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i was here too late. such beauty all around me.
12 days of school left.
can’t wait for your summer to-do list too! i feel like you just did last year’s! time flies! 🙂 and that’s what marks my anniversary of reading you! i’m on year three! woohoo! 12 days??? We have more than 6 weeks left! End of June! When do they start school? I love those flowers. My parents had bushes like those outside there house. We would play barbies around those trees and use those little flowers as bouquets. Now I always call them barbie bouquets. I always thought it would be fun to have a flower girl throw tons of those little flowers at a wedding. sounds perfectly heavenly! Augghh we still have 30 days. At least the sun is shining today. Finally. It actually snowed here (outside Seattle) on Wednesday. What a colorful little girl Annie is 🙂 And I love that Talby horn shot! Such wonderful little girlies (: ici , il manqueme soleil et la chaleur surtout ! Only 8 days for us!!!!! Love Annie’s style! You Annie has the most fun style. I hope she never loses that! sweet… lightning bugs, seriously? i have never seen a real life lightning bug. sounds fantastic. i wanna hang out on your porch, watch the lightning bugs, and i’ll pack the coffee with me from cali. deal? I’m ready to see your summer list of “things to do”! 13 days for us! And you know this teacher is in final countdown mode for SURE! I have mixed feelings. I’m SO excited about having the kids home and all the fun travels we have planned this summer, and a huge YES to iced coffee!! But when the big kids get out of school at the end of this month is when I have to stop working from home and go back to the office, which means leaving my little baby at home, and THAT I’m sad about. Hello- Cute pic’s – im all about icecream- best thing about summer- Ice cream truck… Cute Blog- beautiful spirea. Boy, your kids get out of school early! I will be ready for summertime too:) Great photos. wow ….. can’t even imagine that when its still only 2 degrees here!!! I love how happy your girls look here! A perfect little piece of innocent America, it made me smile! Where did you find Annie’s darling Ring Pop tee? My 5-year old would {heart} it! Cute, cute! Tried you Peanut Butter Pie tonight with Pioneer Woman’s crust! OH.MY.WORD!!! Talby is getting TALL. So cute. I’ll have a chocolate chip cookie dough cone from Braums, please. WOW! You guys get out a week before us. My students come until the 28th and teachers come back for one slow day AFTER Memorial Day. Ugh! “i’ll have what she’s having!” Ah cute! These pics make me so excited to watch my girls grow up, they are 6 months and 2 years. we still have a little over a mnth of school left thanks to all the blizzards this year!! 12 days???? My kids don’t get out until June 24th. Uggghh… I wish it were only 12 days! 13 1/2 for us. Also, can’t wait! And your little one just captures the joy of childhood in these pictures-all smiles, no inhibitions. Joyful! Love it! Cute girlies! 🙂 oh yes! cannot wait! I’ve been reading your blog a looooong time 🙂 I remember this post last yer saying you were ready for bbq’s and watermelon 🙂 Sign me up! This is going to be an especially wonderful summer since my oldest starts Kindergarten in the fall (and yes, it’s KILLING me!). So I’m determined to make it awesome for all of us. 12 days????????????????????? That is IT???? Please never ever let me send my kids to your school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man 🙂 Meeee toooo!!!! So looking forward to not packing lunches and going through backpacks for notes 😉 ahhhhh Summer 🙂 (Except here in OK…the wind is REEDICULOUS right now!!! And tomorrow….gonna be like 67 🙁 sooo, with the wind, it will feel like Winter again! But I’m not complaining, right!!!!??? Nope, not at all!!!!) Dear Meg, I love those pictures! The flower bush there are the kind that are in my grandma’s yard. And we actually had the flower girl at our wedding 7 years ago, throw little clusters of them down the aisle…because they are such a big memory for me! What kind are they?? that my friend is a great list of things to look forward to! Me too! Add days lounging at my dad’s pool, summer thunderstorms, and barbeque dinners. iced coffee. Oh, me too.
