How To Make A Woven Magazine Page Placemat

May 8, 2019 By Meegan 11 Comments

Today I have a fun and easy way to dress up any tablescape for any event. I am going to teach you How To Make A Woven Magazine Page Placemat. It’s your typical type of craft, but I know you are gonna LOVE it!

It’s also the 2nd Wednesday of the month, so it’s time for the Thrifty Style Team to share their incredible and thrifty decorating ideas. It is always a treat to see what everyone comes up with. I will have all the links to their projects listed below.

Now to get busy with the tutorial on How To Make A Woven Magazine Page Placemat…

How To Make a Tulle Banner

February 13, 2019 By Meegan 11 Comments

As you may know, I like to make pretty things without spending a lot of money. Whether it is for home décor, parties, or seasonal decorating. As part of the Thrifty Style Team, today I am going to show you How To Make a Tulle Banner.

I like to make banners and pennants for parties, showers, weddings, and holidays. I made a tulle banner for a tea party, along with a pom pom, and napkin banner to add to the ambiance.

It is super easy, takes very little time and I love the shabby style.

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Vintage Toolbox for Party Organization

June 13, 2018 By Meegan 8 Comments

I have so much fun joining the Thrifty Style Team each month. Today I want to show you how I use a Vintage Toolbox for Party Organization.

Each one of us post our creative, thrifty finds and ideas on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Mark your calendar so you don’t miss out.

My Vintage Toolbox for Party Organization is all about creativity and using unique ideas.

How to Make a Floral Arrangement

March 30, 2015 By Meegan 2 Comments

Happy Monday! It has been a full week with lots going on around our home. New babies coming into our family, lots of visitors, and Spring is in full force around our home. That brings me to why I am here today. I want to show you How to Make a Floral Arrangement (in a few easy steps)

It does take a little time to make your first floral arrangement, especially if you are picky. (SO, it does take me awhile) BUT, once you get what you like, it’s easy peasy from that point on.

22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes

October 22, 2013 By Meegan 11 Comments

I just love me some barn wood, don’t you?? Especially when it is made into boxes. Even better. I have 22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes! I am so very excited to share this post with you. It will change your life! (Well, not really. But, it sounded good, right?)

Barn wood boxes are a great way to add personality and variety to your home, meals, and events. Let’s see what I came up with…

What Do You Do With Extra Wedding Flowers?

September 4, 2013 By Meegan 7 Comments

Last week I promised I would share more of the bridal flowers I did for a wedding a few weeks ago. I am excited to share those with you today. So what do you do with extra wedding flowers? Hmmm…That is a really good question. And I actually have an answer for you!

I gather every flower that is leftover. (This time I didn’t have many at all. But it was just enough for what I needed.)

I gathered the extra white hydrangeas.

Then I gathered every berry and fern I had left over. I like to use several types of berries and ferns. They add variety and even more texture.

I also gathered as many unusual flowers that were extras. I like using flowers that are out of the ordinary, and not typical. This flower reminds me of a stephanotis. (One of my favorite flowers) And it smells SO sweet!

I gathered anything that had texture and a little added color would be just right for my idea. And of course, a Garden Rose will be perfect, as well.

Aren’t all of these flowers looking amazing? They are just what I need for the idea I have for all of the extra wedding flowers.

I love Garden Roses. Have you ever purchased them? They are different than other roses. The scent is like picking a rose right out of the garden. When ordering them, ask specifically for Garden Roses. They will cost more-but worth every penny. I know the edges are brown. But, if you remember from my bridal flower post last week, I leave the brown petals on until the very last minute. Then the flowers look as fresh as possible.

Once I was done gathering all of my extras, I used an old pickle jar, wrapped it with burlap and tied it with the wedding color ribbon. Perfect.

It looks like a centerpiece, doesn’t it? It is pretty enough to be one, right? But, it isn’t a centerpiece at all. I only make one for every wedding I have worked on.

Can you guess where it goes? It has a special place all it’s own.

Yep, I place it in the bathroom. I think it is so fun to have fresh flowers from the wedding party in the bathroom. It is inviting, it’s classy, and who doesn’t like fresh flowers in EVERY room? This way each area of the wedding is covered with a portion of what is going on out in the reception area. I have always loved this idea. It’s like a special gift for the guests.

I am so happy you came by today to see what you do with extra wedding flowers. I hope you will do the same for some of your family or friends when they get married.

I would love for you to leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Now you will never need to ask “What do you do with extra wedding flowers?” You will have the perfect answer.

