lots and lots of pictures from the weekend.
three of the girls flew to kansas…two from california…one from alabama.
two of the girls drove from oklahoma.
the rest of the girls were local within 30 minutes.
three of us went to the airport to pick them all up…there were even some tears of joy upon meeting in real life.
craig is a super star and took all of our kids to his mom's for the weekend…with the stomach flu.
all the blogger girls stayed at my house.
i have lots of beds….a little known fact apparently.
everyone had their own mattress.
we must be mattress hoarders.
my dining room that turned into a game room decided to become a craft retreat lodge this weekend.
we fit in there so well!
all the sewing machines were on the pool table!
it was like the room was made for it.
on friday night we made our first craft led by julie.
we used this tutorial by little miss momma.
they turned out so cute.
almost everyone chose a different color.
you need to make this!
kimberlee didn't have on lipstick so we had her use her necklace for lipstick.
lots and lots of chit chat while we were crafty.
and i see waffle's paw at the bottom left corner of this picture.
he was by our sides every minute….loving the the attention from the ladies.
there was so much good food.
cindy made breakfast on saturday.
we got to sleep in….a requirement made by me.
don't you hate going places for a "retreat" and then have to be at breakfast by 7:30 am??
there was even a sweet little baby in attendance!
after cindy filled us with crepes with fresh fruit and quiche we loaded into a 15 passenger van to go antiquing.
we debated about decorating the van with bunting……
so fun.
we are any stores DREAM.
a van pulling up with 10 women to shop???
we were met with big smiles.
9 out of 10 ladies left with new found treasures.
cole with his mama picking out all the best doilies.
i took them to my favorite antique store…Bearly Makin It.
so much to choose from.
if you are in kansas….you should go.
heather found silverware for her party planning business.
a total score!
anyone need a milk jug???
loving the sunshine!
all the ladies took turns holding sweet baby cole.
it was our pleasure.
he hardly made a peep the whole weekend.
and everyone had envy of julie's gorgeous hair….it is soooo pretty.
on saturday in kansas we had a really odd extremely warm day.
we were so grateful for it.
can you guess what i bought from all these goodies? ha ha ha
after a sonic happy hour run we made it back to my house for more crafts.
the ruffle pillow tutorial heather taught us with is here.
3 women had never sewn on a machine before.
they ended up being ruffle making rock stars!
they did fantastic.
ashley's machine made the best ruffles…we all waitied for our turn on her machine.
no one knew what the secret was….but it worked….no gathering required.
i love being around people who love technology as much as i do….
threading a needle….
the third craft was embroidery hoop art.
we were given lots of examples that we could make or we could make our own design.
amy's was amazing.
we stayed up crafting and listening to frank sinatra on pandora and eating tiramisu until 2 in the morning.
kimberlee made breakfast on sunday.
there was frosting involved.
YUM.
another great thing about crafty girls weekends….women clean up.
always.
there were cameras everywhere.
and fabric everywhere.
dreamy.
and my brass lamps from the thrift shop. :)
there is a peek at amy jupin's ruffle pillow.
i am in love with the ruffle pillows…i want to make a hundred of them.
and her turquoise flower necklace is also in the picture.
these were all of our hoops together…not all finished but all together.
mine is the one right
here under these
letters.
trying to set up our cameras for a group shot….caught kimberlee being silly.
jana (no blog….yet) and amy jupin.
jess and julie.
ashley and cindy (also no blog….YET).
cindy came with ashley so she didn't have to drive alone and show up to a house full of women she had never met and be trapped with us if she didn't like us…
turns out we LOVED them both!
very much.
heather, cole and me.
amy (my neighbor) and kimberlee (my cleaning partner)
and that was that.
they went home with their suitcases full of new crafts, antiques, julie's messy flowers and full tummies.
and i haven't stopped smiling since.
God gave me blogging.
He gave me a gift that i get to continue opening when i meet new friends from all over.
