Pinterest PinFest Linky Party ~ December

Pinterest is not only a place to keep my favorite sites organized, it’s an awesome place for inspiration for delicious recipes, fun crafts, home improvement projects, storage and organization ideas, home decor, DIY, pretty clothes, gorgeous hairstyles and Christmas eye candy!  Here’s my Pinterest dream this month (please click the links for the original source found via Pinterest):

Today I woke up to the aroma of this sweet holiday breakfast…

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Make-Ahead Blueberry French Toast Breakfast

And after looking outside to see this:

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I sat around in my warm fuzzies all day long…

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Mesmerized by this glowing site…

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Watching Christmas movies…

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Sometimes listening to Christmas music…

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Sipping warm holiday cheer…

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Smelling these in the oven…

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Occasionally, with my design loving streak, I tweak this and decide it looks good just the way it is…

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And I’m especially thankful for the entire reason for my Christmas spirit…

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Wishing you a very Merry Holiday Season!

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Do you have visions of Pinterest dreams dancing in your head?

Follow and peek at my Pinboards here.

Link up your Pinterest related blog post:
1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinterest Pinfest post, etc.). Click add picture from the web.
4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
5.  Let me know if you need help.  🙂
6. Party stays open for one week.
7. Pinterest PinFest is not sponsored by Pinterest. I doubt they’re even aware that we Pinterest party at the DIY Show Off.  



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November Pinterest PinFest

It’s that time of the month! No – not THAT time of the month. It’s the 2nd Tuesday and time for the Pinterest PinFest.always remember to be extra thankful but November makes us thank God and count our blessings more than usual.  Here’s what I currently find thankful related and Pinteresting {all images found via pinterest. please click the picture redirection to the original source}.  I’m thankful for (and a few details about me):

~*~LOVE~*~
I’m so thankful that God is good and loves me.  This verse makes me feel so good:
I’m so grateful that I’m married to my loving, supportive and funny husband and that he loves me back just as much. I waited a long time for him and we’ve been married a little over 6 years.
Print mounted on Tin "Home is wherever I am with you"
~*~LIFE~*~
I believe this…
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~*~FAMILY~*~
I’m thankful that my family is close, that we get together often. 
My sister and my daughters are my best girlfriends. 
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I’m so thankful God chose the best parents for me. I wish I knew more about my family tree.
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~*~HEALTH~*~
I’m so thankful and blessed with good health, although I should take better care of myself. 
Adding that to my Sally List.
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~*~MY HOME~*~ and those who serve to protect it.
I’m thankful I was born in and live in the USA {Mr. DIY is a former Marine}.
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I’m blessed to have a roof over my head: my life-sized doll house.
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~*~WORK~*~
I’m thankful I have a job (medical administrative assistant) 
but I consider this blog to be my current full time fun job {a goal} and I love it. 
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& YOU!!!
I value my friendships whether we’ve met face-to-face or not.
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I love supportive blog buddies and every comment. When I’m not busy, sometimes I watch for comments.
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I’m so glad you’re here. 
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What about you, anything Pinteresting to share?

Link up your Pinterest related blog post:
1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinterest Pinfest post, etc.). Click add picture from the web.
4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
5.  Let me know if you need help.  🙂
6. Party stays open for one week.
7. Pinterest PinFest is not sponsored by Pinterest. I doubt they’re even aware that we Pinterest party at the DIY Show Off.  


Oh and if you’re a Pinterest fan (and I know you are, who isn’t?), you might want to take the Pinterest Challenge with Katie, Sherry, Ana and Erin. I plan on joining in!!! I love a great reason to DIY (did you know that’s a verb?) something I’ve seen. This party is motivation to not just pin and “forget about it” (I just watched Donnie Brasco and can’t help saying that with a NY accent…I think it was quoted 700 x in that movie, wasn’t it?) – but to be proactive about what we pin.  Anyway, head over and link up to the  

Here’s another great party for pinterest lovers:

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Pinterest PinFest Linky Party ~ Daydreaming

It’s Pinterest PinFest time!  Did you forget?  I almost did!

This month, I’m hoping to clean out my closet and to get it ready for colder weather. Where are my warm sweaters, cute boots, cable knit tights, even my jeans?  Secret:  My wardrobe is currently all over the place:  (i.e. the laundry room, my daughter’s old room, laundry baskets, the hallway, my closet, my dresser, a little bit in the bathroom and all over our master bedroom).  I don’t know how it’s happened but I’m ready to get organized. So, I need a little closet and clothing motivation and inspiration.  Here’s my Pinterest daydream…

Once upon a time, I had a dream that I had this dressing room…everything has a place and I’d have beautiful clothes. I’d sit on my pretty ottoman and change my clothes 20 times. 
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My daughters and I love scouring the thrift stores for our clothes better than we like going to the mall.  Here are some warmer outfits I’d love to put together and I think I could come close if I was organized enough to find everything.
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More dressing room dreams…
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The reality:  I’m thinking of moving all of my clothing and accessories to my daughter’s old room and creating a dressing room (it’s currently a 2nd guest bedroom). It has 2 closets! It’s on the 2nd floor. It’s near the hall bathroom that I use. Don’t worry, I’d be leaving the master bedroom for Mr. DIY’s things. We really lack closet space. Old farmhouse = skinny closet and one small additional closet created by previous owners with what we call “saloon doors”.  It’s so ugly and more of a storage place than closet. I do have built in drawers and shelving though ~ and if I do a dressing room, I’d gladly surrender them to Mr. DIY’s gigantic t-shirt collection.

