howell - love this post.
LOVE those lockers.
and scrapbooking? shouldn’t be stressful. i say just do whatever makes you happy!!! although the idea of meg scrapbooking makes ME very happy!! 😉

jeanne - I am laughing so hard because about 9 months ago I went to a weekend scrapbooking weekend with one of my good friends….and didn’t scrapbook….I made jewelry. Jewelry…and I was sooo happy. Everyone’s home/office space looks like that right now. Love the lockers!!!!!

Trena McNulty - I MUST know what colour those lockers are…please email me: tntmcnulty@xcountry.tv
Thanks so much!

Michelle - Enjoy your non-scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Weekend!

linda lou - meg……..i belong to a scrapbooking group and i went today (friday 11th) and we had our christmas luncheon and visited and did very little scrapbooking…didn’t think to take my christmas gifts to wrap, i would of gotten credit for doing that instead scrapbooking pages. i did clean out my big bag of stuff and its so surprising what i had in there (:
have a good and safe trip.
linda w (amy d, mom

lisabaggett - I am so feeling like your post today…….I have so many ideas of what I want to be making for holiday crafts but sadly I don’t think it will happen this year. I still haven’t finished up my Silver Bella projects. I think January will be the month! Ha! The lockers are fabulous and a big hats out for you for completing this one. I know it took lots of TLC to make them look like they do now……but atleast you have the guts to say you are going to do something entirely different than scrapbook this weekend. Yay!

jennifer - I love how your craft room still looks so fun and colorful and inviting, no matter what you’ve got going on in it!
And the box of cheez-its cracks me up! That’s the kind of thing I find in my seven year old sons room, when I finally clean up the fort he’s built and been sleeping in for a couple weeks.
Have a wonderful weekend! And I can’t wait to see the fun crafts you come up with!

Suzette Mahoney - Oh you have inspired me with the whole “crafting with cookies, cocoa & music”…..wonder how I can get my two teen boys to craft? The cookies and cocoa, no brainer….I love your blog!

Cate O'Malley - Now I don’t feel so bad about the small mountain in the corner of my bedroom, Christmas presents to be wrapped. I *did* organize them, though, this weekend, so I could have a clearer picture of who I need what for.
In that Pottery Barn bag in the first picture, the fingerless rainbow gloves – any chance you remember where you got that? Love the rainbow colors!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - YOU totally crack me up. I can’t believe you are dragging all of your gifts somewhere else to wrap them. You make me just laugh inside!!! Love the lockers…awesome. They look so good painted red. BTW Jeanne told me you were going out to CO. I am beyond jealous that you guys are hanging out…without me! I want to meet you someday really bad. I swear I’m not a weirdo…honestly, just ask Jeanne. She knows I have a blog crush on you and she loves me anyway;) Hope you feel a sense of peace and control after getting some of your “to-do’s” done.

Chris - I’m so glad to see someone else has a room that looks like my office!

Meredith - Maybe your guardian angel just knew that you would need to have a weekend away just to wrap presents in peace and quiet. This is a trend that could take off. Mothers! Wives! Daughters! Come to us all who are weary and wrap presents at our B&B. Kid-free! No vacuuming! We’ll make all your meals! Loving it, Meg.
I adore your craft room. If Santa’s workshop had to cater for the needs of a large family, an etsy shop and a vintage addiction, it would look exactly the same, don’t you think? Hope you get away with a minimum of a fuss and enjoy your weekend. Meredith xo.

Jaimie - The pictures of your craft room make me want a craft room where I can make a mess like that. BF is a clean freak. I would love to have my own area to mess up as much as I want. I hate getting stuff in and out of a closet.
ANYWAYS, have fun!!

Tonya - some people would kill for those amazing aqua and green stools in your craft room…..ok, maybe just me! 😉 i have $100’s wrapped up in scrapbooking and never make the time to do it. i don’t even print my pictures for goodness sake!
have fun and get loads of relaxing done!
oh, i got the gigantic glass canister the other day at wally-world. i love it so much…thanks!

