A few Inspiration Friday’s back, Vanessa shared with you that we would be occasionally “copy catting” some of the projects, recipes and ideas you very clever and creative people share with us each week!
While, we most likely will not be copying some of your major undertakings you will find some of the fun smaller projects showing up at Inspiration Friday. For example this fabulous idea from Kathy at All About Vignettes!
Kathy took the popular and beautiful idea of recovering books with plain white paper to a whole other level
We thought this was such a fun idea, that Heather decided to take on this copy cat challenge. She had an ugly surround sound speaker that Bama Boy insisted need to live in the corner of her beautiful secretary. Kathy’s idea seemed like the perfect solution for hiding the speaker!
See! No speaker! grin.
I found this beautiful nest graphic at The Graphics Fairy. It was so easy to search for the graphic I was looking for and then to download and modify it for my project.
You can read Kathy’s fabulous detailed tutorial at All About Vignettes as well as see some of the additional ideas Kathy came up with for her books.
Watch for more upcoming Copy Cat Projects at Inspiration Friday, cause you never know if we’ll be copying you next!
One of the things we love most about Inspiration Friday is that it is a place where anything “Inspiring” is welcomed! A perfect representation of this would be the sweet post our dear blog friend Alison of Stuff and Nonsense shared with us entitled Mr. Duff and His House.
She and her family had the privilege of meeting the charming gentleman who used to live in her home, and he shared with her some treasured photos of how it looked in it’s original state.
Pop over and pay Alison a visit to here the rest of the story and while you are there, why not link up to her Friday’s Unfolded party?! We know we will!
We just adore Ashley from A Forty Year-Old Ranch and we also adore the makeover she gave this $20 Goodwill Patio set! Isn’t the color fantastic? Paired with a beautiful new rug (found on clearance of course!) she has added so much charm and character to her new porch. You must go pay her a visit and see the rest of this beautiful transformation!
Liz from Once Upon a Tomato shared with us this unique and beautiful Beet Hummus recipe. We absolutely love the creativity we see every week and this sounds like such a fun take on a classic!
Andrea from Andrea Steed.com (who is one of our fabulous sponsors here At The Picket Fence) wrote a wonderful and informative post on photographing large groups.
She shares great tips and trick to get the best photograph in the shortest amount of time (and if you have ever tried to photograph young children you know how important that is!),
including how to get fun and unusual shots! This is a perfect post for the summer with all of the family reunions and vacations taking place! We recommend you visit Andrea and read this informative post on Posing Large Groups, you’ll be taking great group shots in no time!
We are always so thrilled to meet new folks here at the Fence and Jean from Flower Hill Design Company shared with us last week how she took a garage sale find and cleverly made it over.
We’ll let you hear all of the details, but this is how it looked…
Before
After
Head over to Flower Hill Design Company to read more about her fabulous transformation on her
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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
The lovely Courtney at French Country Cottage
Our beautiful friend Alison from Stuff and Nonsense
And the gracious Debra from Common Ground
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!
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Visit another guest. Please try and visit at least the link directly above and below you! We try to visit everyone’s posts 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!
We would love to recommend this fabulous post over at Crafter Minds for a quick tutorial on partying at a linky party! We couldn’t say it better ourselves! “Linky Party Like a Dinner Party?”
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Hey Ladies! Thanks for hosting. Those book covers are amazing. Such a neat idea. You have some great picks from last week. Can’t wait to check out this weeks links. Have a great weekend! ~ Catie @ Catie’s Corner : )
Nice feature and I do like your copycat! Thanks for hosting!
Love the copy cat… especially the graphic… the candle color is so summery. Beautiful features this week … I loved the Ballard inspired table, looks amazing and the book covers are truly gorgeous… such an inspiring idea and brings so much focus on a vignette. Thanks for hosting! Have a wonderful week!~Poppy
http://withadashofcolor.blogspot.com/
Sistas!
Hope you both are well today!
I love love love the book spine vignettes! (And you know I like birdy things, too!)
YUM!
I need to do this for the books on my office shelf…trying to think of something wider, though, LOL! Maybe Rainbow Row in Charleston in black and white?
Y’all got me thinkin’.
Gonna go say hi to Kathy and get some more ideas.
I adore all the ladies you featured today!
I love parties!
🙂
HUGS!!
~me
All of your features this week are so fun and I love the bookcovers that you created with the nest. Now that is so cute and so clever. Looks fabulous. Thanks for hosting such a fun party. Hugs, Marty
Oh wow, I HAVE to try this book cover idea, how cool!!! Just linked up, xoxo Debra
Great features, girls. Thanks for hosting the party!
