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August 17, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

Craft Weekend is going on right now!

They have made their aprons and breakfast is being prepared downstairs.

I snuck down for a cup of coffee and i am back in bed for a just a little while longer.

Looking forward to the goodness that awaits us at the barn this afternoon.

 

I wanted to answer a couple questions about the blog…

In the sidebar on the right is this little button with my face and big smile. (that’s a lot of teeth!)

I wanted to show you what the icons mean in case you weren’t sure.

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I am working on the Bloglovin feed and hopefully it will be up and going soon!

But you can follow me all the other ways you may want and you can email from there too.

 

Ok….

i have to take a shower now.

and then drive 12 ladies to the barn!!  Woo-hoo!

 

Have a super Saturday!

 

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Lori - The white frame in the top right pic is leaning against what? That wood and those colors. Love!

Sarah Madgwick - I saw you and all the lovely craft weekend ladies on Main Street Marion. My husband and I just purchased the building a block down from Bearly Makin It. You ladies were the brightest cheeriest looking group.

Heather Crawford - For the life of me, I can’t get your new blog to log into my Feedly reader??

Tracy Fisher - Yay.. i love craft weekend stories 🙂 -tracy

Linda R. - Meg, I have been reading your blog since…I think since Annie was in preschool. And you have always been my fave. The new blog looks lovely, of course. I switched over to Feedly after Google Reader died, but it doesn’t seem to be picking up your new feed. Will this be a short-term thing? I’m not tech-savvy at all, but I love to read your posts and don’t want to miss anything!

Lisa M - Hi Meg! Love the new look! Was just wondering…is there going to be a date shown on any of your posts?

Lisa Dick - I’ve been keeping an eye on your website and keeping my fingers crossed that I get the opportunity to come to one of your whatever craft weekend. I’m super excited about your new blog! Congratulations!
Stay wonderful!
Lisa

Julie - What an explosion of colour to brighten up my Sunday. Can’t wait to see all the craft weekend photos. Have a fabulous day at the barn.

Leslie - Great new site! I love it! I am so coming to craft weekend one of these days. Getting myself on the list!! 🙂

Georgia - I love your new blog, it feels so good to get a .com doesnt it!

As always your blog is a place of colour and happiness. 🙂

Kristal Leaver - Congratulations on your new blog! Your old blog on Typepad was my inspiration to switch over, it was such a delight to visit.

Oh, how jealous I am of your crafting weekend!! I hope you gals have a WONDERFUL time!! Think of the rest of us stuck in the house on a grey weekend with a hubby and two kids….LOL!!!

XoXo,
Kristal

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oh my goodness….

August 14, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

as usual…my voice gets ahead of me in the video.
lame.

proof that i am not as tech savvy as you might think….

 

i am so glad you are here!

this new site is going to be SUPER fun!!!!

 

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kristin - The new blog is lovely, really it is…. but YOU? Dude. Skinnay!! Lookin’ good, mama!

Gabrielle Madere - congrats on your new blog..it looks fantastic and colorful and sooo you! Did you move away from typepad? I’m trying to get my blog…a bit more exciting and trying to learn how to do that…reading lots of tutorials on typepad and picking other bloggers brains. I’ve been following your like foreva!

{jeanie} - Love the new digs. If anyone needed their very own dot-com, I have always thought: you! 🙂 SO bright and happy! Thank-you for all the work you put into it to bless and build up!

Tiffany - I loved your blog before and didn’t know how it could improve… But it did! Looks fabulous. 🙂

Christy - Loving the glasses! May I say, you look amazing. You have always looked great, you just look very fit.

Melissa - Your new blog looks great! I’ve been following for years and can’t wait to continue for many more 🙂 Love the high quality of pictures that it shows- and colors too!! Doesn’t Dan @ Prophoto rock? (He’s my husband so I really think he does! 🙂

Kerry - Hello Meg! What an awesome, beautiful new space! Congratulations! It was nice to ‘chat’ with you again too 🙂 Much luck and love, Kerry x

Jeannine - Love the new blog! Congrats on the new space – it looks so HAPPY 🙂

Toni :0) - Love it so much! You are so super cool and cheery and fun! Well done and can’t wait to see more. Bless you for helping to make my world more colorful and bright!

Martha - Hi! New site is so colorful & fun! Great job! 🙂

What would Martha do - I love the look of your new website, congratulations! It’s so bright and cheerful, I love it!

emily hope - love the new site! looks so fresh and purty – great job! and it was fun to hear/see you on the video 🙂

Christy K - Oh Meg! I love, love, LOVE it! The new site is just fabulous! So much color everywhere… a treat for the eyes! You made the right choice, everything looks amazing! : )

Ashley J - It looks fabulous! Congrats on your new “home!”

Amanda - Small Home Big Start - Love the new look! As colour and bright as I would have expected from you 🙂 I just went through a blog rebranding myself and it is alot of hard word, but worth it. It takes some time to get used to doing things a little differently but it won’t seem so weird in a couple of weeks.

