Hello and welcome to The Hearth and Soul Link Party. How are you doing? Like everyone else, I am trying to adapt and evolve to what feels like a constantly shifting landscape. Between COVID-19 and events on the world stage, 2021 certainly has started off with a bang. I hope this finds you and yours safe and well.
The Hearth and Soul Link Party welcomes blog posts about anything that feeds the soul. Things that feed the soul may include (but are not limited to) recipes, decorating, crafts, family, home, DIY, organization, travel, book reviews, the arts and self improvement.
NB. Please only share blog posts. I’m sorry, but links to Facebook posts etc will be deleted.
What’s Been Happening as I Adapt and Evolve
I’m excited to announce that on Monday afternoon UK time, I will be a guest on Rachel Maunder’s Story Live Facebook Live. If you get a chance, please do check it out! (The recording will be visible on Rachel’s page after the event as well.)
I’ve been working to adapt and evolve by making a start on my New Year Aspirations. It’s so important we remember to be gentle with ourselves as we move through the uncertainties of the coming days.
The Read 21 in 2021 initiative has been incredibly comforting and inspiring. Reading 21 minutes every day has had a really positive effect on my mood and productivity. I have only missed one day so far and am on my second book already!
On The Blog
In the spirit of being gentle with ourselves as we make positive changes for the new year, I’m sharing 5 Reasons I Believe Women Need to Ditch the Scales.
I also shared an easy vegetarian main course that my husband always asks me to make.
Whole wheat pasta & roast vegetables make this flavourful, healthier Roast Vegetable Pasta Bake a pasta bake recipe with a difference.
If, like my husband and I, you are trying to adapt and evolve by eating less meat in 2021, I’ve got a resource to help!
Don’t miss my 3 Day Vegetarian Meal Plan with Recipes, a delicious way to try out meat free eating for a few days. (The days don’t have to be consecutive!)
If meat is more your thing, don’t miss one of my favourite ways to prepare chicken breasts.
Learn How To Poach Chicken Breasts Step By Step, perfect for all sorts of delicious recipes.
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful content!
Adapt and Evolve for 2021 – Featured Posts
Adapt and evolve featured posts (from top left, clockwise):-
Michelle of My Bijoux Life remembers and celebrates an extraordinary year in 20 from 2020, a post to inspire you in many of different creative areas.
Libbie from A Life Unfolding shares her Favorite DIY, Renovations and Home Projects, with lots of ideas to help you update and improve your living spaces.
If part of learning to adapt and evolve for you involves growing some of your own produce, Suzan of It’s My Sustainable Life has some great advice for you in Starting a Vegetable Garden From Scratch.
Finally, if your aspirations for 2021 include healthy eating, you will love these Honey Wheat Muffins with No Refined Sugar from Erin of Big Green House.
On with the party!
The Hearth and Soul Link Party
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I’m looking forward to seeing what you will share this week. Take care my friends. I wish you a wonderful week!
Comments & Reviews
April, I am so honored you featured my Elephant quilt and post! Thank you! Your are so right about needing to evolve to deal with the ever-changing Covid landscape and the lunacy in my country. We have to roll with it. But it is tough when things change often, and lately not for the better. Stay safe, friend!
Michelle
https://mybijoulifeonline.com
It’s a pleasure, Michelle! Take care and stay safe, my friend!
Great ideas to share, thanks for hosting!
Thank you, Melynda!
Reading affects me positively, too.
It sounds like we have quite a lot in common, Barbara!
Love your reading goal ad the method you are using! Reading is so important for me!
I hear about so many good ideas on Gretchen Rubin’s podcasts, Michele 😀 I’ve been trying to read more for some time as it’s really important to me too. This method really works!
I’m liking that reading 21 in 2021 idea! Wishing you all the best in 2021. 🙂 I brought by some Japanese Sauerkraut. Hope you enjoy!
Thank you, CJ – I love sauerkraut! Wishing you all the best in 2021 too!
I love your encouragement to be gentle with ourselves in the upcoming days. Sometimes I am way too hard on myself when gentleness would be the better approach. I need to go read 5 Reasons to Ditch the Scales because I definitely am hard on myself with weight. 🙁
I’m really glad it resonated with you, Lisa. We can be so hard on ourselves!
Hi April
I am also trying to eat more vegetarian meals this year. Your recipes look delicious!
Thank you, Pat!
Thank you, April, for a lovely party & for featuring my vegetable garden tips! Have a wonderful week!
It’s a pleasure, Suzan! I hope you have a wonderful week as well!
I am glad you are well and focusing on self care (evolving) during this pandemic. Since my partner works evenings, the kids and I eat meat free often during the week, leaving meat filled meals for family dinners on the weekend.
Thank you so much for hosting and I hope you have a wonderful week!
Thank you, Cindy! That’s a great idea to eat meat free during the week. Take care, stay well and I hope you are having a wonderful week so far!
This is what I featured 1-4 to 1-8-2021. On Tuesday Best Country Vegetable Soup. Wednesday Five Can Dump Soup. Thursday Slow Cooker Mushroom and Barley Soup. And Friday Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup. Enjoy!
Ooh, I love barley! That soup sounds right up my street, Marilyn!
Great features! Thanks for hosting and best wishes for the new year!
Shelley
Thank you, Shelley! Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy new year!
I love your reading goal; what a great idea to set aside a little time each day to read! Of course I seem to have the opposite problem where I really should probably set a limit on the time I spend reading each day. LOL. I am a total bookworm.
Thank you, Joanne! I think a bookworm is a lovely thing to be! I love reading, I just struggle to fit it in 🙂
That elephant quilt is adorable.
I thought so too, Lauren!
Thanks so much for hosting April. I absolutely loved your New Year Aspirations post! My favorite tip was thinking of what I would say to a friend who wanted the achieve the same thing. Totally different then what I say to myself! Very helpful point! Thanks again and have a great week.
Thank you so much, Denise! I’m so glad the Aspirations post resonated with you. We definitely ned to be kind to ourselves, especially right now 🙂 I hope you had a good week and that you enjoy the weekend.
Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week. Always love posting here.
Thank you so much, Patrick! I hope your week has been a good one and that you enjoy the weekend!
I love the idea of the reading initiative! Thanks for hosting each week, and have a great week April!
Thank you, Marielle! I hope you have had a great week too. Enjoy the weekend 🙂