What absolutely lovely, beautiful randomness xox I enjoyed all the photos. The cookies look so yummy! Your pics always makes me smile! Lovely pictures! Can I ask where you got your chairs…the cream colored one? I’ve been on the hunt for some JUST like that! What a beautiful post! I.LOVE.IT.ALL!!!!! I love your blog 🙂 Your photos are always so great. I love them but I’m jealous, in a good way. I want to take some happy home pics as well. One word. Gorgeous.. such simple every day things captured by an amazing eye! Love your blog.. your work is stunning! xoxo Maybe my favorite post ever. Talby at the piano is precious! Wow you take some lovely shots! I love the one of waffle sniffing the grass in a jar 😀 Super Cute!!!! you have a great eye for seeing beauty in things…love your pictures. thanks for sharing. i love all of these pictures…especially annie hanging off the window, and of course waffle dog 🙂 miley would like a print of the treat jar 🙂 i think this is what i love most about your blog…the way you make the every day beautiful. I have to tell you, you have an amazing way of telling a story with each photograph. I look forward to your post each and everyday. Love all the pictures! Great pictures – as always. I kept going back to the one of Annie hanging like that – how does she do this? She’s quite an acrobat 😉 Hi Meg, Love your photos! That Easter lunch looks phenomenal! A Cora dress? In a size that fits girls and not a baby? Wow I’d like to be able to buy one of them! I’ll take a cookie please. love it all. your cookies look perfect! yum! so pretty!! ps. when are you going to publish a happy coffee table book?! – signed an eager future customer love. Oh, Waffle. I love how you take pictures of random things and they are still beautiful. FUN pictures. 🙂 yay for a cora’s dress!!! so cute (especially the person inside it!) Behold, the power of Starbucks. Just seeing that picture made me “need” it. 🙂 love the pictures..thanks for sharing!!! honestly, I was a little annoyed that you had markers and crayons out and a FULL jar of cookies..must have perfectly behaved children unlike mine. THEN I saw your hanging monkey. Oh good. love the pics….I need that green bamboo McCoy pot! I mean I already have a couple but… Love Annie’s Cora dress – so cute! And I soooo want some of those cookies. 🙂 oh, my little Meg…nobody gives better random than you!!!!!!!! I like it! Just LOVE. Well done! I love your photos! They’re always so gorgeous. Does look like a happy house! 🙂 Just brightened my day, by looking at your happy photos and house! thanks for passing on the happy! good stuff! Love the random shots. The cookies would not last in my house long enough to get a picture! They look delish! I just ADORE your blog. Great shots! You’re pictures are always full of color. Please share your secrets … 🙂 I love love LOVE your posts like this! so cheerful 🙂 Your random posts are the best. My favorite is your pooch sniffing the potted grass….exactly what mine would be doing! your random picture days are my favorite. Happy Pictures! Thanks for sharing! I love the picture of your kitchen window, and the pretty yellow flowers, but especially the glasses the flowers are in! So unique. You house is so pretty! LOVE!! Your pictures always make me feel happy!! I love your hanging monkey, too cute! Great pictures as always! Colorful & real photos- love it! Was that Easter dinner because it looks scrumptious =) Those pictures make me happy! I want to put my boys crayons in a big ol’ glass jar like the one you have your markers in, but I’m afraid of it falling and shattering. Have you had any trouble with that? Maybe your kids are calmer than mine. 🙂 also, LOVE how distressed your chair is in that picture w/ annie. looks like real life. have a great day! you’ve had a busy week, i see. lovely shots. and save a cookie for me, k? Love your random happy pictures. That fire pit one was really interesting:) Happy day to ya Meg. That does look happy!! Happy, indeed. Thanks for sharing! Oh, and I love that row of tall skinny bottles! Thanks for making me smile 🙂 All those wonderful glass jars. Jealous muchly. 😉 Great random shots – they look somewhat how my random shots would look, if I were cleverer with a camera! The piano one is lovely. it was closing in on me.
next year, i hope you add september’s (indian lakes) to the list. they have a bleu cehsee-stuffed burger that is excellent. btw, i do hope to ping you once the weather gets nice to check out the stump smoker.~ carpetbagger Ooh, your craft room is looking good! Keeping things clean and organized can be a little hard, but when you see results like that, you can’t help but work hard to make sure that things are kept in such a state. Well, invest in ways to store some of that stuff later on to prevent an accumulation of clutter! Cleaning up our closets means cleaning the clutter and all stuff that are scattered. This is a routine that we have to maintain in order for us to be able to have the cleanliness that we deserve. hanks a lot for sharing your points of view with us. Keep up the good work You literally have the best craft room that I have ever seen. Please share where all of the inspiration came from. Is it things that you have been collecting over time? It looks like a room of things that you love. WOWEE…I am in awe of your craft room, it’s absolutely incredible! Love the room…so fun and filled with bits and pieces and it made me want to jump in there and get crafty. I can so relate, I have been trying to clean my bead table for a month, thanks for the incentive! I can’t even tell you how jealous I am of your craft room! I LOVE it! Even when it’s messy, I wish it were mine. Although that’s actually true of your whole house…I have looked at the pics of your house many times. 