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Let’s Party!

October 18, 2013 By Shannah Coe 24 Comments

Happy Friday! Welcome to this wonderful day of link party fun! We’ll get to the party in a moment but I wanted to mention a few things.
1) Did you enter to the win the pumpkin carving tools from #PumpkinMasters? Click here to go enter! You can use them to create you own version of these awesome carved pumpkins

2) Be sure you are following myself and my awesome co-hosts! We share a lot of the projects shared here so you’ll want to be in the know.
Shannah {Facebook} {Twitter} {Pinterest} {Instagram} {Google+}
PJ {Facebook} {Twitter} {Pinterest} {Instagram}
Sam {Facebook} {Twitter} {Pinterest} {Instagram}

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Featuring You – The Pinworthy Projects Party Features

May 16, 2013 By Shannah 12 Comments

Happy Thursday! I hope you are having a fabulous week so far. I’ve spent the bulk of mine stuck on the couch with a knee injury. It has been less than fun to saw the least. BUT, it has given me more time to visit the links from the Pinworthy Projects Party. Today, I’m featuring YOU with a round up of some of the best links from last week’s party!

Before we get started, I want to remind you of the AWESOME social media link up going on right now! Today’s Let’s Connect Thursday is all about Twitter pages. Click over to link up yours and watch your Twitter following grow!

Now, let’s get started!

DIY Project Bleach Art Fabric Napkins from Dagmar’s Home

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Pinworthy Projects Party Features

April 4, 2013 By Shannah 2 Comments

Thanks so everyone who linked up to the party last week! I was so excited to see so many awesome ideas shared! Of course, being Thursday, it is time to check our party features!

Stenciled Paint Caddy from The DIY Dreamer

Five Tips to Use Google Analytics More Effectively from Framed Frosting

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Pinworthy Projects Party – My Pinworthy Picks

February 28, 2013 By Shannah 3 Comments

Ack! You know that feeling when you wake up one morning and realize that you didn’t do something you were supposed to do? Yeah, I’m there…right now! It is now Thursday morning at X o’clock and I realized I haven’t done my features yet. In my defense, it has been a crazy 36 hours in our house (fractured finger for one little, doctor’s appointment with new specialist + bout of coup for the other little).

Never fear…the wee hours of the morning will serve me well in sharing some of the awesomeness to be found in the 100 links of last week’s party. So, let’s get started before the sun comes up and I am really behind!

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Pinterest Challenge: Making a New Bed

February 25, 2013 By Shannah 13 Comments

Pinterest does a lot of things…the biggest is providing you with endless amounts of inspiration and ideas through your pins!

Thanks, in part to Pinterest, at our last dinner club, some of the ladies got to talking about upholstering headboards. Two, in particular, really wanted to do it for their rooms but just hadn’t made the time.

So, being the “do-er” that I like to think I am {yes, even that made ME laugh out loud, Mathlete…and others}, I scheduled a headboard day. The week before our “headboard day” came and there were lots of emails and texts. We all wanted super simple rectangular boards similar to this one

Source: iheartorganizing.blogspot.com via Yolonda on Pinterest

On Saturday morning, Liz texted me to find out if I had really gone and bought the wood. {Sorry Liz…I fibbed just a bit. We were in the car on our way to get the wood but I was afraid you might back out if I told you that!} Mathlete and I hit up Lowes and bought the plywood for our projects and had it cut there. I also picked up a second staple gun and a ton of staples in different sizes.

Liz was given batting duty since neither Nari or I had actually gone and bought batting yet. {Maybe we were all subconsciously thinking the other was going to cancel?}

With all of our supplies purchased, we got to work making our 3 headboards {I will warn you…you will see two different fabrics in the how-to pictures because we were making multiple boards}!

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