Don’t you all want to read all about what I think my best posts were for 2009? Sometimes I feel like all I do is talk about me and my big self and my big fat opinions and {insert Charlie Brown’s teacher’s sounds} my big imperfect lived in, house. I’m like Nellie Olsen as a grown up with a house and a blog. Thanks for sticking around in 2009.
Put a Frame on it {sung to Beyonce’s Single Ladies }
Embrace the Imperfections {at (in)courage
Price My Space party where we all linked up and told how much we spent on our rooms because we are all crazy and best friends and it was really fun!
The Scientifically proven, UL approved way to hang a chandelier: How to Hang a Chandelier
Fabric file to Go {do you have one yet?!}
Is Your Rental In Foreclosure? We had to move because the owners of our rental didn’t pay their mortgage. I never found out why and I cried when I knew we had to move. Guess what, we ended up in a MUCH nicer home for just a tiny bit more per month.
My Top 10 Biggest Decorating Mistakes.
10 Ways to Avoid Having a Home You’ll Love
Ok, this is totally off the cuff, as I’m sitting here writing all about me and my big blog and my big self and my big favorite posts, I started wondering what your favorite posts are from your own blog in 2009. So, I’m adding a MckLinky. What was your favorite post of 2009 on YOUR BLOG? It doesn’t have to be housey {even though housey stuff is my favorite to stuff to read about online} maybe it’s a post where you were particularly funny or something hard that you went through. Link to whatever you want. As long as it’s not an ad. Or p@rn or a mean post about the Nester and Nellie Olsen. Happy 2010~I love you all dearly!
What Was Your Favorite Post {That YOU Wrote} in 2009?
OH MY GOSH and this too! any others?
and since it’s my blog and I can wreck it up however I see fit:
and now I will lose my DaySpring sponsorship and offend half of the readers
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What a fun way to end the new year! Is it a good or bad thing that I remember every single one of those posts???
I linked to my new office, maybe not necessarily my “best post” but my favorite project of 2009!!! I LOVE my new office space, although I still have work to do in it!
Thanks Nester for all of your wisdom and inspiration!!
~TidyMom
I love it. I just want to crawl up inside your blog and live and take naps all day.
Please tell me you’ve seen this video by now? http://www.adventuresinbabywearing.com/2009/12/sakura-bloom-triathlon-round-three_5059.html : )
Steph
Hate me. Added it!
Have you seen this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUJLWQ3Ge0
Nester, what a fun idea! I linked up one of my incourage posts. It wasn’t necessarily my favorite at the time, but it BY FAR got the most amazing response from readers. So I thought I’d share it here.
Thanks for ALL your great posts, and Happy New Year!
Ummm… I cheated and added a non-decorating post, too. I just couldn’t decide. Hate me.
Love the frames in the stair way. I’m on a frame-hunting mission at every garage, thrifty or estate sale I go to. I need to decide on a color though. LOVE the perfect blue you chose :)
I linked up my favorite post of 09…which is actually not funny, about decorating, or about my precocious toddler pooping on the floor again. It was rehashing the week long hospitalization of my newborn daughter and the CRAZYness that went on the month preceeding it and giving it all to the Lord. Many tears went into the writing of that post :)
This was tough…I’m not sure I linked my FAVORITE post of 2009, but it’s up there! :)
Of course, I love ALL of your posts! Happy New Year!
What a fun McLinky! I love reflecting on the past year :).
Just think, this could be (in theory) a “best post of the decade” party… but we haven’t really had blogs around that long!
The laundry rant is by far my favorite (non-food) post of 2009. I loved your idea of a Christmas Swap. We had so much fun at your Swap Meet, I wouldn’t mind hosting a Christmas Swap next November. I miss you too. I was thinking of a field trip to Latta Plantation if you would like to join us (sometime in January). I’ll call you or email me if you think you’d like to join us.
