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Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash

November 22, 2009 10 Comments
**Please see my updated post with prize information.**
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Join us for a cup of good cheer December 14-18 at the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash! Simply Sweet Home along with 4 other amazing blogs will be hosting the event, and we’d love to see you there for all the fun and festivities!
Prizes: Everyone who participates in the week’s events will be elibible to win prizes! I’ll be announcing some of the prizes in the coming days leading up to the event! Also, I’m still looking for event sponsors. If anyone’s interested in being a sponsor, please send me an email, so we can get you lined up!
Now here’s the schedule of events for the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash:

Monday, Dec. 14 – Homemade Gifts – The best Christmas gifts come from the heart. Whether you sew, bake, paint, or glue, a homemade gift is always special and unique to those who recieve it. Come join us over at Tater Tots and Jello and share something that you’ve made, or share something that someone made for you.

Tuesday, Dec. 15 – Christmas Trees – It’s so amazing to see all the different decorating styles people have out there. And we can’t wait to see yours! Share some photos of your Christmas tree. Do you have a special theme? A favorite ornament? Post your link at A Baby Changes Everything.

Wednesday, Dec. 16 – Christmas Crafts – Christmas is a wonderful time for crafty people to show off their skills. Do you make your own Christmas decorations? Ornaments? Cards? Scrapbooks? Gingerbread Houses? Something else? Come on over to Blue Eyed Blessings and share your creations with us!

Thursday, Dec. 17 – Christmas Recipes – Food and the Holidays go hand in hand. Come and share your favorite Christmas recipes over at Simply Sweet Home. Whether it’s an appetizer, a dessert, a drink, a side, or the main course, I’m sure we’ll all be hungry for seconds!

Friday, Dec. 18 – Christmas Memories & Traditions – We all have our favorite Christmas stories, from the sweet and sentimental to the unforgettably funny. Tell us your favorite Christmas memory. Or tell us about a favorite Christmas Tradition that your family has. Then link up over at Tidy Mom.

Sounds fun, huh? I hope everyone will stop by and participate!

Grab a Button: Feel free to right click and save the graphic above if you’d like to post on the event, and/or use the code from one of the buttons below and place it in your sidebar and in your event posts if you wish. I’d really appreciate everyone’s help in promoting this event. And to say thanks, everyone who has the HBCB button in their sidebar will be eligible for additional entries in all of this month’s giveaways!

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-Jerri


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Big Blog Announcement

November 3, 2009 Leave a Comment


Hello Everyone! I’m happy to announce that the 2nd Annual Simply Sweet Home Christmas Festival is coming up December 1 through December 25. Throughout the month of December I’ll be hosting and participating in some really fun Christmas events, and I hope you’ll all come by to join in on the festivities. Here are some of the event’s highlights and features.

Highlight:

  • Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash – December 14-18. Simply Sweet Home and four other blogs will be hosting the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash. Each blog will be hosting a different themed party/meme, and everyone is welcome to participate with their own posts and link up. More details on this to come!

Other Features:

  • Christmas Recipes

  • Giveaways

  • Great Gift Ideas

  • Decorations

  • Crafts

  • Christmas Meme

  • Tour of Homes

  • Movies and Music

  • Holiday Traditons & Memories

Sponsor the Event:

I’m currently looking for shop owners to sponsor giveaways for the Christmas Festival. If you’re interested, send an email to simplysweethome@hotmail.com and we’ll work out the details. This is also a great time to purchase ad space on the blog because it’s the holiday shopping season and because the blog will see a surge of traffic in the coming months.

Spread The Word:

I’d love everyone’s help in promoting this event. If you’d like to do a post on the event, feel free to save my graphic and place it in your post. You can also place the Christmas Festival Button on your site. I’ll also be posting a graphic and button for the main event, which is the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash. Look for the in the coming weeks!

-Jerri

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Featured On Skin MD and Giveaway Reminder

October 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
I just got word that my blog is now listed as a featured blog on Skin MD. Yay! Go check it out.

Also, don’t forget to enter the lotion giveaway from Skin MD through next week! Thanks again to Skin MD for the feature and for the great product sample and giveaway!

