Pinspiration Friday

Good morning! Happy Friday! Have you all recovered from Christmas yet? We haven't. Our house is still torn apart and we are slowly putting things back together and away. Wow, we made out pretty well. What an awesome Christmas and an awesome first Christmas for Oliver. Since things are a little on the hectic side, Im bringing you a Pinspiration that was posted on the previous blog, but I feel needs to be shared here. This went up in the Pinspiration Friday board shortly before Bry's birthday last month and was a little birthday surprise for her.

A long while back I came across on A Beautiful Mess {seriously, these women are an inspiration!} this darling little a-frame tent and a how-to on how to get it done. Being the lazy pinner I am, I forgot to pin it and it was lost forever. Until I dusted off my Kindle and saw that I actually had bookmarked it! So I finally pinned that sucker to my Pinspiration Board, gathered the materials, made a few things for the inside, and put it all together.

It sure came out lovely!

Here is the inspiration post for the tent

Now that is lovely. I love how she used the crocheted cover! But in order to be frugal I just couldn’t find anything similar at the thrift store that I liked for my vision. But I did find a pretty vintage floral sheet with ruffles, which gives it a cute little shabby chic look and coordinates well with the quilt I have for the inside.

What’s inside:

Quilt from my dad

Three handmade pillows by me {one of them is upcycled from a Urban Outfitters bag!}

A green lattice picnic basket

Books

Two crocheted doilies for coasters

Upcycled vintage floral cloth shower curtain turned throw

A plastic bottle lantern that Bry made for light while reading at night

She brought her guitar in there to play

Bry is pretty much in love with it!

So much so that she invited little brother inside

I think he loves it too!

Now if this silly rain would go away {at least just for a day} we can put it back out side and Bry can hang out in it then it would be perfect. But in the garage it must stay. Thank goodness I made oversized pillows for her to relax on.

{Richard was a big help with this and took the photos! Check him out at Richard Fusillo Photography}