Category Archives: instagrammythese are instagram accounts i follow that make me smile and inspire me.
about a month of instagrams right here…. minus any CW instas. you can follow me on IG.
i am linking up with jeannett at life rearranged. and i miss her!!!!
Instagram is my fav! I love your photos. I just followed you on IG and twitter, I love how you take the time to capture throughout your day. Im inspired. The Miss Piggy glass from McDonald’s! I had that one! Drank Kool-Aid out of it ALL THE TIME (and Tang too!). 🙂 These pictures make me so happy! x oh meg duerksen…you inspire me so! #truefact thank you I love following you on IG. Each picture makes me smile. 🙂 Okay, PLEASE!!?? I must know where you got the zippered ruffle hoodie and what kind of yarn that is!!! Please! I have that Miss Piggy glass ( and consider it a family heirloom!). Seeing in on your blog made me smile–and today I REALLY needed a smile:) Where is that cute ruffled athletic jacket from??? I love it! Love the photo with the cinnamon buns they look sooooooooo good What about a recipie for them. Ditto the others. I loooove the wooden bench and am wondering if you bought it! And the washi tape pic is a fun one. What did you think about MadMen? I hate to say it but I was disappointed in the episode. Hoping this week is better. Have a great weekend! anxiously awaiting the Craft Weekend Recap post 🙂 But I’ll take these happy pics 🙂 Love the washi tape banner over the sunflower canvas print. . .so fun. . .I recently saw where someone did a banner with duct tape like that. I do not have a cell phone, ipod, iphone, whatever you call them (I know) but this IG is seriously making me want one Fun pics. I love that bench from the barn. two weeks of instagrams….
how did your week go? are you ready for monday? i have not been running but tomorrow is the day to start back up. we went to lunch after church and it was the best lunch the seven of us have had in a VERY long time. it. was. BEAUTIFUL. it was the kind of hour that can pull you through months of disappointments. thank you lord for that lunch!
my little girls have been playing upstairs now for several hours together and it is so nice.
i am going to create this week…. i miss making things. i am going to make something everyday this week. i don't know what just yet but…. SOMETHING. monday – friday. you should too! you and i will both feel awesome by saturday. :) ready… set…. GO!
Oh how I wish I could create each day this week. Heck, I’d be happy for one day! My fingers and toes are crossed for a snow day tomorrow. That would be my perfect chance! ha. all i’m making is space…going through closets and selling stuff on craigslist and getting ready to jump on the garage sale bandwagon in order to feel less controlled by stuff come summertime! Darn it…. I meant blog admirer! I am just a bog admirer, but I would love to see what you make every day. THANK YOU, for your blog!!!! It really makes me happy every time I read it! :0) I love rainbows, and I love all the beautiful pictures, ideas, EVERYTHING I find here!!! You are SO inspiring in so many ways….thanks so much!! Judy Must have been something in the air…across the nation, haha. My kids spent yesterday getting along planning surprises for my birthday. There was NO fighting the whole day! YEAY! Love the instagrams! I am with you…going to make something everyday this week (besides dinner haha!). It’s been three weeks of no creating… on a trip with the hub… all the packing and unpacking and planning for leaving kids at home, plus one kid birthday… so no creating… and that’s not good for the soul! It’s time to get creative 😀 Enjoy your CREATIVE week! I am making these this week and adding candles. I love candles. have you made them before? Great pictures! Today I am off from school( I am an aide) and I have decided to make one of those banners out of fabric scraps that you see all over Pinterest. Mine will have a “vintage” feel! LOVE your blog! You make me want to put all my colored pencils/ribbons/paints into glass jars and spin around the room in all the prettiness. It’s a sickness….I know Replying to self here – forgot to mention that I am really liking your hair in these photos….maybe it’s the longer swept bangs? Well, I won’t be creating anything this week. Hubby is off all but one day (crazy ER schedule) and we are going to do the lessons with the girls, clean out shelves and caulk and paint trim and get this house totally in order before it’s time to start working in the yard. We’re also heading to the Truman Museum in Independence since we’re studying the presidents right now and just wrapped up on Truman last week. Presidential museums are so very cool! my two older girls (8 and 5) played together all weekend. it was glorious. it makes my hear so happy. they even slept together last night. i am with you on this create something week! i take your challenge! Hope you will be sharing all that you make. I will be creating to. Have several projects that I need to finish. It is just so cold outside, and some require painting that would be better done outside. Maybe warmer days are on the way. Have a blessed week. As with the previous comments.. I think I’m going to take the challenge too! Oh my.. 