Sarah @ Clover Lane - Holy heck, I’m coming over and helping you clean that room. I’d be having heart palpitations. (I am everytime when I look in MY closet!)
Jeff does the same thing to me when I bring something home or have a crazy idea…but THEN he says, after it looks all nice and good, and someone compliments it, “Doesn’t it look good? WE just painted it and blah blah blah…” and the whole time I’m thinking WE, WE, WE??? Are you KIDDING me?
Hope you catch up! Hope you get your fun craft week with cookies and hot cocoa! Sounds divine.

Sara @ Queen of the House - Thank you.
Thank you for the “craft week” inspiration. I needed that. I want to do that. I need to get myself organized and planning!
And a big thank you for showing your mess so I can feel better about mine. It’s good to not feel alone! 🙂

Heather @ Cookie Mondays - the lockers are AMAZING!
if you get lost on the way to the b&b, we have room for you in so-cal 🙂
and I can’t wait for my surprise! you are too funny 🙂
have a great weekend!!

Kristine - yeah, the idea of YOU scrapbooking was overwhelming ME! i’m so glad you’re going to get away to be productive! i love it! i NEED it!
in response to your other post, i totally refer to you as though i know you too. i’ll tell my hubby, “oh this is meg’s recipe…” or whatever. and he’s always like, “who’s meg again?” or i say it to my friends when i say who made natalie’s birthday shirt or took her pictures or something… and under my breath i mutter…”my blog friend…” 🙂
have a great weekend! enJOY!

Lori - First let me just admit that I am super jealous of your lockers! I pine to own some! Enjoy your weekend away and I hope that you get enough done that you can feel caught up when you get back.

Cori - Have a great time!My bedroom looks like your craft room minus the cool red locker but i think i have the cheezits! The good thing is my kids are not noticing presents not put away! They would stand out more if they were in a bag in my closet all wrapped up. Al least that is what i’m telling myself….

Flower Patch Farmgirl - I don’t know much about scrapbooking, but I do know plenty about Cheez Its. I hope you weren’t “yuck”ing them in general… They are so, so good. Except for when they are a tiny bit burnt. That has happened to me more than once. Come on, Cheez Its quality control, do your job! Sheesh.

Nina - I can’t even get into my craft/sewing room because of all of the gifts i need to wrap!

Mindy - I am so glad you said all that. I have been feeling so jealous of seeing people posting scrapbook layouts all over their blogs and wanting to scrap so bad but I have christmas cards to create and gifts to sew and cleaning and a million other things. Isn’t that what a craft room should look like? Mine does except my craft area is in our bedroom so it’s kind of hard to ignore it or move around much. I hope you have fun and get organized for your christmas! I’ll be excited to read how it goes.

Tara @ the cinnamon post - the CHEEZ IT box made..my..day. thank you! i’d love to see your christmas crafts because the kids and I just sat staring at each other in the craft room last evening and couldn’t come up with anything! love the lockers…i just might try that on some my husband picked up when a gym went out of business…

Jen Christians - You made my day. I was thinking I was overwhelmed and needed a Xanax ( I almost called my doctor!!) But then I realized it was just normal, over committed, holiday anxiety, no neep to medicate, just sit on my butt for a few minutes and catch up on some fav. blogs… that’s even better than a xanax!

Sandy - My favorite part of this post??…
“i want to make a different christmas craft every day after school…supplies ready and out for when they come home from school…hot cocoa and cookies waiting…christmas music playing in the background.
sounds dreamy.
we’ll see how it goes.”
ESPECIALLY the “we’ll see how it goes.” because I know you mean it. I had to chuckle thinking of Annie have a meltdown, etc. Thanks over and over again for being real.
I do hope it turns out as dreamy as it sounds though!!

Andrea @ Big Creek Cottage - Meg, thank you so much for showing your office/craft room stacked with Christams gifts…that is how my office/ craft room looks…my kids are so afraid to go in there…they haven’t even snooped …..and their presents, most of them….are stacked right there!!!! Have a great relaxing time!

Courtney Walsh - Oh my gosh. You are WISE for not trying to scrap right now. Maybe you could make gifts? Do you make any gifts for anyone? I am making caramel corn… not that you could make that… but my point is that I am hoping I actually MAKE IT and that it actually survives until it’s delivered because truly… I just want to sit on the couch and eat caramel corn.
Yum.
I hope you have fun at your weekend away!! 🙂