imagine the impossibilities features

When I started blogging, it was a lonely experience.  Just me, my laptop, and my trusty beagle …

Then I discovered link parties. And I linked up.  People came.  They saw.  They commented.  A few conversations were started in those comment threads …

And then I found these ladies. And they invited me to do the unthinkable.  A link party on my very own blog …

And you all came by.  And linked up.  361 strong. 

Nowadays blogging doesn't feel like such a solitary experience.  I feel like a real part of a real community made up of real live people …

So a big ‘thank you’ to all of you who took part in our Imagine the Impossibilities challenge and link party.  So many inspiring impossibilities. Really. Truly. It was incredibly hard to narrow it down to just 10 features …

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… and if you’ve been featured, please feel free to grab that lovely button Andrea from The Cottage Market created for us …

So here goes …

Stacey  at Flickerwhips took on the big boy tools for her Impossibilities challenge … and kicked some serious you-know-what in her quest to build a new shelf for her bathroom.  I’ve dubbed her the “power tool diva” …

Katie at Team Skelly took on the Big Purge followed by the dreaded Deep Clean … you know, the one where you’re down on your hands and knees scrubbing baseboards and actually moving furniture to vacuum under and behind.  And once the place was spotless, she went ahead and included a home tour …

Sarah at Adventures of our Fami-ly handmade this adorable “Quiet Book” for her nephew.  She even designed a few of her very own pages, like this Chicago skyline that, naturally, caught this Chicagoan’s eye …

Sherry at Pondered Primed Perfected shared her amazing laundry room makeover.  There was a lot of purging and destroying and rebuilding going on at her house last month.  Oh, and be sure to tell Sherry that she’s wrong … her laundry room makeover is absolutely magazine-worthy!



Laura over at Whimsical Perspective truly achieved her “farmhouse chic” design goal when remodeling her kitchen.  Check out the chalk painted cabinets, butcher block countertops, and amazing vintage touches.  It’s truly a dramatic before and after 'impossibilities' story …



We drove Laura from Top This Top That to surgery to repair tendons injured as she raced to complete her family’s game room.  We didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt as part of this challenge.   She completed this amazing space …. which had stalled last fall … with one hand and one hubby lending a helping hand …



Ritajoy from Harbour Breeze had been slowly crafting her basement craft room for a couple of years, but when the Impossibilities challenge came a knocking, she high kicked it into high gear.  Her new creative space … created on a budget of $89 … gives me hope that I can turn my very own ugly basement into something both pretty and functional one day …



Jeni at A Place 2 Call Home spent two years living in a master bedroom that never quite felt right.  So when she and her husband decided to move rooms to live in the room with the better closet, she decided it was time for a change of color and decor … just in time for the Impossibilities challenge.  And make sure you ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over her oops paint chevron side table …



Cindy at Oakview Cottage purchased an antique armoire three years ago but was never really thrilled with the finish.  And there it sat, for three years, with that very finish she was never thrilled with … until the Impossibilities challenge.  And oh what a beautiful change of finish she gave it.  Mixing her own chalk paint and then glazing it – a first for Cindy …



When Amy at Home Happy Home told me she was going to paint stripes in her foyer … and told me this on January 23 to boot … I was a bit skeptical.   But Amy pulled through.  Not only did she paint amazingly even stripes, but she also painted the wood trim white (a three coat-er job).  The black front door is the perfect finishing touch …



And I just wanted to end with a shout out to three very honest bloggers who shared their hard-earned lessons when their Impossibilities projects didn’t go quite as planned …

Brianna at Real Mountain Values

Amy at Four Corners Design

and our final party attendee who linked up just under the wire,

Jessica at This Heroes Nest …

Make sure you stop by my fabulous 5 Impossibilities co-hosts to check out their 10 features (just click on their banners below) …

We did our features independently, so there may be some overlap …










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