😉 How I miss creating! (No ones fault but my own!) Thank you! Have a blessed week! Would love to see what you create everyday 🙂 And I think I am going to do it too. Yesterday, my daughter and I painted a cute canvas together. . .today I will create too. . it does make me feel better. . I feel more connected to The Creator when I create love the poster Meg! ‘Life does not have to be perfect to be Wonderful!’ I agree with Julie – a great challenge for this week! Love the ‘cheer up’ t-shirt too! Great idea! Does making your enchiladas count? Ha! Because that is on my TO DO list, for sure. They look soooo yummy! We have been in craft mode here lately……it is so much fun to keep crafting when ALL the supplies are spread ALL over the table. Making one more craft always sounds way more fun than picking it all up and putting it all away! 🙂 Show us what you make. i would like to feel awesome. what could i create? I’m in! If I count one project in two parts, I’m on a good roll with two days in a row already… it has been tooooo long! Sunday evenings are hard for me…I struggle to get organized and wrap my head around preparing us all to venture back out into world. I love the weekends when we have a slower pace. But, you have inspired me to embrace it and put a smile on my face. Monday is coming, whether I am ready or not, might as well step up and take control! Happy creating…have a wonderful week:) I am not on IG, but I enjoy looking at yours. love your instagram shots all in one post… Yay! I’m with ya! Makin’ something every. single. day. Thanks for the inspiration girl! ♥ I think we will do just that! I’m thinking of making a fabric wrapped word this week like the ones that you make during craft weekend. Can you tell me what gauge wire you use please? I’m always so impressed how they turn out. It’s fun to see the words that people choose too. I haven’t decided on a word yet. Oh……. Love you blog!!!!! Love the pictures. Those family times make life easier. Are you just now taking down your Christmas tree? you just inspired me. Your cheary post makes me want to conquer Monday! We’ve had 6 snow days in the past two school weeks, so I have been in my sewing happy place for an extended time. I don’t want it to end (back to school tomorrow), so I’m going to work on something creative every morning before the kids wake. I mean it! I have set a goal to cook dinner every night this week. Which would be seven nights more than last week :). And I love your Instagram photos…I just downloaded the Walgreens app and had a huge stack of Instagram pictures printed. Yay me! I think I need to set myself that goal – to make something everyday – whether it be crafting or baking something yummy for my kids. There is something to be said for that feeling of personal satisfaction when you have achieved something. my kids are off school today. these are some of my instagrams from the past week or so.
(not working for oreo….i just LOVE oreos)
but how awesome would that be???
she would have LOVED to see us all together in one place.
i sound like an old lady. but the masage and steam were fabulous…. yay. happy valentine's (that i don't celebrate) to me! i bought the book on the Tattoos on the Heart (strong langauge… fyi)
and this is what waffle and i just did. he smelled beyond gross. and now he doesn't. alrighty…. my kids want me to play Sorry.
just found your blog and wanted to drop a couple of notes: i loved your “old lady” comment. so true. i get it. haha. -tracy Annie would make a GREAT president!!! She has awesome ideas (like ribs at communion!) You have a sweet girl, but I do have to do a ‘lil witness here as it just saddens me that you all are thinking of communion as “just food”. Oooohhhh, I am so jealous! A massage. Sigh. I haven’t had one in FOREVER. We really don’t do V-day here either. Just school stuff – which is MORE than enough. But since I now have two at home for homeschooling, they didn’t do anything but share their little brother’s stuff from school. Good boy! He shared without me asking. The photo bombers in your jewelry pic are hilarious. I have a pink kitchen aid, but not a hot pink one. I want it! So awesome!! The stoic-ness of Waffle’s face made me gaffaw. What a cute mutt. Ok, I officially LOVE waffle. That dog is such a poser! He looks like a little old man when he is wet like that. I laughed so hard and then I showed it to my husband so he could laugh too! PRICELESS! His face just cracks me up. Thank you for making my saturday morning with that. Love your random posts. Thanks for taking the time to share the fun. Loved this post, Meg. So nice to see all those IG pics! I love dunking oreos in black coffee. I then throw the coffee out because I don’t drink blk coffee 🙂 And did you know that an ONE oreo has over 50 calories!! I actually stopped eating oreos after I read that 🙂 We don’t do Valentine’s Day either. He did bring home Soup for a Group from Panera for dinner so I wouldn’t have to cook since I was sick but I don’t think that counts. He would’ve done that anyway! 