these were ads from a Life magazine that i found at my great aunt's.
i wish i could remember the year.
now i know what to get lauren next year….
oh my.
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photo booths at weddings are so much fun! my girls tried to catch the bouquet but they weren't even close.
we watched Craft Wars….on TLC….with Tori Spelling….have you seen it?
When I was young, I use to think my own mom was insane to get up so beginning. Now, I know her key. I have read your article.Article is very interesting,thanks for your sharing. I will necessarily add it in the selected works and I will visit this site. I love weddings…anybody’s wedding, but especially when it’s special friends and family. Those are the best. A photo booth would be super fun. I’m filing that idea away for my girlies 😉 Happy Fourth! You all are beautiful! Love your favorite dress! I am soooo not a morning person! I wish we had a little summer around here-rumor has it maybe by the weekend?! I would like to just go for a walk without the rain!!! I think the state of Washington is the only state not reaching record breaking temps! Would love to pass a little of our rain to all the other states that need it so bad right now! I need to remember to check out Craft Wars!:) Meg, when I saw these window treatments, I thought, “These are MEGAN DUERKSEN all OVER.” I had to send you the link. They would be so perfect for some of your fabric scraps … I could see them on all the windows at the Craft House! http://sweetcheekstastytreats.blogspot.com/2012/07/something-sweet-ripped-fabric-window.html That photo of you in your favorite dress is just truly beautiful. 🙂 I’m with you on running in the am, it’s so hot by mid morning, got to get it in early! I always love when I get up early…after the getting up part, of course! Also, Craft Wars is so fun. I agree about the drama though. Just show me some crafts 🙂 I know this is completely off topic, but do you know what happened to Laura’s blog “piece of cake.” i was away on vacation and when I came back it was gone. I truly love your blog and hers as well. I was wondering if I missed her goodbye post. Just checking to see if you knew 🙂 i am SO not a morning person… Ahh.. I have my neverending summer early morning trainers to wake me. My youngest gets up at 5:00 and the oldest a little bit after her. They both love to ride in my BOB duallie so it works out! Of. course I typically have to swing by the park as a reward, but that is ok. Not a morning runner either, not by a long shot, but my running partner and I decided 100+ degree days made it necessary. We just switched to mornings last week. I, dare I say it, actually like it because it makes me get up and get going earlier. I feel like I accomplish much more in the day! Thanks for creating such a bright spot on the internet. Your devotion to God and your family are evident in every post. Keep it up! Love the wedding photos! And alrighty, girlie, if you say so….looks like summer is finally going to hit here in the PNW (after the 4th of July, as usual). SO if I’m going to walk, I have to get up and get out the door early. Ughh. Mornings are the very best time of day. Loved the black and white dresses on you three! So cute and fun and sweet and inspiring! I love reading your blog and seeing all the pictures 🙂 Love the polka dot dresses! The photo of you and the girls and the one of the father daughter (yours) dance… priceless! I love moments like these. Happy mornings to you Meg. -Tracy Love the photo booth pics!! What was in the punch to make yall so happy???? lol i love your hair too. And the photo booth pics are AWESOME! What a great keepsake. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL I have to become a morning person too since everyone else in my family already is. Grumble. Your 2 little girls have grown so much in the last couple of months. Your favorite dress is rad 🙂 Your hair is gorgeous. Makes me miss having shorter hair. Till I remember that it is so hard to find people that know how to cut it properly. :-)Love that dress too.
so….this summer has been redonk. i am ready for july. july is going to be for relaxing. YAY july. 🙂 i have been feeling the same thing! we never made a summer wish list and i was thinking this morning that it’s never too late to do so. we might just do that this afternoon. we have to catch the moments in the midst of craziness! It’s the opposite here. June was the slow month for us and july is busy! I love your family picture!! So cute! Oh, I feel for you! Our summer so far has been crazy too, and like you I am looking forward to July! I hope you have a very restful, beautiful summer, with plenty of time for crafts! 🙂 I don’t know how you guys do it. Run here, run there… Do the kids really enjoy all those activities, or would they rather spend the day with you? To each their own–I understand. Hope you get the downtime you are craving! We’re in the same boat…now all the planned/scheduled things are behind us, it’s time to chill and enjoy our summer! Here’s to a great July! I feel the same way! Exactly!!! I am craving that down time to just BE… and I am going to try and become a morning person and run early with you too!!! In spirit anyway:) Love the little bird thing from your great aunt and I love seeing the finished product of your family pics that I read about a ways back… Love-love-love it:) What a gorgeous bunch! Thank you for writing your blog, I so look forward to reading it<3 the daily message by peterson here, too. psalm 91 really messed with me this week. it’s good to be messed with. Oh dear. I just said a collective prayer for the both of us when I saw that pic of the dishes drying on the counter. If you need pointers on how to build the very best dish tower, hit me up. I’m the reigning Queen. I hear ya sister! Last night I sat in the rain and watched my son’s baseball practice. I didn’t have to be there. My husband showed up to help out. But I stayed. Not normally me. Ususally rushing off to the next thing. But I turned to the only other mom there and smiled. We laughed at ourselves in flip flops in the rain with dust everywhere. It felt good! Enjoy your July!!!! Thanks for writing this. I have been feeling this too. Our summer is busy and full of fun stuff, but not much sitting around relaxing time yet. I so love the huge canvas of your family on your mantle. How large is it? Love your blog as always! We made the corn salad from Craft Weekend and everyone loved it! Thanks for sharing! Maybe we’ll make a “Before School Hits in the Fall” list. 