It's a Scentsy Day!

Hello to all my wonderful blog readers. I know it has been a few days since I got a post up. I just wanted to apologize for that! I have been extremely busy working with our Boy Scouts for their Pinewood Derby next weekend and doing family things! I have also been a little under the weather! I wish it would make up it's mind whether it wants to be hot or cold. That would help a lot!!!

I have exciting news!!!! I debated and debate on this for several weeks before I finally made a move, but I'm happy to announce that I'm now an Independent Scentsy Consultant!

I have always loved the Scentsy products and so does many of my family and friends! I will be sure to keep my blog up-to-date with specials and promotions so that everyone can join in and make their homes wickless and safe!

If you want to go and check out my page, here's the link Scentsy Fragrance and here's the link to my facebook page Demi Spencer Independent Scentsy Consultant!

I look forward to seeing everyone around and getting some orders in! The new Spring/Summer catalog starts March 1st! If you'd like to place an order or for me to mail you a catalog, let me know!



From my front porch to yours,

The Blog Worshop: Online Blogging Conference

Hello friends! I hope you all are having a wonderful day!

My focus in today's post will be about our significance in the blogging community. I'm not sure talking about the things we share, I'm also talking about the things we write and how our image as bloggers come across to our readers and companies that may potentially want to sponsor our blogs. Those are amazing feats for any bloggers. We all dream about being known in some way whether it's for our crafts, our deal seeking, our photography, or just the pure satisfaction in sharing our knowledge with others.

I know that sometimes, I feel like I have hit a brick wall and don't know where to turn. I get discouraged and fear that my blog will sink if I can't come up with something new and refreshing for my readers. Do you ever feel that way? I'm sure that most of you have at some point or the other. In my search for ways and ideas to keep my blog fresh and full of content, I ran across The Blog Workshop. 

What is The Blog Workshop you may ask? It is a three day online conference for bloggers and vloggers. The course will provide you with information to help you take your blog/vlog to a higher level and in turn give you a fresh outlook on making your staple in the blogging world! They have a great agenda lined up for everyone {be sure to check out the sneak peek below} as well as some truly awesome speakers from IZEA, Blog-Trends, The Blog Frog and more! You can find out more about the agenda and speakers by clicking the links to view their respected pages!

If you are like me, you don't have time to attend an out of town conference or you may have a job to where it makes it impossible to attend! That's the great thing about The Blog Workshop ... it's 100% online. No driving. No hassles. No fuss. Just you learning how to give your blog that much needed edge! Are you excited yet? I hope that you are! You can register for this event by clicking here!
Now, all you need to do is mark your calendars for the dates of May 17-19, 2013 and attend this amazing event!

Thanks to the Indiegogo Campaign, you can also get discounted tickets for the event! Be sure to check their campaign out if you are interested in attending but need a little help in doing so!

Did I mention The Blog Workshop also offers grant and scholarship programs? If you would be interested in learning more about these, please follow the links to learn about their grants and scholarships.

I hope to see you all at the conference! I'm stoked and ready to have a blast learning how to make my blog more beneficial to my readers, companies, fellow bloggers and myself!


From my front porch to yours,

"And The Nominees Are ..."

Good Wednesday Morning to all my friends out there in bloggyland. I hope your week has been a great one so far! Mine has been pretty good and pretty rough all in the same toll. I haven't felt that great this week, but the show must go on!

I was pleasantly surprised to to read my comments this morning and find out that my friend Carolyn over at Prospective has nominated me for the Liebster Award! I am beyond excited!!!

What is the Liebster Award? 

The Liebster Award is given to bloggers who are fairly new to the blogging world with less than 200 followers. The award is then passed along to other bloggers of the same criterion.

 Here are the rules for receiving this award:

1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2. Answer the questions that the tagger set for you plus create 11 questions for the people you’ve tagged to answer.
3. Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
4. Go to their page and tell them.
5. No tag backs

 
11 {Random} Things About Me ...

1. I love my cowboy boots! 
2. I have a heavy southern drawl! 
3. I enjoy scrapbooking in my spare time. I don't do it much anymore, but I wish I still did! 
4. I'm afraid of snakes! Big time!
5. I have never lived outside of the state of Tennessee. 
6. I'm addicted to Coke!!!!! 
7. I've had low self-esteem issues all my life ... I'm working on it though ;)
8. I'm a lover of University of Kentucky football! Go Cats!! 
9. I love to cook!! Yum-Yum! 
10. My daddy gave me the nickname "Frog" when I was little. I still answer to it today! 
11. I have been in love with my hubby since I was like 15'ish! 

11 Questions ...

1. What is your favorite book?       
   I love the book "Flirting with Forty" by Jane Porter and "The Pact" by Jodi Picoult.  
2. Are you a cat or dog person?
   I love both! It would be too hard for me to pick. I have a tabby/calico mix named Precious and a basset hound named Chloe! I love them like they are my children!
3. Where do you see your self in ten years?
   I'd love to be in a bigger house and out of debt! As for my blog, I hope to be well established by then and helping others achieve their dreams!
4. What is your favorite form of social networking?I love to catch up with all the happenings via Facebook. I pretty much have all my blogging friends on there. It's nice to get a glimpse into their lives outside their blog.
5. What are you most excited about in 2013?
   I am excited for my husband's job role change. He has worked really hard to get to where he is today, and our family is really going to benefit from it! I'm also excited that I get to blog everyday and truly do something that I love! I'm thankful for that every morning when I wake up!
6. What is your favorite Holiday?
   My favorite holiday is a toss up between Christmas and Halloween. 
7. Do you prefer coffee, tea, or neither?
   I prefer tea over coffee. I'm more of a hot chocolate kinda girl instead of coffee! Yuck!
8. What is your favorite thing to do in your spare time?
   I enjoy catching up on other blogs when I have time or curling up on the couch with my honey and watching a good movie!
9. Do you have any weird habits?
   Weird habits ... let me see. I drink a Coke pretty much every morning to give me a boost! Does that count? I never make meatloaf the same way twice. We keep our Reese's Cups in the fridge. Oh yeah, I bowl backhanded!
10. What's your favorite smell?
    Hands down ... Honeysuckle!!!
11. How many siblings do you have?
    I have 2 siblings ... both are older brothers!

