Even though having a smaller tree and putting it in a planter took some getting use to for everyone…I think we’ve all agreed we’re really happy with our tree this year!
Last Sunday at the Cookie Exchange I hosted for our Community Group, I gave each gal their own cheap-o ball ornament and little slip of paper.
She includes a wonderful tutorial on how to make them and the “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” foretells a few of these in our future!
We LOVE the makeover that Christie from Three Pixie Lane gave her French Hutch! Every detail is so beautiful!
These homemade cards and gift tags from The Farmhouse Porch are the perfect mix of vintage and glam…and the message it sends couldn’t be more special…A King IS Born! Amen!
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!
Now all ya PARTY PEOPLE it’s time to link on up…here’s the rules!
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Friend At The Picket Fence in some capacity
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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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Be sure to link back to your original post (MANDATORY) and not just your url (main blog address)
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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
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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!
We invite you to pay Donna at Funky Junk Interiors a visit and follow her great Linky Party Series!
The trees are lovely and the features from last week are gorgeous! Thank you so much for hosting! Have a great evening!
Your tree looks fab, and you have some great features. Thanks for hosting.
Thanks so much for featuring my wreath! I was just reading your post on Dollar Tree wreaths. I LOVE the candy cane wreath with the turquoise ribbon. Beautiful! And thanks for hosting!
Great week of parties indeed! I really enjoyed myself and happy I was able to make just about every one of them. Thanks for hosting. Great features too.
Such gorgeous trees, so pretty! Thanks for hosting! Happy Holidays! xo ~Liz
Your trees are beautiful. May you each have a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for hosting!
Sherry
What a beautiful story of the answered Prayer. So much to give thanks for. Your trees are beautiful and such lovely features from last week! How did you ever decide with all the beautiful inspirational shares. Thank for hosting your lovely party.
May you and yours have a Blessed Christmas.
~Emily
The French Hutch
The trees are gorgeous and the features are fabulous. Thanks for being gracious hostesses!
Thanks for hosting this party every week – I look forward to it!!
xoxo
Jenn @ Social Salutations
Such gorgeous Christmas trees! Wonderful photos, too! Thanks for hosting.
Loving your trees! And the framed ornaments wreath – so cute! Linking my fully blinged out Christmas house tour! Thanks.
Kelly
Love the story about the cheap-o red ball ornament with the prayer tucked inside. Very touching. Thank you for sharing that. Thanks once again for hosting.
Fabulous trees, girls! What a special red tree ornament! A great idea, and one I would love to use. Thank you so much for hosting such a super party! Merry Christmas!
What a treat to get a real tree…I’d love one just for the smell alone! Thanks for hosting and have a great weekend…Ann p.s. I hope I didn’t miss it if you chose the winner of my pillow. Did I?
What a beautiful tree! Thanks for hosting!
-Shelley
What great features, girls! Thanks for hosting this party. I always get plenty of inspiration here!
Absolutely beautiful trees!
Thank you for hosting, my two favorite sisters in blogland! 🙂
XOXO,
Anne
Hi ladies! What wonderful trees and features! Hope your Christmasing is going well.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia 😉
Both of your trees are fabulous. I love them both. I especially love your special/favorite ornament. What a wonderful ornament full of your answered prayers. I hope both of you have a Christmas filled with all of God’s Blessings. Hugs, marty
I love having the tree in a planter! What a great idea! They are both beautiful and I really love Vanessa’s ornament sentiments. Just what this season is all about. Thanks for hosting!
Gorgeous real tree. We got a real one too for the first time in years. I just hope it hangs on one more week. Great features and thanks for hosting.
I hope you all have recovered from your whirlwind holiday party! It was fun! Thanks for hosting us, ladies,
xo, Andrea
Love the fresh trees. Wish I could have them but we are an allergy house – sigh…
I also was quite taken with your prayer ornament. I love the sentiment and I love the idea of saving it for the next year, and also sharing it with friends and praying together. Beautiful.
Hi Gals, each of your trees are so lovely. Great idea for the family photos in the small frames! just getting linked up, xoxo
I am afraid my only inspiration is what I wore…On Wednesday.. 🙂 We have been getting Rain all day ( which is LOVELY ) but it has also messed up my internet service… ( were on satellite… ) So I haven’t been able to get a new post up… So I am off to see what I can get done before we loose service again… 🙂 OH I LOVE LOVE LOVE those paper tree’s… They are so very pretty… 🙂 Happy Friday Ladies
Loving how you used the oval frame for your front door!!
Thank you for the party!
I love both trees ladies, each so very unique and perfectly suited to each family!
Thanks so much for hosting and linking up to “What’s It Wednesday”.
It’s always a pleasure to have you.
Hugs,
Patti
As always the images are charming and cheery and the story of the note in the red ornament gave me my Christmas joy for the day.
Wowzadoodle- your trees look gorgeous!
Thank you for hosting!
Kerry at HouseTalkN
I love your trees! The first one is beautiful, and I absolutely adore the two “family vintage” ornies, now I totally want to do this. The second one is also beautiful, I love the pics of your kids (I have one of my son but alas…er, need to get one for my girl:). And I really love the idea of taking an ornament and putting a prayer inside. Thanks for sharing both your trees, and thanks for hostessing another great party!
