Friday Fives – New Blog Hop!

It came to me just as I was falling asleep last night – an idea for a fun and easy meme to do on Fridays! Welcome to Friday Fives, a new weekly meme where we share lists of, well, anything! To participate in this blog hop, all you have to do is write a post on your blog or site and share five things you like, five things you’ve done recently, five places you’d like to visit, five products you can’t live without – the list is endless!

Here’s a couple of ideas to get you started:

Last five TV shows watched
Last five pins on Pinterest
Five favorite blogs or websites
Five favorite types of candy
Five favorite restaurants

In your post, include a link back to the latest Friendly Fives post here on Table for Five, or include this cute button!

Friday Fives Badge

Then, come back here and link up your post so I can come to your blog and read your list.  This is a fun way for us to get to know each other better!  Want to make sure you don’t miss a post? Add Table for Five to your feed reader or subscribe by email!

Not a blogger? You can make a list on your Tumblr page, you could create a new board on Pinterest, post your list on your Facebook wall, or even post your list right here in the comments!  Wherever you create your list, check here every Friday by 9:00 a.m. EST for the linky.

Okay, here’s my first Friday Fives list!

Last Five TV Shows I DVR’d

  • The Big Bang Theory
  • Grey’s Anatomy
  • Private Practice
  • Body of Proof
  • The Soup

Add the URL to your Friday Fives post here. I’ll keep the linky open through the end of the day on Sunday. Have fun creating your lists, I can’t wait to read them!

Friendly Friday Linky 10-28-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! NOTE: My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Happy Friday everybody! Remember to look on the sidebar for my Google Friend Connect widget, and either click Join This Site if you haven’t already, or click Sign In if you’ve already joined. If you have the Google Friend Connect widget on your blog, let me know in a comment so I can stop by and follow you back!

Approved commenters will see up to ten recent posts to choose from when leaving their comment, please choose your Friendly Friday post if you did one. If not, choose a post you’d like me to read and comment on! Remember, your comments here are DoFollow, which means Google sees your link and follows it over to your site, giving you a tiny boost in your site’s page rank. It’s just my way of letting you know I appreciate you as a reader!

Thanks again for stopping by Table for Five today, hope you all have a great weekend!

Friendly Friday 10-21-11

Thanks Mail Carrier Friendly Friday badge

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! NOTE: My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Happy Friday, everybody! Can you believe how fast this week went by? Last week’s refreshingly cool weather gave way to downright chilly, we’ve had the heat on at night all week. I wish it would stop raining so we could rake the leaves up and get the lawn mowed!

If you are following me on Google Friend Connect for the first time, and you have the Google Friend Connect widget on your blog, please mention that in your comment so I can visit you back and follow you, too!

Approved commenters will see up to ten recent posts to choose from when leaving their comment, please choose your Friendly Friday post if you did one. If not, choose a post you’d like me to read and comment on! Remember, your comments here are DoFollow, which means Google sees your link and follows it over to your site, giving you a tiny boost in your site’s page rank. It’s just my way of letting you know I appreciate you as a reader!

Thanks again for stopping by Table for Five today, hope you all have a great weekend!



Friendly Friday 10-14-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other!  NOTE:  My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier -  the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Happy Friday, everybody! After a week of 80+ degree temperatures, the weather has cooled down, which is a relief. It’s nice to open windows and feel the Fall breeze sweep through the house!

The purpose of Friendly Friday is to stop by your friends’ blogs, follow them on Google Friend Connect if they have the widget, and leave a comment letting them know you stopped by. If you are following me for the first time, and you have the Google Friend Connect widget on your blog, please mention that in your comment so I can visit you back and follow you, too!

Also, you may notice when you leave your comment that you now have more options. That’s because I installed the CommentLuv Premium plugin, which means regular commenters, those who have had at least three approved comments, are now seeing ten posts to choose from to link to under their comment, and can now have three Keywords after their name – like how I use Elizabeth @ Table for Five in my comments. If you haven’t yet had three approved comments, you’ll just be able to leave your first name until you’ve had three.

Comments are also DOFOLLOW for approved commenters, which means that link to your recent post gets followed by Google and counts as a backlink from my blog to yours! Blogging for me is all about community, so the ten approved posts and the keywords after your name, and the DoFollow, those are just one way for me to say “you are important to me as a reader!”

