Hello everyone! I’m excited to say that I decided to join the Ultimate Blog Party hosted by 5 Minutes For Mom. This is a great opportunity to introduce your blog to new readers and to find new blogs to read & make new friends. As if this wasn’t enough for you to join, there are also prizes being awarded. The party began on March 7 and will continue through March 14, so head on over and join the celebration!

Introducing Me

If you’re visiting from the Ultimate Blog Party, Welcome! My name is Jerri. I’m from Alabama, and I’m a newlywed. (married just over a year) I love being a wife and a homemaker. I also work from home, doing administrative work for my husband’s business. In my spare time I enjoy writing. I write articles on a variety of subjects, and I’m also working on a cookbook and some other ideas for books that I plan to put up on my blog in the future. I also happen to have degrees in History and English, so I love discussing those subjects with friends, and I’m also a bit of a political junkie.

Why I Started Blogging

Just a few months after getting married, I was talking about some plans I had for my kitchen, and I was very enthusiastic about it. My husband smiled at me lovingly and said, “You really like this, don’t you?” And I said, “Yes.” I’ve been amazed at how much I actually enjoy cooking, organizing, decorating, and straightenting up my home, and just being a good wife. It’s prompted my husband to call me the Domestic Goddess.

I never really read any blogs, until I was on the internet looking for ideas for home businesses and work from home opportunities. I didn’t realize just how big the blogosphere was, and it intrigued me. Since I love to write anyway, and since I enjoyed running my own webpage several years ago, I thought it would be fun to start my own blog.

About Simply Sweet Home

I started Simply Sweet Home last October, as a blog for homemakers. It includes just about every aspect of what it takes to create a “Simply Sweet Home.” I post a lot of recipes, especially desserts and comfort food. I focus on a lot of different ways to create a good home environment, from cleaning and organizing to decorating. I also feature product reviews and tips to save money and to simplify your life. And for fun, I occasionally include a post on crafts for moms and kids.

Here are some other features that might interest you:

• Every Monday I participate in Orgjunkie’s Menu Plan Monday.
• Every couple of weeks I have my Sweet Thursday post. It centers around desserts. Sometimes it’s a recipe or recipes, and other times it features pictures of desserts that I’ve decided to share or reviews of desserts from a resturant.
• Every week (generally around Friday) I post my Recipe of the Week.
• And every couple of weeks I write a Simple Solutions post, which is just what it sounds like. I think of a housekeeping/cooking/cleaning dilemma and write a simple solution for it.

Well, I guess that’s basically me & my blog in a nutshell. Thanks for visiting. Please come back soon to see all my upcoming spring & summer posts, and I really hope you’ll subscribe to my feed and/or newsletter. And please leave me a comment. I’d love to meet some new people.

Thanks again for reading!

I have just a few announcements to make. First of all, I will be out of town this weekend visiting my parents and will not return until late Monday afternoon, so most likely I won’t have a Menu Plan Monday Post this week or any posts for this weekend, but please be sure to stop by next week, because I’ll have some last minute ideas for Valentine’s Day, which I’m sure you’ll love. Also, this weekend I’m happy to report that I’ll be attending the annual Chocolate Festival held at the local mall near my hometown. My mother is a manager for O’Charley’s and always designs and hosts their booth, so my husband and I will be there hanging out with her and sampling the many treats. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Secondly, you should notice that in the top of the left side bar, I have added a place where you can subscribe to the Simply Sweet Home mailing list. This is sponsored by Feedblitz. I’ve been testing a couple of different mailing list providers over the last couple of months, and I have chosen to go with it. If you sign up you’ll recieve a weekly update of current articles featured on the blog.

And additionally as a thank you to you for signing up, every month or so I will send out a “member’s only” mailing which will include some special bonus feature articles, recipes, and special offers. And finally, I’m in the process of writing and creating some books/ebooks. I intend on creating a couple of big projects to sell, and then use other smaller projects as freebies. As a thank you for joining the list some of these freebies will be offered only to members or will be offered to the members first. This is my way of saying thank you for reading and taking an interest in my blog and it’s also a way for me to get to know the readers.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you will all join the mailing list.

Hello everyone,

I’ve been brainstorming over the past few weeks to come up with some new features for this blog. I’ve come up with several ideas and have narrowed those down to about four or five. I’ve decided to try out these ideas and let you help me decide which ones to keep as regular features on the blog. I’ll decide which features to keep and how often to have the features based on how well I do on writing the post and based on the amount of positive post comments and emails I get.

The “unveiling” of the new feature ideas will be spread out over the next two or three weeks, and then I’ll be making my final decisions some time next month. Rather than going into the details of what each new feature will be right now, I’ll explain them individually later as they come up in future postings.

I’ll be working to get the first couple of features out this week, along with a few “regular” posts. The first new feature is “Simple Tips.” (yes, it is exactly what it sounds like.) I know it’s a common feature and even a weekly feature on a lot of blogs, but I figure I should give it a shot. After all if so many people use this feature it must be a good one.

Be sure to stop by again soon to see the new features and other news. Thanks!