Love your vignette and all the other features too! Thanks for hosting!
Debbie
Thanks for hosting! I love your features and copycat projects, so cute! XOXO ~Liz
Those are some fabulous features! And I love the speaker cover up! Speakers are NEVER pretty-functional but NOT pretty! And I LOVE the covers that All About Vignettes did! WOW! xo Diana
Wonderful showcases, ladies..and thanks a million for hosting.
I love Heather’s copy cat! Looks like fun! Great features, too! Thanks for hosting!
Thank you so much for hosting the party. I am so sorry that I posted my link twice.
LOVE, LOVE the books idea! I love Heather’s copy cat project of them, too. The image is great!
Thanks so much for having me today. I can’t wait to see what lovely things people have been blogging about this week!
Best wishes,
Natasha @ 5 Minutes Just for Me
Thanks for hosting girls and have a great weekend!! Martina
Great features ladies! Thanx for having us over!:)
I love all of your picks this week. I really like what Alison done with the table and chairs for her porch. I love the blue.
I love all these fabulous ideas! I need to go to the thrift store more often to find myself some patio furniture!
Have a great weekend Heather and Vanessa!
Thanks for hosting ladies!! Hope you both have a great weekend!
You always know what to say to make a girl feel better about her blog-self-consciousness! And I totally agree about not forcing more posts then you want to write. Glad to know I’m not alone out there!
Thanks again for being awesome! And glad I was able to participate in the party today! Love you guys!
Emily
Hi Girls~ Love all your features this week and the copy cat idea is fantastic! All linked up to this weeks party- thanks for hosting! 🙂
Ooops… sorry- the linky wasn’t working so I tried it a couple of times and it linked me up twice! I apologize! I would delete it but it’s not letting me. Go ahead and take the extra one off if you like!
Oh my goodness, those books look gorgeous. Okay, weekend project!!
As always, thank you for sharing and hosting, ladies.
Much love!!
Howdy ladies! Totally diggin’ the covered books with the graphic art. I love the turquoise of the eggs and the candle. Beautiful! Thank you so much for hosting this week. Let’s party! =)
Thanks for hosting! Somehow, I goofed and did my entry 2x, sorry?! Looking forward to checking out many of the projects 🙂
Would love for you all to stop by and enter my Home Goods Gift Card giveaway!
Thanks for hosting! Somehow, I goofed and did my entry 2x, sorry?! Looking forward to checking out many of the projects 🙂
Would love for you all to stop by and enter my Home Goods Gift Card giveaway!
you two are such sweeties…i feel like the most popular girl in school today between you and debbie…thanks for featuring mr. duff…isn’t he darling? and by the way…i am totally doing a ‘back’ shot now when we do our family photos…love that!
alison
Thanks so much for hosting and for inviting me over from fivedaysfiveways… I linked up my DIY tufted Ottoman that I made from a craigslist coffee table (#116). Hope you get the chance to check it out!
I’m totally going to try your Pesto Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes recipes! Sounds delish!
Have a great weekend!
~Abbie
I’m very late but I made it…thanks so much for hosting. Have a great weekend!
The book covers are fabulous!!
What a fantastic way to smarten up books! Thanks for hosting, have a great weekend.
Dear Vanessa and Heather–THANK YOU for hosting this wonderful party! I linked up a little project that I wrote about earlier this week. Then I finished writing about another little project, so I linked that, too! I hope that’s okay. And I hope you both have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Heather and Vanessa! Earlier this week I wrote about a little project, and I linked that up yesterday afternoon. Then today I wrote about another little project, so I linked up that one, too. I hope that’s okay! And I hope you both have a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful party!
Thanks for hosting!
Fabulous features, ladies !! I love the bird’s nest book spines. I need to pay the Graphics Fairy a visit and start some fun projects !! I hope you both have a fabulous weekend … thanks for hosting !! xoxo
What a clever idea with the graphics nest. I love the look. So many great ideas, thanks for sharing.
Also, thanks for hosting.
~Emily
The French Hutch
Thanks again for hosting!
Wonderful features this week!
Heather, I’m totally inspired by your speaker cover up. It’s just perfect.
Great features this week! Thanks for hosting, I’m a day late of course:)
Rondell
Not sure if this will work as my last comment did not go – and had “error”- just to say “Thank you” to heatheer for your super kind comments about the passing of Gibson… thank you and bless you .
XOXO
Bea
So much awesomeness and look at all the link ups. You guys are rockstars!!!
Thank you so much for the feature! Such amazing projects to be featured with. We have been adding a privacy fence in the backyard so I have been out of blogland for the past few days. I love what Heather did to hide the speaker. Looks great!