Let's Be Friends {Blog Hop}

Welcome to the Let's Be Friends Blog Hop!

A blog hop is a set time frame for current or aspiring bloggers to find new blogs and quality content. It is a great way to make new friends and find inspiration! It is also a fabulous way to promote your own blog and posts.

Dear Friends,

What a day to celebrate! This is the 66th week of the Let's Be Friends blog hop! Thanks for joining us on this special day. Chelsee and Tiffany are extremely delighted to see the way this hop has grown and love to see your faces each week! It is crazy that we have been doing this for 65 weeks! 

Join us every Tuesday at 7am (MST). This blog hop focuses on content. LINK UP YOUR FAVORITE POST from last week in this fun content-sharing blog hop! I love the idea of blog hopping, but I love the idea of reading posts and quality content on new blogs I've never been to even more. Instead of simply linking up your blog button, you are now able to link up your favorite post you recently wrote. Have a delicious recipe to share, DIY tutorial, or heartfelt post? Share it with us! All hosts and co-hosts put up some unique and fun content from the past week. Make sure to check them out. P.S.- you may still link up your blog button and blog name, but it is encouraged to link up your favorite post instead. You will get more page views and interest if you do so! Some of the most successful blog hops I have participate in focus on content rather than just exchanging follows. You never know who will become a loyal follower or pin that delicious new recipe you posted!

The BEST part of this blog hop? Each week there will be a WINNER! That's right, each week we will choose one lucky blog to feature from the previous week's hop. This hop receives thousands of page views every week, so your blog will have the chance to be center stage for free. You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win. Only those who link up a specific post are eligible to be featured! *You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win.

The last exciting change is that the co-host spots will now be available to all sponsors of  The Dwelling Tree or Southern Beauty Guide. If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop, email Tiffany or Chelsee about sponsorship opportunities and how to co-host the weekly hop!

There are a couple of great giveaways going on right now at Southern Beauty Guide and The Dwelling Tree. Go check them out! :)

Let's Be Friend's Blog Hop Guidelines

1. Link up your favorite post from your week.

2. Follow your hosts and co-hosts.

3. Grab the button and post it on your blog so we can share the love.

4. Visit 3 other blogs and follow them along!

5. Tweet about this blog hop, using #letsbefriends

6. Pin the button on pinterest so we can spread the news! 

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***Once a week, one blog will be chosen to be the featured blogger from the previous blog hop. 

Meet your hosts: 

The Dwelling Tree: Blog, Bloglovin'

Southern Beauty Guide: Blog, Bloglovin'

 and your co-hosts:

Sarah @ Life as a Hughes

Rachel @ Life as Rachel 
Tori @ A Little Leigh Weigh
Holli @ Holli's Hoots and Hollers

***This weeks featured post from last week's hop:

***This weeks featured post from last week's hop:

Source

Army Ever After

I Won't Read Your Blog If...

Hello! This is Tiffany this week.  So let's talk for a moment about an issue before I get into the winner. A TON of you linked up amazing post last week, but due to the rules of actually linking up a blog post and and not just your blog url I was unable to pick you. This saddens me each week due to it being a reoccurring event and while as I would love to pick you I can't unless you link up your blog post. So please linkup your blog post and not just your blog url.  Again, I hope that you all continue to linkup your posts each week because I must say that they are all very interesting to read! 

Now onto the winner! I had to hand it over to Elizabeth from Army Ever After's post, "I Won't Read Your Blog If...". To be honest, the title grabbed me. I immediately though, "I gotta read this because I don't want to be on the naughty list!!". I am glad I read it because it was hilarious. I am glad people exist, like Elizabeth, who can put into words what all of us are thinking, in a tactful and good-humored kind of way. I cannot do that. I would come across like a flat out capital word B. There are the obvious things most people dislike bloggers to do... horrible backgrounds that hurt to look at, fonts that make you squint... you know what I mean. But you gotta go read her post to find out the rest! Muchas Gracias to you Elizabeth for your post that made me happy. 

Go check out Elizabeth. Be her friend. She has a rockin' blog and a great sense of humor. GFC connect her. Tweet her today and say hello. 

Peace out!

Keep posting awesome content! You make it so fun for us to read all your posts! If you can, please link up a specific post. It makes it easier for us to come and visit! 

*Remember YOU can be next weeks winner! :)

An InLinkz Link-up

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!

We would like to thank all of you for continuing to link up each week. We thought it was time to give back to those that support us. This month linking up with not only give the post you link up extra exposure, but it will also give you a chance to win fabulous prizes! Make sure you read all the details about this giveaway before entering!

#lfbgiveaway

The Details: 

-Must be 18 yrs or older to enter

-US Residents Only

-We will VERIFY all entries! 

-This giveaway will run for a month, each week you link up gets you another chance to win a 

$10 Starbucks Gift Card & Large AD Space on 

The Dwelling Tree (valued at $15) & Southern Beauty Guide (valued at $10)!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good Luck:)