🙂 I have to admit – I covet your craft room. I LOVE it! It’s about the size of my living room, and my craft room is a table and a dresser in our dining room ha! But just looking at your pictures was the inspiration I needed to finish sewing my kids’ Easter outfits. I love how colorful and just packed to the gills your craft room is! It is bursting with creativity. After this post I just want to color, sew, stamp, cut, and glue! i just love your craft room. all the treasures and vintage goodies. all the light. and most of all, all the love!! That room makes me smile as I know that it does you too! Happy Easter. Love the room Meg! It looks just like your pillows. So fun and vintage looking. I am glad you enjoyed your trip and I have enjoyed your pictures. Will be back tomorrow! Thanks for the daily inspiration. Hi Meg! Being the 84th to comment, I doubt you’ll see this but I just had to say how much I LOVE your craft space and every wonderful, perky thing in it! The pictures of it alone are uplifting. You are such a creative gal and I know you inspire many, including me for sure! Hope you have a wonderful Easter! XO Ann Oh my goodness! Your chalkboard wall is gorgeous- I am so going to erase all my white words and add colored chalk!!!! Love it. Love the verse. The bird with a french fry poster is awesome! My daughter and I have a spot where we park and throw fries to pigeons; they land all over the car and we laugh until our bellies hurt. Weird dream! Speaking of weird dreams, my daughter woke up the other day and said, “Mommy, I dreamed you were feeding me washcloths for breakfast and I didn’t want them but you said don’t waste the food you made.” Wonder what that says about me? 😉 I sooooo LOVE your craft room! I need to make mine more colorful like yours, although is just a mini version, it could be a lot more inspiring. I’ll keep looking at your pictures and maybe I’ll get to it…when I have time. I totally get the not wanting to waste time sleeping 🙂 looks fantastic (once again)! good for you! Lovely room! If my spare space could look pretty instead of just junky I would indulge myself an area for crafting. You manage to impart that prettyness to your area. Meg, Where do you buy your pom pom trim? I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE your craft room. Love the happy colors, love the detail 🙂 I want to live in that craft room:) AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! If this is really your craft room, I am SO jealous! i want to spend all day long in there too!! Long time lurker…first time commenter! Can you come to Texas and make my house feel as fun and warm as yours? I bet when people walk into your home they feel the LOVE, I do from here. Great job! Yours is so colorful and fun. I just redid mine…you can see it at http://www.juliejohnsonblog.blogspot.com... yummy!!!! Meg, Great photos. So artistic. You have inspired me to finish up my craft room/office. LOL at your dream. I had a wierd dream where I was looking for a date for the prom……until I remembered, “oh wait, I’m married” where did that come from. have a great day. Ok. That’s it. I am getting in my car and driving over… AZ isn’t too far, right? LOL. Have a great day! Wow I LOVE your craft room…everything just looks so shabby chic and pretty! Wish I could come around and play : ) it is amazing how happy pom poms make me 🙂 I’m pretty sure we have the same cutting board 😉 And I was having weird dreams until a wild pack of dogs decided to wake us up at 1:30 am and scare the bejeeze out of us. I agree with what purejoy said. Simply lovely. I absolutely love it! It IS so happy! Love the stuff you added – so very cute! Someday. Someday I will have a craft space like this. I love it! Fun, Fun, Fun !!! I just love all the happy in your craft room — all the color is so inspiring. You have my dream craft room! I love it! Love your dream! 🙂 such a happy space – love it! and love the stack of fabric ready for pillows – ’cause i need your pillows! I simply adore this room – it’s fabulous! I’m also cracking up over your dream – priceless 🙂 Pretty darn sure your craft room is THE BEST i have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV IT!!!!!!!!! Wowweeee 🙂 Great job!!! That room makes ME happy….and it’s not even mine….annnnd I can’t even sew 🙂 Simply FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!! Have a blessed Holy Thursday 🙂 awesomeness. pure awesomeness. that was fun! Beautiful and inspiring room! I often get discouraged that I have to go to sleep. There’s just so much I want to do. I guess that’s why kids don’t like to sleep. 🙂 I love EVERYTHING about your craft room… I feel so much better… Sure would love to come and play! give waffle a hug for me 🙂 heavenly!!!!!!!!!! what a lovely space to create in! I always find cleaning the craft room is so hard to find time for because it’s time I could be sewing, quilting or doing something creative! you’ve done a lovely job! A pocketful of sunshine, Meg. It’s so important to have a happy place to “escape” to far from the maddening crowd. Hello Megan. Your craft room is just de-lovely. I would want to play in there all night too. But sleep is important so, even with the strange dreams, it was probably the best choice 😉 LB x Lions and tigers and bears OH MY! I love it. I want one… it’s so happy! Enjoy! meggie it’s me again when i say i’d take the chandelier off your hands i mean i’d buy it$$ ok, 3 things: Are you selling these upcoming pillows on etsy?? I want a pillow so badly 🙂 what did you toss?? what?! i want it! meggie i’ll take the chandiler (sp) off your hands?? i cleaned today w/my daughter in law and you need sunglasses it so clean…. I have 3 of the little red/white polka dot boxes I spyed on top of a pile in one of the pics.. 50% off Vday clearance! I love them! I NEED one of those red/white polka dot bags hanging on your still needs to be painted door.. 