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The Monday Blues-Mid-Winter Shelves

March 3, 2014 By Meegan 3 Comments

Happy Monday!!  I’ve got the Monday Blues for my Mid-Winter Shelves today.  I always love the blues.  My kitchen shelves are one area that I like to change for every season in our home.  Plus, if you know me at all, you KNOW I always enjoy sharing my blues. I am excited to share the Monday Blues today.

I also shared my Mid-Winter shelves on From My Front Porch To Yours yesterday.  Pamela asked me to share “how I found my style”.  It was a REAL honor to be a part of her blog.  Please Pamela a visit and give her some blogging love.  She would be so happy I sent you.  Besides that-she has a fabulous blog!!

I am still out of town with lots of packing behind us.  Whew!  We are almost ready to make our trek across the country.  I hope you are following me on Instagram and my FB Page.  I am posting pictures and places of interest all along my trip.  The hashtag is: travelingwithmeegan.  It’s a lot of fun traveling with my daughter and her 4 children all the way to Georgia from Utah.  We actually hit the road early Tuesday morning.  Follow along as we see this gorgeous country!!

Now onto the Monday Blues Mid-Winter Shelves.

 

My Mid-Winter Shelves are filled with some of my favorite jars.  Most of them are vintage and original Ball Jars.  I also have 3 vintage milk bottles that help balance the shelves.

Hubby is the one that likes to collect milk bottles.  The milk bottle with orange printing is from a local dairy where we grew up in Southern California, Foothill Dairy.  So that is personal and nostalgic for us.  The ball jar with twine wrapped around the top is a thrift find that I found for $1.  Awesome sauce-right?

The scale on top is from my Grandma’s kitchen.  Yes, she actually used it.  I am happy to own it and have it in my own kitchen now.  I made my own Farmer’s Market sign.  My mom was so sweet to give me the 3 hook-lid Ball jars.  (She knows me well.)

The jar on the far right was given to me by Hubby about 30 years ago.  I didn’t even realize how much I liked vintage jars or bottles then.  But have kept it in our home ever since.  He knows me well, too (insert smile).

One last look at my Mid-Winter Shelves for today.  Pretty soon it will be time to set them up for Spring.  Time to get my creative juices going again, right?

Thanks for joining me today for the Monday Blues-Mid-Winter Shelves.  Do you have Mid-Winter decor in your home, too?  I hope you have been inspired, and enjoyed today’s post.

I am happy to be here every Monday for:

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Make it a blue Monday!

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Welcome to The Valentines Tour

February 4, 2014 By Meegan 9 Comments

Welcome to The Valentines Tour!

Yay!!  It’s the Valentines Tour with lots of ideas and inspiration from 14 bloggers! It’s MY turn today, and I am excited to have you here.  If you are here for the first time, here is a BIG WELCOME!  And if you are recent visitor, I am SO happy to have you here again.

Today, as part of the Valentines Tour I thought I would share my Valentines Shelves with you.

These shelves are in our kitchen and are a focal point in our home.  Each shelf has meaningful items on it.  I liked using red, white, and a little Tiffany blue for contrast.

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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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Change It Up For The New Year

December 30, 2013 By Meegan 7 Comments

 

While putting away our Christmas I decided it would  be fun to change it up for the new year!  I felt the creative juices flowing to move things around and get a new look for the new year.   Do you do the same thing?  I like moving the furniture around and bringing in a Winter feel to our home.  Even though it can still be pretty warm around here.

I like to start with the shelves in my kitchen as a focal point.  I used some of what I had from my Christmas shelves and my Epsom Salt Jars.

Instead of keeping with all natural colors, I thought it would be fun to add some gold.  My Mom gave me lots and lots of pecans.

I also used them on my Anthro Inspired Pecan and Pine Cone Garland.

I used Krylon Metallic Indoor Gold to paint my pecans.  Don’t they look ready for a new year???

Using the jars from my Epsom Salts, I partially filled my jars with salt and my newly painted pecans.

I love that I even have a small gold stick to add to my jar, too.  I also removed all of the Christmas ornaments from each jar, giving the shelves a more winter feel, rather than Christmas.

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Easy peasy!  I bought the small crystallized wreath from HL (at 50 % off, of course).    The wooden stump candle holders were also used on my Christmas Shelves.

I have a whole new look for the shelves to change it up for the new year.  All it took was some rearranging and a little spray paint.  I love when that happens!!  Now I have Winter shelves and a new look for our home.

Make it a marvelous Monday and change it up somewhere in your home to welcome in the new year!!
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