Great info on the craft house too! I’ve always wondered if you rented it out to other groups. Wish I could find a place like that here in Canada to do a craft weekend with friends.

Patricia - So colorful & cheerful! Love it!

Allison - LOVE the new site. It’s so fun and cheerful. Favorite blog redesign EVER!!

Megan - I love the new site. It looks so clean and really makes your pictures pop!

Beth - Love hearing your voice, matched what I think of when I read your posts 🙂 Looking forward to reading your new blog, just like I loved the old one!

Nell - Love it! I’ve been following along for about three years now. So fun! 🙂

Lisa - I like the new look – really makes your colorful photos pop off the screen. Congratulations!

Diane - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, the new look!! It was also cool to hear your voice … always neat to have that along with your picture. I am also super excited all the kid’s crafts are together!! You do such great Christmas crafts that we’re going to try this year.

It’s so bright and just lovely. 🙂

Jules - Hi Meg, new site looks great! Bloglovin can’t seem to find the feed for it at the moment – hopefully they will catch up soon!

Tiffany - Oooh so fancy 🙂

Colleen - Looks great!

Sarah - You are seriously such a doll!! Love your new space!

Gretchen - Love your new space! So user friendly!

Ana Marques - Looks really, really, beautiful and colorful and gorgeous and it’s just like you…Heather did an exceptional work as usual…
Congrats and I’m truly happy for you…Now I’m going to browse it and just see it all…:)

Niki - It looks fantastic, Meg!! So happy!

Lisa - Nice job Meg! Love reading your blog! Enjoy the upcoming Craft Weekend. Wish I could do it again!

Tere - You are so darn cute! Love your longer hair. Take care, xoxo Tere

Diana - How fun! Great to hear your voice!

Kerry - Looks great! Congrats!!

Laura O - Love the new blog!!

Bailey C - Can I follow your blog on bloglovin? Or any other way?

Christine - It’s great! Have a nice “stay” 🙂

Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - So excited for you Meg! It looks great!

Terrie - LOVE it! Super cute!!
So colorful, so happy, so crafty!!

Katie - You are so young and beautiful! I loved hearing your voice Meagan! Nice work on the new blog.

Lori - Fantastic new site! Bright, cheerful and just plain fun. 🙂

roganne - love you shiny NEW blog! so super cute!!

kate@stillroomtogrow - LOVE the new site! keeping my fingers crossed my name pops up on that waiting list for craft weekend, THAT house looks AMAZING!!

roganne - love your shiny NEW blog! SUPER CUTE!!

Tricia @ The Domestic Fringe - I love your new super-colorful space. It’s gorgeous! Congrats.
~FringeGirl

Sarah Wolfe - Looks fantastic! It’s happy, colorful, and full of life… Your site is so very YOU! 🙂

Kristin S - Argh, commented too soon. Feedly caught up to itself moments after I posted. Whew, I can tell my fave blogs because I save them to the end when I browse my reader. Yours is always at the end…. like a yummy dessert.

Kristin S - This looks great! Fun to see a video again, too.

Since Google Reader abandoned us and feedly took over, I’m stuck with it and still don’t love it. Now I really don’t because it doesn’t see your blog as a feed. So sad! I hope I don’t miss stuff by forgetting to check. I so rely on my reader.

Alicia @ La Famille - Oh how awesommmmmmme!! I’ve been wanting to redo mine too. Need a fresh look. Love it!

Krista - Congrats on your new space!

Amy Cornwell - Can’t wait to check it all out!!

Laura Kelley - Looks so great Meg. Way fun.

Kathie M. - Congrats!! Way cute! Love the new space!

Necole@seriouslysassymama - How fun is this. Color is such a beautiful and heavenly thing!

lauren - you’re adorable. congratulations on the new space!

Tracy Fisher - Way to go girl! CONGRATS!!! -tracy

Kelly - Looks nice. Good luck!

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - It looks fantastic! I’m so excited for you! I love it! Heather did an amazing job! Love it!

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home.

July 22, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

we are home and i am super tired.
it was a great vacation filled to the top with activites and people.
all good things.

but now i would like to crawl into a cave and sleep and not see people for a week.
ha.
i don’t think that is possible with five kids.

they did let me sleep in until 10 this monring.
and that is something.

we are out of food.
the house is a mess.
there is a TON of laundry to be done.

yay.
job security forever.

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it was a fabulous vacation.

🙂

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Renee - Christy – you could go far north or south of downtown to get a shot like that. Either to promontory point in Hyde Park or a beach near lincoln park. You could probably get it from North Ave or Fullerton beaches 🙂

Renee - Christy – you could go far north or south of downtown to get a shot like that. Either to promontory point in Hyde Park or a beach near lincoln park. You could probably get it from North Ave or Fullerton beaches 🙂

susan - Great vivid colors.

