Welcoming Wednesday Linky Party #10!!

Good morning! Its that wonderful time of the week that so many of you look forward to--

I really hope you share with your friends, and get them over here, because everyone that wins "featured Blogger of the Week" will be entered into a Grand Prize drawing for a $50 gift certificate to Amazon that will take place at the end of November---just in time for Christmas shopping! And...I might throw in a few other special little goodies at that time too, just depends on how things are going around here!

This last week was totally amazing,

with so many fabulous links and posts that it was, again,

 really hard to choose.

We had spiritually challenging posts, posts on training pets to treat poultry right, making your own deodorant and camping oatmeal recipes, garden planning, and some beautiful posts for mothers about the worth of what you do by staying at home.  I could go on and on. If you want to check their posts out, click right here.

 However, 

TWO posts really caught my eye--one because of the timely information it contained, and the second because of a single, moving and beautiful picture.

  Post number one was by 

Amy's Budget

and covered how to financially plan ahead to cover a vacation for your family each and every year. As the purse strings grow tighter and tighter for many of us, her sound, simple advice rings true and profound. Please head over and check out her post by clicking the link above the picture.

Last but not least, I also chose this beautiful and poignant post from Lisa, who is the author of the blog

Feathers In The Wood

 

because of her beautiful storytelling of finding a tiny, perfect hummingbird nest in the forest, and figuring out where the materials came from. Doesn't this picture just sing Spring to you when you see it? There are more gorgeous ones over there, so click on her link above to check it out 

Amy and Lisa,

Congratulations on being our featured bloggers here

for Welcoming Wednesday this week,

AND please feel free to add our Welcoming House button on your post, along with the statement that you were featured by us. You will also be entered in my Featured Blogs Contest that will continue throughout the year, where all the blogs will be entered for a large prize, 

to be announced in November.

 Due to some issues with our Linky server unexpectedly going to a paid service, we will be using different other providers until we find one that fits.

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For Everyone Else...

Would you please read the following 
and link up your posts? 

Each blog is allowed to enter two posts that fit in these categories.

 Entering your link is super easy, just click on the widget, and enter your URL link and thumbnail picture. It may take a little while to appear, but it will, just check back in a little bit! Please remember I moderate things, so it may take a little bit if you leave a comment as well! :)

 The Welcoming Wednesday Link Party is open to anyone who is sharing posts from their blog in the following categories: 

DIY: what crazy creations are you concocting over on your homepage this week?

 Faith-based: Do you have a word of encouragement, life lesson, or heart speak to share with readers? ( please note, this is a Christan faith based blog, and this is the genre I am looking for..)

 Family-based: growing and raising a family is important stuff, and we want you to share your latest! Crafts, fun ideas, recipes, crazy pics? We want to see them all!

Herbs: Are you growing them? using them? Learning about them? Share with us! 

 Gardening: if you love the dirt, then this link up is for you! 

Frugal ideas: We can ALL use more ideas on how to save money, time, and to reuse, recycle, upcycle, or retrain our brains to put more money in our pockets! 

 Canning or preserving: Got a recipe? Want to crow about your latest accomplishment? Dare to share your failures? We are right here waiting for it! 

 Homesteading: We want to live vicariously through your efforts, so please give us updates on your homestead and all its accomplishments: 

 Preparedness: I am a firm believer in being prepared as much as you can be and not relying on someone to swoop in and save you, so posts dealing with this are welcome!

 Please no giveaways or affiliate links without prior permission. 

 Our rules are super simple: PG rated.

 Nothing vulgar or crass will be tolerated.

 In fact, a single verse comes to mind when I am looking for the heart of posts to be shared on this link up: "Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things!" (Philippians 4:8) 

  Be sure to link back here to the Welcoming House post so your readers can see all the wonderful posts from the Welcoming House community! You can find the code for my button right over there on the right side, just edit your post, go to HTML, add the script at the bottom of your post and click update. Voila! Ready, set, go! 

Many blessings to you and yours, 

Heather