God is so awesome.
my mind feels full of creativity.
my heart feels full of love and friendship.
my body feels too full of cinnamon rolls and cheesecake.
the retirement center has been missing me.
my bloggy friends left just in time….we are snowed in here and it's FREEZING.
my house has never been this cold.
i am bundled up in a blanket with many layers and hot coffee and i am still frozen.
erin - Beautiful pillows! I have been following your blog for a while, found it through The Lettered Cottage when they featured your guest room, which is so fun! Ok, 2 questions for you about the pillows: 1) do you use pillow forms or loose stuffing to fill them, and 2) how do you close them (zipper, sew up the 4th seam, or overlap the back so they slide in? You have inspired me to do more creative things with my 4 kids and for myself. Thank you!
Mallory - Pretty pillows! I am looking for something beautiful to add color to my living room and your pillows might just be it! I can’t wait!
Su@The Intentional Home - those sneak peaks have me giddy. . . I already see pillows and prints I want. . I love me some bright bold color. . .I am afraid you are gonna sell out in the first day.
Angie P - LOVE! 🙂
Valerie Page - I am excited about your pillows. This is a project I would love to learn how to do. I can’t wait till your store is open. I may have to buy quite a few. Of course, I need pillows for all three of my girls’ rooms and let’s not forget my couches in the living room. I’m getting excited just thinking about it. I will keep checking back and look forward to ordering some.:)
Pop & Lolli - Hi Meg – I’ve been a fan ever since you’ve blessed us with “featuring” Pop & Lolli on your side bar as a thing you love – and I have been hooked ever since! You’re such a wealth of talent and inspiration and beauty and blessing weaved together – it is a happy find to have found you! Thank you for always brightening the day! Your Etsy stuff is GORGEOUS – I could have EVERY Pillow!!
Pop & Lolli - Hi Meg – I’ve been a fan ever since you’ve blessed us with “featuring” Pop & Lolli on your side bar as a thing you love – and I have been hooked ever since! You’re such a wealth of talent and inspiration and beauty and blessing weaved together – it is a happy find to have found you! Thank you for always brightening the day! Your Etsy stuff is GORGEOUS – I could have EVERY Pillow!!
Annika - You’ve been busy! I wish I had your drive!
mandie - I just found your blog from the Blog Sugar site, and I can’t wait to see what your shop is full of! 🙂 Good luck!
shelley - Meg….hurry…i have to have some of those pillows !!! so adorable and colorful !!! I love all the pom pom trim ! Praise God that you can sew..i just stare at my sewing machine in the box..i am scared to take it out. It was gifted to me and I am afraid of it !
mulberrytreehouse - These are adorable! Can’t wait to see your etsy shop!
Kristin S - Meg, Meg, Meg, Meg!!!
No wonder you bought 80 million yards of white pom pom trim. LOVE.
So glad my birthday is coming so I can treat myself.
kristin - i’ll take one of everything, please.
: )
Danielle - Oh man… there’s a pillow I see that I want soooo bad!!! And perhaps a bunting or two. 🙂 I always miss your shop. It’s like everything sells in 20 minutes. 🙂 I’m going to be more diligent this time… because, oh that pillow. OH that pillow.
Christina (fivewalkers.com) - Sooooo fun! Do you follow a pattern or just make it up?! That made me so happy to look at those pictures!
Kathie Simmons - Bummer!!! I’m having a somewhat stinky day and buying some of those things would definitely have helped. Everything looks so fun and bright and happy. Well, good things are worth waiting for! And that stuff looks AWESOME!!
Andrea - But I’ve set money aside to shop your store! I NEVER set money aside!
I guess the good news is you’re still sewing because the way these comments read you’re going to sell out in no time!
Brooke - I think this might be the first time I’ve commented here, but I’ve read your wonderful blog for some time now. Not only are your posts inspiring, both in creativity but also spiritually, but you also give me a taste of home, as I grew up in western KS and can’t return enough.