T.O. - The pictures of the kiddos flexing their muscles are to die for! Adorable!!

katie4life - Inquiring mind….do people recognize your cute fam when you go places?
What fun kiddos you have! thanks for sharing!

Christy - Where did you go to get those oictures? We are in Chicago now on vacation and I would love to get a shot like that!

tonya mcdaniel - haha…did sean do the “boom, bang, fire power” thing?!

Stephanie - Those pics made me smile! Someday that will be my boys with their little sisters. 🙂 glad you made it home!

Sara Torbett - I sure enjoyed seeing all your vacation photos. We attempted a Chicago vacation with a toddler and baby a couple of months ago. WORST 24 hours ever. As in, we came home after 24 hours! And it was on Mother’s Day, lol. 🙂 So, I lived vicariously through you on this trip. Thanks Meg! 🙂

Alicia @ La Famille - getting back to normal after vacation is the hardest ever! happy laundering…I have to do that too and I wasn’t on vacation…

Jamie - you were in my hometown! 🙂 lovely photos, it’s always refreshing to see someone enjoying that beautiful skyline.

Tiffany - I’m so glad you had a great time! As always, it was fun following you on ig. Job security… I like that!

Molly - Need a vacation from your vacation!!
What a lucky girl to have big brothers like that. those pictures are so fun and so sweet!

Colleen - Sounds exactly like what I am experiencing right now…just change the names and city! There is comfort in getting back to regular like though…I think!

Tracy - We’re leaving for our family vacay to Colorado this Friday. Very excited!
The only bad part about vacation is coming home 🙁 Hate that part!

Jen - So glad you had a wonderful vacation and that you are back home safe and sound. Love the pictures of Talby and her big bros.

Katey - We just got back from church camp and I to am up to my eyeballs in laundry. I was kitchen mom so the boys have given me a few nights off from cooking. Whew. Glad you had a great vacation!! Looked like fun.

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Photo-a-day

July 21, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

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Stopped by our first house we ever bought.  We moved in here when Scott was a baby.
We had Sean, Talby and Annie while living here.  We re-did everything in this house and learned so much.
this was a good house.
we made wonderful memories here.

 

 

 

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Mindy - What a lovely house and how fun to revisit!

Heather S. - Yep – the Midwest rocks for homes! Our house in Kansas is *nice,* but in Cali it would cost a fortune. We wouldn’t have been able to afford our *starter* home if it were in Cali. Sheesh!
Love the photo-a-day Meg! And your legs – they look nice. Good to see them (in shorts!). 😉

Tamara - So cute! I love going back by old houses I’ve lived in. It would be fun if the current owners would let you see the inside to see if things are the same or not.

Lisa B - I live in Lynnwood, Jennifer, and I was thinking the same thing!!

Michelle whitlow - Aww, what a cute house!!

Lisa Perry - What a beautiful house, great that you went by to visit it 🙂

Sara Torbett - What a beautiful home! 🙂 And stuffed full of memories too….
this picture is a treasure.

angela - I love this!

Jennifer - I can’t believe that’s your first home! In Seattle, where we live, that’s the home everyone has to save, pinch pennies, and wait years to make enough to afford. What a lovely place for memories and another reason the Midwest is awesome.

happygirl - 🙂 I love reliving memories.

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Photo-a-day

July 20, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago.

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nancy m - Your new space is pretty, but the posts have no dates? at least I cant find them. I quickly hit the “345” button to see your first post. Cool that you were able to move the entire thing, but I would like to see the dates on the posts. Welcome to your new home on the web.

Kristen - We just got home from Chicago, and it was AWESOME!!!! But we drove with our 4 kiddos from Philadelphia…two days of close-up lovin’ in the minivan…oh yeah… But it was worth every moment…love the bean, the pizza, the public gathering spots, the art, the river, the everything. So glad you’re having a great trip! 🙂

Viktoria - This is so much fun!

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Photo-a-day

July 18, 2013 Filed in Uncategorized

Besties.

(p.s. where did our babies go??? Jenny was in the delivery room for talby and annie!)

 

(p.p.s. Vacation ROCKS!)

 

 

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Lori Austin - Awww vacation time with your bestfriend. Sweet!

Tiffany - Priceless.

Luce - Everyone looks so sunburnt, lol!

Wendy C - I heart vacations with friends – best memories ever!

Melissa - @Melissa- I think Meg mentioned a little bit ago that she was on a mission trip…could be wrong and totally overstepping here though.
I noticed the hand-holding too! So sweet.

Andrea - Great Pic!! Love that Talby is holding your hand, awwww.

tracy fisher - i love when our babies still want to hold our hands…. precious. -tracy

Melissa - Where’s Lauren?!

alimoll - Love this photo Meg! You all look so sun-kissed and happy!

Sara Torbett - 🙂 Happy pic! Glad you all are having such fun! 🙂

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