😉 Annie for president! I swear I went to grade school with the gal on the left side of the picture (the women on your dad’s side of the family). If it’s not her, she has a twin! Did she grow up in MN and her dad was a band instructor? I love love love your non-Valentine-Day day…and had to laugh at your relaxation room-oh yuck-experience. You are so funny. And I make that Oreo pie thingy too and it always disappears so quickly wherever it goes-and it’s so easy! Have a great weekend! (I would vote for Annie too!) Waffle! That just made me so happy! I love your dog 😀 We don’t really celebrate valentine’s day either. my husband and I had a nice getaway over christmas break and that was our money for valentines and our birthdays this year. plus with how much they celebrate in school i don’t think my kids need more! just saying you are not alone!!! Hi. we don’t really do valentine’s day either. its easier on both of us, to be honest. we’re lazy gift givers. this way, no one’s disappointed! We don’t do Valentine’s Day either. I mean, seriously, we’re married to each other…who else would be our valentines? Right? I did, however, as I laid my tired self on the couch after work, get a full leg and foot rub that lasted for over an hour. Better than any flowers and cards I tell ya! 😉 i’m going to go out on a limb here and say that at our house we do celebrate valentine’s day. the way i see it, we’re only on this earth for _? number of years, and there’s only a handful of special days to celebrate each year, so why not go all out and take every possible opportunity to turn an ordinary day in to something even more special? i like to really do it up for birthday’s and the other holidays through the year also. and by go all out, i don’t mean by spending lot’s money. it’s not about that for me. it’s about the little things i can do to show my family how much i love and treasure them. i got up extra early and made them strawberry waffles and bacon (something i would normally only make on weekends), gave the kids small gift bags filled with inexpensive things that they love and don’t normally get, drove the kids to school rather than the bus (a treat) then had a nice candlelit family dinner together that night. also, my husband brought home roses (for me) and tulips (for our daughter) when he came home from work. when the kids went to bed we shared a bottle of wine and a slice of cheesecake while we watched a movie. it was such a wonderful valentines day. i hope i’m not the only one?… We don’t do valentines in my marriage either. Mostly cause of me. For whatever reason I just can’t get behind that holiday. I so wish I had gotten a massage though!!!! That sounds amazing! 🙂 Looks like a good week. Lots of family time. We don’t do it up big for V day either. We remember that we love each other without having a “special” day to display it. Speaking of display….that would have made me want to leave the quiet room too! Hope you won at Sorry…I try to beat my kids at games every so often. Keep it real, we don’t always win in life, right? Have a great weekend! We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day either. Nice to hear of someone else who doesn’t go crazy for the day. Anyway, I love the picture of all the women wearing your grandma’s jewelry. Such a great tribute to her. That feather would have freaked me out too! I check my bed for spiders every night. Seriously. A friend of mine was bitten by a BLACK WIDOW that was in her covers. No joke. Anywho… Waffle is so silly!!! I would vote for Annie! well…. how awesome are you? i was not sure i could meet my goal of 50 stoves…$1000. and as of NOW we have raised $4230 and sponsored 211 stoves. THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!
let's keep this momentum going! 🙂 we have five more days…. let's hit $5000!!!!! i bet we can!! thank you to everyone who gave so far! —————————————————————————————————————-
this fake commercial was on Saturday Night Live last week.
also The Lumineers were on!!!!
i meant to have my craft weekend post up and ready today. how about some instagrams from the past week-ish?
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(they are a mold of craig's teeth…fascinating right?)
i am reading The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out it's wordy but so far it's reeeeeally good. "for grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift"
i will definitely blog the recipes we tried and show more pics of that soon! and now i am stinkin' tired. i am going to bed.
thanks again for the stove sponsors!!!
you are RAD! if you haven't given yet and you want to… CLICK HERE and it will tell you how.