🙂 Happy 4th! Our June has been the EXACT same way. I’m a teacher and I start in a new district August 1… Guess that leaves me in the same place… July is for relaxing 🙂 Happy relaxing to you! I thought you did make your summer list, but I guess that was last year’s…see where my mind is? Life is going so fast I thought you already made one…HA! Enjoy your July and P.S. it starts tomorrow 😉 Its a very good practice for your kids to have some time to enjoy the beauty of nature as well as letting them know how to take care of nature. Such a very great article. Love your real life! Keep the good work! Just to give you some perspective, it is winter here in Tasmania, Australia and cold. I am so, so glad that we are not the only ones who feel like we haven’t settled into summer yet. June has been hectic! Kelly i am soooo ready for summer to slow down, like right now! it’s been going way too fast and i don’t see it slowing down anytime soon. i guess i’ll make the most of the days that we don’t have anything going on 🙂 Love your blog and photos! Wondering if you know what happened to your blog friend “pieceofcake” Laura? Can’t access her blog anymore…. My summer starts Monday. No more stupid college class for the high schooler. No more volunteering. No more theater camp. DONE!!! Such beautiful photos. You make me want to come and join your family. If there’s one extra at your table, just pass me the blueberries and I’ll be happy! Meg, always my fave posts. Every day normal. Beautiful pics! What a sweet little dish from your aunt, too. How special. Beautiful pictures!! Once July hits and life slows down a bit, you might like this craft my friend did… It’s “Ice Painting” I think you’d like it. Perfect for summer! Here’s the link to her craft: http://buttonsbirdsandbs.blogspot.com/2012/06/hot-days-cool-art.html I’m ready for July! Swim team will be winding down…scout camps over…just vbs in early July, then we’ll have about 2 weeks of absolutely nothing. Cannot wait. Love the glimpses of you real life. It makes mine seem more normal! I hope it slows down for you! I agree, my family hasn’t done anything FUN yet this summer. My daughter is in summer theater. I have to drive 30 minutes each way 3x a week/ twice a day because I am not staying around there for 5 hours. Money is tight this summer so we haven’t done much at all. Theater ends at the end of July with 4 performances, so I guess we’ll squeeze in some beach and fun days then? I loooove that pic of your family on the mantle. It is so happy 🙂 Also, I am in love with the determination in Annie’s face on the diamond. Way to go, Annie! B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L bird dish from your aunt. Love that sweet turquoise bird from your great aunt. 🙂 I can appreciate this post. For the first time in a year and a half, I finally have some time to spend with my two girls without having to run older kids everywhere. (The last of our foster children left two weeks ago.) I’m savoring summer, but I also know that these little ones will be the very ones later that will have many obligations and running to do in a few short years. So for now, I’m just enjoying every moment. My favorite picture was everyday. Keeping it reals. But I now want an art table, hello flea market on Sunday! We did our summer list last weekend and hung it up. My boys love it. We sit as a family and make up what is going to be on it. We have done more things as a family so far this summer than we have done in a long while and it will only get better. Making and effort and finding the time, it is hard but we do it. I am not a morning person, but I am a morning runner. 8:30am on the weekend, I am meeting someone tomorrow to run. It is great, you will love it, once you wake up. I love the turquoise bird dish! I hope the summer slows down for you. Just got back from my morning walk and this was the topic of conversation…summer is going by fast and we’ve yet to have any days of just hanging out doing summer stuff! Too much going on…I am working hard to simplify so life is not so crazy but no luck so far! Hang in there, I’m right there with ya! 🙂 No summer list! The only reason I made a summer list is because yours were so inspiring. Don’t worry. There is time. Summer’s not gone yet. I like real life pics. July is a good month to relax, hope it happens 🙂 Hooray for relaxing in July! It sounds like you need it. A July list sounds like a good idea! Yesterday was the last day of school around here. Yep. Today is the first day of summer vacation. We’re taking it easy this summer. Swimming lessons start next week, a trip to a cottage and NYC, but other than that we’ve nothing planned. Perhaps we need to make a summer list today. I’m insanely jealous of your large garden, mine is only about 1/8 of that size. I can’t believe it is the end of June already. This summer is going WAY to fast! Sister – your June sounds like most of mine in the past. I refused to do it this year. My girls got to pick one camp and one sewing class each. Done. This summer we are swimming, baking, walking, biking, crafting, and a LOT of reading! Loving it! Hoping your July brings you the rest you need! I have felt like that too. Glad that the kids are enjoying themselves. . .and sleeping well. . .and NO TV. . .but yesterday seemed like a rat race all because I wanted to go to the pool for a couple of hours. I couldn’t believe how much I *didn’t* get done when I tried to relax. Sigh. Such is life with four children who are involved — I wouldn’t change that part. We (I) go back to school July 19th and the kids the 25th so we’re looking at our last weeks now. I’ve got some things checked off the summer list, so that is good. Hope you have a chance to slow down soon! Relaxing in July sounds great! And it sounds like you need it! I think a July list is a good idea. My kids just finished school yesterday. Yup. Today is the first day of summer vacation around here. Hooray! Swimming lessons start next week. I like your sink picture…and I always love your laundry pictures. It makes me feel better after looking at some picture perfect blogs 😉 Our lives are parallel. I had a meltdown Monday night because I felt like I didn’t have a hold on summer. How sad is that to feel like I have to have a “hold” on a season?! I keep telling myself we’re going to slow down, relax, and enjoy summmer more after the 4th, too. Weird. I’ve heard so many moms say this this summer. What’s up with that? Oh my, I am so sick of swim team. I stay and swim while she practices but the meets are brutal! It was 106 degrees Monday! I am feeling the same way…but I guess after reading happy girl’s comment, I’m thankful for the full and the overflowing busy-ness…we’re off to run more errands today! I’ll make sure to smile! I miss busy summers. Now that it’s just me and my husband and I just go to work every day and come home… summer isn’t the same. Don’t get me wrong, I love it, but it isn’t the same as, whew, thank goodness it’s summer. 🙂 Couldn’t agree more!! Hope you get to catch your breath and make your summer list 🙂 I agree with you on summer being hectic so far. I can’t believe it’s already July! We did make a summer list: http://leahsthoughts.com/2012/06/14/the-summer-list/ . But my daughter’s been so busy with camp, we haven’t done much. Oh well. There’s always July and August! BTW, I LOVE these photo posts you do! all the boys i went to high school with….looked like this. i am sure i know someone who knows these boys…but i don't personally know them. if you wondered what it looks like near me….this is it. kansas rocks. