{"id":3042,"date":"2010-03-24T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:14:47","slug":"meg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/meg\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So ya&#8217;ll know I love <a href=\"http:\/\/megduerksen.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Meg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is cool in so many ways.\u00a0 Her blog is inspirational, her house I covet, her large family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She is the kind of girl you want living next door.\u00a0 Because how cool would that be?<\/p>\n<p>I got so close (miles really) of meeting her in person about a year ago, but then plans changed.<\/p>\n<p>I still regret it.<\/p>\n<p>So when she was planning her Africa trip recently and made a bunch of awesome pillows to help fund her trip, I rushed to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/cdduerksen\" target=\"_self\">etsy shop<\/a> to grab one or two.\u00a0 Of course everyone else beat me to it.<\/p>\n<p>But guess what, she had one hidden away!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4457995817\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/4457995817_5ac49de50e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> Yesterday it came in the mail.\u00a0 I was so happy!<\/p>\n<p>I never get mail like this.<\/p>\n<p>And like Meg, I am hopelessly addicted to polka dots.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4457997085\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4457997085_0a67e42f46_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was rainy and dreary here yesterday.\u00a0 Not porch sitting weather.\u00a0 But I put it on my porch swing and thought about warmer days ahead<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4458777652\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2490\/4458777652_7bd417cfde_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> And check out the flip side.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4457999823\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2735\/4457999823_9576155925_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> And the pom poms.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4458780414\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4458780414_0990b5dcc8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> I can&#8217;t figure out where to put it because I don&#8217;t want to share it.\u00a0 Is that mean?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"Pillow from Meg\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4458002669\/pillow-from-meg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2532\/4458002669_cccdf2d4d4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow from Meg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> Thank Meg- Love you XOXOXOX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So ya&#8217;ll know I love Meg. She is cool in so many ways.\u00a0 Her blog is inspirational, her house I covet, her large family&#8230; She is the kind of girl you want living next door.\u00a0 Because how cool would that be? I got so close (miles really) of meeting her in person about a year ago, but then plans changed. I still regret it. So when she was planning her Africa trip recently and made a bunch of awesome pillows to help fund her trip, I rushed to her etsy shop to grab one or two.\u00a0 Of course everyone else beat me to it. But guess what, she had one hidden away! Yesterday it came in the mail.\u00a0 I was so happy! I never get mail like this. And like Meg, I am hopelessly addicted to polka dots. It was rainy and dreary here yesterday.\u00a0 Not porch sitting weather.\u00a0 But I put it on my porch swing and thought about warmer days ahead And check out the flip side. And the pom poms. I can&#8217;t figure out where to put it because I don&#8217;t want to share it.\u00a0 Is that mean? Thank Meg- Love you XOXOXOX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,14],"tags":[537,704],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-life","category-my-style","tag-pillows","tag-whatever-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21309,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/21309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}