🙂 Red and white polka dots are my favorite! oh I heart heart heart your special crafting space. such carefully placed INTERESTING and unique pieces. Mine is so bland and looks like it stepped out of a flat-packed store (because it has). I am inspired to go thrifting and paint some chalkboard paint on something! Love the hooks on the door. I also LOVE the littl red shelf. Too cute! LE SIGH! Oh I love love love your space! How fantastic! Where did you get the print that says “Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry”? I love that! what a fun space! I’m in love….. I agree! You are SO far from white trash! Best place Evah. I still adore that white/green chippy cabinet with the pink felt flower thingys. And your verse. And your “I am here to serve with JOY”. Oh, and your dream. From one crazy dreamer to another – good one. 🙂 UUUMMM If I promise to pick up after myself can I come and live in your craft room? a happy happy place.. i loved my visit. lovely! Thanks for showing us. I have the exact same thoughts about having to sleep but unfortunately I’m not sleeping well these days at 8 1/2 months pregnant. 🙁 Kelly I wanna live in your craft room! I’ll help you make pillows! I was thinking to myself, I wish that I had a craft room like Meg’s. The funny thing is that I could have one–not a beautiful light-filled one (it’s in the basement) but I could MAKE IT NICE if I ever made the time to paint the drywall, to hang stuff up, to out in some storage and a couple of tables…IT’S UP TO ME. And I am inspired by your room. this looks like the perfect place to create something bright and fun! Love the chandelier. As much as I love to sleep, I too, wish I didn’t need to. It just takes up so much time! 🙂 Fun seeing the Snap on Tools holder in your pictures. You purchased that at my garage sale a couple of years ago. I orginally bought it at Round Top in Texas. Oh *sigh…. so lovely. i’m watching the clock waiting, just waiting for the play room to become my craft room. my kids are only 5 and 2 1/2 – i think i’m going to be watching the clock for a very, very long time. but it’ll be worth the wait when i get there! 🙂 have a wonderful weekend and easter!! I want your craft room;) It’s lovely. And you literally made me LAUGH OUT LOUD! I feel ya…I have so many things to sew and paint! When my hubby came home from work today and asked what we were having for dinner, I cheerfully replied, “leftovers”! (Cause, ya know, microwave=more time to craft!) He’s not as enthusiastic about that as I am…? Time to go all out and plug in the crock pot! 🙂 dude. i would never leave. i’d leave to go menus by the phone and tell my family to order carry out. i’d put in a cot. and a coffee maker. and a portapotty. seriously. never leave. i’d order in a basin of water and take sponge baths and open up windows when the stank of me got too bad. geesh. what a perfect room. it made me want to go thrifting. ohmyword. i was in heaven for just a second. ooooooh…house pics….you know how i feel about looking at your house. i’ll take any glimpse i can get. Cleaning a craft room is so fun. I love the rediscovery of goodness, the promise of crafts to come. Thank you so much for sharing your space. I cannot wait to have a craft room again! Yours is just beautiful and so cheery! Love it! So it is breaking a Ten Commandment to covet your neighbors wife….is it still breaking a commandment if you are coveting your online friend’s craft room? Just curious. Your creative space is so fun and colorful. I LOVE THAT CARD…a bird with a french fry. It just cracks me up:) i know it’s a sin, but I covet your craft room! this looks like such a fun place!!! thanks for sharing! It is a very happy place! Great room. So inspirational. I want one just like it 😉 Oh, it is just lovely! What a great room! Now, can you spare some time to come and help me clean my space? Yum! Makes me want to come play in your craft room! Love your chalkboard wall… especially the verse written on it. 🙂 That’s EXACTLY where we’re living right now. 🙂 Everything looks lovely. The black wooden Snap-On Tools box caught my eye. I was a Snap-on Tools distributor some twenty years ago. Still buy them and use them everyday at my business. Best mechanic’s tools you can get. Really enjoy your blog. Proud of you for going to Haiti, enjoyed the pictures. Oh Meg! Everything is just so lovely and happy. I want this room, actually I want your whole house. Or maybe just a sprinkle of whatever happy dust you use. Now you’ve got me longing for a craft room. Everything is so bright and cheery in there, and love the red lockers. Jackie
I just discovered your blog today! So much inspiration for my own! I loved all of your pictures- beautiful family, beautiful house, beautiful crafts! Your dog is so cute- looks like my Wheaten Terrier- what is he/she? Love it all! So happy I found you, thanks to Ashley Ann Photography! AHH! I’ve been looking for a typewriter like that since I saw a photo of one on flikr last year. Can I ask how much you paid? I’m tempted to say if I saw one, I’d take out a loan to buy it because it seriously makes my heart stop. the typewriter is gorgeous. does it work? Just took a tour of your painted lady home. Beautiful, the pictures as well. Must be heaven to live what you love! LOVE! The leopard shoes. That typewriter is awesome! I am quite jealous of this find. 