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!!! I think I love those boys!: ) Shared on facebook to my farmer friends! I bet that took some time to make; pretty awesome! Can relate too, but lots of corn and soybeans here in Iowa. I’m a city girl but have always had a yearning for country life! This was awesome thanks for sharing!! They were invited by Good Morning America last Friday to appear with LMFAO but they declined because they don’t care for the band’s name or most of their lyrics. What awesome boys! I’m from Kansas City (Missouri Side), but I would love to live on a kansas farm. 🙂 Envious of you! Maybe one day… These boys are from around Salina (hence the predominance of K-State gear since it’s often considered Wildcat country.) I have family in the area who are acquainted with their families. Isn’t that always the way in Kansas?! Can’t you just hear it now? “You know, Earl’s boy. No, not the oldest one. The second to youngest who dates that cute little Harper girl.” Gotta love country living! This video has exploded the last few days and it makes me proud to call KS home. Those boys are awesome!! Meg, I loved this video! Please, please send it to the Pioneer Woman – she would love it, living on a cattle ranch! Love me a farmer! Cutest boys ever! And I love their dirty britches. Hope they got an “A” whatever this was for. Loved the video! My lil’ sis is finishing up her masters degree from University of Ga in Agriculture Education so I had to pass it along to her as well. Thought you might be interested to know that this clip made it to a morning show on a major network here in Australia! How funny!! How awesome! I am a wannabe farmer and would love for my girls to marry someone like one of these boys. And look at the muscles on those boys! So healthy and completely different from this generation’s status quo. Yep! I went to school with boys like that too 🙂 (in Ohio) The first thing I thought of when I watched this video ~ I want my daughters to marry guys like this! LOVE IT! By the way, I don’t think I’ve commented before but I SO enjoy reading your blog. It is so fun to find other women who have similar interests and love artsy-fartsy stuff like I do! 🙂 This is so hilarious and awesome! Love it! OMG…Love it! lol Love it! This is basically West Virginia (where I live). It’s either farmers or golfers. Strange combo, but true! Completely agree! Made me so proud of my home state and the work done there. The beauty of the Kansas land AND the Kansas State apparel only made it better! 🙂 My dad is a good ol farm boy. I love it. He made me appreciate Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson music. He taught us that you can go fishing for a whole day with a box of Wheat Thins, 2 pops and a 6pack of beer (for him). Good times. I can’t wait to see the farm when one day I finally sign myself up for Craft Weekend and get chosen. super cool video. thanks for sharing. Love it!!!! So funny!!! I love that song!! oh girl! this is great! im in arkansas, and all the boys look like this here too! i love parady songs and this is great! heres to all the farmers and small business owners!!!!!! that was great! fun to show our 12 y/o daughter since our life here in on the west coast beaches of sunny Florida is so different. that was great! So awesome! That’s what it looks like where I live too, only we’re not in Kansas, we’re in PA 🙂 This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Ha! They remind me of the boys I rode school bus with when I was a kid in western North Dakota. Thanks for sharing! LOVE this. I’m gonna have to share it with my IL farmer friends. 🙂 Awesome! Being a mid-west girl (Ohio) and living in Nor Cal…don’t see anything that resembles these boys around here! Makes me miss home and the simple life…Ah, still praying we head back east soon!!! That is priceless, thanks for sharing! I am 36 years old, probably have a daughter their age and all I can think to say is DAAAAAAAAANG! Dan said you are welcome!!!!!!!!!! awww… the heartland 🙂 this is not too different from where my husband’s grandmother lives a few miles north here in Ohio. i think there are quite a few states that have boys like these guys. i have to say, though, the *never ending* fields… they seem a lot bigger (and flatter) in Kansas. Hahahaha! Thanks for that. So awesome. 🙂 In fact, I like that version much better than the original! That TOTALLY made my day! And made me miss home a little too. So thankful I’m marrying a farmer, even though he’s from Indiana not Kansas. Oh well, beggers cant be choosers! 😉 Thanks for the laugh!!! 😀 My friend’s cousin made/is in the video. Now you know someone who knows someone who knows someone in the video! 3 degrees of separation, counts, right? 🙂 That was great! I wish I went to high school with boys like that! However if I did, my life would sure be a lot different than it is now. I’ve always had a soft spot for farmers! amazing!!!! I love it! I’m a Kansas girl, and that was awesome! I could even get past seeing those crazy KState t-shirts 😉 Meg!!!!!!! That is awesome. I’m so thankful for boys like that too. Dying breed – hard workers. Oh man that was good. I’m still here smiling. I love this. Nothing like a good farm boy! I had to laugh at WATER!WATER!WATER!WATER!WATER! because that’s what I deal with daily…securing water rights and irrigation equipment. Love, LOVE, love…that video makes me happy. Thanks for sharing! 🙂 Funny – I just shared this with my friends and family earlier today. It looks like all the boys that I dated and all the young boys in my family too. Love Kansas and love the kansas farm boy. After watching that, I had to share this one with you: http://youtu.be/v41sEavtJ3E So cute! Loved it … had to share on my FB wall 🙂 That was great! Thanks for sharing it…looks like they know how to have fun AND work hard. 🙂 Love the robot at the end!! HA…that was awesome, Meg! Thank you Kansas Boys! We love you! So funny!! My eight year old son and I were laughing like crazy! 🙂 A few weeks ago we saw another one on youtube (dairy farming related) and loved it because we could just imagine my brothers pulling off something like that. I think if you google “From Sussex and I know it” you should be able to see it…It’s the Canadian version! 🙂 That was awesome!! LOVE it!!!! That is awesome beyond reason. You make me smile every day Meg. 🙂 LOL if I didn’t know this was from Kansas I swear I would have thought it was from where I’m from Edmonton, Alberta Canada! hahah Cute Love it! I went to school with a lot of guys that looked just like that too – but not in Kansas. This is awesome! Love, love, LOVE it!!!! Thanks for sharing! ummm those boys were super funny….and not too bad on the eyes….lol So very cute! love. this. Really enjoyed that, we live in a farming community in NY. Thanks for sharing That was awesome XD Those Kansas Farm Boys rocked that…I grinned the whole time!! Awesome job!! Thanks for sharing!! 😉 This is an AWESOME video! I think I had a smile on my face the entire time! Kudos to those boys! Thanks for sharing that! My dad was a kansas farm boy! CUTE! 🙂 This is cute! Love me some Kansas Farm Boys!! cruising around pinterest i was noticing my eye kept finding ideas for the 4th of july. here are some cuties i found today.
