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!
Book Of The Week – Finding Spiritual Whitespace
If I could only read one book this summer –
Finding Spiritual Whitespace by Bonnie Gray
Would be at the top of my reading list!
I whole-heartedly recommend this book to you!
Karen – Stamping On The Back Porch
If you are interested in creating beautiful cards or
Learning new paper-crafting techniques,
May I suggest a visit to Karen Titus’s website?
Each week she shares not only her latest projects –
But she also provides a video tutorial for those
Who learn best by watching!
This week she shared techniques for Embossing In Color
And a gorgeous Watercoloring Technique.
Which technique do you want to learn first?
Diane – Fourth Of July Ice Cream
It’s summer and the family is sweltering.
You’re in the mood for a cool and festive treat.
What could lift your spirits more than Diane’s
Festive Fourth Of July Ice Cream?
Marie – Fresh Strawberry Salsa
Few things say summer like strawberries!
If your garden is brimming with these healthy delights,
Marie’s Fresh Strawberry Salsa will make a
Welcome and colorful addition to your next meal!
Ramona – God Bless America Card
We commemorate our nation’s birthday once a year –
But we celebrate our freedom all year long!
May God Bless America each and every day!
Molly – Star Spangled Table Decor
If you are looking for a patriotic table setting that’s sure to please –
Than look no further than Molly’s delightful Star Spangled Table Décor!
It’s bright, fun and festive – and best of all, takes less than an hour to create!
Music To Inspire You – Little Pink Houses
Welcome to Music Moves Me! This week’s theme is a Freebie,
And since we it’s still Independence Day Weekend,
I’ve chosen Little Pink Houses by John Cougar Mellencamp
To celebrate A Little Slice of Americana!
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Inspire Me Monday – Week 130!
Inspire Me Monday #131 – Week Of July 6, 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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Thanks so much for hosting Inspire Me Monday!
Hope you have a wonderful week! 🙂
Hope you had a wonderful 4th. of July weekend. Thank you so much for having this party for us.
Have a lovely week ahead.
FABBY
Thanks so much for hosting!
Love your festive card, Ramona! Hope your holiday was safe and fun! Have a blessed week!
Thanks June! I had a lot of fun creating it! 🙂
What a lot of inspiration! Thanks for hosting and love the music!
I appreciate your thoughtfulness when describing your features. What a great hostess you are and an inspiration to me! Thanks for the wonderful place to share and meet new friends.
Blessings,
Shari
Thank you so much Shari! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Hope you had a great 4th celebration, ours was quite, except for the fireworks in all the parks around us. Thanks for hosting this week. Your ice cream feature looks great and of course the berrys are so good right now, we have them daily!!
Enjoy your week
Karren
Thanks Karren – you too! 🙂
My dad is my inspiration this week! He’s helping learn how to handle grief with thankfulness. 🙂
Thanks for hosting!
Grief with thankfulness… what a powerful lesson to learn!
Have a wonderful week Mary.
We should chat sometime!
Hi Ramona,
Hope you had a lovely holiday! John Cougar’s ‘Pink Houses’ is a longtime favourite of mine, too! The book sounds very interesting; I’ll have to look into it! Thanks for hosting and have a wonderful week!
Poppy
Isn’t Pink Houses a great song?
Hope you have the opportunity to check out the book. Lots of great resources to explore on my review post! 🙂
Thanks for hosting! The book sounds wonderful. I’m a big advocate of making sure there’s margin in my day.
Hope you have a chance to read this – it’s an awesome book!
Nice post and I hope you had a tanfastic 4th July 😉
Thanks for hosting 😉
thanks for this party. I am completely inspired again… 🙂
XoX, Crystelle
Crystelle Boutique
Lovin’ you choice in music That’s one of my favorite celebration tunes I must say & the video is just too, too cute! Wow you sure have one heck of a list here with people signing up. How do you do it? hehehe Besides being such a great person I’m sure you have another secret! hehehehe Well I’m here now so LET’S START THE PARTY!!! ROCKIN’ WITH MONDAY’S MUSIC MOVES ME! HUGSSSSS & have a great day my friend. Thanks for joining us.
Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. Thanks for hosting a great party!
Best Wishes,
Denise & Aubrie
Thanks for hosting Ramona!
Hope you had a great holiday weekend 🙂
It was so much fun to see that you featured my work and talked about my tutorials! Thank you so much and I love being a part of your linky party!
Thank you for sharing your creativity with us Karen!
I always love seeing what you create.
One can learn so much from visiting your blog and watching those awesome tutorials! 🙂
Hi Ramona,
I hope your weekend was great and that you had an awesome 4th of July.
Plenty of fun items featured here today, love your crafty card.
See you tomorrow!!
Thanks so much Jay!
Working on Wordless Wednesday now!
See you at the party in a bit! 🙂
Thank you for hosting. Tina
I really liked the ice cream post, too. I need to just buy White Spaces — I’ve seen it reviewed a couple places and it looks so good–and needful, too. Thank you for hosting again! ~Pamela
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