Welcome to Inspire Me Monday
A place to share your creative inspirations
Sharpen your creative vision and
Showcase your creative talents!
I invite you to inspire others and
Nurture your creative spirit by
Joining our Creative Blog Hop!
To participate, simply join my creative community and
Follow the guidelines at the end of this post!
What’s Inspiring You This Week?
Here’s What’s Inspiring Me…
Inspiration From God’s Word – New Beginnings
Art & Devotional: Renee Smith – My Genesis
God, make a fresh start in me.
Shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.
Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile,
Put a fresh wind in my sails!
Psalm 51:10-12, The Message
Elizabeth Dianne’s Valentine Gift To Us
Calligrapher Elizabeth Dianne is glorifying God and
Sharing her talents with us through the gift of this
Gorgeous free printable! Don’t miss out!
Katie – Dirty Little Secret Friday
This week I discovered that Katie’s home office is filled with
Dirty Little Secrets – but this year, she’s cleaning up her act!
Want to get in on the fun? Join her each week as she
Beautifies her space and shares tips and photos!
This week she tackled her desk drawers.
What a brave, brave gal!
Friendship Friday – From A To Z
This week at Friendship Friday,
Our Journey Through The Alphabet continues
As we Encounter the Letter E!
E is a letter to get Excited about!
Express yourself however you like –
The possibilities are Endless!
Encourage one another this week at our
Friendship Friday party!
Song Of The Week – Watermark by Enya
Shared with Music Moves Me.
Highlights From Inspire Me Monday – Week 109
Following are a few highlights from last week’s party:
The Scrappy & Savvy Crafter – Glitter & Roses Card
New techniques – beautiful card!
Alea – Dark Chocolate Truffle Hearts
Want to make a special treat for your sweetheart this week?
Make your loved one feel special with these homemade truffle hearts!
Virginia – Tool Box Craft Storage
Virginia created an amazing Tool Box to organize her
Project Life craft items in – don’t miss this makeover
Or the peek inside!
This lovely woven project was inspired by a paper weaving project!
Talent is timeless.
For more fabulous features,
Visit my creative friends at
Inspire Me Monday – Week 109!
Inspire Me Monday #110 – Week Of February 9, 2014
I like the idea of Inspiration Monday.
Monday’s often get the short end of the stick
But they are fraught with potential!
Judy Palmer
Now it’s time to share your inspirations! You can participate in Inspire Me Monday in the following ways:
1) Share “What’s Inspiring You” by creating your own Inspire Me Monday post! You can include any creative challenges you’ve discovered – any books or quotes you love – any bloggers who have inspired you – anything that has inspired you and will inspire us too!
2) Share your creative projects with us! You’re welcome to link up your Arts & Crafts projects – your Recipes – your DIY, Home Décor and Organizational Ideas – your original Writing, Music & Photography – you get the idea!
3) Visit the participants – share some comment love – let them know what’s inspired you!
When you link up, be sure to include the Inspire Me Monday button and a link back to this post on all of your entries so that your readers can join the fun! The blog code is on the side bar if you need it!
Be sure to link directly to your Inspire Me Monday Posts and Creations using the permalink to the individual posts – not your blog’s home page URL – so that participants can easily find and comment on your creations!
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Thank you for hosting! We always look forward to Inspire Me Monday.
Thank you so much Cayla and Ashley – have a wonderful week!
Hope you have a great week and thanks so much for the awesome party!
Miz Helen
Great features and great party!
Thanks so much for the party! I love the painted tool box. I will have to make one of those. Have a great week :)!
Yes I would love to find a box like that to hold some of my supplies in – such an awesome project!
Have a fabulous week Candace!
Thanks for hosting!
Thank you!!
God bless!
Thanks so much for your email to remind me to join in! I haven’t been to a linky party for months so am glad to be back.
Best wishes,
Natasha in Oz
Natasha – it’s been way too long since I’ve seen you – hope you are well!
Your blog is looking as lovely as ever.
Hope you have a wonderful week and I look forward to the return of your party! 🙂
Well, you are the sweetie… I have a young lady that signed in already because she saw my link up over here hmmm but I just linked up.. oh well. I also seen that you linked up, but do you know you linked up your Friday blog? I love today’s song it so soft and so romantic which is today’s theme… love songs! Thank you for joining us. HUGS And thanks for the link up.
Guess you might say that’s a colorful song~! Sweet and soothing just the way I like them. Thanks for the linky and nice to meet you. I’m your latest follower. Comin’ in from 4M’s.
Welcome David!
Thank you for hosting! I hope you have a great week!
For “Inspire Me Monday,” I gave my blog a much needed makeover. 🙂
Dear Gina,
I not only toured your lovely blog today (love the makeover!) but I enjoyed getting to know you better in the process.