i actually do nothing to decorate or get cute for the fourth…. what are YOU doing for the fourth? i miss our fourths in illinois….chicago jen knows how to party. :) i am going to pick ONE thing from this post and do it.
are you on pinterest? i can’t find you – i would LOVE to be following your lovely pins!!! If all goes well…we will be traveling to Illinois! To the last http://cornerstonefestival.com/ Bittersweet. I miss seeing you across the street during the parade! we are going to the parade in Edmond, Ok. I have lived in Ok most of my life and never been. It’s a BIG deal. Ok, maybe its pregnancy hormones or something equally fickle but the toe pic squished between two food pics actually had me a bit nauseous! HA! Star fruit and blueberries is what I am going to make and maybe even paint the toes. Love these thanks for sharing!!! i am the same way. Those strawberries dipped in white bark and blue sugar were made by my friend Stephanie! Her blog is Plain Chicken, and she lives in Birmingham, Ala. (I live here, as well.) I made those strawberries last year for July 4th after I saw them on her blog. I couldn’t find the blue sugar, but I used colored sprinkles, and they came out really cute anyway! Hope you have a wonderful 4th. 🙂 Your kids could do the wind chime cans for craft Thursday. Hanging off the balcony of your farmhouse? Cute!!!! Then you can pick another. My hubby will be in the US (San Fran) for the fourth. It will great for him to see how it’s celebrated! We’re headed to my in-laws’ lake place. My mother-in-law and I will decorate the boat and have fourth attire for everyone including fake tattoos! We swim, eat and shoot off fireworks. As a treat this year the kids and I are going to make your rainbow “windsocks”. Maybe I can get my act together and make the chocolate covered strawberries too! I wanna follow you on pinterest too. S I can Meg stalk…..lol This makes me so happy! I was just thinking today that my three year old would be all over some 4th of July decorations, we’re totally making something from here! I’m going to make that cake! And paint my toenails…or go have them painted. LOL! You know that cake in a jar? The silver fork in the photo is the same pattern I have, passed down by my grandma and it was my great-grandma’s. She gave it to me shortly before our wedding and my sweet husband found a cake server in the same pattern on ebay and bought it for me to use at our wedding to serve the wedding cake because he knew I was wanting a vintage one. Soo sweet! I had it engraved with our monogram too. Those are awesome. I pinned one last week that was strawberries, blueberries and marshmallows on wooden skewers laid out on a platter in the colors of our flag. So cool and easy. And yummy of course! Enjoy! We will be having a big family get-together on the banks of the Ohio River. My mother-in-law has a wonderful home there and we are actually going to set up for an outdoor movie for the kids on Tuesday night – (your party looked like so much fun and I have been wanting to do this for months now)! There is a big empty lot next to her place so it will be perfect for setting up tents for those brave enough to handle the outdoors all night. Everyone pitches in, bringing lots and lots of food and we will grill out and have fireworks and games and swimming in the mighty Ohio! Have a Happy 4th! LOOVVEE reading your blog Meg! We are having a parade in my small town that morning. Then movie & fireworks in the park that night. Can’t wait! I’ll be working – I live in the UK so we don’t celebrate but my colleague will be she’s based in our US office. I’ll be in a wedding! One of my best friends is getting married that day – she loves July 4th and has always wanted to get married on the day, so she decided just to go for it, even if it *is* a Wednesday. 🙂 america really does have the best looking flag. so cool and so fun to decorate with. we’re having a party at our new (old) house. i’m so excited. this is one of my favorite holidays! I like that you said you were going to pick one thing. Sometimes I feel like I should either go all the way or not at all. Then I don’t do anything, because I feel overwhelmed. I think I’ll do one thing, too. 🙂 I love the Fourth of July! The music. The red, white and blue. So fun! We already decorated the house. For the actual day, we go to our community parade. Then usually to my parents for pool and BBQ. Then fireworks, of course! Can’t wait to see what craft you pick. I vote for the can windsocks. I love these ideas! They look so fun. I may do one of the food ideas. We are going to a new friends house for a fourth of July party. Should be fun! How do I follow you on Pinterest, Meg? 🙂 Am I missing a button someplace? Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas…I won’t likely do any of them this year, but loved the inspiration! I’m working on beach-themed table centerpieces for my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration (which will be held later this summer). You should poll your readers to see which one we think you will do. My money is on the star banner or wreath. If I were to choose for myself I’d do the bike tires. Super cool! I saw the blue sprinkled white chocolate strawberries in a magazine and was going to do that for my small group next Tuesday! I might do the star shaped watermelon too! And I LOVE the wreath!! Thanks for sharing! Meg, Pleeeease link it up to our Pinterest Challenge – linky opens Monday for a week on my blog.. we’d love to have you join us! Here’s a link to one of our previous challenges, we had over 50 people link up with something they had made from Pinterest 🙂 Every year we go to a friends house out in the country. They have a big white farmhouse, a swimming pool and lots of room to shoot off tons of fireworks. Everyone brings food and it is always a meal that I look forward to. I have a whole slew of 4th of July pins on my board.. http://pinterest.com/Katy826/4th-of-july/ do the cake i was mystified by all of pinterest’s 4th july stuff last night, too! swoon. Love all the images, but like you, I will not be doing any crafting for the 4th. Not enough hours in the day! Even sadder, I think all my kids are ditching me this year. How is it possible to have 4 kids and they all want to visit friends. I hate them growing