At The Picket Fence with Vanessa Hunt

Where Ideas for your Home Meet Inspiration for your Heart

Inspiration Friday Party No. 3


Wow are we already at Inspiration Friday Party Number 3 here
At The Picket Fence!
Thank you so much for being a part of this fun party every week!


Boy do you all ever inspire us!  We can hardly keep up with all of the awesome inspiration around here.

If you are a new friend to At The Picket Fence, you might be asking 


Just what is Inspiration Friday?


Well, this is one of the very few Linky Parties where you can share pretty much anything with us.
Decorating, Cooking, Crafts, Great Ideas, Poetry, Inspiring Stories, they are all welcome here. 

We hope you will be inspired just as you inspire others!

Each week we start the party off with some highlights from the week before.
In keeping with tradition, we will be mostly featuring bloggers who are fairly new to our little community here. So, if you are featured this week, or even in weeks past, please feel free to grab the new “I’ve been featured” button from our sidebar!



Hi it’s me Heather here again!  Whoo hooo…I’ve hijacked Inspiration Friday again from Vanessa…okay well actually I’m just letting her have a little break from the pressure of having to pick just four highlights from all of the AWESOME, WONDERFULNESS that you people link up!  I mean really it’s almost too much to take in! All of the creativity, the ingenuity, the beauty, the heart warming, tear invoking stories.  It makes us feel honored and humbled to be in such good company with so many talented designers, crafters, foodies and writers!

But alas, since you all come to the party to link up and probably don’t want to spend hours reading my big long post…ok don’t really answer that. grin! I will limit my highlights to a manageable amount!



So without further ado here are my inspirational highlight picks from last week!


Up first we have Heather from What It’s All About. And no I didn’t pick her because she has such an awesome name..ok well maybe a little bit. Nah, not really.  We chose her because of the incredible job she did re-purposing this garage sale headboard. 


She took a $29 headboard from this:



To this!



Talk about a headboard face lift!  Wait until you read the simple way she did the tufting on it.  It gave me hope that I could actually do something like this..since I am not quite the seamstress Vanessa is!  Head on over to visit Heather at What’s It All About and read more about her 


Now this next project caught my eye because of it’s beautiful simplicity.  I personally tend to be somewhat fru-froo French Country but I often LONG to streamline my style a little.  I have been leaning towards the soft blues, crisp whites and espresso browns I often see around blogland.  In fact I will be sharing on Monday my guest bath remodel where I did choose all of those colors.  


Now how many of you decorators out there have a million paint swatches lying around?  I know there are times my purse is full of them!  Well, Mindy at Heart Maine Home was inspired by another blogger after seeing a great use for them.  She decided to take on the challenge herself to put those paint swatches to good use!
She took them from this:


To this:


To this!


All for the cost of a $12 frame!  I just love the one little pop of orange in the artwork!  Visit Mindy at Heart Maine Home and see all of the details behind creating this artwork as well as a link to her inspiration behind the project!

Now for a wonderful little project for you Crafters out there…think we’ll ever get Vanessa to admit she can be pretty crafty?..and no not crafty like the Beastie Boys song ;)..but crafty as in cute projects involving paper, and glue and pretty embellishments.  I think we can convert her yet! This adorable project from Stacey at A Sort of Fairytale just might convince her to give crafting a try!


These are Vintage Playing Card Tags



They are just so precious and springy and sweet!



There are several steps to making these cards but they are really quite easy! Think about all of the different things you could do with them…well actually Stacey did!


Pay Stacey a visit at A Sort of Fairytale and see the step by step process of putting these together!  She also has a sweet vintage Etsy shop you might like to visit too!


And I will leave you with this wonderful story of the Lord’s tender mercies and how much he cares about every aspect of our life.

Maria at

shared a heart warming story of homesickness and hope!  Maria lives in Paris with her husband..this is where I interject and say that I am just a wee tad bit jealous of Maria living in Paris…I was meant to live somewhere in Europe. I really was.  
Maria’s family lives back here in the USA and it had been more than two years since she had been home.  It is so expensive to fly back and forth from Europe and the US as you can imagine.


Her story shares the twists and turns of trying to save to get back home and how the Lord cares about all of the details of our lives.  I cried reading about her reuniting with her sister in the airport in Dallas after having not seen each other for five years!  

(Maria’s sister)

Of course we LOVE sister stories here At The Picket Fence. 

Hop over and read the entire story at Busy as a Bee in Paris!  I bet you will be inspired be the Lord’s provision as much as we were.  Here At The Picket Fence we love stories about “creativity” and about our “Creator!”  Thanks for sharing your story with us Maria! 



Now don’t forget to grab your “Featured At” button ladies!

Before linking up we’d love it if you’d take a second to become a friend of At The Picket Fence through google friend connect, email or our RSS Feed.  We’d love to get to know you better! We also love to see tweets about Inspiration Friday, if you feel like sharing with your twitter friends!  The more the merrier when it comes to a party!

And now, let’s get this party started! Here’s how to link up!

1. Add your Permalink to your entry but not your General Blog Address. To get your Permalink, click on the title of the blog post you are wanting to submit and copy and paste the address into the URL box. You will also have to add your email address but it will not be visible to anyone else.
2. Do not try and Link up until you have actually published that particular post on your blog.
3. Please link back to the host blog, At the Picket Fence by grabbing our Inspiration Friday button code on the sidebar or creating a text link so that those who visit your blog will be able to find some wonderful Inspiration from everyone else. (mandatory)
4) Give some linky lovin’ to some of the other Inspiration Friday link ups!  It’s always nice for others to hear how they’ve inspired you!  Of course we love to hear from you too so please leave us a comment and say hi!
We can’t wait to be inspired!
Thanks so much for stopping by the Fence today!

love to you from the girls at the fence!
Heather and Vanessa




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  7. Wow what great inspiration! Can’t wait to visit and maybe get a little motivation for around here. Thanks girls for hosting, such a fun time on Fridays. 🙂
    Have a great weekend.

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  8. Thank you for hosting your party ! It’s my first time being part of it since I am a fairly new at this blogging world !

    I wish you both a wonderful weekend !

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  12. Wow, thanks for featuring me! I love that gorgeous headboard and those adorable playing cards (especially the one on the mason jar). Thanks again, ladies!

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  14. Good Morning Ladies! Thank you so much for your sweet comments! Your headboard makeover is genius! Thank you for hosting this wonderful party; there are so many inspirational posts! Warm Weekend Wishes!

    Jodie

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  15. I adore that headboard!!!!!
    I just posted #57 a “upcycled” cradle I made for my daughters birthday. Thanks for hosting, I know there is a cost now – I really love and appreciate the parties!

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  19. Thanks for all the nice comments about the headboard. You all had some great inspiration as well!!! Can’t wait to see what’s up next week.

    Heather
    whatitsallabout4u.blogspot.com

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