I saw the pillows on this post, linked below, and you immediately came to mind. Is that weird? 🙂
Thank you for the work you put into your blog.
http://granvillehouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/sneak-peek-giveaway.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+granvillehouse+%28320+*+Sycamore%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
rachel / cr.e.at.e - good for you!!! that IS the fun part & if you still have the time & desire to SEW & be CREATIVE, strike while the iron’s hot. LOVE all your stuff so far! 🙂 [and seriously. so funny you have the problem that you have. you can’t list anything because you’ll sell out & it’ll be game over. i can’t say i know of any other etsians that have a problem like that? hilarious.] 🙂
Michelle - I can’t wait to order a pillow, some wall art and a flag banner!!! I love it all!!!
I will be checking out your blog daily to find out when it will open!!!!
Lisa - I better not forgot to check your blog and then find out you opened your shop a few days after the fact. I’m sure it will sell out quickly. I NEED the flag banner for my kids’ playroom. Like REALLY NEED it.
Linda - I’m so excited pillow and bunting!! Makes me happy!
Heather - Those pillows make me smile!
Nichole - I want to raid your fabric supply, seriously. I can never find such awesome prints!
Jess Mead - I love your fabric. Trying to think of a place for new pillows. I’m sure I could find a place! 🙂
Desiree' - 1-Can’t wait for your store to open…just like everyone else! 😛
2-I LOVE Francis Chan! That video is the first one I saw of him and have loved him since.
Kat - How much each are the pillows? Just trying to work out if I can afford to buy one and the postage to send it to Aus….
Kat - Nice pillows Meg!
Funny, when I read the topic “false alarm” I thought you were going to say that you thought you were pregnant, but it was a false alarm.
Ah must be on my mind, the whole concept of babies and pregnancy seeing as we have (mostly) decided to stop at 4.
Amber - EEEKkkk I need the HB green pillow in the top right!!! PLEASE!!!!
Carol S - Don’t sweat it! That’s the beauty of being a freelancer, you can work on your own schedule. And while procrastinating, you’re building up a little anticipation along the way which is a good sales technique. Smart lady!! Just enjoy the process and have a great week Meg.
tiffany feger - i just saw your name and blog link in my “baby talk” mag today:) it’s on how to be a great SAHM:)
Andrea B - These are all so happy! I covet your mad pillow skillz.
Seriously, though. So lovely!
a pocket full of posies - *SWOON*! can’t wait!
Blessings!
Jill
sarah - you’re amazing. we can wait a bit longer if inspiration is still lingering…it will be worth it in the end!
se7en - Would you just look at all those stunning colors… oh come over to our house and play and bring all those colors with you!!!
Jeannine - Gorgeous! Those pillows are dreamy.
Hopefully I won’t be in a class when your store opens and I’ll be able to snag a pillow or two =)
Can you please teach me how to sew? Haha.
Happy sewing Meg!
erica - can.not.wait!
jaz - Oh so yummy seeing all those pillows together like that!
crystal beutler - Super duper cute stuff!!!! You will sell out in no time! You are going to love my new shower curtain I made this weekend. It has pom pom fringe — my fave! I put it on everything.
Hope all is going well. Can’t wait to see your Etsy shop. 🙂
Hey, do you know enough craft people in your area to do a boutique somewhere in Kansas? That might be way fun! I’d participate! You could even hold “make and take” classes as part of it. Get your organizing friend working on that! 🙂 🙂
Sarah@this farm family's life - those photos are killing me. i can’t wait!
Lorie Yoder - I’m just dyin’ for the opening…tell me…do you fill your pillows with fill or a pillow insert? Where do you get all your chenile for the back of some of your pillows? Is it an old bedspread? Totally LOVE all of them! Your admirer in COLD Indiana!
Dawn - Your pillows are so gorgeous! I hope I’m able to snag one up before they are all sold out!
Aimee - I want that sock monkey pillow!!!!
Shelly foster - I can’t wait ! I already see 3 things I want !! Yay !
Ali Richardson - EVERYTHING you just showed up is EYE CANDY!!! WOW! Just gorgeous!!
Esther - I want some of them pillows…how do I find you??? just go t Etsy??? let me know Meg, thanks!!