I‘m talking about this room (we just finished a main floor guest room) and rarely get over night guests, so this second floor guest room could serve as my dressing room without much work, don’t you think?  It’s off to a pretty start!

The more I think about it, the more it really appeals to me.  Don’t be surprised if you see future posts about it! 

Now it’s your turn! Has Pinterest inspired your next project or your daydreams?

Link up your Pinterest related blog post:
1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinterest Pinfest post, etc.). Click add picture from the web.
4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
5.  Let me know if you need help.  🙂
6. Party stays open for one week.



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Autumn Love Pinterest Linky Party

Welcome to the first official 
A special thanks to Heather from At The Picket Fence for the DIY button makeover. Isn’t it pretty?! Inspired by the colors from the “Cassity & Roeshel” room design challenge. Heather, dear blog friend – you are so sweet and talented and I love my special gift. Thank you!

Cooler temps, shorter days and changing leaves are making it hard to ignore that Fall is here.  I’m daydreaming of new boots, warm sweaters, warm, rich colors, spicy autumn scents and mouth watering comfort foods & aromas coming from the kitchen. Snuggling in and getting cozy. Here is my autumn Pinterest daydream in pictures…some of which are inspiring enough to become reality in my home…
  
Pardon my casualness but this is my favorite attire for fall…
This year I’m decorating for fall in soft muted creams, browns and golds with a touch of smokey turquoise, deep red and rusty orange this year:
I love turquoise paired with orange almost as much as with red…

Autumn inspiration…
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New fireplace mantel in the dining room would look so pretty like this:
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or this…
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Favorite Fall wreaths…trying to narrow it down to one:
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Time for dinner!
Chicken Corn Chowder

Can’t forget dessert…
Apple Crisp Cheesecake (OMGosh!!!)

I want to be right here, with my cheesecake, in my sweater socks reading through your links and what you daydream about.
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Link up your Pinterest related blog post:
1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinteres
t Pinfest post, etc.). Click add picture from the web.
4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
5.  Let me know if you need help.  🙂
6. Party stays open for one week.

Link up, daydreamers!

As you know (how could you not?! Thanks for the patience for my daily reminders), I’m working really hard to make a dream come true…please vote for Cassity & Roeshel by clicking the picture below. We really need your help, desperately!  You’re also entered to win new flooring for your home every day you vote!  We want to see new flooring/new area rug in our readers’ homes! YOUR HOME!
Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
We’d LOVE your vote even more than apple cheesecake (although it’s very close) and there’s still 2 days to enter the area rug giveaway (winner’s choice of style and size – imagine winning a huge 9×12 FREE for your livingroom, bedroom, garage – wherever you want to put it)! Thank you SO SO SO much to those entering and voting.  I can’t tell you enough that your help to make a dream come true means so much! If our room wins, we’re given an all expense paid trip to HGTV’s Urban Oasis in Chicago, dinner and 2 nights at Trump International Hotel. Keeping my fingers crossed!

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Pinterest PinFest Linky Party ~ Daydreaming

I updated our HOME TOUR and now I’m taking a little break from showing off to work on some projects with a reward of a daydream today.

The house I “built” using some of my favorite pins:
Entryway.  Welcome.  I hope you’re in lounge clothes. No work today. 
Living Room (Yes! The one I designed with Cassity.)
I’d love to move this entire room into our home. 
Kitchen. Cup of tea and cookies?
Bedroom. Tomorrow, I’ll blog from here.
Bathroom. Just a sneak peek.  
Where I do laundry:
I’d love to be creative in here…
Outdoor Oasis
I have a gift for you…
What I’d love to be wearing as I head to dinner tonight:
How I’m feeling:
What I’m snacking on:
If you’re a dreamer like me, do you want to do this every once in a while with me?  A Pinterest PinFest (or any motivating inspiration post) linky party?   You know how much I love parties and inspiration for my next DIY project. 🙂
Enjoy the day!
DayDreamer Pinterest PinFest

Edit:  Looks like I’m not the only daydreamer! I’ve added a linky party below if you’d like to join in.  I’ll work on creating a linky party button and figure out a schedule (maybe monthly?). &nbs
p;Create your Pinterest PinFest DayDream post and link up below.  Include a link back if you’d like to get others daydreaming too!  🙂
Edit x 2.  Here’s the new Pinterest PinFest button.  I think we’ll shoot for the 2nd Tuesday every month. The party will be open for one week, maybe longer if needed.

Garden Lodges
garden rooms – for a variety of stunning garden buildings