I just want to let you know that I respect and admire you SO MUCH for everything that you are doing and so do your kids!
Have a wonderful week. I’m so glad you’re a part of our community! 🙂
I appreciate so much being featured this week and want to welcome everyone to my blog. The link to the free printable is located in the sidebar. I hope it will bring honor and glory to the Lord. Have a great week everyone and be inspired!
Elizabeth, thank you SO much for sharing your talents with us!
I’m sure your lovely work is going to grace many an Inspire Me Monday home! 🙂
Hi Ramona,
Wonderful words of inspiration. The chocolate hearts are TOO cute and thanks for hosting!
Have a lovely week!
Poppy
Aren’t those chocolate hearts awesome? Alea is a fabulous blogger so I’m so happy I had a chance to feature her this week!
Have a wonderful week Poppy and thank you for always adding a touch of beauty with your lovely photos and contributions!
I love all the inspiration you bring to us each Monday, and I always love listening to Enya! Have a love-inspired week!
Thanks Cathy – I LOVED your selection of love-inspired tunes this week.
I am listening to them as I write this comment!
Have an awesome week!
Thanks for hosting! I love the toolbox craft! I’ve been thinking of turning a tool box into a treasure box for my kids. Off to check out the tool box post.
Isn’t that an awesome project? Wait til you see the inside!
Have a woonderful week Barb!
Good Morning! I had a little trouble linking up this morning, not enough coffee yet 🙂 Please feel free to delete #165. I will try again.
Beatiful music and video I like Enya 🙂
Thanks for hosting 😉
So glad you enjoyed the video! Watermark is my favorite Enya song!
Thanks for hosting and have a nice day!
Julie at Julie’s Lifestyle
This pattern are really cute! Nice Posting. Thanks for sharing, for hosting this nice project and happy crafting and new week, Wieczora (◔‿◔)
Hi Joy,
Thanks for hosting, so nice to be back, sorry for the absence, but in England sorting out my fathers funeral etc.Hope to be better from next week, but quite difficult to get on the net from here.
I hope that you have a fantastic day and week ahead.
Love and best wishes.
Anne
I’m here from the Monday’s Music Moves Me blog hop. Was Enga Watermark your choice this week? Regardless thank you so much for sharing it here, I absolutely loved it. It such a moving piece. Wow, you never know what music you’ll find doing these blog hops.
I hope you have a wonderful week and Happy Monday!
Thank you for the party!!
~ Megin of VMG206
Thanks for letting me link my short flash fiction.
I know it’s not in the same vein as a lot of the other great links and it’s a different type of craft but it’s great to join in on Monday 🙂
Ally
Im back, after recovery of torn rotator cuff PT so I would not have to go through the painful surgery. Thanks for hosting, always appreciate your weekly efforts.
Karren
Thank-you for featuring the Woven Fabric Heart. I’ve been a part of your party (& Wordless Wed) since you started way back when, and therefore you’ve been exposed on my Linky Party page since. I’ll be adding your button to the Woven Fabric Heart specifically for the feature. I really appreciate you taking the time to host the parties.
Thank you for the party. Tina
A perfect day for some Enya!
Getting closer to a special day for you too!
Hey, I thought I’ve been here already.. well, goodness girlfriend what is your secret to getting so many people to join you 🙁 I sure wish I could at last get a few more to play on Monday like ten more I’d be happy, but I’ve been doing this for so long that when I hit 30 people I’m ecstatic, and you have all these people… you’re fantastic!!! HUGS GIRLFRIEND, and thanks for joining us for sure. Love you choice very pretty, and I listened to your Friday’s one too it’s one of my favorites the Eagles do. Have a rockin’ week! Thanks for your help.
Thanks for hosting, Ramona. I’m linking up part three of an amazing artist’s cottage tour. It’s worth a look, believe me. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. Have a great week.
Thanks for sharing Nancy! I enjoyed the first part of the series. I look forward to reading parts 2 and 3!
Another inspiring song. I so like Enya!
Love this link up too! Have a good week my friend.
Hi there! Hope you are having a good beginning of your week . . . . trying to recover from all the snow and cold weather, but at least we’ve had some time for creating ;o) I’ve posted a couple more of my creations for The Documented Life Project – this has really been great fun especially on all of these snow days we’ve had since Christmas. Have a great week and I’ll stop back tomorrow to visit some of our blogging friends from today. Nina
Thank you as always for hosting and making it possible to find all these wonderful blogs
Janice
That devotional looks very interesting.
Thank you so much for this great party and for sharing dear Nancy!
Happy Valentine’s to you all!
FABBY
Happy Valentine’s Day to you dear Fabby!
Thanks for your lovely shares!
I should say this more often…but thanks to people like you who host the link ups! I always find some neat blogs to check out and enjoy sharing myself 🙂
Rachael @Diamonds in the Rough