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Meegan’s Christmas Decor Tour

December 1, 2012 By Meegan 17 Comments

Welcome!!  I am so excited to give you a small tour of my Christmas decorating today!!

Usually just before Thanksgiving I pull out the Christmas decorations.  I try to be creative and decorate differently than I have in the past.  This year was no exception.  It was a great project for me.  I hope you enjoy!!

Your tour begins right now….

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We have 3 small trees.  This year I placed them in separate rooms.  I even flocked 2 of them myself.  Easy and they look great!!   You can see that I chose colors that reflect my taste and flow with our home style.

This is a view of our kitchen shelves and computer area.  Hubby loves the snow globes for the grand kiddos to see and play with.  Also in this picture is a book page garland with coffee filters, and my Miss Mustard Seed Knock-off ornament.  On the far right is just a glimpse of my sticks I dressed with snow flakes, icicles and birdhouses.  I like this picture because too, because you can see the tree and chandelier in our bedroom!!

This is a small peek at all of the decorations throughout our home.  The guest bathroom, the living room, our bedroom, and kitchen.

This was my first Nativity.  A friend bought it for me during her trip to Italy.  It is one of the several Nativities I own.  Hubby collects snow globes and I collect Nativities   I like this one in the cloche.  The worry doll was brought back from our son’s mission in Guatemala.

In this collage, you can see my glittery bird houses (I bought them for a $1-painted and glittered them up to match the colors in our home-easy!!!), my book page garland, more snow globes, and our bedroom tree and decorations.

Our “Elf on the Shelf”.  He is actually from the 50s and my mom’s.  He has always been a part of Christmas for our family since I was tiny girl.

These are in our TV room, and special to me because my grandma made these ornaments.  She is now gone, but I have these to remember her by each Christmas.  Don’t you love that cute couple??  That is Hubby and me on our wedding day!!

A full view of my branches with the snow flakes, icicles and glittery bird houses.

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 A closer look at the bedroom tree,chandelier, and Nativity.

My grandpa’s croquet box filled with snowflakes, candles, and bulbs.  The  Christmas pillow was made by niece Denise.  The sleigh filled with my grandma’s homemade toys, was a gift from my dad.

I love this picture of our kitchen shelves and snow globes.

 I thought you might like to see just a couple more Nativities that I own.  The bells were a gift from my grandma the first year we were married.  They always find a place in the Christmas decor.

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This pedestal is behind my kitchen sink.  The gingerbread family was made by my niece Denise.    (Yes, that is real cinnamon on them!!)  The Christmas village adorned my grandparents fireplace mantel every year when I was a child.  I love that my grand kiddos get to see it, too!!

A vignette with my ornament knock-off.

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 Our book shelf in the living room shows off all the Nativities.  I especially love the white Nativity in our  bedroom.  Here is another view of the kitchen.

I gathered all of my angels on a pedestal to be raised above another Nativity.

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 My view from the kitchen to the living room.

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Our guest bathroom.  The birdhouse has got the be one of my favorite gifts from my father.  I love how this room is filled with Christmas lights for our visitors, like you!!

Thanks for taking my Christmas Decor Tour today.  It was fun having you here!!  I love having you visit my blog and on  Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk, Google +, Stumble Upon, Bloglovin’, and LinkedIn!!  Come back again soon!!

Make it a Super Saturday!  Enjoy your family and all the good you have in your life!!

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Living Room Makeover

November 25, 2012 By Meegan 6 Comments

We moved into this condo 2 years ago.  I have worked and tried to make it a warm and cozy home for us.  Here are the steps we have taken.

Our empty pallet:

I began to paint some of our accessories, frame and mats in blue and green tones.  I also added pillows and window treatments.  I was getting there. But, my creative juices couldn’t stop.

I restyled my lamp shade then painted the bookshelf white.

Then my cute hubby hung our yummy fan.  Isn’t he an awesome hubby???  The rug is from Ross.  Yahoo!!         

I made a Book Page Wreath.  I sure love it!!  Then it was finally time to paint!!

Here is a view from the front door entry.  You can see my computer desk, and my branch tree.

For fun I added a small detail by painting the inside of the door.  It’s a surprise when you open the door.

 

I added Grandpa’s Croquet Box, and my new Cards Box.

After painting the walls and front door blue, I decided to add the same blue to the front of the book shelves.  Looking good!!

I really like the blue front of this now.  It makes the bookcase pop.
Oh!  Wow!!  I am in love with this room!!  There you have it!!  My living room makeover in a nut shell.
Since these pictures have been taken, I added my $10 Coffee Table.
I have a few more things I want to do in here. I would like make slipcovers for the sofa.  I will fill you in on that when I do 

Yay!!  I am almost done!!  Woo Hoo!!

I hope you enjoy and appreciate our new space as much as we do!!  Now it is time to decorate for Christmas !

 

Don’t forget:

See you tomorrow for The Monday Blues, and on Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk, Google +, Stumble Upon, and now LinkedIn!!

 

Have a beautiful Sunday!!

 

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Wedding Open House Tour

November 20, 2012 By Meegan 12 Comments

Good Tuesday to all of you!!

Before I forget-You can now stayed connected with me through LinkedIn!!  I just signed up-so I am hoping you will become one of my links, too!!

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?

 

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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)

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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*

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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!

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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!!

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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.

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

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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!!!

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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!!

I will be seeing you on  Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk, Google +, Stumble Upon, and now LinkedIn!!  Woo Woo!!

 

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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've Got The Monday BluesI 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.

I've Got The Monday Blues

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

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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.

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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!!

I will be seeing you on  Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk, Google +, and Stumble Upon.

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