I hope you enjoyed your Christmas and have a happy and healthy new year. God Bless,
Kristi
i guess there is a reason why your nick name if the queen nester!!! your brillant ideas. how fun to participate in a favorite post. for reflection & also to visit everyone else favorite.
thanks for all the advice, comforting, ideas, laughs, and inspirational posts. can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2010.
hope it’s okay i post an outdoor party for the link party. it really was my favorite for the entire year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
What a fun idea. I enjoyed looking back over the year. Can’t wait to see all the faves. Have a joyful New Year, Pam
What a great idea! I will add a link when I figure out the best of the art house…..
Keep up the great work- can’t wait to see what you do next :)
What a fun trip down memory lane. :) I couldn’t find a favorite, so I just found one that was funny. :) Thanks so much for allowing US to link up on YOUR space. :)
there are plenty of nellie olsen’s around and i’m sure you’re not one of them.
happy new year!
amy
Great idea for the end of the year! And I love me some Nellie Olsen. Sometimes I wish I had a bit of her in me!
AHHHHH – HA, HA, HA!!!!!!!!!! Love ‘em ALL! ;)
Thanks for the fun linky!
OH MY GOSH! LOVE THE “ALL THE SINGLE BABIES!”
I called my whole family in to see this! :o)
Thanks for the fun and for a great year of blogging.
I started blogging because of your encouragement and wanted to say thanks for the nudge!
Happy New Year!
Trish
I just started blogging so I don’t know how to the the Linky thing. I have to learn so I can link up and play with everyone else. Have a great New Year!
Thx for making me think about this! I love what you posted!!! Every time I see your delicious teal color I get tickled!
Robin
All Things Heart and Home
i chose a house-related favorite post since this is the appropriate blog for that kind of thing. i wanted to do the pictures for so long after i saw edie’s and i collected things and waited and waited and finally did it and now i love it. i love looking at those walls with my favorite pictures and favorite paintings and favorite scripture. it makes me happy.
I love everything you post.
And I love your house. It’s beautiful.
Makes me dream of one day when we’ll have a house with character, and not an old military housing apartment! One day… one day.
I linked to a post about parenting and my relationship with God. It’s kind of been the jist of our year.
I cannot believe this year is almost over! Ready to see what 2010 holds for us!
I just totally my furniture in the living area of our house. I split the couches up and put one in what use to be the dining area and moved the kitchen table to the middle of the living area… it is totally wierd and unconventional but I was TIRED of the way it was and wanted to mix it up. Thanks NESTER for helping not be afraid to mix things around.
Wonderful post – As a new blogger I enjoyed going back, reading and catching up! Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head…the frame version at that! Thanks for the post – Happy New Year!
Will post my favorite post in a minute.
Is that guy in the last video wearing Depends?!?!? Seriously………..is he??!?!
LOL!!
I have an old door from my MIL’s 100 year old house that I was considering hanging sideways above my couch. How did you hang yours securely? I recently hung an old (heavy) widow up with those supportive nails and it still fell after a few weeks…I don’t think there were any studs behind it. oh well…
Would you mind emailing me how you did it? Thanks!
angiehowardmusic@gmail.com
I linked to *one* of my favorite posts from last year :-) It’s all about decorating for my family and what makes them feel comfortable, even if it makes no sense to me :-)
Thanks for the opportunity to share and pray your family has a very Blessed New Year!
BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! I just got down to the last vid! You are so bad!
I loved your Chandalier post, hahaaaa!
And wow, look at those videos ;)
I linked to one of my favorite posts, but really, I had so many!
Since I don’t have a blog (although I’ve been encouraged to start one), I don’t have a favorite post that I wrote. But I think if I did, I would try to make non-bloggers feel more included. I’ve spent a year reading hundreds and hundreds of great blogs. One thing I’ve noticed is that it seems that most bloggers cater to other bloggers and maybe sometimes forget that they may have readers who aren’t involved in blogging. Crazy, I know. I suppose I never realized just how many people are blogging these days.