Will you share the 25 meals for the freezer with us? I would love to do something like this… just tell me what to do! 🙂 Smiles! the commercial is hysterical!!!!!! Your Annie and my Margaret would get along so well!!! She always picks out stuffed animals or some other gross thing like that at thrift stores but I say “no”. . .it has to be something that can be washed without falling apart — ha! And she would completely want to help Annie feed all those babies too 🙂 Yea on the stoves and double-yea on the running in 17 degrees. . .I.could.never. How in the world do you manage to accomplish so much? There are so many awesome things in this post I don’t even know what to comment on. What I do know is that Freezer Cooking is awesome. I wish I could find the time & dedication to do it!!! Love the couch also! I bought a stove :). Hope you surpass your goal!!! Way to carry out God’s work a little at a time. snl clip is hilarious. Congrats on the stove donations!! Woot! It’s amazing what people with a purpose can accomplish! Freezer to crockpot meals sound awesome – totally what this working-outside-the-home mama needs. Can’t wait to hear more about it! 🙂 I LOVE your blog and look forward to reading it every day!!!! This is my first time posting. I am amazed and so proud of you for running in the cold…brrr!!! I also would love to know the freezer to crockpot meals and what the other meals your friend organized for you guys to make for her birthday. What a fantastic idea!!!! Love all the pictures, Meg! I have to tell you that I went to Ikea this weekend and saw that tray and thought of you! I almost bought it, but got the long rectangle with rainbow dots instead. That’s awesome about the stoves! Great job! Wowza is right!!! So awesome how many stoves were bought! So fun! One random question… Do you like your new rainbow knives? 🙂 CONGRATS!! AWESOME!!! On the stoves AND the running;) Had to comment and say hey! that’s my fav mug too;) Is it a RE mug from Target? I just got one at Goodwill a few weeks ago, same color, and it’s my new fav! Your flowers look so yum. Makes me wanna go buy some. And I just printed off 19 recipes to double and a groc list from pinterest to do freezer to crockpot meals. Can’t wait. I LOVE your idea of doing it with friends for their bday.Genius! Also I am so in love with the Craft House and CW I can hardly stand it. I am 34 now and told my best friend that is what we are gonna be doin in ten years. Sounds like the BEYOND DREAM JOB!! I hope her and I can come to a CW before ten years tho. YOU ROCK!! I am blown straight away that you ran 6.something miles in 17 degrees. I mean…Superwoman. I ran 1.1 mile in the warmth of my basement and thought I might die. And I walked half of it. I’m so happy for you with the success of the stoves! See the difference you make?! Amazing! YOU rock! instagrams from the past week or so….
you can follow me on instagram… i am meg duerksen over there too.
******************************************** ok….winners for the mpix day planners: Laurie said…
I would love this! I can't wait to see the day when my son can be completely off ALL of his medications and the dreaded ketogenic diet. It may be this year! I'd love to be able to count down and keep having hope for all that 2013 will bring and a calendar like this would help me keep it all straight! www.ourjourneywithdoose.blogspot.com ——————————————————————————————–
Eleanor said…
I dont have any particular MAJOR event planned this year. BUT I do need to get organized! My MAJOR goal for the year is to meal plan better and to organize my "to do" list better. I fail miserably when I try to do it on my phone and I end up with scrap paper lists of things to do all over the place. This planner would be so awesome for me! ——————————————————————————————–
Annie said…
Oh my gosh, these planners are adorable! I can't wait to write in PEN the day we finally plan our family vacation…it's been a long time coming!! EMAIL ME WITH YOUR DETAILS GIRLS!! i am excited for you.
Love Instagram! I do better at it, than blogging. You can follow me, the crazy blue-haired chica @ HeidiJotheArtist 😉 Hello, Meg I kept thinking about you overnight and what an inspiration you’ve been documenting your journey to becoming a runner…I just wanted to let you know! ah! THIS IS THE FIRST THING I HAVE EVER WON IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! DUDE! I enter into things like this online like, EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!! I love your blog! you are amazing! So are you staying with Instagram with their new rules? I’m thinking I’m going to be deleting my account. I will miss it! Congrats on the running! I can’t even get out when it’s 70 degrees out. 🙂 So impressed that you are running outside in the cold, and at the coldest part of the day! Does the chicken shred or stay intact? I tried doing a salsa crokpot chicken thing and it shredded and my kids wouldnt eat it. YEA!! Laurie’s my BFF!! Congratulations! ack – i read tina’s book out loud to my husband when we were on our cross country trip this weekend. i was choking on laughter – all the way through…especially the part where her mom handed her the menstruation kit – both the mother and daughter part…classic. sigh. so good, now i have to go read it again. i’ll have to read that book. i kinda adore her already, so hmmmm…may put me over the top;) you are a rock star in my book for running outside and in that cold weather. that’s tough stuff. i couldn’t do it i know that for sure. Hooray for Annie! Any reports on how her arm healed over this time? Glad that Annie got her cast off. Yes, Kansas is beautiful. And a big YOU GO GIRL for getting your run on!!! I’m glad you made it to the gas station! Proud of you for getting your run on even when it is crazy cold – you go girl! Happy New Year to you and your family ! Your happy,colourful, creative and down to earth blog has cheered me up over the last two years as I read it while drinking my morning coffee and and taking a big breath after getting my four busy children to school down here in Australia. We are enjoying a very warm,carefree summer now. Hope you make it down here one day. Take care. well..annie's broken arm changed a lot of my plans this holiday. i hope you girls went anyway!! we ate a lot… twice.
i thought i would share my instagram pictures from the past few weeks.