Also, tomorrow is the last day to enter our apron giveaway from Happy Find and our vinyl banner giveaway from Uprinting. So get your entries in!

-Jerri

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Happy Blogiversary to Simply Sweet Home!

October 11, 2009 6 Comments
I’m so happy to be celebrating my 2nd blogiversary today! What a milestone for me and the blog!

Thanks to everyone for stopping by here every week to read and comment, and thank you to all the advertisers and giveaway sponsors who have made my second year of blogging such a success!

For the Grand Finale of my Blogiversary Celebration, we’ll be having special blogiversary cake! (To be posted tomorrow). And later today I’ll be having a very special and exclusive apron giveaway sponsored by Happy Find. And later this week I’ll be announcing our winners in the rest of the blogiversary giveaways.

Thanks again for reading and following Simply Sweet Home!

-Jerri
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Hand Stamped Jewelry Winner

October 4, 2009 2 Comments

Congratualations to Janine at Life Unscripted. She is the winner of the $25 gift certificate for RHB Designs Unique Hand Stamped Jewelry. Thanks to everyone who entered. And thanks again to Rosaylnn for hosting this amazing giveaway! I hope you will all go by and see her. Her shop has so much to offer!

-Jerri
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Blog Hoppin’ Tuesday: Why You Should Read Simply Sweet Home

September 22, 2009 6 Comments

For this week’s blog hop everyone is telling readers why their blog is worth reading. So here’s a few fast facts about Simply Sweet Home, and why you should come here ALL time!

1. Recipes – I always post a featured Recipe of the Week, and sometimes I post additional recipes or recipe links for you to check out.

2. Sweet Thursday – Each month I host a dessert carnival, complete with yummy looking photos and links. At the time of the carnival I announce a theme for the next month, and you can submit your dessert and be featured in the next carnival.

3. Giveaways – I host a few giveaways each month. You can win all kinds of prizes including jewelry, print/media products, website memberships, and much more. (In fact, I have 3 awesome giveaways going on right now and couple more coming up in honor of my blogiversary!)

4. Tips & Ideas – I post on a lot of ideas for home and family, including organizing tips, home decor, party planning, crafts, and money saving.

5. Personal Posts – This year I’ve worked to make the blog a little more personal: I share items from my home, shopping trip finds, and fun photos of my kitty cats. (And when hubby and I have a baby, there will be a lot more personal stuff featured here!)

6. Special Events – From time to time I host special events on my blog. In December I’ll be hosting my 2nd Annual Christmas Festival.
7. I strive to make Simply Sweet Home a fun and informative place for everyone. I’ve been blogging here for 2 years, and though the topics may vary from week to week, the goal is still the same: Sharing ideas on how to create a Simply Sweet Home!

-Jerri

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Special thanks to Grace Jacobsen for sponsoring this blog hop.

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Blogiversary Celebration

September 11, 2009 2 Comments
(invitation created at Purple Trail)
On October 11, I’ll be celebrating my 2 year blogiversary! And I’d like to invite everyone to come and celebrate with me. Starting September 12 and going through October 11, I’ll be hosting some awesome giveaways! I’ll also be featuring my weekly recipes as usual and my Sweet Thursday Cookie Round-Up is on Sept. 24. And I’ll be featuring some fun party ideas and much more! I hope everyone will join me for this event!

-Jerri
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My New Business Blog: Fortunato’s Hat

August 5, 2009 5 Comments
Just a little annoucement to let you know that I’m working on a new business blog. As some of you are aware, my husband was laid off from his job a few months ago, and he’s been looking for jobs and opportunities ever since. We recently got a call from the spouse of one of my husband’s former co-workers, and she told us about a fairly new and growing business that, unlike others, doesn’t have a ton of people doing it yet.

We looked at what it entailed and saw all the potential benefits to be gained from it, and we decided to give it a shot. In discussing our business plans, I talked about doing a little promotional stuff on Simply Sweet Home, but after giving it a little more thought, I decided it would be better for me to just start a whole new blog so that the business stuff doesn’t overwhelm Simply Sweet Home.

Here’s a little information on the new blog and its features: The new blog will basically chronicle our “work from home” journey and tell everyone what we’re working on. Additionally since it is a site that is designed to promote a business, it will include links to our store front, and it will have information about our business and how others can get into the business we’re doing.