up! Isn’t Pintrest GREAT. I love all the ideas I find there. I love the 4th, but I never do anything to decorate. I love the big wooden flag – that is going to go on my list to make. We are hopefully heading into DC for the big 4th of July concert and fireworks, since it will be our last here. Can’t wait to see what you make! We LOVE the 4th of July! It’s my oldest boy’s birthday so we go big! This year he’s turning 10 & we’re celebrating with an Avengers party. That’ll be easy to incorporate with the 4th. Last year he had a Harry Potter party and that was a little difficult to pull off…although it was one of my favorite parties yet! i LOVE the fourth of july!! I have the windsock pinned – if we weren’t moving, I would totally have the kids make those. So cute! Next year . . . . If we’re allowed to vote, I vote for the wooden American flag. My girls and I are in the local parade and then it’s off to a pool party at our friend’s house! It’s my daughter’s favorite summer activity…planning an Independence Day celebration complete with a soundtrack to go along with it. Only this year she’s due with her second daughter any minute so most of the planning will be on my end. I have been pinning to my Patriotic Soul board for months. In fact, I just pinned the skirt tutorial a few minutes ago from my Sew Can She newsletter! Let’s see how much I can get done. this past weekend i got do something i love for someone i love. my friend's son got married and my friends and i were honored to prepare and serve the rehearsal dinner.
the sun went down and the candles and twinkle lights were so pretty. AND get to do some of my favorite things at the same time….decorate AND eat good food! my heart is full today.
So fun! Where did you get the little paper trays for the cake? That is seriously gorgeous! I love the rustic simplicity and those giant pictures were amazing. Great job! i JUST saw their wedding photos on facebook via their photographer’s page YESTERDAY!! such gorgeous kids! 🙂 congrats to the families! Wow, what a gorgeous party!! Congrats to the adorable couple! what a special party for a special little family! megan. it is all so so SO amazing. This party should be featured in a magazine. OH MY! Spectacular!!! Love this party!!! Meg – Have you seen the farm video that’s going viral on youtube? It’s called ‘I’m Farming and I Grow It’. I’m spreading the word for my neighbor boys that made it. We live north of Newton in Saline County. It’s awesome! Hope you check it out. Stay cool. SWOON!!! Beautiful! That whole event must have been pure sweetness! You are one creative, thoughtful, and inspiring person! What a blessed couple! That’s it. I’m moving. Possibly getting remarried. Or having a rehearsal anniversary dinner. Or something. I just adore all you and your friends did to make this day. Everything; the barn, photos, decor, food, all fantastic! i love the heck out of this!! great job!! I likely will never remarry (or date again) but if I do I want you to come do my wedding! Beautiful! 🙂 Wow. Love that setting. Makes me long for the country. 🙂 -Tracy I want to have a party!! Just like the one who threw! Maybe in the fall with a fire…mmm….thanks for the inspiration. Love what you did! Could you share a bit about the chair paint colors sometime? It was all so beautiful. My kind of party. So glad you are a blessing to others as well as you are blessed to be a good friend. ..lucky you! seriously makes me miss the parties i used to throw by looking at these photos…. I have been following your blog for a couple of years now and hands down, this is my favourite post. Wow, wow, wow. What an amazing looking party, everything looked just perfect. Love the blown-up photos, the love seat, the light, the barn the adorable couple, the impossibly young-looking mother-in-law and friends. Everything jsut looks perfect. I know its a bit of an ask but could you plan more parties so that your blog readers can devour all the eye-candy on a regular basis lol 🙂 And you guys ARE so young. I’m the same age as you and my eldest is just 4. MOst of my friends’ kids are around the same age so when they start getting married, we are going to be officially OLD. especially if they wait as long as their parents did…I don’t even want to think about it…but hey, i have alot of cute ideas for the party 🙂 Everything looks PERFECT!! This is such a great idea. you should throw a party for me. Beautiful! I love the pictures from the rafters. Simple, yet beautiful! Megan, I wanna throw a party and have you come and decorate. What an absolutely perfect setting for a party! You girls are awesome! So, so beautiful! You have a gift! I love everything about this especially the tribute to friendship- how special:) I want to be there, Meg! I can see why your heart is so full. You did such a nice job. Beautiful! What a wonderful weeding! For reals if I could redo my wedding it would be just like this! xoxo Wow! You all pulled together such a beautiful dinner! And so much sweeter doing it with dearly loved friends. So so lovely! I am so inspired! Among everything (which i loved it all!) I absolutely love that old door as a picture frame! What a fabulous idea! You need to go into business! Rent out that barn for occasions! GREAT job! It was beautiful, and makes my heart happy for you to know that the sweet couple will look back on those pictures years from now and remember how special the party was! Awesome!!! I must say that there is NOTHING I don’t adore here. Great idea for the photos, the flowers, the dessert, the candles……wonderful! OMG! That was so Beautiful! What wonderful memories this couple will have. I loved my parents’ friends – always so special how they helped us out like decorating for weddings and such – a true sisterhood! Everything about this is show stopping. It’s all so beautiful. These pics, like mostly all of your others, make me long to live in Kansas. The lifestyle seems so…I don’t know…country I guess? Warm and inviting. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. swoon over all of this! this is how i would want my rehearsal dinner if i was getting married to shawnie again. You are such a good friend, Meg. God bless the happy couple and their family and friends! Amazing. I loved everything but I loved the picture of your friends the most. It is a blessing to walk through life with friends. A complete blessing. Thank you for sharing. Perfection! I’m all the time imagining what I would do if I had to plan a wedding/rehearsal/reception NOW instead of when I was 22. THIS is it. So, so perfect! Nice job, ladies 🙂 Good Lord…when do you sleep?! BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so creative!! I’m so jealous…. So amazing loved it all the cake & ice cream idea was so smart! I can’t even begin to explain to you how much a LOVE this party! it’s beautiful and makes me so happy. i just keep looking at these pics over and over again. And serving the homemade ice cream in mason jars…brilliant…i keep thinking “why haven’t I thought of that????” I have GOT to do that for fourth of July!!! Thank you for sharing. You and your friends did an outstanding job!!! Beautiful! AND you DON’T look old. None of you! How Beautiful! Meg you really can do it all girl Meg, this could have been the wedding! How gorgeous. How warm. How welcoming. Just beautiful! What an awesome idea for a party! I want to find a reason to have a barn party! And you’ll help decorate and cater it, right? 😉 Looks like a great party! You & your friends look like you aren’t old enough to be married … which means the bride & groom look like they could be in high school! This all looks amazing. That seems like the perfect celebration. Everything came together beautifully. Great job! wow – as always your pics are amazing here! That was beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. Charming displays and somewhat magical. Your friend was blessed to have you girls to set up the rehearsal dinner. Gorgeous! have you done this before?!? this party looks like a professional organized it! great job, you should feel very proud 🙂 This is just perfect. WOW, WOW, WOW!!! NO WONDER YOU ARE EXHAUSTED!!!!!!! It looks like you all had an amazing time… and who wouldn’t in an amazing setting like that?? Love all the little details, and as always your photos are just fantastic! This post definitely brought a huge smile to my face. Everything looked just perfect. : ) Glorious! What a great way to do a rehersal dinner. So laid back, yet it has a sweet country elegance to it. I’m sure everyone was thinking, “this is the best rehersal dinner I’ve been to.” Well done! Glorious! What a wonderful way to do a rehersal dinner. So laid back, yet still with sweet country elegance. I’m sure everyone was thinking, “this is the best rehersal dinner I’ve ever been to.” Well done! Wow! So much happy in this post! Its all so fabulous! The door “frame” made me gasp! 🙂 So many awesome ideas too! Amazing!! I love all the details. Those huge pictures are amazing too! It looks like a fun laid back event. Makes me wish I had a big barn to host parties at! how sweet! love the ice cream and cake bar! It’s all so lovely! Ice cream in jars. GENIUS!! This was a stunning, but simple affair. Perfect. 🙂 Happiness for Jana! This is one of the most lovely parties I have ever seen in my life 🙂 It’s always a tough balance with weddings to make things “perfect” and “special” enough and still make people feel comfortable and laid back being there. You hit the nail on the head. Fabulous. Nothing beats a barn bash! You did real good. Perfection! Absolutely beautiful! I’m so inspired!! Love your blog and uplifting posts. What a sweet and simply tasteful party – it couldn’t have been more perfect. Marcie What a beautiful dinner rehearsal. Love, love, love all the rustic touches and that it was laid back and simple making it much more enjoyable for everyone there. This is such a fun looking party! I love every photo and detail. Great job! What an absolutely beautiful party!!! stunning. i loved everything about this post! thanks for sharing. 🙂 Absolutely PERFECT. And I remember when he was born! Good grief – I keep feeling old!! 😉 you are amazing! Everything is beautiful…you inspire me so much! What a beautiful party!!! Gorgeous. You are all very talented! Meg….so beautiful…what a true friendship. What a sweet couple (they look so young…maybe I am getting so old…)……best wishes to them! Oh, this is so beautiful! I’m so happy for you! What a beautiful group of friends. Definitely made me want to call all my High School friends over to cook, decorate and take pictures. Love really is what it is all about. You mommas showed up and that makes me smiiiiiiiiile a mile wide. I have a son and I know how much it would mean to have my friends help me get my baby boy ready for a wife and a new life. AAAAAAAAGH!! But alas he is just 16. Thanks for sharing Ms Meg. perfection! Everything looks so lovely and relaxed. My brother just had his wedding reception (they married in a private ceremony a month earlier) and they did a lot of the decorating and cooking themselves, but they seemed so busy and stresssed. I’m afraid they didn’t get to enjoy their special day as much as they should have! I’m sure it helps that they have so many friends to help out! Oh.My.Gosh!! I LOVE it all!! You gals did a great job! Really beautiful–so obvious that love is in the details! Well done and all best to the new couple! Wow!! What a stunning party! And cute couple!! WOW! Every detail makes me giddy:). A-MAZING!!!! And so lovely to boot!!! What a blessing to have such special friends in your life. May God bless the sweet couple to a lifetime of happiness, patience and love everlasting. :O) The little jars of ice cream make me swoon! What a beautiful rehearsal dinner (and beautiful couple)! WOW! I get SO excited every time I see you have a new blog post! Your posts always make me feel so happy! You and your friends did a BEAUTIFUL job on the rehearsal dinner! Looks absolutely adorable! What a good looking couple! Best of wishes to the happy couple!
wall of hay bales. my crazy front seat….all the time. lunch with my mom at chipotle. my favorite fabric store. the fabrics i came home with. hello dog. my kansas road on a cloudy morning. bunting for a friend's wedding.
annie's "Hocket" at Camp – a house and a rocket! late afternoon snack.
talby made it home from camp…YAY!! my family loves to play Farkle…i do not.
more basktball. swimming pools, the smell of cholorine & sunscreen!
a pink and turquoise house! father's day with a few of ours. homemade ice cream is YUMMY! sunrise.
