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Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes

December 31, 2013 By Meegan 15 Comments

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I hope you have been enjoying Simply The BEST of 2013!!  Now it is my turn to share Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes. What Meegan Makes started on Dec 27, 2011.  Yep, it has been 2 full years of posts, creativity, amazing followers, and lots of fun friendships.  Thanks so much for joining me on this journey of What Meegan Makes.  It was a very slow start.  I was doing blogging all on my own until about a year ago.  I “met” some amazing bloggers that invited me to their “groups” and “troops” to help spread the word about my blog.  I am SO grateful from them.  (There are too many to mention)  I am a blessed woman, without a doubt.

 

I am looking forward to a new year full of ideas, inspiration and a new look.  Hopefully, my blog will continue to be a place of inspiration, recipes, thrifting, and wonderful thoughts for you to visit each day.  I also hope to make the blog more accessible for all of my readers and followers.  It will be a fabulous year!!

 

Below is the full run down and schedule for Simply THE BEST:

Sunday December 29th:

AT HOME WITH THE BARKERS

SNAZZY LITTLE THINGS

PETTICOAT JUNKTION

SWEET PEA

JUST PAINT IT

Monday December 30th:

DIO HOME IMPROVEMENTS

MOMMY IS COOCOO

JUST A GIRL AND HER BLOG

RAPPSODY IN ROOMS

INSPIRATION FOR MOMS

Tuesday December 31st:

GIRL IN THE GARAGE

ARTSY CHICKS RULE

WHAT MEEGAN MAKES

COUNTRY DESIGN STYLE

CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL DO-IT-YOURSELFER

SIMPLY FRESH VINTAGE

With that being said let’s see Simple the BEST of 2013-What Meegan Makes…

Hang Decorative Plates With Hot Glue and Paper Clips

22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes

$10 Thrifted and Painted Chairs

My $8 Thrifted Chandy

Thrifted Bathroom Door

PB Knock-off Vase

Beach Inspired Memory Bottle

Quick and Easy Gift for Mother’s Day

Epsom Salt Christmas Jars  (This post had my all time high hits in one day!)

Orange Cupcakes From Scratch

Fresh & Easy Fajitas

Butter Lemon Snow Drops  (This post was actually picked up by Pillsbury, and used on their site here.  Woot woot!)

For some fun What Meegan Makes trivia: these last 2 posts below are clicked on EVERYDAY!!  Even though they are from 2012.  Cool, huh???

DIY Book Page Flower

Dyeing Coffee Filters with Food Coloring

There you have it!!  Simply the BEST from What Meegan Makes 2013.  Thanks for letting me share the highlights from my blog in 2013.  May there be many, many more posts to bring light to your days!!

Make it a Happy New Year!!

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A Christmas Tree Home Tour

December 17, 2013 By Meegan 9 Comments

Hello Hello!!  Christmas is just days away and nine bloggers and I have a beautiful and creative Christmas Tour of Homes for you.  Thanks to Rachel from Like a Saturday for putting it altogether!   To see the full tour schedule and to link up on December 20th, visit Rachel at Like a Saturday.

Christmas tour of homes

 If you are coming from Kayla’s blog Home Coming-WELCOME!!  I am so happy to have you here!!

stop 3 home coming

Today, I am thrilled to share our Christmas Trees with a Christmas Tree Home Tour.  I LOVE Christmas trees.  But our 950 sq foot condo is too tiny for the size tree I want, so I have 4 little trees that bring the Christmas feeling into our home.

A Christmas Tree Home Tour

Each tree is unique and adds to the feel and look of our home.

This first tree is in our living room window.

It is filled with vintage “Shiny Brites”, snowflakes and icicles.

I used a glitter and crystal filled garland to lay around the tree as well.

The tree sits in my fleur box, along with the natural and glittered spheres from Pier One.

This white ornament is special because it was sent from one of my blog readers!!  Isn’t she sweet??

My next tree resides in our bedroom.  The colors are blue (one of my fave colors), silver and gold, with crystals scattered throughout.

With more vintage gold “Shiny Brites”,  I was able to get the look and feel I wanted for our bedroom.

The bedroom tree sits in a barn wood box. and surrounded with burlap.

You can see the cracks in some of the glass ornaments, showing the wear and age on them.

“Merry Christmas” adorns the top of the tree, as a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.

One of my Christmas trees is also in the living room,  sitting in a vintage reproduction sleigh.   I decorated the tree with a pine cone garland that I made last year.

The Santa and toys were crocheted by my grandma.  Since she has passed on, they hold special meaning to me each year when I pull them out of the box.

Doesn’t Santa look excited to deliver toys on Christmas Eve??

Last, but certainly not least, is my DIY Flocked Tree in a Terracotta pot.  Having it sit right by my vintage birdhouse is a perfect place for my bird ornaments.

My Christmas Tree Home Tour has been so fun to share with you.  Each one makes me smile every time I see them and especially when they are lit up.  Be sure to also see my WHOLE Christmas Home Tour.

Thanks SO much for coming over for the Christmas Tour of Homes!  I KNOW you will enjoy each and every home as much as I have.

Your next stop on the tour will be with Gracie from Kitchen Table Art, tomorrow morning!!  You will not be disappointed.

stop 5 kitchen table art

Make it a Christmas Home Tour kind of day!  And, Merry Christmas.

 

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DIY Herb & Pine Cone Filled Fire Starter

November 21, 2013 By Meegan 2 Comments

 

Happy Thursday!!  The holidays are coming upon us and we better start get ready soon!!  Is it cold where you live?  It is cooler here, but not COLD yet.  I sure miss our wood stove we had in the hills of California.  And, I also wish I had been able to use a DIY Herb and Pine Cone Filled Fire Starter for those cold Winter months.

These are a great Holiday gift and fun for your own home.  Besides that-they are EASY PEASY to make…

DIY Herb & Pine Cone Filled Fire Starter
 My components were:

newspaper

strips of cardboard

sprigs of fresh thyme

pine cones

paper doilies

twine and/or string

small tags (optional)

 

I “wrapped” the pine cone with cardboard and then tucked in the thyme.  I chose thyme, because the aroma will fill your home with a wonderful fresh, clean scent, that only thyme can give.
Rolling the pine cone in a newspaper tube, I tied each end with twine.
DIY Herb & Pine Cone Filled Fire Starter
Using a paper doily, my small tag and string, I tied the doily around the tied newspaper and pine cone.
Yep, it IS that easy!!
Won’t your friends and neighbors love this simple and festive gift?  It is a perfect hostess gift for your Holiday and Christmas parties.  You can make your tags personalized for each friend or neighbor, too.

Be sure to pin this so you can use a DIY Herb & Pine Cone Filled Fire Starter for your campfires and fire pits during the Summer months, too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I love your comments and ideas.

Make it a terrific day.

Meegan

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What Meegan Makes Fall Tour

October 1, 2013 By Meegan 20 Comments

Happy First Day of October!  It’s time for What Meegan Makes Fall Tour and I am inviting you along!  I can hardly wait to share my Fall Tour with you.  I mixed old and new projects, fresh and fake pumpkins, along with some ideas I can’t resist sharing with you on the What Meegan Makes Fall Tour.

 

So, whatta you say? Let’s get this tour on the road!

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