Today it’s all about inspiration.
Photo Sources (left to right, top to bottom):
How To Nest for Less on Instagram | The Gathered Home on Instagram | 4 Men 1 Lady Blog on Instagram | Primitive & Proper on Istagram | Primitive & Proper on Instagram | Designer Trapped in A Lawyer’s Body on Instagram | How To Nest for Less on Instagram | Designer Trapped in A Lawyer’s Body on Instagram | The Gathered Home on Instagram |
99% of the time blogging is a solitary activity. Well, for this blogger it is. Which can be lonely.
But it’s all worth it for the 1%. Because the glorious, amazing, inspirational, pinch-myself-is-this-really-happening-to-me 1% wipes away that solitude. And loneliness.
This past week was all about the 1% …
and it was amazing!
Starting with the amazing Amy Howard, who generously opened her home to the Ace Hardware Bloggers for dinner and drinks. There was also live music with a piano player and singer.
And can I just say how amazingly gorgeous — and inspirational — Amy Howard’s home was? It’s her pied-à-terre as her new home in the country is being built. And it’s gorgeous. Do you see that collage up there? Yep. All rooms in her house …
and all rooms pulled together with amazing furniture pieces she has personally rescued and beautifully restored.
A-MA-ZING!
(P.S. All those photos were taken by my fellow Ace bloggers and posted on their Instagram accounts. I recommend you follow them all!).
And then there was the amazing inspirational Amy Howard workshop we attended. Taught by Amy herself. Where I learned painting techniques that I thought were well beyond my reach …
Photo Credits:
Ace Hardware on Instagram | The Gathered Home on Instagram | How To Nest for Less on Instagram
Phew.
It was whirlwind.
It was inspirational.
And it was fun to get to know my fellow Ace bloggers better. We shared tips. We shared stories. And I left Memphis feeling truly inspired …
and a little less alone in this blogging world.
Now for some inspirational links for you this weekend, I encourage you to check out my Ace blogger buddies …
Cassie at Primitive & Proper
Brynne at The Gathered Home
Erin at How To Nest for Less
Kim at Yellow Brick Home
Tasha at Designer Trapped in a Lawyer’s Body
Michelle at 4 Men 1 Lady
Alison at Henhouse (who couldn’t make it to Memphos, but has a gorgeous blog with gorgeous photography).
Wishing you have an inspirational weekend!
🙂
P.S. You, too, can attend an Amy Howard workshop. Ace launched a national sweepstakes where people can enter to win a trip for two to Memphis to attend an Amy Howard workshop, plus a $500 Ace gift card to buy Amy Howard products when they get back home. Click here for contest details and to enter.
Sharing @ Inspiration Monday
it was the best!!!!! i had so much fun and learned so much, but i think the best parts were connecting with bloggers, feeling like part of a team, and listening to amy talk.
Sounds like an amazing time and wow, all the painting techniques are totally unreal.
Hi Linda,
Sounds like it was an amazing time. So happy you could meet up with other bloggers.
Have a great new week.
Kris
Linda, it was so lovely to get to meet you this week! And I just love this post – the trip was definitely one of those 1% events for me as well!
Thank you for sharing the love!
Oh wow and wow, wouldn’t that be so much fun and exciting to get to go to that workshop, meet Amy and be able to buy her products. Ill h ave to go into our Ace that’s fairly close by to ask when they’ll have her paints. They get irritated with me as I know about things ahead and ask them about them. This is red neck country out in country, lol .out here.
Sure would love to go, was pretty easy to enter, thanks for making it possible for chance to enter. Glad you got to go to meet other bloggers on the team, how exciting for you. Love it and was fun to learn new techniques? Who doesn’t have their own chalk paint line now? Seems like every week I hear about another one on blog land. Have you used any of them? IF you’ve told us forgive me for forgetting.
Have great week and I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed to win.
so happy that you had a great time and had this experience. her home looks lovely. I can only imagine what her country home will look like.