10 minutes later in the same sunrise. starbies to wake me up.
picked up my parents and drove them to illinois. crossed the mighty Miss.
God sent me a special guy to fix my truck in missouri. chicago traffic….. gag.
arrived at my great aunt's home of 34 years. her address.
my aunt and her son….60+ years ago. her quilt that i wanted to sneak into my suitcase. wore my red flower and beads for my aunt. appreciated The Land of Nod's decor.
i had to learn how to haul a trailer. it was a BEAUTIFUL day. did you see that sky today? talk about blue!? #kronk got my mom home safely.
one last giant ice coffee to get me the rest of the drive home on which i saw almost NO cars…..sweet.
so that was a not even a week of my instagrams! i love getting to see what my friends are up to all day all over the place. are you on? do you have a favorite app to use along side instagram? :)
just getting caught up on my favorite blogs and was so tickled at your kronk hashtag! was one of my favorite movies in high school, my best friend and i could recite practically the whole thing and yeah… we were REALLY cool 😉 I’m MommyAngela3 on Instagram (and Twitter). Have only had my iPhone for two months & am SO addicted! I love the photoaday challenge! Ooh, thanks! Cool tip on holding down someone’s name. I wish more people realized you have to type people’s name. i second the comment re: diptic–it’s great for photo collages! Loving all the app suggestions & new instagram friends!! I do the photo-a-day challenges, even though I may not get to every day’s challenge. I look at the challenge in the morning and think of it like a scavenger hunt for the day 🙂 I’m mandyblackburn. See you on there! Instaframe is a fun app. i’m addicted as well. it’s my fave. i love phonto and pic frame apps to go with it. 🙂 what is the name of your favorite fabric store and where is it? I love, love instagram!! I’ve followed you, too. I’m @lrmama. The thing is a serious addiction, I tell you. I love the filters. Snapseed is pretty good, and I even found a version on the pc. I’ll have to look that one up for you sometime. I have been dreading the smart phone upgrade (which is happening soon as my “antique” flip phone is dying) and can honestly say that instagram is the only thing I am looking forward to using! Okay now I have a post it note full of all these apps to check out to embellish my instagram addition!! Love it! My user name is SO original! kateydeasy I love following your pictures on instagram…I use diptic, its a collage, editing app and it will download right into instagram, it might cost .99 cents but totally worth it! i love instagram too 🙂 my only “trick” is that if i don’t want a photo to go to my instagram feed (for whatever reason), you can set your phone to airplane mode and use instagram…it will say that it has “failed” but a copy is put in your photo album but not published to your feed once you delete it in the app! loved when i discovered this! I love it just as much! I have a single digit following on instagram. Come follow me @oSRMo Meg, id love to have you. I too love instagram because it’s so simple to use. I’ve found that following along with others sharing their “happy” inspires me to be “happy”. I just found Phonto. It looks super fun and I’m looking forward to learning it! I’m new to Instagram and love it! Love following you. KSgirl72 my new Instagram name. 🙂 My car looks the same and I always need a caffeine fix :)!! I LOVE instagram. I use “Collage” A LOT because I take a lot of photos and I like to collage them and post as one. 🙂 So sad to be so behind in the times…no Instagraming here. I don’t own a cool phone 😉 Probably better for me though because I know I would be addicted to that too and then my family really wouldn’t get my attention…HA! Love seeing your pics though. So glad you were able to spend time with family and remembering your special aunt. Hugs, Valerie I love seeing you on Instagram! My husband will ask who a picture is from and I casually respond, “oh, Meg.” He rolls his eyes and kindly reminds me that we really aren’t friends. Hurumpf! 🙂 Nevertheless is fun to see all the beauty and joy in your life of course in the most non stalkerish way possible! I can’t do Instagram because it’s just ANOTHER social media life sucker:) Haha, but really. I don’t commit or sign up for anything that I would check several times a day because I don’t want to raise my little ones seeing me check my stupid smart phone all day to see what everyone else is up to. My life is cool enough without it:) I’ve been doing my daily photo blog for 4 years, and this year, almost all of my pictures that I’ve posted have been Instagram pics. I’m on & love it … @betsymck. I have 28 camera apps (I went a little crazy when I got my 4S), but consistently use Instagram, Diptic (to make a collage), and Percolator (which uses your pictures and turns them into pieces of art). I also have LEGO Photo, which I think kids would enjoy. It takes your pictures & turns them into a new photo made out of virtual Lego blocks – cool! I just became an instagrammer 😉 I lovvveee it! I’m on instagram … @amazingmommy I am on and I follow you. 🙂 I love the fabric! I haven’t gotten into too many apps that got with Instagram – I use PicFrame sometimes! I love Phonto for adding text and Camera+ for editing! 🙂 I’m a huge fan of instagram!!!! so much fun. I like Picframe as you can easily insert photos into a collage and then post a few in one picture frame. I also like label maker. Ok so I read your blog and love color just as much as you. It’s a crazy addiction! And I’m making rainbow quilts for my girls. And everytime I see them I think … Man I really want to show these to meg. Ha ha! You’d love them. I love reading the happy on your blog. Thanks for sharing! Nice!!! I love postagram (postcards with your instagram pics-so fun) & postal pix (they print them & mail them to you). I would LOVE to Instagram but I do not have internet on my cell phone and I “only” have a Kindle Fire so no pics come from there. *sigh* Fun! my phone crashes almost every time i try to use Instagram, 🙁 but I am still trying to figure out how to use it…I use my iphone to take pics almost every day now, so would love to know about the daily challenge and the couple of apps listed by the others here sounds great – Snapspeed, Phonto, Diptic, Picgrame, Labelmaker, lemeleme, Pixlromatic, PicFix, Pic Jointer, Camera +, Line Camera – you all are soooo creative! Love the handwritten “eleven” address label. What is the daily challenge? Is it on the iPhone app? That fabric store looks like heaven. Well, aren’t you and your mama beautiful!and twins! 