😉 I was thinking that you just need to let go and let god. Place your trust in knowing that you are not in control, you are merely here to serve. I think you are serving so many – so well – and that someone is indeed watching you with a grand master plan. I hope hope hope I never tire of that perfect shade of aqua. I can’t imagine that I will, but I also used to think that about Shabby Chic everything. 2 Questions: Been eyeing your rainbow cake/cupcakes for a few months in anticipation to make them when my youngest turned one…it was a long process but so fun! Thanks for sharing that!! I think it will be a new tradition at our house for sure! It was great meeting you at Silver Bella too! I just loved that class…it might have been my favorite. And I love your blog too! These photos are just amazing and I’m a little green with envy!! 🙂 I’ll be stopping by often! I love all of these. I should do this more often!!! Oh I love those glimpses into the color and the clamor of real life. Perfection. You do those little snippets SO WELL! I am loving me some Waffle:) What fun pictures…I love your chore chalkboard! Love Annie with the glasses on. Love the typewriter too. Post pictures that show where it gets to live! Meg, I have just given your blog an award, please stop by http://www.arkonite.net to collect it! That turquoise blue typewriter looks just like the one at the top of “The NieNie Dialogues” post! loved these. PURE eye candy! LOVE the typewriter. We have such similar taste:) oh annie 🙂 I love her Where are the yellow and grey flowers from?!?! Did you make them? I have to know – they are fabulous! seriously love the color of the typewriter…the dog’s hat! the chore chart…well, it makes my heart sing and sink. i def need to do better assigning tasks. great shots! you’re killin me with the adorable pics! I love following your blog…especially when there are picture-heavy posts. 🙂 lovely pictures Love the birds and afghan! Those shoes are to die for!! Also, love the chore chart. And the color of that typewriter!!! That’s the best part. Hey! I recognize that owl!!! Cool pics (especially that one 🙂 Just last week I brought home my mother’s Royal typewriter from 1954ish. Except for the fact that hers is roughly the same color as the case, it looks exactly like the one you got. Would you mind telling me how much you paid for it? I am going to bring my mother’s to some antique stores around here, and I thought having some idea of what it’s worth would be a good thing. I love , love , love your blog. It’s one of the few I check every day. Have a wondeful weekend, Patty ALL of those photos are so fabulous!! i love mr. waffle in the hat and annie in the glasses…C.U.T.E.! oh, and those felt flower pins…i love those!!!! glad your grey cloud lifted. 🙂 You have such a great eye for things! I’d love to live near you so you could take pics of my family and help me decorate my house! Have a wonderful weekend! I want to know – What is in the bowl next to the chips? It looks like rice, black beans, tomatoes… what else? Looks good! I want that typewriter SO bad. Love the pictures and the window Annie is standing in!!! I’m glad you feel better. Enjoy your weekend and chore helpers. Your blog always makes me soooo happy 🙂 Happy weekend to you and yours! I am coveting your typewriter. I love, love, LOVE turquoise and red together. It is my new scheme. Your typewriter would look great sitting on my bar. Those pics are so great they should be on greeting cards. I loved them all! Love the pictures of Waffle!!! Goodness those pictures are wonderful! You’re so talented! I feel like I just walked through a chunk of your life 🙂 LOVE Waffles’ cute hat. Seems he’s kinda giving you “the look” for that. LOL! Love it! Love the pics… I cannot believe a white couch survives in your house! Dark brown for us, thanks! LOVING all the colour, your blog’s never grey 😀 I learned to type on a typewriter like that! Whoa…those were the days. Loved all the cool pics, your doggy is so darn cute! Have a blessed weekend! :O) OH thanks for all the beautiful picture. I just love your blog!! The typewriter is so cool wher will you put it?? Happy weekend!! You have quickly become one of my top favorite bloggers. When I check the blog feeds, I always read yours first. Thanks for sharing your life. Great pictures…I LOVE your chalkboard chore chart. You’ve inspired me; I’ve found my weekend project! LOVE LOVE to see life through your eyes… I so enjoy your blog! Have a great weekend! what are those flowers? did you make them? more info PLEASE!!! Amazing pics, as usual! I love Annie in those glasses!! And that little boy with her on the computer is adorable! I am in love with that typewriter! The color is so pretty, bright, hip, cool, and fun! All the crafty things pictured are fabulous as well. Beautiful! Have a super weekend! xo awesome. awesome pics. So often pictures say it all better then words. have a fun weekend! take LOTS of pics! are you? i really don't have much to say.
