It’s already week 10 of Friday Favorites!  Thanks for making these first 10 weeks a success!

Please keep your posts coming!  This week for linking up, you are eligible for extra entries in my Cuisinart Giveaway and my Marcal Small Steps Paper Product Giveaway.  For more entries, check out the giveaway posts for more details! 

I love Mod Podge Projects!  I just started mod podging myself, so it’s great to see everyone’s ideas.  This Mod Podge Planter comes from Veronica’s Korner.

We love eating Mexican Food!  I was intrigued by this Taco Pasta from Debbi Does Dinner Healthy & Low Calorie.  Doesn’t that look tasty?

Another pretty and colorful plate of food!  This Chicken Salad with Crunchy Vegetables and Sesame Ginger Vinaigrette comes to us from Inspired2Cook.  Delicious!

And of course, I have to feature something sweet.  These Brownie Waffles came from A Little Bit of Everything.  Just seeing the name “brownie waffle” makes me hungry! How about you?     

And I thought these kid’s aprons from The Phillips Fam were adorable!  What a fun project! And there’s a great tutorial. Go check them out!

Now show us what you’ve been working on this week! Link up below!

Hey everyone! My goodness! This week has gone by super fast!  I hope everyone got their taxes filed and all that great stuff!  And now that that’s over, you can sit back, relax, and enjoy this week’s featured posts! Yay!  If you’re featured, be sure to grab my “featured” button for you blog!

Now let’s see what you’ve been doing this week.  Link up your posts below! Please link up a direct link to your post (not your blog), and please link back to Simply Sweet Home so others can come join the party!

Welcome to Friday Favorites where we share our favorite posts of the week! Want to be featured here?  Just link up your post below.  It can be a recipe, a tip, a project, a fun idea….basically anything you want to share! The linky starts each Thursday night around 10:30 and ends the following Tuesday.  And if you miss the linky, feel free to leave a link in the comments section!  Be sure to mention Simply Sweet Home in your post or include my button, so we can have other people come and participate, and please link to your direct post (not your blog), so that we can find the post your sharing.  Thanks!

So many cute ideas this week! I’ve found so many projects that I’d like to try! Keep the posts coming!  And please invite your friends to come by.  The first week I did this event, I invited a few folks over to link up, and since then I’ve been a little busy and haven’t had the time to do anymore invites or visit new blogs, but I hope to have more time soon.  I’d really love for this event to grow and reach more people, so if you’d like to help promote it, I’d really appreciate it!  Also, I’ve decided to start giving out extra giveaway entries on a regular basis if you participate in this event, so that might be worth mentioning to friends.  For instance, this week if you link up, you qualify for an extra entry in my Tea Collection Giveaway.  

I look forward to seeing your posts!  Now let’s see this week’s featured bloggers!

I love this collage idea!  I’ve actually been wanting to do something similar at our house with some pictures I have.  Yolanda at Monkey See – Monkey Do made this collage as well as another for her daughters.

Happy Good Friday! And I hope you all have a lovely Easter holiday this weekend!  We had some great ideas linked up last week. If you didn’t get a chance to look at all the links, you should definitely check them out!  In the mean time, here are some of my favorite ideas from last week.  If you’re featured, please grab a “Featured” button for your blog! Thanks!

Don’t forget…everyone who links up this week gets an extra entry in my Survival Seed giveaway!

I just love this Easter Egg Topiary from Life As Lori. Go by and check out her tutorial and see how lovely her table looks!

I definitely plan on making these Homemade Granola Bars from Common Cents Home.  My husband was recently diagnosed with diabeties, and I think this would be a great snack for him.

You know I love pink & green! This lovely Spring Wreath was created by The Single Nester.

I love this Dollar Store Cake Stand made by The Little Brown House.  

So unique! This Designer Inspired Gift Bag came from In My Own Style

And for dessert….this Chocolate Pudding Cake with Truffle Frosting from The Misadventures of Mrs. B.

Happy Friday! And thank you for stopping by today to share your favorite posts!  I want to let you know that in the future I will start giving extra entries for select giveaways if you link up at Friday Favorites. So be sure to check back each week, because there may be a prize in store for you!

Now here are just a few of the lovely items that were linked up last week.  If you’re featured, please grab a button for your blog!

This lovely spring wreath was designed by Shannon at Living My Life On Purpose

Hello everyone! Welcome to our first edition of Friday Favorites. I plan to host this event each Friday and I hope that it will help me to get to know my readers and create a more interactive site for everyone. 

To join the party, just link up a favorite post from this week, and be sure to include a link to my blog somewhere in the post so that others can join the party.  For this event, I’ll also be featuring bloggers.  Each week I’ll pick about 5 ideas from participants and followers OR I’ll choose a single blogger to feature for the week.  So if you’d like to be featured for Friday Favorites, just link your posts up here, OR become a follower, OR be a regular commenter. (Or do all three!)

I’m fortunate to have a lot of people that come by for a visit and several that follow and comment on a regular basis, so it was difficult to decide what to do for this first Friday Favorites post, but finally I decided to feature a single blogger.  So without further ado, I’d like to introduce you all to Chaya!

Chaya is the creator of Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog AND Sweet & Savory.  Chaya’s also a contributer at Our Krazy Kitchen, where they have recipes, tips, and fun foodie round-ups. Chaya is a loyal follower and commenter, and she’s a regular contributor to my monthly Sweet Thursday round-ups.  She’s also a great friend and an excellent blogger! 

Chaya’s blogs chronicle her kitchen adventures, featuring tons of delicious and unique culinary creations. Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog is dedicated to gluten-free recipes, while at Sweet & Savory pretty much anything goes.  To be honest, I never knew much about gluten-free food till I visited Chaya’s Comfy Cook blog, and her blog has definitely kept me open minded about it.  As you can imagine I’ve been most inspired by her gluten free desserts!  Chaya is a big fan of Nigella Lawson, Paula Deen, and Dorie Greenspan, and they’re recipes often serve as models for her gluten-free masterpieces.  Here’s just a couple of  yummy examples:

Chaya made these delicious looking Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich Cookies adapted from a Nigella Lawson Recipe.

So what about Chaya’s other blog? Why, I thought you’d never ask! Sweet & Savory has even more of Chaya’s delicious recipes.  The tagline says it all: “Over the years, my taste in food has changed, as have my recipes. This blog will chronicle the changes I continue to make, as I face challenges in healthier eating and in new methods of cooking.”

Well said! And from the looks of things, it’s turning out to be a fabulous journey.  I’m tempted to brag on Chaya’s recent chocolate chip cookie and brownie posts, but there’s so much more that I could mention, other than desserts.  One recipe I’d love to try is Chaya’s Moo Goo Gai Pan.  Looks delicious, huh?

And here’s one of her many pasta dishes: Quick & Easy Pasta. Yum!