At The Picket Fence with Vanessa Hunt

Where Ideas for your Home Meet Inspiration for your Heart

Welcome to Inspiration Friday No. 51!

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Welcome, welcome you fabulous party-goers you! 
We don’t know about you, but we are seeing some pretty amazing things going on in blogland right now.
You motivate and inspire us every.single.day!
Before we get to highlighting some of those incredible projects, we wanted to remind you of the tutorial Heather (her sister is pretty proud of her hard work on this by the way!)  wrote about the new way to follow folks in this awesome blogging community.
It will take you through step by step instructions on how to make the most of this wonderful new tool for staying connected with other bloggers.
Click here to read more about Linky Followers.

AND, be sure to come back by on Saturday when we will have an entire post dedicated to featuring all of the fabulous Valentine’s Day Crafts, Projects and Recipes which have been shared at our previous Inspiration Friday parties!




Now, let’s get this party going!
Here are the features from last week.


Jan of Our Adventures in Southern Junkin’ shared with us her incredible “Lightening Bugs in a Jar” fixture which we seriously covet. Yep, don’t be surprised Jan if this goes missing from your porch. 
Just look for the 2 crazy sisters fighting over who gets to keep it!



Janel, of Hating Martha…Imperfection at its best, shared how she transformed her Ikea table into an awesome and unique piece. The mix of industrial with farmhouse is absolutely fantastic!

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If you know us at all, you know we love a good party around here! When we saw the Publisher Clearing House Party hosted by Anna from Ask Anna Moseley, we both decided we wanted to be her “in real life” friends so we could attend all of the amazing parties she throws (and because she is pretty awesome too)! Seriously how hysterical and clever is this?!

Guests were asked to dress up like they imagined they’d look if someone showed up at the door with their winning check! This is Anna’s pastor and his wife…check out the babies “hanging” on her legs…what a riot!



Rusty and Redone created this one of a kind Topiary. We just love how much charm and character it has and that she went way out of the box in creating it!

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We “warmed” right up this this yummy looking White Hot Chocolate shared with us by Hollie of The Seven Year Cottage! A perfect drink for a cold winter evening!

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So how many of you have already admired this fabulous Faux Capiz Chandelier, from Kelli at A Happy Place Called Home, that’s a West Elm Knock Off?  Yep she’s pretty amazing! Kelli possess such talent and tenacity and generously shares her step by step tutorial with, so you can make one for yourself.


Jamie from The Creative Imperative’s creativity shined through when she shared her Slipcovered Ruffle Purse Makeover.  People, she slipcovered a purse!! How ingenious is that!? It turned out so adorable…we are wondering what Jamie plans on slipcovering next?!

and last we wanted to remind you about this fabulous opportunity to be a blessing to children who otherwise have not been shown much love in their lives. Susan from My Place To Yours brought to our attention a project full of love and hope and shares an easy way for YOU to show love to others during the Valentine’s season.  Please take a moment to read our post or  visit Hope Unlimited  and if you decide to participate in this project we’d love you to grab the button below designed by Vicki of Curly Willow Collections.

 
The talented Vicki has made it even easier for you to join us by creating a FREE downloadable card that you can print off and personalize.  Thank you Vicki!

And 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:

 
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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!


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This Inspiration Friday Party is Sponsored By:

Ambivalent Relics 
  where you can find vintage repurposed and steampunk jewelry!

 

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  4. Finally on time! I just sent my husband on errands by himself to make it to your party! He is so happy! The babies on the pastors wife’s leg cracked me up! Can’t wait to check it out! Thank you for hosting! Love, Me

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  7. Hi Vanessa and Heather! Hope y’all are doing well. I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things around here–I managed to make a new pillow, so I’m sharing that. Now if I could just manage to get my kitchen cleaned up. Hmmm. That’s not nearly so much fun! 🙂

    Thank you so much for hosting. I appreciate y’all.

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  8. Great features! I need to check out the topiary and the Heather Brown party must have been a hoot! Thank you for hosting, ladies and thank you for linking to Potpourri Friday!

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  21. LOL … what a fabulous (and hysterical) party idea! Love the other features, too. And, thanks, sweet friends, for hosting such a great par-tay! I’m off to be inpsired. xoxo

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  35. Girls- Thank you for hosting. I’m always amazed at all the good stuff here. And I’m enjoying following you on facebook too! Little Bit from DecorateWithaLittleBit.com

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  46. Hey there girls!! Fantastic features this week~ I’m all linked up!! Thanks for hosting!

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  51. Thanks for hosting.

    I am sorry to be such an incompetent, but I am not sure who else to ask. I took your advice and signed up for linky follower to follow your blog last week, and it seemed to take, bc it showed our blog (RE-inventedstyle) as following your blog on linky follower on your site. But, I never got an email regarding our account from linky follower to allow me to add the widget to my blog. I left a comment asking for help on linky follower for Brent bc he indicates that is the best way to get a hold of him for problems, but got no reply. I tried to register again, but it won’t let me use the same email acct bc it says I am registered. I asked it to send me the password and got no email. I have checked my spam folder and nothing is there from linky follower. I sent a second comment/request for help to Brent and still haven’t gotten a reply. I am so lost why I am having such a problem using this service. I have an aol acct that I share with my sister for all our blog stuff. I don’t really want to start a new email acct just to register to use this one service, but I cannot figure out the problem on my own. Do you have a suggestion what I should do? Any help would be appreciated. I would love to participate in all the blog hops to use the new service, but I can’t until I fix this problem.

    Eldarose from https://RE-inventedstyle.blogspot.com

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  57. Hi Ladies … Such an inspiring party this week! That West Elm knock-off chandy by Kelli might have to be my next project in my dining room. In the meantime I’m sharing a restyling from my dining room this week and don’t you agree that Kelli’s chandy would look great with my bachelors chest? Thanks so much for hosting. Make this a lovely weekend all.

    Robin
    happilyhomeafter.blogspot.com

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