Mary
Your trees are delightful. And I love the features from last week too. So many cute ideas. Thanks for hosting and have a wonderful weekend.
Lynn
Beautiful trees, love all of the sentimental ornaments. I just love going through my ornaments every year and remembering where they came from. Thanks so much for hosting and for those wonderful features!
Marianne 🙂
I love the prayer inside the ball! What a wonderful idea. ~ Maureen
Your trees are beautiful..Thanks for hosting..
Hello
Your trees are so beautiful…
All your inspirational features are wonderful also.
Thanks for the hosting!
Blessings
Rebecca
Your trees are gorgeous! and thank yu so much for featuring my vintage paper trees – it’s a real honour!
Thanks so much for hosting girls and have a great weekend, Martina
I am enthralled with the Prayer Ornament…and the three dollar wreaths…LOVE that turquoise ribbon on those candy canes…I mean LOVE, LOVE it!
And I always love Kelli!
Thanks so much for the party!
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today and for the follow. I am also your newest follower 😉 Both of your trees are beautiful!
Samara
Both trees are fantastic!! Thanks for hosting : )
Wow you guys have been busy!!! They are both sparkling and lovely.
Imust be tired. Linked up an shot and a title that don’t match. Sorry!!!!!
Merry Christmas to both you fabulous girls.
Your trees are beautiful! I’ve been on your blog a million times in the last few weeks, joining in the party, looking through the gorgeous other posts, and had missed your story of the ornament. What a lovely story, and what a lovely gesture to do that with your friends as well. I will adopt that tradition at our home as well. Thank you for sharing.
Hey girls!! Have you recouped from last weeks craziness yet!? lol!! So much fun!! All linked up- thanks for hosting!
Love your Christmas tree in a planter! Thanks for hosting 🙂
Acckkk…I’ve got the same link twice, if you’d like to delete one – I didn’t think it worked, so I tried again. #129 & #131 (different photos).
Thanks bunches for hosting such an inspirational party!
Blessings,
Angie @ Knick of Time
I love that special ornament with the prayer and then the praise. That’ one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen on a tree.
And Heather, I think real trees are beautiful. We have one. I also love the idea of a tree in a planter. My niece did that with her tree this year, and I think it looks wonderful.
Your trees are beautiful-just wanted you both to know how much I love your blog and your parties-wishing you and your families a very merry christmas and a happy and healthy new year! See you in 2012!!
Wonderful features…beautiful trees! Thanks for hosting…all linked up 🙂 Laurel@chippingwithcharm
your trees are both looking lovely
sweet
familyish
and i do love that prayer ornament idea
how creative
love the features
and thanks
as always
for hosting!
alison
soooooo many great ideas, thanks!
Vanessa, I can see why your “cheap-o” ornament is so special. That’s a wonderful idea, and I’m glad you’re continuing it with your community group. How exciting to see what answered prayers the new year will hold!
Your trees are both Beautiful! and I love the prayer bulb, I just may do that! Thanks you! I just linked up to your party
your tree and photos are just gorgeous! I was feeling a bit grinchy this year, thus my grinch tree, less lush but still meaningful and makes me smile.
Glad that your wish came true.
Well girls~ Your trees are just as beautiful as both of you are! I love each one- they new, little one and the traditional one. Great features, too! xo Diana
Both your trees look gorgeous! Having a decorative tree is nice but having the traditional christmas tree is the best as it holds sentimental memories and stories hanging with the ornaments!
I was thrilled to know you liked my little dryer sheet project! I cannot afford to but laces and fabrics yet so I use whatever I could find 🙂
I love this blog hop!
xoxo
Myric
Love the picture of the sailor hanging on the tree. vintage pictures of all kinds in black and white or sepia toned would be great on a tree.
Both of you have stunning trees. I love the big copper pot as a tree holder — beautiful! I tend to be more traditional, so I love your tree, Vanessa. I did veer bit to the trendy with mesh ribbon this year. Great party as usual. Thanks so much for hosting!
xoxo, CAS
The trees look lovely. I’ve never been one to like too tall of a tree. Ours is typically 6 feet give or take, and I LOVE the use of a planter vs. a skirt. They do this a lot in Europe and South America, sometimes on top of a table. So pretty.
Thank you for hosting.
Love that traditional tree. I’m a traditional, old-fashioned tree gal myself. Always have been, always will be.
Merry Christmas!
Lovely trees, thanks for hosting!
It’s official you ladies have reached ROCKSTAR status!!!!!!! Woo Hoo. =)
Had to comment again to let you know I absolutely love that prayer ornament. So beautiful.
Thanks for hosting your wonderful party each week! Great features and inspiration.
Merry Christmas to you and your families!
~ Julie
The trees are beautiful! And the features fabulous …so many talented bloggers out there! I really LOVE the idea of putting a prayer in the Christmas Ball! Precious! Will share this idea with friends and groups at church!
Thanks for hosting!
So happy you both shared you beautiful trees !
Your homes are so beautiful, so warm and wonderfully decorated for the holidays!
Thank you for sharing and linking to Potpourri Friday at 2805!
Hi, Vanessa & Heather
Thank you for hosting.
Vanessa