Red Berry Door Basket/A Pinterest Challenge

Good Morning! Welcome to the April Pinterest Challenge. 

I want to say a huge thank you to Cindy at County Road 407 for hosting this event. 

This was so much fun to create. I know that you will be inspired as you visit the different blogs on our tour today. 

Our inspiration piece is this darling wall pocket from Tracy's Trinkets and Treasures. 

I love pocket containers used at door decor. 

Our front door doesn't have much space for any door decor. 

We love our front door but there is only about 24 inches between the top of the door and the shelf.

A full and gorgeous wreath is always out of the question. Most pockets are too long to begin with and the addition of flowers is then out of the question. 

There were two elements essential to this challenge - the pocket container and the hydrangeas. 

Hobby Lobby had some gorgeous silk hydrangeas. The bunch was a little pricey and not on sale but I pulled up the 40% coupon on my phone. 

They also had some wall pockets that were cute but they would not have worked for my door. 

The thrift store had one exactly like the inspiration picture except it was white. 

Again, it was too big for my door. 

I had a wall basket in the garage.  

I wired it to another wreath to give it a little more presence. 

A darling watering can was in the spring section at Hobby Lobby.

 It brought the right amount of drama and contrast to the white hydrangeas. 

A nest pick was added to the display. 

I found the nest when I went looking for berries. There is a fruit section. At my store it's next to the fairy garden stuff. 

They had adorable ribbon. 

The star of the show is a little insect pick. 

Create something new and fun for your door. 

Now be sure to visit the other links on the tour. 

Katie 

County Road 407

Follow the Yellow Brick Home

Our Southern Home

Decor To Adore

Bluesky At Home

Art And Sand

Stilettos And Shiplap

Sweet Pea

Decorate And More With Tip

French Ethereal

Let's Add Sprinkles

Le Cultivateur

Lora Bloomquist

A Heart Filled Home

Linking with
Sweet Inspiration

Tiered Trays and Cheerleaders

I'm sure you are familiar with those towers of cheerleaders.  

The success of the girl on the top tier is only as strong as the girls on the bottom. 

When I was in the sixth grade, I got to be a cheerleader for the boy's basketball team.
I went to a very small Lutheran school. I think, maybe there were six girls in our sixth grade graduating class. 

It was not a big squad. 

I don't know how a basketball team was formed with the minuscule number of boys that we had. 

I was not a successful cheerleader. I was a little too timid and shy but I think that our squad just wasn't big enough. 

It was suggested to me that maybe it just wasn't my "thing". 

I took the constructive criticism and whole heartedly agreed. 

I retired my little wool skirt and pom poms for good.

 

I was reminded of that yesterday when my bigger squad of blogging cheerleaders went to town to fix our Inlinkz issue on Sunday. 

Some of them didn't have a pom-pom in the game. 

In fact, our success could have taken from their success. 

You would think it would be a little "blog eat blog". 

But no, that isn't how the blogging community works. 

While I was work, caring for my sweet babies and handling some issues, my blogging community was behind the scenes getting our party up and going. 

I had emails and messages cheering us on, people were praying for my brother and still others were offering tips and suggestions on how to get our issue resolved. 

We had blogging experts doing whatever they do to decode a broken code. 

It was amazing.  

This summer, a wise blogger told me that there is enough for all of us out there on the internet and that I need to build my squad.               My coalition, as my daughter calls them.  

 

If the recent actions of my blogging community are any indication, I would have to agree that building a team is key.

As I styled this tiered tray, I was reminded that the little blogs struggling to stay up on a tier are being held up, supported, and encouraged by the bigger blogs on the bottom tier. 

For that, I am immensely grateful. 

It makes me want to break out the old pom poms and cheer. 

Have a lovely day, my friends, my squad, my teammates! 

Thank you. 

Katie 

Linking with, 

Thoughts of Home Tiered Tray Extravaganza