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Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes

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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

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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.

Winter Shelves #whatmeeganmakes

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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Tickled Pink Times Two with Christmas Ideas and Recipes

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Welcome to Tickled Pink Times Two with Christmas Ideas and Recipes!!  It’s been a full week and I am looking forward to sharing all the amazing and incredible features this week!!

I am always happy to co-host this party with the talented and lovely Holly from 504 Main!!  Another thing that makes this party great-is that we EACH pick our own features!!  woo woo…

I have also been really busy here on my own blog with:sidebar_pic_Nov1Field Trip Friday with The Blissful Bee

My White and Natural Christmas Shelves

A Christmas Tree Tour

Popcicle Stick Christmas Tree

Anthro Inspired Pine Cone and Pecan Garland

Now for the Christmas ideas and recipe features…

Cranberry Almond French Toast Casserole

Kristen Duke

Hot Chocolate Bundt Cake

The First Year Blog

Spiced Plum & Mango Chutney

Pink Recipe Box

Double Apple Whole Wheat Pancakes

Nibbles by Nic

Ballerina Stocking & Tutorial

Besa GM

Not Your Typical Advent Candle Wreath

An Extraordinary Day

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Yesterday On Tuesday

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Burlap Snowman Door Hanger

DIY Beautify

cc2e630be3b13cfc8df49457621cbefcDIY Wire Hanger Christmas Tree

One Little Project

DIY Wrapping Paper

The DIY Dreamer

How To Make a Merry Christmas Garland

Scrapality

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Merry Christmas.
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A Christmas Tree Home Tour

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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.

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

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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.

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

 

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