More Highlighted Links--Share Your Best Post!

Good morning, friends. If you're here to link up to Weekend Bloggy Reading, it's open for new links until 10 pm (ET) tonight. Please share your best post of the week with us...crafts, recipes, home decor, book reviews--all kinds of posts are welcome.

I like to Feature bloggers who not only have great projects, but who also take the time to  link back to me within their post(s). I add many of these Features to my Pinterest page as well as Facebook!

Here are a few links from Weekend Bloggy Reading that caught my eye.

~Ruler Table Runner (Country Living Inspired) via Confessions of a Plate Addict

~S'More Cream Puffs via A Pretty Life in the Suburbs

~Confetti Glasses (Anthro Inspired) via it all started with paint

Highlighted Weekend Links-- Share Your Best Post!

Happy Saturday! I hope you'll pop over to my Weekend Bloggy Reading link party and share your best post of the week. I'm in North Carolina today, so I'll have a nice bunch of posts to feature tomorrow! Until then, have fun browsing the links at the party, and be sure to link up your work too.

If you linked up, please remember to take a minute or two to browse a few of the other links. Parties don't work for anyone if you leave your link and then dash off. Just a friendly reminder. Thanks!

Are you working on any creative projects this weekend?

Stop and Shop: Sponsor Highlights

Are you here for the Weekend Bloggy Reading link party? Stop by to link up your best post of the week! I'll be back later today with some highlights from the party, which is open until 10 pm (ET) on Sunday.

I thought I'd share a few quick shop highlights from my Sponsors, who always have something neat going on. Check out what they have in store for you this month! Here are a few of my favorites:

~The Cat's Paw
Savon Bouquet

~Imparting Grace
Grace at Home link party--share your posts about making your home a special place of Grace!

~Scentsy
Scent of the Month: Lemon Berries

~Shaklee
Save 15% on your first order from Shaklee today. The Get Clean Household Mini Kit looks like the perfect way to freshen up...Spring is on the way!

~ Silhouette
I don't have one (I guess I missed that bulletin), but the new CAMEO would sure be helpful in getting those upcoming summer projects completed. If you head over to the Silhouette shop, please be sure to use the code SERENITY when you check out.

                                                                 

~Tres Magnifique
Vintage Book Bundle with Skeleton Key

{Happy Shopping!}

*If you are interested in partnering with me this year as a Sponsor, I have a slot available! Please email me at amandaserenitynow(at)gmail(dot)com for details. My rates are very competitive!*

Back later this morning with some Highlights from my Weekend Bloggy Reading link party!

::Weekend Bloggy Reading:: Link Up!

Welcome to my Weekend Bloggy Reading link party. I hope you'll link up your best post of the week today, and maybe leave me some comment love. Please be sure to read my guidelines before you add a link.

All kinds of posts are welcome--recipes, crafts, funny stories, home decor, etc.; but please do not link to Etsy shops, businesses, items for sale, etc. (I have a Sponsors section, if you'd like to Advertise with me.)

Here are a few of my faves from this week:

sources listed below

~Kitchen Remodel (Alma Project) via Centsational Girl

~Antiqued Mirror via Dans le Townhouse

~Birdhouse, Bath, and Feeder via One More Time

~Oreo Banana Cream Pie Cups via Tidy Mom

~And Me? This week featured:

• Thrift Store Furniture Makeover
• 4th of July Tinsel Wreath (and Last Minute Decorations)

Time to link up your best post of the week!

Some Days...

Some days...you just need to lay by the air conditioning vent and take a break.

That's Emma's new favorite spot. She used to just lay flat on the vent in the other room, but she kind of likes her den under my "new" thrift store end table.

I wish I could say I'm taking a break in front of the air conditioning vent, but the girls and I are on our way down to North Carolina with my mom. Another few days at my grandmother's house, going through items to donate, etc. 

My Weekend Bloggy Reading link party is scheduled as usual for tomorrow morning (8 am ET), so be sure to swing by with your best post of the week.

Here's the button code for the party if you want to get a head start! Recipes, crafts, home decor, book reviews, funny stories, you name it. Come prepared to showcase your blog and find some great weekend reads.

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How was your 4th of July?

Liberty

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...."

-The Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans! Let's be grateful for our freedom and for the men and women who fought and died to secure that freedom!

4th of July Tinsel Wreath (Last Minute Decorations)

It's not too late to show your patriotic spirit! I like to leave my 4th of July Decorations up well into the month of July. I just feel more festive that way. I put a few fun decorations outside over the weekend, but my favorite is my old Independence Day Tinsel Wreath.

This is, hands down, the easiest wreath to make. I don't have step-by-step photos, but if you have a wreath form, you just tack one end of your tinsel garland down with a flat thumbtack or pin and wind it around and around the form until the whole thing is covered! If you have a metal front door like I do, then you can follow my tutorial for how to hang a wreath on a metal door. Easy peasy:

As for the rest of the yard...I didn't have a lot to spend. We still have mulching to do, and one of the azaleas in my front flower bed died (boo!), so there's a blank spot where it should be. But I like the little pops of color that I added with some flags and some pretty flowers. I had to remove the vinyl "welcome" on the door because it was peeling badly, and someday (!) I will have black shutters rather than green. A girl can dream, right?

Pretty flowers and flags!

And that's pretty much it so far. Like I said, we need to mulch, and I have some solar lights I want to put up, but this is it for now. It's not too late to put some cute stuff out for the holiday!

Do you decorate for the 4th of July?

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