And now, for my 11 questions ...

1. What is your #1 pet-peeve? 
2. Who is your biggest inspiration? 
3. What is the best part about blogging {in your opinion}?
4. What blogs do you read everyday?
5. What are your must watch TV shows?
6. What is something you could not live without? 
7. Do you have any children?
8. What is one thing you want to do before you die? 
9. Describe yourself in one word. 
10. What is your favorite thing to do outdoors? 
11. What is something you wish you owned but never have?       

I Nominate Thee ...  

1. Kelsey @ Keeping Up With Kelsey
2. Laura @ Calm Delight
3. Bethany @ The Classy Bee
4. Lauren @ Tennessee Honey
5. Beth @ Shug in Boots
6. Kathy @ Sparkles and a Stove
7. Miranda @ Our Nesting Place
8. DaLynn @ For the Display of His Splendor
9. Cortney @ Autumn Sunsets
10. Rachel @ Floral & Fudge
11. Chloe @ Rainbows @ Honeysuckle

Congrats to everyone receiving a nomination!!!



From my front porch to yours,

Special Guest Post with My Girl Kelsey!

Happy Saturday everyone! I have a very dear friend of mine, Kelsey, stopping over from her blog to do a little front porch sitting with y'all today! Please give her a great big ole Country Life Welcome and be sure to stop by her blog! She's fun and full of creativeness and just a doll to talk too!

Take it away Kelsey ... 

Hello there readers! My name's Kelsey and I blog over at Keeping Up With Kelsey. I've gotten to know Demi over the past couple of months and she's such a sweetie! The best part, I LOVE spending time with her on her front porch. There's always room for more buddies, we love to just sit around relax, tell stories and laugh at each others stories. She's really become a friendship I've loved to watch grow and I cannot wait to see what her porch has in store for the future!

A little bit about me, well, I grew up on a farm in small town Nebraska. Went to college for Agriculture (yup, they have colleges for that stuff), finished that degree and then started working at an Investment Firm. I felt that I needed a business degree so I started on one. Just now finishing it up, four years and two degrees later... Through it all I found a boy I kinda started getting attached to. His name is Travis, you'll hear a lot about him if you follow me. He lived straight north down the road from my parents about six or seven miles. We decided we kinda like each other a lot so after three years of hanging out exclusively we still going strong. Moved north seven miles and I've lived there ever since!

I'm an organizing freak, a self-proclaimed OCDer, an attempted DIY'er, and an avid couponer. I like to play outside in my garden, read a book or cook when I have a little bit of free time. I've been a believer in the Lord since I was a baby and I believe that volunteering is SUPER rewarding so I find myself in charge of the area youth group, teaching polka dance lessons to teenagers, finding any way to help out the local community and playing in a band with fellow community members in the summer (ya, I'm a band nerd). 

Since we live on a farm I often find myself falling in love with the new babies that are born each year, we have a ton of cows, some ponies, a couple kitties and of course, no farm is complete without an old hound barkin all night! Right now we're calving so it's kind of exhausting but the babies are so precious. But, I'd have to admit, my all time favorite part about the farm is the actual farming. Working the ground, planting seeds, spraying the tiny seedlings to keep pesky weeds away, watering in hopes that the drought doesn't kill off our money-makers and then getting to harvest those crops to find a profit is fun for me. I always post a "farming on the four's" post on my blog to keep my followers informed about what's going on around the homestead. 

Couponing, well that's a big one for me! I really never had a "I need to stop spending" moment, I'd say it's a way of life I've just learned since I was a little squirt. Anymore, I look at it as a fun challenge. Since I'm with my farm boy he's constantly busy so I find myself alone a lot. Finding yourself alone means finding a hobby, mine's saving money. Best part, I'm not spending money on my hobby. Bonus!

I love to find a good Pinterest project and attempt to re-create it. You'll find a couple on my blog, also I'm working on my list of 101 in 1001. The basic run down of it is this: you find 101 things you want to accomplish in the next 2 1/2 years and you cross them off one by one. I'm slowly getting some finished up but with the summer coming up I'm hoping to accomplish a ton more! Wish me luck!

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me a little bit, if you like me (or find me hilariously weird) swing on over to my blog and keep up with me! 


Have a great weekend everyone! 
 

From my front porch to yours,

The Life of a Stay at Home Mom

Hi y'all and welcome to my blog! This is my first post so bare with me as I learn more about blogger.

My name is Demetria ... I go by Demi mostly or as all the little kiddos call me ... Dee Dee! I'm a 28 year old stay at home mom, wife and small business owner. I'm also President of TBM Mom & TBM Plaza which are work at home organizations that support moms, dads and families no matter what their life situation. If you'd like to know more about what we do, please check out the following link: TBM Plaza.

Let me see ... a little more about me ... I'm a small town country girl, and I love my roots in the south! I'm married to a great man ... Nathan ... and we have one son together ... Logan ... we hope to have more kids soon!

I created this blog to share my loves, passions and just general things I'm interested in. I hope to meet other mom followers to share things with along with others that just find my blog intriguing. I look forward to meeting some new friend very soon!

Be sure to look for some Christmas blogs to come in the upcoming weeks!

Have a great weekend everyone!