Life, Family, and Home - Simplified & Sweetened
Today is Small Business Saturday! Across the country people are supporting small business by shopping small! I’m happy to call myself a small business owner; apart from my blog and content services, I also have an Etsy shop. It feels good to be able to do something creative and use my talents to make money for my family, and I’m so thankful for the opportunity that I have a to a work from home mom! [Read more…]
Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! And welcome to this week’s Friday Favorites party! I hope you’re having a lovely holiday week, and I appreciate you taking the time away from your holiday festivities to spend a moment with us. While you’re here I invite you to check out our giveaway from Leroy Lime. The giveaway is for a sweet piece of Christmas tree garland, and we have a lot of easy entry options for you!
I’d also like to take a second and invite you by my Etsy shop this weekend. I sell hand stamped Christmas ornaments and jewelry, and for the holiday weekend, I’m offering customers 10% off with coupon code GIVETHANKS.
Please support and follow our lovely blog party hostesses:
Jerri at Simply Sweet Home – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Christine at Light and Savvy – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Jen at Creatively Homemade – Twitter | G+ | Pin
Dawn at LeroyLime – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst | BL
Maisy at Becoming Alice – FB | G+ | Pin
Sheree at Stage Presents – Twitter | FB | Pin | Inst | Inst
Lisa at Condo Blues – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Amy at A Day of Small Things – Pin
Penny at Penny’s Passion – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Kelly at Under a Texas Sky – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst | BL
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You can show your love for this week’s favorites by going over and commenting on the posts and by pinning or sharing!
And if you love all of this week’s favorites, please pin, share, and invite your friends to this week’s linky party! [Read more…]
Hello everyone! Welcome to this week’s Friday Favorites party! This week we have a very special edition. Not only have our hostesses picked some fantastic holiday ideas for you to take a look at, but we also have a giveaway for you this week! Yay!
The giveaway is for something that’s handmade…it follows under the category of holiday decor…and it comes to you from our friend and Friday Favorites hostess Dawn of LeroyLime. Dawn has been hosting Friday Favorites with me for nearly a year, and she was a regular visitor to the party long before then. She is also an avid crafter with her own Etsy shop, and I’m very excited to feature her shop here today!
Please check out the giveaway below; you can get 5 entries just for linking up a post this week! But if you don’t have a blog, that’s okay too! There are a lot of other entries that don’t require you to participate in the party (although we’d love to have you!).
Please support and follow our lovely blog party hostesses:
Jerri at Simply Sweet Home – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Christine at Light and Savvy – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Jen at Creatively Homemade – Twitter | G+ | Pin
Dawn at LeroyLime – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst | BL
Maisy at Becoming Alice – FB | G+ | Pin
Sheree at Stage Presents – Twitter | FB | Pin | Inst | Inst
Lisa at Condo Blues – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Amy at A Day of Small Things – Pin
Penny at Penny’s Passion – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Kelly at Under a Texas Sky – Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst | BL
If you are featured this week, be sure and grab a featured button for your blog!
You can show your love for this week’s favorites by going over and commenting on the posts and by pinning or sharing!
And if you love all of this week’s favorites, please pin, share, and invite your friends to this week’s linky party! [Read more…]
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ToPetsWithLove #CollectiveBias
When I go out shopping these days, the aisles are decked with Christmas decorations and great gift ideas. I can’t help but get in the spirit of the season and start planning my holiday shopping list. And as I get ready to prepare my gift list, I always include my four legged family members! The Simply Sweet Home dog and cats get a stocking each year, filled with food, treats, and toys. And we have a good time watching as they receive these gifts. Today I’m going to show you how a few products from Purina can help you to make your pets Christmas merry and bright! And I’m going to share a tutorial for a DIY Pet Blanket, the perfect handmade gift for your dog or cat.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BakeHolidayGoodness #CollectiveBias
The holiday season is almost here! (Or is it here already?) And with that, comes holiday baking and snacking! When you’re an on-the-go mom, you don’t always have time to spend a whole day in the kitchen baking up something for the family Thanksgiving or the church potluck. Luckily NESTLÉ® is here to save a day with whole host of baking staples and creative products that make holiday baking easy and fun! Today’s featured recipe is actually two recipes in one. I’ll be sharing a recipe for Pumpkin Muffins, and then I’ll show you how can transform those muffins in to Tres Leches Cupcakes. [Read more…]
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! And Merry Christmas to you all! Yay! I hope you all have a lovely and blessed holiday filled with fun and cheer!
I just had a lovely time celebrating Christmas Eve with some of my family, and we still have a couple of celebrations to go! With all the fun and the hustle and bustle, I decided to cheat tonight and do a re-run of a few previous features from this month. I think that’s allowed, right? LOL.
Also, I just want to take a moment and recognize the fact that this is party number 300! Woohoo! That’s a lot of link ups! And yes, there will be a celebratory giveaway, but I’m going to have it post-week 300. I wanted to do it on the week we hit 300, but on holidays we don’t see nearly as many party visitors, and also I decided it would be best to postpone till after the year, so that more people will be able to enter.
Anyway, without further ado, let’s get to this week’s features and party! Merry Christmas!
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Simply Sweet Home
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Snowman Candy Bars from The Gracious Wife
DIY Christmas Wreath from The Beautydojo
Pretty Plaid Jar Gift from The Country Chic Cottage
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Are you done with your holiday shopping? I just love holiday gift giving, and I love it even better when you can give a gift that you KNOW someone will love.
Do you ever find yourself just buying gifts that require no thought at all? Things like gift cards or general audience gifts that could be for anyone (or the “token gift” as I like to call it). If so, then you should really reconsider your gift giving. Whether you’re spending $5 or $50, it is the THOUGHT that counts.
Before buying another gift card or scented candle, think about what your gift recipient really loves. What are their hobbies? What are they passionate about? And if you don’t know the answers to these questions, then find the answer by asking another family member or friend, or even by checking out the person’s Facebook or other social media profiles. [Read more…]
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! Can you believe we are only one week away from Christmas! AH! I don’t know about you but I still have a lot of presents to wrap and a few to buy. And I still have to decide what to cook! Eek!
And on a less important note, next week is week 300 of our party! Woot! I wanted to host a giveaway to celebrate this, but since holidays are usually a “slow week” for the party, I may postpone a giveaway for a few weeks. So just stay tuned!
As for this week, we have an array of fun Christmas foods. I know you will LOVE these!
Also, while you’re here, I invite you to enter our giveaways from Vera Premium Dog Treats and a Rockwell Tools BladeRunner Saw!
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Simply Sweet Home
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Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies from Always Made with Love
Snowman Candy Bars from The Gracious Wife
Spinach Tortilla Roll-Up Tree from Living on Cloud Nine
7 Christmas Cookies from Woman of Many Roles
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We are just over a week away from the biggest gift giving day of the year: Christmas! If you are still shopping and need great holiday coupons and gift ideas I have some fun gift giving ideas from Fresh Market! The grocery chain has a number items that are perfect gifts for everyone on your list from family members to friends and coworkers.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BIGSeason #BigLots #CollectiveBias
As we prepare for the holidays, the love, joy, and cheer can quickly turn in to stress, frustration, and a little bit of bah humbug, especially if you are designated cook and the hostest with mostest, but it doesn’t have to be that way! There are so many ways you can simplify during holidays the so that it’s enjoyable for everyone, including yourself! [Read more…]
