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March 7, 2009 13 Comments

Rosie at Baking Cakes Galore passed along a lovely collection of awards to me. Thanks so much, Rosie, for thinking of me. I’m honored!






Now I must pass these awards along to some other great bloggers. Congrats to all you guys! Keep up the good work.

Lamp Unto My Feet
Barbara Bakes
Sugarcraft by Soni
My Kitchen Treasures
Frugal Domestic Goddess
Dunkin Cooking the Semi-Homemade Way
Sugarplum Cottage
Cooking and the City
Blue Eyed Blessings
Her Southern Charm
Tater Tots and Jello
Alpine Klein Bunch – One Day at a Time
A Southern Grace
Nina’s Culinary Creations
Cupcakes and Crinoline

-Jerri

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300th Post and a Giveaway!

February 18, 2009 73 Comments

Welcome to my 300th post! Yay! Hard to believe it’s been that many already, but that’s what my blogger dashboard says, so I’ll believe it!

I’ve been working for the last couple of weeks on arranging a giveaway, and I thought it would be just perfect to have the giveaway in celebration of the 300th post.

The giveaway is being sponsored by little T studio. The winner will receive little T studio’s love in bloom all 4 seasons greeting card set. It’s a total of 8 pdf templates and is valued at $8.00.

Here’s a picture of the prize:

This Giveaway is Now Closed. Thank you for participating!


-Jerri

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New Sponsor: little T studio

February 9, 2009 4 Comments

I am proud to announce that we have a new sponsor! It is the little T studio. You can find some of the little T studio’s products featured in my sidebar, and I hope that you will all visit the shop.

Tonya of the little T studio is based in Arizona. Her shop features high quality, print-ready PDF templates and digital art. All of the templates are original, one of a kind, and hand drawn by Tonya!

Tonya accepts special orders and offers her customers Dollar Deals on newly listed collage sheets, as well as free self-mailers with your order. Her images are perfect for scrapbooking, jewelry making, stickers, stationary, and more!

Please stop by the little T studio, via the links below or the widget in my sidebar!

http://www.littletstudio.com/

http://www.littletstudio.etsy.com/

-Jerri

PS – I’m also hosting a giveaway sponsored by Tonya in the near future. Come back soon for details!

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Advertising, Sponsorships, Reviews, and Giveaways

February 8, 2009 2 Comments

Hello! Since receiving my first sponsorship offer from an insurance company called Castle Cover, I decided to officially announce that I am offering advertising space to other online retailers and small businesses.

My blog currently has a pagerank of 3, and we get between 1300 and 2000 hits a week and between 1600 and 2500 pageviews a week. And I expect this number to grow in our third year of production. Here’s a little bit of information about my sponsorship options:

Advertising/Sponsoring: If you would like to advertise on Simply Sweet Home, you can email me at simplysweethome@hotmail.com, and I’ll send you more information. I offer a variety of adspace sizes and packages to suit your needs, and all sponsors get a complimentary post written about their site. I also have a number of special benefits that I offer. (also, see examples of Write-ups I’ve done for sponsors.)

Reviews: I love trying new products, and I’d be happy to introduce your product to my readers. All reviews will be written within a week of receiving the products unless otherwise stated, and I keep all products that are sent to me for review. (See previous product reviews.)

Giveaways: Giveaway sponsors will be responsible for providing a giveway prize and shipment of the prize. If you’d like to sponsor a giveaway on my site, I’d love to work with you on that. It is great advertising for shop owners, and it’s fun for the readers too. I run most giveaways for about 2 weeks, and I list them on a number of sites, so you are sure to get a lot of exposure and advertising for your business! (Example of a previous giveaway)

Testimonials: Here’s what a couple of my sponsors had to say about their sponsorship experience.

“I am so thrilled!! Thank you so much for posting such a Great write-up about my jewelry!! I love that you added so many links and everything you wrote was very nice!! I truly appreciate you taking the time to do that as well~definitely worth more than what I paid for the advertising alone!” -Amy at Our 2 Peas in A Pod

“Jerri is a joy to work with, and I am very pleased with the results from both my ad and my giveaway. I have seen an increase in views of my shop and several sales!” -Cheryl at Lavender Cottage

If you’re interested in advertising on this site, sponsoring a giveaway, or getting a product review, just email me at simplysweethome@hotmail.com for all the details.
-Jerri
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More Awards

January 30, 2009 4 Comments

I’m happy to announce that Barbara over at Barbara Bakes was kind of enough to pass on the following awards to me. Thank you, Barbara, for thinking of me! I just love getting new awards! I also have to say thanks to Nina over at Nina’s Culinary Creations who also awarded me and all of her followers the Kreativ Blogger and Amazing Blog awards!