totally random. happy friday! lots of random goodness going on over in your neck of the woods. you can even make dirty dishes look like art. 😉 Have a great week… Beautiful pictures, I love Fridays too thanks for the sink full of dirty dishes. I love it! Fun pics have a relaxing weekend! Beautiful pictures. And I absolutely love your header too. Inspired!! thanks 🙂 sugar sisters. taunting me. um…so very curious..exactly WHAT FALL sports does your hubby enjoy, because as far as I can tell, the football and baseball games are FAR from over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact, I believe we have MONTHS to go……. my fav is the kitchen sink, because it makes you real I love all of your random pictures that you take. It’s such an inspiration to take more pictures of everyday life…because someday when you look back you’ll be able to remember all the small details and little things that made us happy. 🙂 Love all these pics! 🙂 So many fun pictures, hard to pick a favorite … it’s either the pic of Annie happily eating something yummy, the swingset daredevil pic or the sunset on the farm – too fun! Awesome photos! Especially love all the photos of the pumpkins!! Halloween is only a week away!? mmmm, ravioli. last night’s meal. Luv your photo’s you have the same drinking glasses as us. Following your blog has made me realise how important it is to spend time with the kids, have just played backyard soccer with 8 yr old son and I won. Thanks for all the inspiration. Ah! So my heart jumped in my throat when I saw the jumping off the playscape onto the trampoline(!!!) picture. That is my future. I know it. Bracing myself:0) I knew it! You live in that house down there… you know where I mean 😉 I so LOVE your photos… this bunch, the one I like best is the pile of dishes! Have an AWESOME weekend! Love them all, but do you know which one I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE? Fun Random pictures!! Love the rainboots and the sink piled high… ours looks like that all the time and we don’t even come close to having how many people you do… I hate to think what ours will look like if and when we do 😉 I love your sink picture. Mine looks the same today! love the dirty dishes – reminds me of my childhood when mom always cooked a big dinner and my sister and I had to do all the dishes for a family of 6 kids and 2 adults. still doesn’t seem fair! I love all of your random pictures today, Meg. The one of Lauren and Waffle is adorable – especially since she’s a typical teen (who doesn’t want to be seen with her family – lol) and one we don’t get to see often enough. The one of Annie with the chocolate mustache is so cute and the fall photos are just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! Have a great weekend! Big hugs, Trac~ :o) happy friday, meggie! i love your realness (is that a word?) 🙂 in your pictures. you are truly one of the most authentic people i know. random and real and honest and so so cool. i don’t know you but love to follow you. i wish ohio and kansas were closer so i could get to know you in person. keep up the great work. you inspire many!! tgif. LOVE the dishes. And I mean LOVE! Love it. All of it. Lauren is gorgeous! Like her Momma!!! Have a great weekend girl!! Thank you for posting that picture of the overflowing sink. It’s normal and somewhat comforting to know that my sink isn’t the only one in America that ends up like that! Thanks for the pretty pics too. your daughter is so pretty. does she know she’s so pretty? she’s so pretty. I love random pictures! And I always love a good chocolate beard on a kid. I just don’t think it gets much better then that! love these. I have been meaning to ask you about your photo editing. we also have a mac & we have iphoto… is that what you use to edit your pictures? I thought you were using photoshop but then i saw your list where you want to get and learn how to use photoshop… How do you make the sun so bright in your pics and how do you focus on one object and blur out the background? I LOVE IT! Oh Man! You just had to share that cupcake picture, didn’t you?! Good thing I made brownies last night… Anyway, your son is NUTS! 🙂 You couldn’t get my kids to do that for anything, they are the biggest chickens. Love it! Beautiful pictures, especially of the pumpkins, I am crazy for pumpkins. Enjoy your weekend, I’m so happy it’s Friday too, especially since I took the day off to be with my youngest daughter who turned 14 yesteray. Love 3-day weekends! love the pictures. and i was going to have to go all. . . her house is amazing, her photos are amazing, she has adorable pumpkins everywhere. . .amazing. . . and precious kids and dog. . . amazing. simply beautiful! My kitchen sink looks strikingly similar to yours! This Friday AND THIS FRIDAY ONLY…I am actually sad it’s Friday….because my hubby has been home ALLLLL week on vacation and it’s been so super nice having him here 🙂 I don’t want it to end 🙁 But normally, I am sooooo ready for Fridays 🙂 I bet it’s been a lonnng week…what with driving to OK and all for the U2 concert!!!! I still can’t believe THE MEG DUERKSON was right above me!!!!!!! Happy weekend to you! Gorgeous yaay! you found a use for your wood thing (the mini pumpkins inside)! sooo cute! Thank you for sharing your life with us. It makes me happy. such pretty pictures! hmm i think football is still going on?! but i could be wrong lol i can’t even tell you how glad i am that it is Friday. what a week… it just seems so hectic. today i am celebrating friday with a pumpkin spice latte. oh yeah! Yippee for me.. I made it! i love your kitchen. so full of love. good food. dishes in the sink. real stuff. love it. happy weekend! Not only do we have the EXACT same outdoor playset, my kitchen looks EXACTLY like yours does:-) Oh dear! the picture of your dirty dishes…well…it completes me! thanks so much for sharing that one! your kitchen sink is my kitchen sinks BFF! I love the picture with your daughter and Waffle! Randomness is good. Oh, wow. I thoroughly enjoy all your pictures, especially your random. It refreshes me. 🙂 Keep the random coming! And, yes, LOVING Friday! you do the best “random” happy friday to you! i am so glad it is friday:) pumpkins in the cubbies…very cute. Your photography is just beautiful. Really beautiful! I love that truck picture…such beautiful pictures of Fall..this is the time of year when I really miss not having seasons. it is gloomy and DARK this morning.
she had on her brand new Cora dress…and her mac n' cheese for F week (food).