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I’ve Got The Monday Blues

April 22, 2013 By Meegan Leave a Comment

Hello Hello!! I’ve got the Monday Blues!! Even though I am visiting a new grand baby, the Monday blues hits me every time!! Every Monday I share the blues that catch my eye during the previous week.

Since I have so many relatively new followers, I thought it would be fun to share some of my have blues in our home.

First, one of the blues in our home is in the laundry closet I made this pair of mod-podge stenciled birdies just for the laundry area. Everytime I open the doors, these birds make me smile.

I am loving this blue lamp. My sweet friend bought me some blue paint and the first thing I wanted to do was to paint my lamp. She looks pretty with my DIY floral lampshade.

I like silhouettes, don’t you? These 3 frames were black until I got to them. They fit perfectly on the tiny wall in our office. (Yes, the silhouettes are our 7 kids as children)

This corsage is my favorite, because I love the ribbon color, and the scent of fresh flowers in our home while I am doing bridal flowers.

I get some many compliments on this wall. This is also in our office. I love empty frames, and decided to paint the frames blue to add to our decor.

I've got the Monday Blues

My blue birdcage looks amazing in our guest bathroom. When I received her as a gift from my father, I couldn’t help but add blue to her already beautifulness. I have tiny white lights in her all year long, so when we have guests they see my pretty blue birdcage.

I hope you have enjoyed the Monday Blues as much as I enjoyed sharing them with you today. Blue always make me smile and gives me such a calm and relaxing feeling.

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Make it a blue Monday!!

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Dumpster Dive Dresser Turned Wedding Shower Beauty

March 19, 2013 By Meegan 8 Comments

Good Tuesday morning!! The birds are singing and the sun is warm. Yep, you can feel spring in the air. Love it!! That also means it is wedding season. That’s why I need/want to share a dumpster dive dresser turned wedding shower beauty. You are gonna love this!!

Isn’t she lovely??? Doesn’t she look beautiful??

After some good old TLC she looks amazing!!

This is how I found her. Yep, right next to our dumpster. Just a shell of a dresser.

Our son was getting married and we were hosting an Open House for him. I knew I needed this dresser. I had big plans.

I painted her with primer. I then dry brushed Teal Lake by BHG to fit the motif of the Open House.

We used her as a drink station for the open house serving fruit water and various hot chocolates. She looked lovely and added ambiance to the evening.

Since Hubby isn’t handy in the wood crafting department, I knew I had to give this lovely away. But, I couldn’t give her away to just anyone. It had to be someone who would appreciate her.

My cute friend Barbara came to mind right off the bat. Her hubby is a talented wood worker and could bring this beauty back to full life after Barbara’s simple and elegant touches.

I made the best decision ever!! Can you believe this is the same dresser?? Her hubby made drawers to fit just right so it could be an actual functioning dresser. Notice the chunky feet that were added. They add character and texture.

After adding a white wash Barbara wanted some glass drawer pulls. They add just the right touch, don’t you think?? Barbara had a vision and was able to pull it off beautifully!!

For a wedding shower she was hosting, Barbara shopped her house and brought out all of her touches to add a vintage feel, and a small touch of color.

I was so happy to find my dumpster dive dresser.

Now she is dumpster dive dresser turned wedding shower beauty!

I arrived to Barbara’s just before the wedding shower started so I could see the dresser and she her magic touch everywhere. Amazing!!

If you remember, Barbara and I went shopping at the floral market last week. After I gave her the floral tips for longer lasting blossoms, this is what I found:

In 80 degree weather, her gorgeous florals looked incredible. They were fresh, full, and ready join the dumpster dive dresser turned wedding shower beauty!!

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The Best of What Meegan Makes 2012-Bridal Bouquet

December 28, 2012 By Meegan 3 Comments

The Best of What Meegan Makes 2012-Bridal Bouquet is featured today!! I am excited to share this post with you. Not only because of the positive response I got, but because it has been a few years since I have done flowers-and I was so pleased with how they turned out. Enjoy!!

I told you about some Bridal flowers that I am doing lately. I did these last week:

The Best of What Meegan Makes-2012-Bridal Flowers

These colors came out looking so well together. This is a few bridesmaid’s bouquets. Gotta love me some blue hydrangeas!!

Today another bride is taking her Bridal Portraits and wanted her bouquet for the sitting. She likes roses, succulents, and billy balls. Her wedding colors are champagne, taupe, peachy pink, creamy whites, gray and white.

This is almost done-I added another single succulent towards the bottom.

Here are both the Groom’s boutonniere and the Bridal bouquet. I would love to show you a full view, but that is for the bride to do.

