Be Inspired #181

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Be Inspired!

Ahhhhh, today's the first day of Spring, and I hope it's sunny and warm and full of expectation, wherever you might be. Last week's party was filled with great Spring Inspiration and Ideas, so let me share a few of the great links before we get started with today's party.

Chairs into an Ottoman

from Kris at Junk Chic Cottage

Galvanized Drawers as Planters

from Karen at Redoux Interiors

When Lace Meets Rust

Julia from Vintage With Laces

Recycled Crocheted Leggings 

from Shabby Gals
(could anything be more adorable?)

House Find

from Melanie at Lost and Found

Springtime Ladder

from Jody at Rooted in Thyme

Sheep Picture with a Story

Sally from Salmagundi

Minted Shamrock Sugar Cookies

Simply Suzanne's at Home

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Please have an individual link back to Common Ground within your post. I'd love to feature you. This is just part of the Party Etiquette.

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Please no direct links to Etsy or Advertising.

Link up to three of your current posts.

Take a minute to visit a few of the other links.

Please be a follower of Common Ground.

Thank you to all of you who come over each week to link up to the party.   You are a never ending source of inspiration to me and others, so just know how much I appreciate each one of you!

thanks so much for joining in

and making this party so much fun!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

Today's Sponsor is

French Bleu Vintage

Blooming 'Brella

OK, we've all seen adorable vintage umbrellas adorned with faux flowers for Spring. (nothing new for the Pinterest crowd) I DO love me a fun umbrella. And I AM kinda sorta experiencing a faux flower withdrawal over here at the smaller house. This last weekend whilst packing (yes, the never ending job I'm involved in at this moment in time) I spied my Spring floral umbrella in a pile of "stuff" waiting to be put away in one of many large plastic tubs marked "Spring". 

It had to be rescued. If you guys could see the boxes of holiday decor and seasonal faux flowers, branches, twigs and the likes, you'd think seriously about having me committed. But it's one of my vices that I'm working on. You know the kind of personality that sees a container and wants to fill it with SOMETHING! There must be a "disorder" that could be slapped on me.

So, the umbrella came home with me. There are no nails in doors around here, and I'm not going to lose a security deposit over a door wreath or something else. It will do hanging from the kitchen transferware cupboard, brightening up my sitting room.

I wanted a nest in it to go with my old garden tools, but made do with a petite whitewashed clay flower pot instead. My birdie has taken up residence in there.

I'm trying to round up all my "garden decor" and vintage garden goods out on the sunporch, because it all needs to be packed together.  Believe me, I've moved enough that I know the hazards of packing things where they lay. I've found strange things in boxes a year after a move.

I'm having to be content with a few touches of Spring around here, and not create a full blown "explosion". I found one basket with faux hydrangeas that had been in the storage room, that had so much dust on it, it literally became a white cloud when I decided that it was time for it to be dismantled. I'm hoping to learn some life lessons through all this. Hey, I'll write a book entitled "One Woman's Lessons Learned from Downsizing".

I smell a bestseller in the "self help" section. Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it all done without going bananas. And to not make my husband bananas, too. I've also been cleaning and downsizing my closet, but then that's another whole chapter...

partying with these gals:

Savvy Southern Style
From My Front Porch to Yours
Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson
The Charm of Home
French Country Cottage
Shabby Art Boutique
Craftberry Bush
Funky Junk Interiors
Thoughts from Alice
Dwellings
Mod Vintage Life
Cedar Hill Farmhouse
A Stroll Thru Life
Cozy Little House

love you guys,

The Marketplace: Etsy and Boutique Showcase

Hi Everyone and Welcome to

 The Marketplace!

Hope you had a great weekend, and will be wearing a bit of the GREEN today in honor off St. Patrick's Day! Are you planning your garden and getting ready some outdoor fun? I always get itchy to start digging in the dirt come mid March!

Let's start the fun with a few links from last week: Here goes...