Charlene @ Adventures In Mommy Land - I have a question….what kind of fill (stuffing) do you use on your pillows? Do you buy somewhere special? I’ve been buying mine at Walmart and I’d like to find a place with a better deal than $4 a bag.
Thanks!
Sandee - I’m dying here… I cannot wait for it to open!
I’ll take one of each, seriously… Oh and a gumball print too!
JeAnNiE - Oh my goodness … be still my heart. I LOVE chenille and those pillows are DELISH!!!!
karen - oooo..blue & white polka dot one is mine!! I sure hope you are shipping to Canada 🙂
Gemma @ Musings of a gem - Ohh very exciting! Looking forward to having a nose around your shop : )
Gemma x
Staci - Makes me very happy 🙂 and today is my birthday….so thanks for all the happiness your blog brings me 😀
Sharla - LOVE those pillows.
jennifer - That picture of the pillows is a big tease! 🙂
One of them really needs to come to my house!
Sarah - i LOVE the pillow with the hearts on one side and the red and pink polka dots on the other side!!
mary elizabeth - i want a pillow!!!! i need a happy meg spot at my house 🙂
Janie Fox - bring it dude!!
Kris - Love that pom pom trim!
erlfisher - Torture, I tell you! Torture! I will dream about those pillows! And those colors – would spring get here quicker if I put those beautiful pillows on my sofa? It might help!
april - wow I have to say meg those look awesome….
happygirl - Isn’t it funny how time slips by. I’m constantly struggling with time management. Your pillows are so pretty. I’d love to have one, but they just end up being a chew toy for my dog. I just can’t break him of the pillow chewing. It’s the ONLY thing he chews. I feel the same way about getting my items listed on ebay. Photograph, write description, package for shipment, get to the post office. Where does the time GO…..
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Squeal! I can’t wait! Woo hoo!
Jessie - I really want a pillow for my new office. I am worried I am going to miss the opening! All so cute:). I’m going to be checking like a crazy lady!!!!
Katie - Stop the Madness!!!! I can’t wait!!!!
danielle - pretty sure one of those buntings has my name allllll over it.
Lisa - Ooo-la-la! I want some!!! 🙂
Tracey - Open, open, open, it’s like black Friday and I am salivating at the windows. I want some scrumptious pillows
Patricia - The photo of your pillows makes me smile! Happy Sewing!!
Maria - The black and white pillows are mine for my daughter (I hope)!
What a tease!
Sugar Mama - So excited for the opening because I have a feeling SEVERAL of these items will be perfect for the re-decorated daycare room!!! In fact, I now have neutral colored curtains just so I can add colorful accessories… like pillows and wall art. Can’t wait! (But I have to, I guess) ;o)
Adrienne S - The pillows! I want some of those. Will be watching for the opening of the shop.
Tracie - Oh I hope you are selling the whatever print. I have been eyeing that on your sidebar, thinking about trying to recreate it in photoshop, but I’m way too lazy. I hope you list it!
Trish - fun 🙂 i’m making buntings for my etsy shop too 🙂
jeannett - i just died. my husband is going to kill you. 😉
Kimberlee J. - I am happy you are doing what you love today.
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - You’re killing me over here, Meg! Im drooling over these photos:)
XO,
Sarah
georgia - Meg, can u give me a quick email to let me know what UK time ur shop opens as I get totally confused and last time the shop was empty 🙁 boo sniff lol
Jenny Joy - You are single-handedly responsible for my new obsession with pom pom fringe. MWAH!
Cha Cha - ahhh, so glad I am not the only one this happens to. You made my day by letting me know I am not the only one who is behind. Thank for always being real.
Cha Cha
deborah@applesinwonderland - just for fun, wouldya’ artfully arrange all the pillows on your bed? 🙂
Courtney - Are you taking pre-orders? I want the one with the cursive writing on the back of it…pretty please…and a gumball print for my play room!
Amanda - Please open soon! I already see a pillow or two I HAVE to buy and a few prints!!!
stephanie - open, open, open…..i want some of those pretty pillows 🙂
Tara Swartzendruber - Are you taking any pre-orders? I pretty much want all of the pillows. 🙂