The “bout” is 2 yellow billy balls and 2 dusty miller leaves. I wrapped the stems with twine. The dusty miller leaves are the same shade as the succulents, so it works well. They are also a heavier leaf, like the succulents. I used the leaves for balance.

The Bridal bouquet. There are so many textures. I really like it. She needed a gray succulent, rather than green. I actually bought these at our local nursery in tiny pots. They work perfectly!!

I added vintage lace around the burlap for even more texture and style. The lace is some of my Grandma’s lace. I know she would love seeing it wrapped around a bridal bouquet.

Pin It These pictures make me smile! I hope they bring a smile to your face as well!! Their wedding is towards the end of September, so I am sure I will have more pictures for you then!!

Thanks for stopping by and giving me some blog love!! I love to have you here! My last Best of 2012 will be posted tomorrow. Hmmm…I wonder what it will be!!

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Wedding Open House Tour

November 20, 2012 By Meegan 12 Comments

Good Tuesday to all of you!!

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I am catching up from the Wedding Open House. We said good-bye to our family and friends yesterday, and now I would LOVE to share a few {well, a lot} of pictures with you from our day. I can’t take all the credit from how fun and creative everything looks because I had SO many talented and fun friends there to help me. And, the bride her own creativity going on as well. Don’t you love it when you are surrounded by those who love creativity as much as you do???!!

I am going to walk you through the tour so you can see what it would have been like had you attended the Open House. Sound good?

As you walk up to enter the home, to your left were these pots and sign to welcome you. Yes, I made the frame for about $4. (By the evening the pots were filled with blue pansies)

This chair seat was red. The bride covered it with blue fabric and used pillows from my bedroom as a warming accent. There were also mason jars along the walkway lit up with tea lights.

Don’t you love these “Mr and Mrs” signs hanging by the front door??

My coffee filter wreath hanging on the door. I just love these 2 birds!! We also used this at the reception.

The sign in table. Yep, you got it-the bride drew this picture, then each guest left their thumb print (for a leaf look) with their name around it. She is SO talented!! I thought this vignette came out perfectly. So many details to see.

As you made your way through to the back yard this was on your right. We loved using the poster size pictures. Again, the elements here were also used at the dinner and reception a few weeks ago.

The gift table. I made the card box before I had a blog. (I hold sweet cards and notes from my family in it)

*We are half way through the tour*

As you walk out to the porch and to your right, you saw the “Hot Chocolate & Candy Bar”. I shared the dresser with you yesterday. The frames, book page banner, and the cardboard chalk board were from our home. This dresser made me smile!

This is the “Sweet Things” table. We used barn wood boxes, various cake pedestals, a coffee filter banner, chalkboards, my Fall jar, frames, fabric flowers, a tulle wreath (Tutorial to come soon), our front door wreath, mercury glass candle holders, and I added a doily mobile (tutorial to come soon). I had so much fun putting and layering all the textures and elements to this table. I literally jumped up and down when it was finished!!

As you walk past the pizza oven, the tables and chairs were set up on the grass. We used a lot of the same elements on the tables from here and here.

Instead of using the pages as a banner, we used the book pages from here as runners for these tables. Cute, huh???

As you sat at your table you could see the pizza oven!! How cool is this!! There were several kinds of pizza. Thai chicken, black olive & mushroom, pepperoni, supreme, etc…Nummers!!!

My friend Tracy had just bought this wrought iron tree. It was staring at us all day. We didn’t know what to do with it. Should we put gifts, drinks, or treats on it?? We looked at each other and said, “Book Pages!!!”” We still had a few coffee filter strings, book pages and clothes pins-we went to town hanging everything on here. Thanks to Lori and Tracy it came out looking great-AND a wonderful conversation piece!! All night long people would ask me what it was and why the dictionary pages. I loved it-we had achieved our goal!!

I hope you enjoyed your tour from the Wedding Open House. The evening was filled with family, friends,food, laughter and love.

I need to give a HUGE thank you to our friends Greg and Tracy that let us borrow their home, yard, and pizza oven for the day and evening!! It was absolutely fabulous!!

To mys dear friends-Lori, Barbara, Alayna, Sherida, Tracy, Rosie, Page, Linda, and Michele: Thank you for all of your creativity and help throughout the night and beyond!!

We seriously have the best friends ever!! We have a lot to be thankful for, that is for sure!!

Make it a terrific Tuesday!!

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I”ve Got The Monday Blues

November 19, 2012 By Meegan 14 Comments

It’s Monday!! How was your weekend?? We were busy hosting an Open House for our son and his lovely bride. We had amazing help, wonderful people visiting, and delicious food!! I can’t wait to show you the pictures!! But for now it’s time for “The Monday Blues“…

First off, This is from Sowdering about in Seattle:

Randi refreshed this dresser for her kids. Don’t you just love this deep blue with the black drawers?? She also hand painted each knob. So creative and talented!! Thanks for sharing Randi!! I look forward to having more blues from you very soon!!