I’ll also be including some articles and tips for mompreneurs, small business owners, and people who want to work from home. And to keep it a little more interesting and fun, I’ll sometimes have some product reviews and product highlights on the this site.

Please wish us luck and say a prayer for us as we start this new project. I’m not sure how well it will go yet, but I’m very optimistic. And if it goes even half as good as we hope, everyone one of you will want to join our team.

We’re just getting it started up this week, so we don’t have a lot of information to share yet, but there will be lots of updates very shortly. So stay tuned!

Oh, I almost forgot. Here’s a link to the new blog: http://fortunatoshat.blogspot.com/.

Also, if anyone is looking for a new business opportunity, you can send me an email at simplysweethome@hotmail.com or email my husband at mrivers2347@hotmail.com. Or you can leave a comment on this post, and we’ll give you some information. You can also head over to the new blog and fill out our form. Thanks!
-Jerri


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Spotlight on Simply Sweet Home

July 31, 2009 4 Comments

Spotlight

Tara at Feels Like Home and Adrienne at Adrienne’s House are hosting a great event where they are helping fellow bloggers to get connected with PR professionals. In January I received my first advertising offer, and since then I’ve had the chance to work with a few companies on sponsorships and product review/giveaway opportunities. It’s been very fun and exciting for me, and I would love to get more opportunities like these in the future to grow my network and build relationships. For this event, I have to write post introducing myself and my blog to the PR professionals.

About Me
My name is Jerri. I’ve been married for two and a half years to my college sweetheart and best friend Mark. We don’t have any children yet, but we hope to start a family in the next year or so. In the meantime, we have two kitty cats that we adore. (Our parents jokingly refer to them as the “grandcats.”)

My husband was recently laid off from his job, so we’re in the process of starting a new business, which I hope to share with everyone as soon we get started. And I’m also getting ready to open a small handmade jewelry shop on Etsy in the coming weeks.

Why I Started Simply Sweet Home
I started Simply Sweet Home nearly two years ago, because I thought it would be a good creative outlet. I enjoyed reading other people’s blogs, and I thought it would be fun to be a part of the blogging community and be able to share ideas and give advice and tips to women just like myself. And I hoped that it could open the door to other opportunities.

About Simply Sweet Home
When I got married I fell in love with all the aspects of being a wife, and I wanted to create a blog that would encompass any and all topics related to home and family. Since this blog was started, I’ve always posted a Recipe of the Week, and this year I began posting it on several weekly carnivals. I also host a special feature called Sweet Thursday, which is a monthly dessert carnival where people can submit a dessert that goes along with the month’s theme. These two features seem to be the most popular among the readers and have helped me to increase my readership. Because of this fact, my blog would be great for promoting food products and kitchen items.

Other topics that people enjoy and find helpful are my posts on organizing, party planning, seasonal/holiday posts, and home decor. I love highlighting new organizing products and sharing ideas and products for seasonal decorating and parties.

Also, every few months I try to do special features and events on my blog. For example, last year I had a Christmas Festival for the entire month of December, which I plan to do again this year. I’ve also written a series of articles called “Back to College” for potential college students and parents of college students. And I recently did a series of Bridal Shower Posts.

And because I’ve worked in a small business before and am in the process of starting a new home-based business with my husband, I would like to start writing some posts, advising work at home moms. With this in mind, I would love an opportunity to review office products and any products and services that are designed to help small business owners, bloggers, and people trying to make money from home.

Contacting Me
If you’re a PR Professional, thank you for visiting and considering my blog. If you would like to work with me, please send an email to simplysweethome@hotmail.com.

-Jerri


Filed Under: announcements, product review, Sponsors

Giveaway Sneak Peek

July 31, 2009 Leave a Comment
Do you love shopping for Dining Room Furniture and decor? Then you should check out Dining Rooms Direct. They have a ton of brand name items to fit your style and your budget.


Be sure to stop by my site again in the near the future for a chance to win your own Signature Housewares Sorrento Pitcher from Dining Rooms Direct in your favorite color! More details to come!

-Jerri


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