The rules for recipients are:

1. Put the logo on your blog or post.

2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!

3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.

4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

I’m passing these awards on to:

As For Me & My House

Cherry’s Jubilee

Life in Focus

Forever Wherever

Live.Love.Eat

Cooking And The City

The Happy Housewife

Keep up the great work you guys!


-Jerri

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The New Simply Sweet Home

January 25, 2009 3 Comments

Welcome to the new Simply Sweet Home! Hope you guys like the new look! As many of you know, I’ve been looking around for blog designs for several months, and last week I finally purchased one.

It’s still not completely finished; I have to customize and install all the sidebar graphics, which I’m having a little technical difficulties with right now, but hopefully in the next day or two I’ll have all the kinks worked out and the new design will be complete.

I want to say a big, HUGE thank you to Emily over at Polka Dot Pixels for this awesome design! I found her shop on etsy and decided to inquire about one of her listings. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy she was to work with. For someone like me, who loves blogging but is totally clueless about the aspects of graphic designing, she made it a very pleasant experience and her communication was very prompt and easy to understand. I had a lot of questions, and she was very patient during the process and was a BIG help.

She did an excellent job customizing her design and making it into exactly what I wanted, including all the elements I wanted, and creating graphics that, I think, go perfectly with the image, ideas, and concept of Simply Sweet Home.

If you are currently in the market to purchase some graphics, a new blog design, or etsy banner, I highly recommend Polka Dot Pixels. Her work is of a high quality. The prices are very reasonable. And Emily is a real pleasure to work with. And I would gladly do business with her again in the future!

Thank You So Much Emily For Your Great Work!


-Jerri

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Sweet Thursday Revamped/New Format

January 15, 2009 5 Comments

sweet Thursday

I was working on the Sweet Thursday post for January when I came up with a new idea. For those of you who are not familiar with the Sweet Thursday Posts, you can read about the feature here: First Sweet Thursday Post. In a nutshell the feature is devoted to desserts. Usually I feature photographs of different desserts from around the net, and I include a link to the page where that dessert can be found. I’ve also left it open to feature resturant food and product reviews if need be, but the bottom line is that it has to be desserts.

And usually I go around and find between 5 and 10 different items to feature. I love doing the “research” and it’s fun to see all the great sweets out there, but as I was putting it together last night, I had a thought: What if I allowed fellow bloggers to submit their own desserts for the Sweet Thursday post? (just as I did with the Christmas stuff) So I’ve decided I would try it. I figure it can’t hurt anything. At the very least, I’ll get no submissions, and I’ll just go about my business as I normally would…..and at the most I’ll get some great ideas to feature.

So if any of you foodie/baking bloggers would like to see your desserts featured here in the feature, please read the following.

Here are the rules and guidelines:

1. Each month I’ll be doing a different Sweet Thursday Post. Upon publishing the post, I’ll announce when the deadline will be for the next Sweet Thursday post submission, and I’ll tell you if there is a theme for the month.

2. Your submission has to be a dessert or at least something kinda sweet. (Fruit is okay.) There’s no recipe requirement; I’ve featured a lot of recipe links in the past, but I’ve also featured plenty of links to photo blogs and flickr pages. As long as it’s something sweet, it should be okay. (So for example, if you’ve created a cake, cookies, or cupcakes that you want to share photos of, it’s okay to send that in regardless of whether you have a recipe posted for the item.) And you don’t have to have a blog!

3. Also, if you have a blog where you only feature recipes and do not feature pictures, you can still send me a link and the name of your recipe, and I’ll put that up here as well.

4. Try to pick a dessert that goes along with that month’s theme (if there is one). I wouldn’t be very strict with this rule actually….if it seems like it kind of goes with the theme, I’m sure it will be acceptable.

5. Submit your dessert by sending an email to simplysweethome@hotmail.com.

6. In the email, include your name, the name of your dessert, your blog’s name, a link to your post, and photo of your dessert. (Or if you’d like, send me your info, and I’ll grab the photo off your site.)

7. In my hopes of getting others involved, I would appreciate it, if you would mention somewhere in the post that you are (it is) being featured on Simply Sweet Home and link back to https://simplysweethome.com/. (You do not have to use the banner or even title your post Sweet Thursday, but you can if you want to. It’s optional, but I would appreciate a link.)