🙂 Line Camera is a good one for adding text & fun frames. I am addicted to Instagram, too. Oh wow, you have been one busy lady! I LOVE looking at all the Instagram pics but I can’t figure out how to use the darn thing LOL My front seat is the same way…God Forbid someone wants to sit there 🙂 no instagram here, but love your coffee addiction! me too!! Love instagram!! Although I only do photo editing on it. I’m afraid of how much time I would spend on it if I started to follow others! How does one juggle blogging, Pinterest, and instagram? I love Pic Jointer for collages and just starting using Camera + for added variety in photo editing. And I do a Friday Wrap post on my blog weekly and link up with InstaFriday @ liferearranged.com. It’s fun to see what everyone else has been up to and to have a place to document the week’s activities (little things that might not get shared otherwise)! I LOVE instagram as well! I just started using it and I can’t stop! I’m @starlawitzki…love Instagram! I love Annie’s Hocket…Camp Invention I take it? 🙂 I work CI every year at our school…ours was 2 weeks ago. My 2 daughters (8 and 10 ) LOVE it!!! I’m @auntdidi and I’m totally addicted!! So much better than Facebook! Here’s the apps I love!! PicFx and Snapseed are great editors; Phonto is perfect for adding text; maskingtape and labelbox are like virtual washi tape!! Love!! Diptic is fantastic for making collages as is pocframe! The daily challenges are fantastic…takes a little remembering that first week, but after that it’s a total habit!! So glad you’ve joined!! Love seeing more of your awesome pics!! :). Happy Sunday!! I love Instagram!! These days I try to limit my time on there but sometimes there’s photo that just has to be taken … You know how it is 😉 picfx <3 Wood camera app for editing- it’s great! I’m @jachel, and addicted as well. Trying a daily challenge, but I’m a few days behind. Love peeking into people’s daily life. I love that you called Starbucks “Starbies”! We call it Bucky’s. 🙂 Heyyy! My nickname is Kronk! It was like you did a special shout out just for me even though that isn’t me! 🙂 lol… where to start…. Snapseed is great. Love the “drama” effect. Phonto is great for adding text.You can even download fonts from your computer to your phone. Diptic and picframe are great for collages. Labelmaker is fun. lots of cute tape looking labels. lemeleme is another one i like too 🙂 Frametastic. 🙂 |
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Honeybee Mama - hilarious! especially the risque lady in her undies as a result of the he-man aroma of aftershave!
Sue linse - Love the shoes on the girl in the skin bracer ad…they would be fashionable now!
Kelly - My mom gave me a typewriter for Christmas when I was about ten and I didn’t like it at all. We can laugh about it now how she thought I would love it and instead I thought it meant hours chained to a desk and typing lessons. 🙂 So funny. She has a little typewriter in the grandchildren’s room at her house now that the little boys love to peck away at!
Hotpoint seems like a funny name to try to sell something to keep food cold. 🙂
These are great and funny too. Kelly
Kate - Oh, I love old advertisements! They make me so happy! There is this great antique store in Prescott that has piles of old magazines. So fun.
stephany - So, I’m not the first to suggest this…and am sure you already thought of something amazing to do with them…but, frame them…decoupage them onto canvas…display them! In your NEW house!
katey - Love these!! I found an article the other day while cutting out some for an old journal and it was titled “Be a Whistled at Mom”. It was from 1952! Cracked me up!!!
Sarah - Is Lauren starting college this next school year? I may just be turning 30, but I do have memories of writing school reports on a typewriter. I sooo hated when the erase tape was finished and I had to resort to using white out!
angela - Perfect for framing and displaying in the craft house! LOVE the typewriter ad!
Heather S. - I subscribe to Reminisce Magazine because I love all the vintage! And I am only 34! Love the ads!
amanda d - Love it! Makes me want to watch Mad Men!
Alicia @ La Famille - so cool! i wonder if don draper designed any of those 🙂
Becki - Wow! Those are priceless! It’s amazing how much things have changed.
Ivy - Your hotpoint fridge ad says its the one to buy for ’46. Awesome find. These should be framed.
Christina Cruz - I love these ads. I have seen others that were put in men’s magazines that, although funny, are totally wrong. Like the one that says, “Is it always illegal to kill a woman?” or “It is good to have a woman around the house.” and the man is stepping on a woman’s head. These remind me of some of the sexists ads now-a-days.
However, I would frame these ads. These kinds of ads are the reason I got into the Adverting world.
Wendy - You would love Amy Barickman’s Book called Vintage Notions. She is a Kansan also and has Indygo Junction Pattern company. Really cool lady. Anyway, her book has all kinds of old gems from books and maybe magazines. Her blog does also. amybarickman.com
Such fun things to have!
I was thrifting yesterday and thought why do all the cool old signs have to be cigarette, cigar, or liquor?? I guess they didnt realize how bad some of those things were. being educated about your health takes away all of the fun! I love the tin signs but I can’t have a cigarette or beer sign in my house full of kids!!
-Wendy
jennifer - I found a lot of old ads and appliance manuals at my grandma’s house. We framed the kitchen/food related ones and have them hanging in our kitchen. Love it!
Tanya H - My dad wore green Mennen Skin Bracer when he and my mom would go out! The smell takes me back to being a very little girl ….of course that was way after that ad would have been circulating tho, giggle! These were fun!
Kristin S - These are begging for frames… except the one of the guy in his underwear.
Oh, and they typewriter one? Didn’t Dads used to look so much older?
R - The “Reis Scandals” is OUR last name!! That cracks me up. Wish I knew where to find this issue…i’d frame that puppy!! Ha ha! We have old British cars (50’s and 60’s) and my husband loves when I find the old ads and frame them for his office. It’s fantastic!
Vera - I courted an angel and married a cook ha ha I LOVE IT!
Leah - I love these ads! Old ads are awesome.