I love your blog and love your style and almost every post of yours could be considered a favorite of mine. You have a wonderful spirit and that’s what keeps me coming back to read you and become inspired, blogger or not. Thanks for sharing your life with us. I look forward to more in the New Year.
en Agape,
Victoria in Texas
Victoria, that’s a great point~any idea on how to include non bloggers? For the tour I told people to link to their flickr acct. And of course for giveaways, they are open to anyone. But you are right, I dare say that the majority of readers don’t have blogs.
But yes, for the year in review, since I was talking about my favorite posts, it only made sense to include bloggers. You could write a letter and I could take a photo and post it? I am funny, no?
Thank you for all your fabulous advice this year! Just yesterday, I found myself muttering ‘It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful’ as I tried to turn a square shower curtain into a round tablecloth.
I also really loved the post you did on painting pine furniture.
Happy New Year!
I’m having computer issues here. Let’s try this again…
Now I have the Beyonce song in my head!
Hey, there is some yardage of your sofa fabric on the remnant tables at Tony’s. And all remnants are 50% off right now. Just in case you wanted to have some extra on hand. Happy New Year!
I just love love love those blue frames going up your stairs! It is so simple but you can make it look so very good!
Happy New Year, Miss Nester!
sandy toe
Oh that Nellie drove me nuts~ Thanks for another fun post!
Happy NY!
Marie @ Lemondrop ViNtAge
Thanks for the chance to brag on ourselves. Looking forward to reading these!
You are so NOT Nellie Olsen!!! Please!!! You are sweet, self-deprecating, gracious and fun!!! I think I liked your painting-the-armoir-with-the-tv-still-in-it post the best! It is hard to choose since I love all your posts, though. Happy new year! Blessings!!!
K, this is fun. I actually posted today’s post, ’cause I’m flippin’ proud that I sat down and got it all out finally.
I think I want to be Beyonce’ when I grow up. Or, since I make slings, one of the girls in that youtube. Or maybe you? Not sure which. Maybe a dancer that looks like Beyonce’ with a baby in a nest around my neck?
Love your blog….it makes me happy when I come here to visit. Helps me keep dried boogers on the slipcover in perspective. This I need.
“Love your blog….it makes me happy when I come here to visit. Helps me keep dried boogers on the slipcover in perspective. This I need.”
Pretty much one of the best compliments evah.
Oh Cindy I just realized who you were with what post~I added it to tumblr last night! SUCH a good post that takes us from a photo we like in a magazine to how and if to implement it into our own home!
WELL DONE!
Thanks muchly…..I aim to please. Or at least aim.
HILARIOUS!!!
Seriously have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. I love how the guy even shakes his leg like the baby. So funny!
Oh, gosh, ALL your posts are my favorites! Looking forward to many more in 2010. I don’t have a blog either, but always fee wecome here and love a the connections to other boggers. Wish I could quit my job and stay home and read blogs all day! (oh that would make me pitiful, wouldn’t it?! LOL) Happy new year,
Oh Jean, I know, I want to read blogs all day too! Wait, I DO!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I love all your posts Nester, but the ones you shared here ARE some good ones! Thanks for hosting the linky party. Happy New Year!
Hi! I recently started reading your blog, and I love it! I especially liked the post about moving the armoire and the decorating dilemmas that followed, and the Christmas home tours were great. I signed up for the newsletter and thought I was downloading the ebook, but I don’t seem to have the download. I also can’t seem to email you Please help!
Thanks,
Kelly
Nester, I’m slow. . . but I finally got around to reading this post and added a link. I think I’m Number 195 or something like that.
It was hard for me to choose what to include, but I finally decided upon the post I wrote about my birthmark. I’m not sure it was the best thing I wrote this year, but it was the hardest–and the most freeing.