Thanks again for stopping by Table for Five today, hope you all have a great weekend!



Friendly Friday 10-07-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other!  NOTE:  My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier -  the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Hope all of you have a great weekend! Even if you don’t participate in Friendly Friday itself, you are always welcome to leave a “Friendly Comment” letting me know you stopped by!



Friendly Friday 7-29-11

Friendly Friday blog meme button Friendly Friday is about making new friends and gaining new Google Friend Connect followers. The first three links on the list are the hostesses, please stop by their blogs, look for their GFC button in their sidebar, and click to follow them. Don’t forget to follow me too if you aren’t already! Then, if you haven’t already signed the linky, sign mine and your link will appear on every blog that posts the linky!


Friendly Friday 7-22-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday, the weekly blog meme that introduces bloggers to each other and helps everyone get more followers on Google Friend Connect! Your hostesses for this weekly celebration are Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! It’s a great way to get new followers to your blog, say hello to your blog friends, and make new ones!

Visit any of the hostess blogs for instructions on how to participate in this blog hop and to grab the link code if you want to put it on your blog too.

Guess who I got to meet in person at last weekend’s Brands and Bloggers Summit? Our Friendly Friday hostess Xenia from Thanks Mail Carrier! We were so excited to finally meet in person!

I’m posting this way late, like Friday is almost over already, but please sign the linky if you read this post!



 

Friendly Friday 5-13-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday, the weekly celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog!  It’s a great way to get new followers to your blog, say hello to your blog friends, and make new ones!

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration,go to any of the three blogs listed above , follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. Feel free to right-click on and save the Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the posts on any of the three hostess blogs and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone.

Please add your Friday link to the linky list so I can stop by and wish you a TGIF! Have a great weekend everybody!



Friendly Friday 11/12/10 – Making New Friends in Chicago

Not only was it great to get to spend time with old blog friends – erm, I mean, long-time blog friends, not that they are OLD, you know what I mean, right?! Gah! – but I also got to make new blog friends!  Kraft and 360i did a great job putting together the Delicious Byte Bloggers, we all got along so well!  These are the ladies I had the pleasure of spending this past Monday and Tuesday with in Chicago:

Andrea of Moody Mama Says
Barb of Blogfully
Brandy of Not So Average Mama
Danelle of Home Ever After
Elizabeth of Busy Mom
Jen of The Mom Reviews
Jessi of Jabbering Jessi
Kelli of 3 Boys and a Dog
Kim of Mommy Knows
Liz of This Full House
Stephanie of And Twins Make 5!
Vera of Lady And The Blog

I hope we all get a chance to meet up together again, they are all fantastic bloggers as well as great people to hang out with! And now, on to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Christi at Frugal Novice, Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog too! Just click “Get the code here…” at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way for everyone to get even more traffic to their blog.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. We would love for you to also grab our Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Did you do a Friendly Friday post today? Link it up here! Or, leave the link to any post you’d like me to stop by your blog and read! Friendly Friday is all about visiting current blog friends and making new ones! Happy Friday Everybody!!

Friendly Friday 10/15/10

Happy Friendly Friday! This is a weekly blog hop that anyone can participate in. It’s a great way to find new blogs and get new readers! To host the link list on your blog, click “Get the code here…” at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone.

Here’s how to participate in Friendly Friday:

  • Join Google Friend Connect and post the widget code on your blog so that others can follow you.
  • Follow the hostesses of Friendly Friday by looking for the Google Friend Connect widget on their blogs and clicking the Follow button. The hostesses are Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog. Also, I’d really appreciate if you would follow me on Google Friend Connect too!
  • Write a blog post and publish it each Friday. Go to one of the three hostess blogs and at the bottom of their current Friendly Friday post, under the last link in the list look for this -
  • Both of those lines are a link that goes to the page on Linky Tools with the code you need to copy and paste into your blog post. If you use WordPress, make sure you switch to the HTML tab before you paste in the code.
  • Right-click on the Friendly Friday image at the top of this post and save it somewhere on your computer so you can add it to your post each week.
  • Publish your post, and you will automatically have all of the links to each blog participating that week. Visit as many as you can, leave the URL to your Friendly Friday post, and follow them on Google Friend Connect to make new friends and get new followers in return!

Have a great weekend!