if i got to go to her preschool…i'd be running there everyday too. such a happy place. i didn't want to leave today. i should have just sat down and played too. i am going to go walk in the gloomy weather…and suck in all the fresh air i can. on a different subject… who could possibly feel gloomy after that? Oh I so miss teaching preschool. I took a deep breath and immersed myself in the classroom photos and pretended I was back. This time of year is so fun when you work/live with preschool age kiddos. oh to wear cute pink tights & a cora dress Greatest post!! Aren’t you glad that even when you oversleep the day doesn’t have to remain gloomy and bad?!?! I like to think that these are the times God allows us to get the rest we needed! 🙂 I love the beauty of Fall and Annie looks adorable in her Cora dress! Cute………………………………………………….. we have such cooooooooool leaves! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 oh, this makes my heart swell. OMGosh… I want a Cora dress! For big grown up me! :o) So cute! As is the little peanut wearing it! And those fall colors.. to die for! We skipped fall here and went straight to snow and winter. The leaves fell green… I’ve never seen that before. So sad! Oh well… I LOVED this post and that Cora dress…this post made me SO happy and I smiled, smiled big…now I can go and tackle my huge workload…thank you. You’re awesome and I wish you were my neighbor! Hugs and blessings to you on this Fall day! :O) What’s funny Megan is that her preschool classroom reminds me of the photos of your house! All colorful and fun and creative and imaginative and bright and cheery! those are the happiest pictures ever! beautiful cora dress, and adding the striped tights was just perfection… go annie! I would stay there, too! What a lovely place to learn and grow! 🙂 annie’s preschool is so magical. wow. magic. love all the pink! No, I cannot believe the fall goodness! I’m jealous. It’s beautiful! Enjoy it 🙂 Those pictures are fabulous. What amazing colors. And that dress is precious, as is the girl! I love how your little girls wear such bright and cheerful clothes! The preschool looks like a fun place too. i ADORE that shot of annie’s striped legs, red patent leathers, apple dress & the red hedge. BE•A•U•TI•FUL. just gorgeous. what a fantastic preschool! the colors of the trees there are just gorgeous! love how annie coordinated with autumn so well…adorable. Oh, I mean, seriously, how much fun to paint a big orange pumpkin hanging from the ceiling! Wow! I’d run there too….all the way from here! Those pictures of your daughter by the trees are gorgeous Meg! Just GORGEOUS! This just looks like a dream — are you sure it isn’t a stage set? So beautiful and happy. I have to say that down here in Florida, we don’t get leaves like that. That red tree was beautiful. I wonder if northern Kentucky has leaves like that? I will know in a couple of weeks. Oh Meg, these photos gave me goosebumps. The leaves, Annie’s stockings and shoes and her Cora dress….your gorgeous pre-school…beautiful, beautiful. Hope you enjoyed your day with a full heart. Meredith xo. wow, I love your daughter’s preschool classroom. very jealous of the red beautifulness in your area. i just posted my fall pics, but there’s hardly any red. tear. Those are amazing. Love the red fall colors and her outfit is just adorable. What a fun classroom she gets to learn in. Great pics Meg! I just love your Annie. She reminds me of my “baby” when she was a little girl (same hair, same eyes). My baby is now almost 19. Enjoy the little sweetheart. That preschool looks so stinkin’ cute- You’d expect the Wonder Pets to live in there! How fun! I love Arthur’s HUGE cupcake! if this is what YOUR gloomy looks like, so God help me! Colorful, smiles, rainbows, dolls…looks beautiful! MY gloomy??? Well, THAT is another stpry…. I so wish trees turned that color down here in Houston. Love Annie’s dress, particularly with the tights – so much happy color! My daughter has a few dresses similar to that that I found on Etsy. Love those rainbow flags in the preschool – am currently obsessed with tracking them down – any ideas? So lovely. I don’t blame her for being happy to be at school! Hope you enjoyed your time outside. Hi! Thank you so much for the beautiful fall pics… I am really missing fall here in the desert 🙂 what gorgeous photos of your little girl – stunning autumn foliage! beautiful leaves who wouldn’t want to start their day at that school with friends? looks like tons of fun. Nothing better than a new baby! Thanks for sharing the fall pictures. We had an early freeze (ahem, snowstorm) the weekend before last, and all of our leaves fell and froze! Without ever turning any colors. 🙁 It was the dreariest saddest fall ever (followed by a weekend of 80 I might add). What beautiful colors in your pics! You are so talented! love the fall pictures. Amazing colors! And the feast w/the baby dolls cracks me up! OMG that dress…so cute..and that does look like a fun preschool!!!! I love the pictures, and what a great preschool! Those are the red bushes Russ wants a picture in front of for fall – he has been waiting for them to turn the last month. His facial hair is back – so it is okay 🙂 I’m in love with Annie’s preschool too, do they offer adult classes, I’d be there in a heartbeat! Wow, beautiful foliage. Great fall pics too! 🙂 She is DARLING! Love that photo of her with the red leaves and her big, brown eyes. funny, i just took pictures of those same bushes yesterday…i didn’t have a super cute model though…just a little squirrel following me around them. those pictures of annie are soooo sweet!!! i love her outfit…very annie! I need some of Annie’s preschool today too. Waking up in the night with a baby and sick kids is getting to me. Maybe I’ll just keep pictures of Annie in her cute tights up all day to keep me slightly more cheerful. 😉 A new life…..yes……exactly the recipe for brightened spirits. lol i stayed all day at my daughters school yesterday for her birthday:) it’s a neat place but no where near as awesome as annie’s little school! i keep telling you about my in-laws living in newton i swear one day we will pack up and move there just for the pretty homes,shopping and this cool school lol (and maybe to meet you!!) oh and annie’s outfit is the cutest!! all those colors (be still my heart!!) Oh, I LOVE the fall colors you have on your street. Gorgeous! We don’t get fall color like that here in California. Can’t wait to see the pictures from the birth you photographed. I photographed a birth last year for my friend & you are right…there are no words to describe it. such an honor! oh wow. so fun and colorful! and i love that annie’s wearing her cora dress, and that she matches in her own little style! where is that preschool? i went to zion, and i don’t remember my classroom looking that colorful. love these photos today! its gloomy here in oklahoma also~ do you know what kind of trees those are? I love the red! Annie has such style!! She looks perfect out there with all the reds of fall. Her preschool looks so fun, I wouldn’t want to leave either. LOVE how colorful the preschool is. You should get a job there.Seriously. You could do art for them. seriously. Megan please tell me where you got those tights at. My Addie is crazy over pink and I know she would love those. Gorgeous pictures 😉 So COOL! Love the preschool and the photos of Annie and all the beautiful colors around are just GORGEOUS! Great job on capturing them all, Meg! :o) her school looks awesome. I want to go to that preschool too.