One of the highlights of my year has most certainly been getting to meet you! I just wrote a 2009 review post–I should have listed coming to your house as the big event of August for me! I guess taking my son to college was bigger. . . but coming to your house was a lot more fun! :)
Hope you have a rockin’ New Year’s Eve and I pray God’s richest blessings on you for 2010. Love you!
Another fabulous craft in 2009 was your monogram wreath!! Just wanted to stop by and tell you it made the top ten on Ucreate!!
Thank you for all of your amazing creativity and inspiration. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2010!
Could you email me your address info I would love to send you a prize!
Thanks!!
I have been blog stalking here for nearly 2 years. I actually posted a link for the first time. I feel so unworthy! You are a hoot! Love your ideas!
What a fun idea! It caused me great consternation, though, pawing through my hundreds of posts and trying to pick a favorite. Almost like I was worried the other posts would get their feelings hurt! I finally just picked one and will hope the rest don’t find out. Ha. Happy New Year, Nester! :-)
Well, you just keep right own talking about your “big blog and big self” ;-) because we are enjoying every minute of it. :-) I know what you mean…sometimes I think…do people reaalllly want to come read this stuff I write. Really? Why? LOL But for some reason, they keep stopping by and I love ‘em for it. Thanks for a fabulous year! You won my heart when you faced the rental foreclosure nightmare with such grace. 2010, Look out, here we come! Whoo, Hooo! :-)
Susan
I am going to catch up on some of the posts I’ve missed!
This is a great idea and a fun way to spend New Year’s Eve–with friends!
LOL!!!!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha
bahahahaha
This may be my first, delurking comment?
But this wallflower just really needed to whisper:
You are all that’s good of Ma and Pa and Laura and don’t have an ounce of Nellie in you, sweet Nester!
You do grand Nellie-stye things — with all Laura-heart.
And so you are loved!
Inspired by you, again and again…
All’s grace,
Ann
I love all your posts, Nester. I couldn’t pick just a few. The 31 days to a better dressed nest series was fantabulous! Maybe in 2010 you can tell us ladies with open floor plans how to chose fabric for mistreatments and paint for the walls? My hubby and I are looking at a new house with a kitchen that opens into a living room and I’m lost!
Can’t wait to see what you have for us in the new year!
Oh and where to hang curtain rods when you have decorative trim around your windows! :)
Nellie Olson – that made me laugh. I am quite sure you are not anything like her. And that last video – oh my goodness, that is just too much!
Happy 2010!
I’ve been lurking on your blog all year long, but the Nellie Olson has got me out of lurk mode. Now I love you even more : )
Happy New Year! Wanted to drop by & say thank you for all the wonderful decorating ideas this past year & wish you a very blessed 2010! I love your blog! Your Christmas decorations were beautiful! Your blog has been such an inspiration! That last “baby” dancing video was too funny! Patti
I am pretty new to blogging and have been “hanging out” on your site for a while. I always find inspiration and can’t wait for more. Today I even made a monogram wreath that you inspired me with. Thanks again and can’t wait for more new things in 2010.
http://itsahodgepodgelife.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-back-to-normal.html#links
New to your blog – I’m not sure what my fave post for my own blog would be – maybe next year – enjoying your blog and planning to continue visiting now that I’ve found you! Still looking through a lot of your older posts and finding a lot of gems!
The “rental in foreclosure” caught my eye – we thought for sure this was happening to us recently, but thankfully it turned out the owner was having problems w/the mortgage company that bought his mortgage and changed some things up – he got things worked out and all is well. I was worried someone was going to show up on the doorstep any day and tell us we had 10 days to get our or some such – ugh! With 5 small children, I was pretty concerned! As it turns out, we were remotivated in our home buying search and are now under contract on a new home that will be built and ready, Lord willing, in April! Yay! I’m glad things worked out for you too!! Happy New Year!
Just stumbled on your blog from another blog. Love your post, pics and ideas. I have a house in progress. Hope to gain lots of inspiration from you.