Vintage Garden Tools

Gizmo and Hooha

Decorated Binder Clips

Vintage 541

Kiddie Bank Telephone

fresh eggs antiques

The Lazy Peacock

Brass Bunny Family

Vintage Shakespeare Volumes

Bella Rose Antiques

Party Guidelines

This is a linky party that is for items that are FOR SALE only. You don't have to have a blog to link up. If you have a blog post about your items that's great too, but they need to be available to purchase. Please try to link to the individual item that you are selling if possible. Please be a follower of Common Ground and if you have a blog it would be so nice for you to grab the image below to share somewhere on your blog. (not mandatory). Remember the link is up all week, so please stop back by to check out new items being listed. Thanks so much for sharing all your great items with us!

If you missed last week's link up,

Click Here.

And today meet a new Sponsor for Common Ground

Seaside Rose Creations

Have fun shopping,

 it's almost SPRING!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

Spring Sentiments

A few weeks ago I was feeling sort of "homesick". I guess it's more of a feeling of uncertainty in not knowing when we'll be in a permanent home, and some missing my ability to play with my decor. Living in a small house without all my "stuff" at my fingertips has me a little hampered in changing things up, and I'm certainly a person who likes to keep my surroundings changed up and "fresh".

So what do I do when I'm feeling a little lacking in inspiration and creativity? Besides checking all of you out, I like to look back through my photo gallery and blog posts to see what was going on last year or the year before. You guessed it, I was decorating for Easter and dreaming of Spring out on the sunporch.

My favorite place to "change things up" was the sunporch.

First time forcing hyacinths.

Just bought this wonderful print.

Decorating the Holiday Cupboard

Freshening up the Entry

 Attending Leola's Vintage Home and Garden,

Spring Open House

And having a visit at Robin's Vintage Suitcase.

vintage twin sofas

bunnies and tulips...looks like Spring!

oh, I just LOVE this wonderful old ladder.

shhhh...I found an old ladder in the basement clean up.

I see it painted white in the future.

(don't tell my hubby)

Thanks for letting me reminisce a little. I've been packing all my treasures, and it's a little hard knowing that they are going in a box and I don't know when I'll see them again. Some of the furniture has been sold, and knowing that Spring is around the corner I'm just wondering where I'll be come Summer, then Fall. I'm trying not to come off whiney. Just enjoying looking back and drinking up the sweet pics of preparing for Spring.

 Have a wonderful Sunday...

be blessed sweet friends.

Be Inspired #180

Hi Everyone and Welcome to Be Inspired!

I know everyone is excited to see some warmer weather coming in. Outdoor planting and projects still may be a little ways out, but we can have fun bringing in a Breath of Fresh Spring Air with our tables, mantels and vignettes. There were so many wonderful Spring inspired posts last week; here are a few to definitely get you out of the winter frame of mind.

Babs from Upstairs Downstairs

gave us Not the Easter Bunny in this wonderful Spring tablescape.

Cindy at Beaux R'eves was busy painting her bedroom, when she decided to also transform this small dresser into a Country French Painted Chest.

I love this New Potting Table for the Greenhouse

from Penny's Vintage Home
(in Penny's new Greenhouse)

This Peter Rabbit Inspired Party is such a creative idea

 for a Spring Birthday, from So Much Better With Age

Painting Pine Floors and some graceful moves from

Suzan at Simply Vintageous.

Denise from Pink Postcard

gave us a great DIY tutorial on aging inexpensive new statuary.

Thinking Spring on the Sideboard

from Moni at Zu haus at Home

thanks gals!

Party Guidelines

Please have an individual link back to Common Ground within your post. I'd love to feature you. This is just part of the Party Etiquette.

Please remember to turn off word verification. I've tried leaving comments that didn't go through. I'm sure others have tried also.

Please no direct links to Etsy or Advertising.

Link up to three of your current posts.

Take a minute to visit a few of the other links.

Please be a follower of Common Ground.

Thank you to all of you who come over each week to link up to the party, I may not get to leave a comment, but I try to visit each of your posts. You are a never ending source of inspiration to me and others, so just know how much I appreciate each one of you!

thanks so much for joining in

and making this party so much fun!

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

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