Where Ideas for your Home Meet Inspiration for your Heart
Sharing HomeTalk and some exciting news!
We mentioned this great website at Inspiration Friday this past week, but wanted to share some more details with you!
HomeTalk.com is an amazing resource for homeowners, renters and anyone interested in making a “house a home”. At HomeTalkyou can find everything from inspiring projects shared by other members, answers to questions(and you can ask your own), professionals in your community(who are active members of HomeTalk) and keep track of ideas you find for future projects for our own home!
What we love most about HomeTalkis the sense of community. People are quick to answer questions another member might have. Everything from “do you recognize this plant?” To, “can you give me some lighting ideas for my cottage?”
It’s also a great way for BLOGGERS to share their amazing talent!HomeTalk appreciates the contribution from the blogging community and will often feature their projects on the HomeTalk Facebook page, which has over 380,000 followers!
Talk about a great way to get your talent noticed!
But, even if you aren’t a blogger you can still create an account at HomeTalk and upload your photos and a description of your project for others to see. What a great way to get affirmation and feedback on your hard work!
The HomeTalk community is very active in commenting and conversing. Take for instance Vanessa’s “If You Don’t Have a White Kitchen” post.
As you can see not only has she received tons of page views but it has also generated a very lively discussion on white kitchens!
and has not only received lots of views, but was also featured on the Facebook Page…yeah Shirley!
HomeTalk also stays connected with their community through the HomeTalk Twitter Page as well as through the HomeTalk Pinterest Boards!
In fact, we’d love you to follow the DIY that Inspires Board where you’ll find our pins of stand-out, trending projects from the HomeTalk website!
Which leads us to our exciting news!
The gals here At The Picket Fence have been invited to serve as HomeTalk Ambassadors!
This means that we will be working with HomeTalk to connect the blogging community and our readers with this amazing resource!
Here’s what we need you to do! Take just a second…right now…go…go…lol and sign up for HomeTalk.com on the website and take a moment to follow them on Facebook, and while you’re at it go ahead and follow us on the DIY that Inspires Board over at Pinterest! Be sure to sign up through a link here on the blog…and come right back…
…okay, welcome back! Now how does all of this benefit you? Besides the obvious of HomeTalk being a great place to hang out and talk “all things home” as mentioned above; it can be a great place to share your projects!
So take a moment to pick a few of your best “DIY, home improvement, and home related” content (please steer clear of crafty type projects) and share it over at HomeTalk. Make sure to follow us over at HomeTalk while you’re at it and we’ll be sure to follow you back! We’ll be keeping an eye out for our top picks and sharing them on OURFacebook Wall as well as on the DIY that Inspires Pinterest Board.
Miriam of HomeTalk has shared some great blog posts on HOW BEST to submit your projects and get them noticed:
So that’s all there is to it! An opportunity to be a part of a great community and resource that is growing everyday by leaps and bounds!
As part of the HomeTalk Ambassadors programs we will be featuring HomeTalk projects on our Facebook Page on a regular basis, pinning and tweeting amazing finds from HomeTalk and also sharing some of the best of the best from Inspiration Friday over at HomeTalk each week! We also have some other fun plans up our sleeve that we’ll be sharing with you soon!
So, are you convinced yet that HomeTalk is amazing?!
We sure hope so…and we look forward to working with you, our readers, and HomeTalk connecting amazing bloggers and homeowners with HomeTalk.com!
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I love Hometalk and have posted a few project on my page there. The one problem I’ve had in the past is that my photos won’t load since they are 12-18 megapixel and are probably too large. Hometalk is definitely a great site though!
Top four reasons I like Hometalk: (1) They have amazing inspiration (like Shirley’s porch that she just posted, too)! (2) I have an old house with old house questions. And I need answers. (3) It’a a great place to find out if I should paint my couch with chalk paint….LOL 🙂 (4) I get to hang out with you girls over there 🙂
Thanks rock stars for all the inspiration! karianne
Loved your post, Heather and Vanessa!! Pam, I hate that we’re missing out on any of your projects 🙂 Right now, photos can be up to 10 mb, and as of tomorrow that will change to 20, so you shouldn’t have any issues. 🙂 Please email me if you do.