Now for my own “Monday Blues“:

I literally found this by our dumpster on a Saturday afternoon. I was SO excited!! My Hubby was at work, so I called my neighbor, and he helped me haul it up upstairs to our place! Woo!! She was basically a frame of a dresser. Not even a dresser!!

I knew I wanted to clean her up, fix her up, and use her for the wedding festivities.

I decided to prime her and then think about a color and style for her.

So what do you think? From dumpster to wedding... Pretty good, huh?? I also added my book page garland for some texture.

I dry brushed BHG Teal Lake to add to the colors of the wedding. I have used this same color in other places in our home as well. All she needed was a little paint and some love.

She looked do pretty holding the drinks for the open house this past weekend!!

Not too bad for a freebie, huh?? I am excited to share “My Monday Blues” with you every week! I hope you will be excited to share your blues with me as well.

Have a Blue Monday as you are getting ready for Thanksgiving and the Holiday Season!!

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Wedding Flower Pictures And Ideas

October 9, 2012 By Meegan 14 Comments

Last week I shared with you the bridal flowersI did for my sweet friend. I still have a few more pictures I would like to share with you. This wedding was so much fun. The bride knew exactly what she wanted, that made it so easy and fun!!

We purchased several different kinds of flowers, berries and leaves with different textures and colors. We decided on 3 types of tablescapes, since there were 23 tables. We could mix and match flowers and tablescapes, so not one table would be the same. LOVE it!! This particular table was all vases and jars at different levels. Each vase or jar was wrapped with twine or ribbon coordinating with her colors. Don’t you just love hydrangeas?? The leaves are Dusty Miller.

The wooden boxes were made by her fiancée with barn wood from his grandpa!! Love the wood!! It adds some dimension to each table. In these jars we have roses, yarrow, baby’s breath, dusty miller, berries, stock, and filler.

One of the bridesmaids had these wooden disks for us to use, too. It was fun to play with them. They also added levels and texture. We basically used the same flowers as the above pictures, but they take on a whole new look with using the wooden disk.

Some of the jars were wrapped with lace and ribbon. So simple and beautiful!!

We bought some succulents to add to some of the bouquets, but then changed our minds. So I thought they would be cute tied with twine. People LOVED it!! So simple. Yet very effective.

We had 13 shepherds hooks holding jars with wire, as lanterns. We placed a battery operated tea light in each one. I thought it would look great with the real flowers in them the light the way, and look beautiful at the same time.

Here’s another view of the shepherds hooks. Don’t you just love the doors?? So many ideas from this wedding.

And this is probably my favorite spot. LOVE this dresser greeting all the guests. I filled it with as many flowers as I could. It was so fun.

I hope you have gotten some ideas for simple ways to decorate with flowers. You don’t need to spend a lot. Just use your creativity. It is fun to step out of the box and use other flowers than you would normally see. It is eye catching and definitely some your gusets will remember!!

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Make it a terrific Tuesday!!

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Bridal Flowers

October 2, 2012 By Meegan 20 Comments

I have been telling you about bridal flowers for weeks now. I finally worked with bridal flowers this past weekend. It was a blast, and they came out beautiful!!

I am excited to share them with you:

This is the mom’s corsage. The bride’s mom wanted a very simple corsage. It consists of an antique white rose and white hydrangeas. With a simple satin bow it is simple and beautiful. Just how the bride wanted it!

The bride’s bouquet: Antique white roses, peach roses, garden roses, geranium leaves, and Beerzilla (Silver). Isn’t it just so beautiful??

A view from up above the brides bouquet.

I also made 6 bridesmaids bouquets. They included white hydrangeas, antique white roses, cox comb, Hypericom berries, and a few Brerzilla (silver).

Each bouquet was wrapped with burlap and lace. The lace matched the bridesmaid’s skirts.

This walking up to attend the reception. The bride wanted the open drawers FULL of flowers. I added baby’s breath, peach roses, bells of Ireland, and yarrow.

Love, love, love!!

I decided to have bouquets hanging on the “fence” behind the buffet line, along with a few pictures of the bride and groom. I love this vintage look, don’t you?

Is that one happy bride, or what?? Thanks Jennie and Brandon for letting me be a part of your wedding day. It was one I won’t forget for a very long time.

I will post more pics later from the reception. I probably, easily took 100.

Make it a terrific Tuesday!