8. Also, it’s okay to send in something from an older post or something that you’ve submitted to other events.

-Jerri

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New Award

January 14, 2009 6 Comments

I was searching on the internet to find which sites have linked to me, when I found out that I had been given an award last summer. I was visiting this blog back in the summer, so I don’t know how I missed the award posting, but nevertheless I am happy to have found out about it now. It is the Arte Y Pico award for creativity, design, and interesting material. It was given to me by
Paved with Good Intentions.

Read below to find out more about this award and see my nominees:

Now, here are the rules and regulations, as well as my nominees for the next five deserving winners of the Arte y Pico Award:

1) Pick five (5) blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award (http://arteypico.blogspot.com/ )

So here are my 5 nominees:

Tator Tots and Jello

Imperfectly Beautiful

Lamp Unto My Feet

Faery’s Kitchen

Cooking and the City


-Jerri

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Thoughts & Plans for 2009

January 4, 2009 2 Comments

I never really make any big life-changing resolutions, apart from doing well in school (while I was still in school) and other general things that I had no problem keeping. This year I have a few different things in mind:

Cooking – Last year I began meal planning. It’s helped me to stay organized and save money. So this year, I’m making it my resolution to make more new recipes. I bookmark recipes all the time and never make them, and I end up making a lot of the same things over and over. So this year I want to make at least one new recipe each month. I’d love to do more than one. But I figure if I just make it my goal to do one, then it will be just super if I can do more than one.

Home Improvement Projects – We have several projects that I want to get done in our house. It’s hard to say how much we can get done this year, because it really all depends on my husband; I need him to help with all the heavy lifting and stuff. Plus we’ve already put a lot of time & money into making improvements on the interior (which I still need to post about). But I hope we can get at least a couple of projects completed this year. I hope to paint & fix up the front porch area, re-stain the front door, and build & plant some new flower beds for the front yard.

I’ve also got to do a little more decorating in the house. I’ve been shopping around for stuff, but I still have some things to buy and things that I’ve bought & haven’t put up yet.

I’d also like to paint the cabinets in our kitchen. Upon getting the house, we installed new floors, lights fixtures, and a new stove/fridge, and we replaced the countertop, but we kept the cabinets. The one’s we have were installed not too long ago, so they didn’t need to be replaced, but they could use a little touch up paint.

Budgeting & Bills – For the past two years I’ve been keeping account of all our expenses on a spreadsheet. (which is something I highly recommend, by the way.) So I’m going to continue to do that, and as we expect to make more money this year than last (& neither of us are in college anymore) we plan on starting to pay off our debts this year.

The Blog – I’m looking forward to another great year of blogging. Some time this year I hope to get a new design for the blog. I’ve been looking around for templates & designers for a while now, and hopefully I’ll have something in the next few months. I’ve also been thinking of some other changes for this year. One small change that I plan to make is the Recipe of the Week. I still plan on featuring at least one recipe each week, but I plan on posting it early in the week so that I can submit my link to a couple of carnivals that I’ve found. I’m also working on an idea for a new feature, which I’ll announce at a later time. I’ve also considered reorganizing & restructuring the posts so the blog will be more cohesive (for lack of a better word), but I just can’t decide exactly what I want to do. Hopefully in this new year, I can figure it all out!

I hope you are all having a great 2009 so far! I look forward to talking to you and sharing new ideas with you this year!


-Jerri


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December 2008 Poll Results & New Poll for 2009

January 1, 2009 Leave a Comment

I posted a new poll for January: What’s your New Year’s Resolution? (Creative, huh?) I put about 10 different answers up, and since some of them are related, I made it so that you can pick more than one answer if you want. I based the answer choices on the fact that a lot of people in polls, as well as people I know, have said this year or in previous years that “this” or “that” is their resolution. You can choose from: Exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight, be more organized, meal planning, spend more time with friends/family, Church/religion (I figured I’d use this as a general term for religious activities/devotions, etc.), and also saving money and paying off debt. And then of course, there is the “Other” choice, if your resolution in not included with the answer choices.

Also, in case your interested, here are the results of our Christmas song poll:
White Christmas – 22%
Jingle Bell Rock – 6%
O Holy Night – 29%
The First Noel – 6%
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas – 9%
The Christmas Song- 6%
Other – 19%

Thanks everyone for voting in our Favorite Christmas poll, and I hope you’ll participate in the New Year’s resolution poll as well.


-Jerri

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