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AmyB - So pretty!!!
Beth - Can I use your sunflower pictures for an art class project? They are so much prettier than fake sunflowers. 🙂
~LucyLu ~ - I love the sunflowers where were they? last time we saw you, you could not find them anywhere!
~LucyLu~
meghan - God is amazing. Those flowers are just little reminders…love it.
Laura - I’d like to schedule a photo shoot for the family in dead flowers portrait
LOVE that
candace - AMEN! 🙂
Thank you for sharing the beauty of God’s creation.
katherine - I LOVE sunflowers, they are my favorite….your pics are gorgeous! And yes, God is amazing….love your blog too ~ Blessings, kathy
Courtney Walsh - LOVE sunflowers. they are so happy and fun. Your shots are super awesome! 🙂
Transparent Mama - Amazing photos. You said you don’t use Photoshop. I am just curious what you use to edit them.
Lauren - Wow, these are sorrowfully gorgeous. And the close-ups–what design! I love those little details that He throws in there 🙂
Taylor-Ann - I just love your photo’s. They always look so beautiful and these sunflowers are no exception. They don’t look dead at all.
julia - you could do a representational sort of photo shoot with the flowers. have your kids look sad/neglected, have them roll around in the dirt. call it “late in the season” or maybe “past due” something like that. As Tim Gunn says “Make it work”.
Elizabeth - I always think they look like women’s heads — here, bowing to the universe…
Biz - You are so talented!
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Gemma - I love sunflowers : )
Gemma x
Sugar Mama - Have you ever seen the dark red sunflowers? So pretty! I like to mix those with the classic sunflower. God IS amazing! How can that be questioned when surrounded by nature?
Privet and Holly - If you hadn’t said
they were half dead,
I never would have
known…..I was too
captivated by the
THOUGHT of a whole
field of these beauties…
Wow!
xx Suzanne
Heather - In the face of beauty, how can we not believe?
Angela - love your sunflower photos. even half dead they are beauties. the flowers, not your photos. love your new mirror by the way. i have one hanging in my garage waiting to be painted. turquoise or yellow. it can’t decide. indecisive mirror!
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I’ve got your sunshiny sunflower print right in my living room. Makes me happy every time I look at it. They are an amazing reminder of God’s handiwork!
charity palmer - Sunflowers are my favorite flower 🙂 And GOD is AMAZING! I love your blog!
Sheryl - Just wanted to say that you inspired me to run. Not run away, but run “just to that tree”. Thanks, I really want to get in shape and you are my inspiration to try running.
I also wanted to say thanks for giving my “Project Pillowcase” a boost — we ended up with 107 dresses to send with this group going to the Philippines! That is totally, TOTALLY awesome — and so much GOD.
Flower Patch Farmgirl - That last shot is plum-perfect.
Heather - Amazing indeed. Beauty around every corner…and everywhere in between- if we take a moment to look.
Meg- your photography is amazing! I can not get enough of it. What a gift you have been given!
Blessings,
Heather:)
Amanda - Gorgeous! I’ve wanted some neat pics of some sunflowers…but~
Please be careful out in those fields…There is a HUGE sunflower field behind my father’s house and I took my camera and started out there one day with the kids and he stopped and wouldn’t let me. He said they plant those for the (i think?) Doves because it draws them in and the hunters hide in the flowers and dove hunt…just passing that along 😉
Amy - These photos are beautiful!
Kasey - These photos brought a smile to my face and brought back memories. When I was in the Middle East I remember seeing fields and fields of Sunflowers. It was amazing… kind of strange to see such a thing in the middle of Iraq, but it almost gave us a sense of peace. Very beautiful flowers.
shelly - Beautiful!
You’ll have to make a quick trip to il, my best friend has a little field of them that just started blooming late last week! (She gave ma a huge bunch of them…I put the lovelies in my livingroom and then my poor hubby started sneezing like a machine gun! Oh well…they look nice sitting on the porch too ;))
Tara - such beauty from God!!!
Holly - so pretty!
paige - so true! i love a glorious sunflowershoot too!
Tracy - Absolutely gorgeous pictures as always, Meg! You never cease to amaze me in capturing God’s beauty even in dead sunflowers. Awesome! :o) xoxoxo
PaisleyJade - He is! Beautiful photos! While we were in Israel we saw fields and fields of dry, dead sunflowers and I just wished I could have seen them in full bloom.
jaz - What beautiful amazing pictures (and flowers) !
Do you want to do our little photo challenge with us this month? The two topics are “Something Old” and “Beautiful” – those sunflowers would sure fit in the Beautiful category.
Gorgeous!
sarah - love it!
what did you use to round the corners of your photos like that? it’s so in right now…