I am so happy that you two and KariAnne are Ambassadors…When Kari emailed me and said hook up some of your rooms!…I did…and so glad that I did as I am having so much fun with it!…Just love the concept!…AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FEATURING MY SUNROOM.!!!…I am so very honored….You two are the best and it is no wonder that Hometalk chose you two to be their ambassadors! Here’s to the success of Hometalk….!!!
I just signed up and gave them a tid bit on my Faux Fireplace for someone who would love to do such a thing but afraid to build one…. thanks for the heads up because I am always looking for new and inspiring ideas!
I’ve been a regular over there for a couple of months and love it! So much fun to share ideas and post a question (how to I restore my vintage glider) and then get responses from so many different people. Kelly
Woohoo, fancy pants! I signed up and even downloaded some pictures! Can I link entire posts or just pictures? Thank you for sharing the love! Kerry at HouseTalkN
Great post, this sure explains Hometalk very well! I’m still new at it and haven’t asked any questions yet – but perhaps soon! I have this linked to my Hometalk post as well today, for anyone else wanting to know what it’s all about! Thanks, see you on Blogtalk!
How fun! I signed up to join in on the fun! : ) Have a great week ladies!
I love Hometalk and have posted a few project on my page there. The one problem I’ve had in the past is that my photos won’t load since they are 12-18 megapixel and are probably too large. Hometalk is definitely a great site though!
Top four reasons I like Hometalk:
(1) They have amazing inspiration (like Shirley’s porch that she just posted, too)!
(2) I have an old house with old house questions. And I need answers.
(3) It’a a great place to find out if I should paint my couch with chalk paint….LOL 🙂
(4) I get to hang out with you girls over there 🙂
Thanks rock stars for all the inspiration!
karianne
Great post, ladies! Fun comment, Kari!
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Thanks so much for sharing this…looks like a great site! I’m heading over to sign up!
Loved your post, Heather and Vanessa!! Pam, I hate that we’re missing out on any of your projects 🙂 Right now, photos can be up to 10 mb, and as of tomorrow that will change to 20, so you shouldn’t have any issues. 🙂 Please email me if you do.
Congrats, ladies!
I am so happy that you two and KariAnne are Ambassadors…When Kari emailed me and said hook up some of your rooms!…I did…and so glad that I did as I am having so much fun with it!…Just love the concept!…AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FEATURING MY SUNROOM.!!!…I am so very honored….You two are the best and it is no wonder that Hometalk chose you two to be their ambassadors! Here’s to the success of Hometalk….!!!
Hey ladies, How do you set up the featured images on your profile? I can’t seem to find that anywhere. Thanks so much!
Ashley
I just signed up! Exciting new forum, girls!! Thanks for sharing!
xo Heidi
I just signed up and gave them a tid bit on my Faux Fireplace
for someone who would love to do such a thing but afraid to
build one…. thanks for the heads up because I am always looking
for new and inspiring ideas!
Sandy
That’s awesome! I started posting to HomeTalk a few weeks ago. It seems like a great site!
–Katie
Woot Woot! Way to go ladies! Karianne sent me the link…what a completely fabulous place!!!
Jessica
I’ve been a regular over there for a couple of months and love it! So much fun to share ideas and post a question (how to I restore my vintage glider) and then get responses from so many different people.
Kelly
I love HomeTalk too! I just need to get back over there! Congrats on partnering with them!
Debbie
Thanks Debbie!
Heather
Awwww – only for the U.S????
Hi Suzy! Was it because you have to enter a zip code when you sign up? I will see if this prevents a non US resident to enroll for some reason.
Heather
I’m Canadian and just signed up through my Facebook page. 🙂 Great writeup this was, gals!
I’m a huge fan of Hometalk on all its mediums! Congratulations on your roles as Ambassadors ….
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Linda
Thanks for sharing this site. I signed up and now I’m going to tell all my friends. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing Laurie! It really is a great site!
Heather
Congrats ladies! I just signed up myself! Have been browsing and looks like a fun site! Thanks for the post!
Woohoo, fancy pants! I signed up and even downloaded some pictures! Can I link entire posts or just pictures? Thank you for sharing the love!
Kerry at HouseTalkN
Great post, this sure explains Hometalk very well! I’m still new at it and haven’t asked any questions yet – but perhaps soon! I have this linked to my Hometalk post as well today, for anyone else wanting to know what it’s all about! Thanks, see you on Blogtalk!