1. rainbow? i think i am needing a new bible… 2. breakfast & blocks with annie (pre-broken arm) 5. kansas sunsets are rad. #nofilter 6. 31" Batman dolls are super creepy and BIG. 9. made glazed apple bars…. holy heck YUMMM! 10. creating while we listened to christmas music 13. my new stern notes i wrote on the washer and dryer. my kids do their own laundry and i am so tired of the laziness that has taken over in the laundry room. 17. pumpkin waffles for thanksgiving breakfast! 18. strengthening her bones… GO ANNIE!
are you on instagram? i am Meg Duerksen on IG… come follow along. are you going out black friday shopping? i actually LOVE black friday.
my most precious piece is my late mom’s engagement ring, what makes it even more special, is that she gave it to me before she passed. She said I want to see you enjoy it while im still here! Poor Annie! Meg, I just want to say Happy Holidays to you and your family and thank you. Your blog is a place I can go to when I am feeling not so happy about the current state of things in life. Your positive attitude and gratefulness for the wonderful things God has given us each day really opens my eyes and reminds me that I am blessed in so many ways. I am so thankful that you share your world with us for it really means a lot to many, myself included. OH NO! I’m so sorry about Annie’s broken arm! I just now checked your blog and went back and read the past couple of posts. That SO stinks. 🙁 Praying for quick healing. The only place I went for Black Friday was Michael’s. I popped in before work. My store was dead! I bought an embarrassing amount of ribbon, but at 70% off, I couldn’t help myself. Poor Annie. I hate it when you can’t take the hurt away. Just makes your heart sink. Where did you get the ADORABLE round link fabric covered bracelet? I must have one of those!!! 🙂 Keep thinking about poor Annie. I remember my broken arm so well. Not being meg, “Redonk” and “Starbies” funny words! Laundry is my arch-enemy! WHERE does it come from ALL the time? Why? How? I don’t understand it!! I am impressed you have your kids do laundry–I should start, or maybe not! Ugh! Poor Annie – well, you’ll have to make next year a great Thanksgiving. Believe it or not, I went at midnight with my kids. My 22yo was going to take my daughter and her friend, but my husband thought better of that idea, and somehow that translated into hubby staying on the couch and me driving the kids. At least I took a little nap before. Target was not bad at all since we didn’t want electronics, then American Eagle and Aero were all ours as well. We drove through McDs at 2:30 and the girls proclaimed it “the best shopping trip ever”. And my brother-in-law took over pies this year so there was normal pumpkin, and a “Hoosier” pie – not bad, and thankfully no Splenda. Hope the arm heals – poor thing!! Sean is also your TWIN!!!!! OMG I never noticed before how MUCH he looks like you! Like……EXACTLY LIKE YOU! 🙂 cute! I’m “mrsmogun” on Instagram, btw. Confusing to have multiple usernames, huh? It makes me happy to see you drinking out of my mug 🙂 I think I mentioned this on IG, but my kids call that my Covenant Mug. I’ve told them before that it always reminds me of the promises of our God… our God Who never changes and is always faithful, even when we are faithless. So, it’s happy to me to see you with it. I drink my morning coffee from it almost every day. next year, baby! next year. we missed you too. 🙂 No Black Friday shopping for me. My son BROKE HIS ARM yesterday! NOT EVEN KIDDING!!! So sorry that lil’Annie is in so much pain. Poor lil’ munchkin. Went out and conquered! Love LOVE LOOVVVVEEE the black friday! I hope you found your kitchen aids 🙂 Hubby and I went BF shopping last night(after dropping the girls off at Nanny’s for a sleepover:)) and then again this morning. Last night was INSANE! We usually don’t go out until Friday afternoon but last night one of the stores was so crowded and so HOT that I nearly passed out. Hope Annie’s feeling better. Hopefully we can continue our “no broken bones” streak at our house because that doesn’t sound fun. Did it happen on the trampoline? Say “no” because we have TWO! I went Black Friday (or technically Black Thursday/Friday) shopping for the first time yesterday. I was scared, but if you go in with a plan and don’t browse, it’s not that bad at all. I only slept 4 hours so far today. LOTS of coffee is in my future! LOVE that Annie is smiling even though she has had a tough week. 🙂 Hey I have that same rainbow mug!! My favorite! Have fun, hope you get some good deals!
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Laurie - You make me smile!! Thanks for the inspiration! I love new feeds to inspire me to create
Alisa Workman - We follow some of the same accounts. It’s always great to have color in your life.
Heather - Love these! I love colorful pictures in my instagram feed, thanks for sharing! Do you follow @studiodiy? I feel like you would love it / it fits in with all these other ones!
Lorri - Such sunny goodness – thank you for sharing! They will be a definite lift, just like your IG feed is. 🙂