Welcome to Inspiration Friday No. 45!

Merry Christmas friends!
We're kicking this party off earlier this week so that we can leave plenty of time for you to join in!
*Be sure to make note of our plans for next week at the end of the post*

Anyone else still having a hard time believing that Christmas is on Sunday?
Wasn’t it just Summer? 

With a New Year rapidly approaching, we want you all to know how blessed we feel to have been apart of your lives in the last year and how much we look forward to what 2012 has in store for all of us.
You are the best!

This month has been chock FULL of amazing ideas and inspirations and we have never been more in awe of the creative talent there is here in Blogland!

Speaking of talent, we wanted to say thank you again to the very talented Hani, from the blog Haniela's, for her gorgeous custom Picket Fence Cookies she created for us and the incredible tutorial as well.
We are truly in awe of you Hani!
You will want to pay her a visit to see more of her amazing creations.

Now, how about we throw a little Christmas Spirit your way in the form of EXTRA Features?
It was just too hard to narrow it down this week…so we didn’t!

Kristen of Sophia’s shared her absolutely stunning DIY Wrapping Paper!

Yup...that's right.  All of this gorgeousness is handmade by this talented gal and we just hope it didn't get a little wet from us drooling all over it!

Next up, not only is this the most darling Grinch Tree from Garden Therapy (even a Grinch can be darling right?), the story behind how it came into existence is even more meaningful.

We had several amazing links from Grown from Scratch and her beautiful mantel is just one example of the talent and creativity she shared with us. You must pay her a visit to see the rest!

Britt from Interestosity shared this great idea for Teacher and Neighbor gifts.

 Nutella Hot Chocolate! We are some serious Nutella lovers around here so this is definitely on our list!

And how about this for another idea for a Teacher Gift?
This one comes to us from Michelle Paige and we think it is super fun!

 We loved this take on the traditional "stocking" from the Precious Sister Blog. And we promise we aren't just featuring them because we happen to love the idea of sisters blogging together!

 

 

 We pretty much don't have words (which is a first for us!) for what we found over at A Re-Purposed Life.
You will just have to go over and check it out for yourself to understand because the beauty you will see will make your jaw drop open!

 

 

 Christy from 11 Magnolia Lane revealed her incredible kitchen transformation!
Love those lights!

 

 
Looking to try a new recipe this year?
How about these Raspberry Asparagus Endive Boats from Yummy Mummy!
Aren't they just beautiful?

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to all of our features this week as well as to all of you who share your amazing ideas, projects and inspiration with us each and every week! If you were featured today (or have been featured in the past) please grab the featured at button code located in on our Buttons Page found under our header!

Are you following At The Picket Fence on Facebook? Don't forget we feature many of your links during the week on our Facebook Page! If you've been featured there, grab a button as well! Thank you to everyone who shared so many fabulous posts with us last week! We appreciate you!

Now it's time to share with us what has inspired you this week!

Thank you so much for joining us for Inspiration Friday at the Fence,

When you are done linking up head over and party with the other Friday Party Friends:


Due to the holidays some blogs may not be hosting a party, but I'm sure they'd love you to stop by anyway! 

Now all ya PARTY PEOPLE it's time to link on up...here's the rules!

• Friend At The Picket Fence in some capacity
• Link Up any post you've written that has Inspired You and will Inspire Others-it can be a home improvement project, craft, recipe, story, devotional...if it inspires link it up!
• Be sure to link back to your original post (MANDATORY) and not just your url (main blog address)
• Please post our button (code on our Buttons Page found at top of blog) or a text link on your blog so others can join in the fun! Tutorial on how to link up a button: Blogging 101
• Visit another guest. Please try and visit at least the link directly above and below you! We try to visit as many posts as we can but as Inspiration Friday grows sometimes we miss some and for that we apologize. It makes us feed good knowing others are visiting people as well! Thank you..it truly means a lot to us!

Are you new to linky parties and kinda confused how they work? Have you wondered if you’re following “linky party etiquette”? We invite you to pay Donna at Funky Junk Interiors a visit and follow her great Linky Party Series!

We also want to take a moment to let you know that INSPIRATION FRIDAY will NOT be held next week.  We will be celebrating the Holidays all together as a family, so we thought our parents and husbands might like us to take a break! ;) But we will be back in full swing the first Friday of January with features from this week's Inspiration Friday!  May you all enjoy a wonderful HOLY-day with your families! 
We love you!!