Happy New Year! Welcome to the January Edition of the Hearth and Soul Link Party. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and that you were able to celebrate with family and friends.
The Hearth and Soul Link Party welcomes family-friendly blog posts about anything to feed 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.
The party is now held monthly, opening on the first Sunday of every month. (The January Edition of the party is starting on the 9th as it allowed me to have a bit more time with my family over the holidays.) The party will remain open until the 25th of the month, or until 300 entries are reached.
Please continue to visit and share throughout the month. I will visit as many posts as I can, and share your content across my social media platforms.
The Hearth and Soul Facebook Group
Have you joined the New Hearth and Soul Link Party Community on Facebook? Whether you visit the Hearth and Soul Link Party to share, be inspired, or both, I hope you will all join the group. Simply click the link above to go to request to join. Thank you to everyone who has joined!
Being part of a Facebook group will help us all to expand our reach and connect with each other in different ways. You can also share your own posts in the group as well as at the party – and I will share your posts as well.
What’s Been Happening – The January Edition
I am so grateful that we were able to celebrate Christmas and the New Year with our son Alexander and his partner, Hannah.
We also had a lovely time up in London celebrating their birthdays, which are just one day apart in early January. If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen some of our adventures in my stories.
On The Blog
Are you as excited for 2022 as I am? I love any excuse for a fresh start!
Looking for fun ideas to inspire you for 2022 too? Check out my advice to help you Start the New Year Right!
I also shared some delicious recipes throughout December. I’m featuring two of my favourites here at the January Edition of Hearth and Soul.
Don’t miss this Quick and Easy Nacho Dip. It makes a perfect appetizer or snack anytime.
I love this easy seafood salad recipe.
My Shrimp and Crab Appetizer Salad also makes a delicious light lunch or sandwich filling.
January Edition Featured Posts
January Edition featured posts include (from top left, clockwise):-
If you enjoy choosing a word for the year as I do, you may Want to Join a Group for Your One Word 2022. If so, follow the link to visit Lisa Notes and learn more.
I love learning new skills, and they often form a big part of my goals for the New Year. I have never made tortillas from scratch so I was really interested in Jean of Delightful Repast’s post about how to make Homemade Corn Tortillas!
Joanne of My Slices of Life shared A Sentence A Day For Gratitude in November and I was inspired by this alternative way of noticing the blessings all around us, even in challenging times.
If incorporating more healthy dishes in your diet is one of the things you are aspiring to this year, try Melynda of Scratch Made Food’s vintage recipe for Granny Dorr’s Easy Fruited Sauerkraut on Scratch Made Food.
On with the party!
The Hearth and Soul Link Party
- Please share the permalink to your blog post, and not to the home page of your blog. Please do not link to anything except blog posts.
- By submitting a post to the January Edition of the link party here, you assert that you own the content and photographs. You also give me permission to share as many of them as I can on Pinterest, Twitter, and both my own Facebook page and The Hearth and Soul Community Facebook Group. I may also potentially feature them here on my blog with photographs from the post.
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I look forward to your posts! Please continue to visit and share at the party here, and in our new Hearth and Soul Facebook Group.
Have a wonderful first month of 2022!
Comments & Reviews
Happy New Year April! I enjoyed viewing your delicious recipes throughout December. Thank you for hosting. Blessings.
Visiting from #4&5
Happy New Year, Paula! Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed the recipes. Blessings.
Thank you so much for featuring Granny Dorr’s Sauerkraut! I too love vintage and family recipes, it is one way to keep our family heritage alive and passed down to the next generation. Have a great week ahead!
It’s a pleasure, Melynda. I totally agree!
Happy 2022, April! I really hope it brings us much good after what is becoming a rough start all over.
That Nacho Dip looks and sounds fantastic. I love that it’s naturally gluten free. Will share it on my gfe Facebook page later.
I love homemade corn tortillas as well. We made them one time at one of my gf support group meetings. So good!
I’m linking up my roundup of my top posts from last year and a collection of King Cake recipes as we’re officially in King Cake season now.
Thanks for hosting!
Shirley
Happy 2022 to you too, Shirley! I too hope it brings us much good.
Thank you so much for the compliment on the Nacho Dip. I would really appreciate the share, thank you! I will keep an eye on your page so I can be sure to thank you 🙂
Can you believe I have never had King Cake! I have always wanted to try it. Thank you for sharing the recipes, and for all your support!
April, thank you so much for featuring my Homemade Tortillas post! I hope you’ll like my Vegan Sloppy Joes (#28) as well. Glad you and your husband were able to enjoy time with Alexander and Hannah.
Thank you, Jean, and it’s a pleasure. I am sure I will like your Vegan Sloppy Joes. Guy and I like to include vegan and vegetarian options in our menus as often as we can, and we do love a good Sloppy Joe. 🙂 Have a lovely week!
So glad you were able to spend time with your family! We had all ours together, too–it was wonderful. Wishing you all the best in 2022!
Thank you so much, Barbara! I am very glad you were able to be with family too. Wishing you all the best in 2022!
So glad you had a great family time! We did, too.
Thank you, Michele! I’m happy for you as well!
Happy New Year April. Thanks for hosting this great blog party in 2022 (hard to believe a new year is here). My shares this time are # 8, 9, and 10. Enjoy.
So sorry I put in the wrong link in my first comment and it’s going to another blog party. The link below is the right one and here’s my comment again: Happy New Year April. Thanks for hosting this great blog party in 2022 (hard to believe a new year is here). My shares this time are # 8, 9, and 10. Enjoy.
No worries at all, Nancy. Thank you for fixing it. 🙂
Thank you, Nancy! Happy New Year to you too 🙂
You all look so happy in your family photo. And I definitely see a resemblance between you and Alexander. Lovely. Thanks so much for sharing about the One Word group. I appreciate you, April!
Thank you, Lisa! We really were happy to be together 🙂 I appreciate all your support of Hearth and Soul as well!
Happy New Year April, Glad you enjoyed some family time at the holidays, we did as well and it was so welcomed as we could not be together the year before. Thank you for hosting the link party and looking forward to all the January inspiration!
Happy New Year, Leslie! I’m so pleased you were able to be with your family too. We were in a similar situation the year before as well, and I think it made this year extra-special. Thank you for your support of Hearth and Soul.
Happy New Year! Thank you for hosting the link-up! Hope you have an awesome January.
Happy New Year, Carol, and thank you! I hope your January is awesome too.
Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to your son and his partner Hannah!
Your appetizers look fabulous, April. I’m looking forward to a good year ahead.
Thank you so much, Pat! Wishing you a wonderful 2022.
Happy New Year April. Happy Birthday to your son too, Thanks for hosting another great party…..
Thank you, Nora! Wishing you a wonderful 2022.
Hi April! Happy New Year! It has started a little rocky for us, but we are hoping for wonderful things to come. Thank you for hosting! I posted about my first experience with making yogurt. It was surprisingly easy and the results were great! Have you ever tried to make your own yogurt? I think that I will be doing it from now on.
Happy New Year to you too, Helen. I’m sorry you have had a bit of a rocky start. I hope things will be much smoother as the year goes on. I have never made my own yogurt so I am especially interested to read your post. Thank you for visiting and sharing.
Your holidays look & sound lovely. You look very happy & @ peace. thank you for hosting and looking forward to a great year ahead. XO- MaryJo
Thank you, MaryJo! I really was. Wishing you a wonderful 2022!
Happy New Year and thanks for hosting. Hope 2022 is great for you.
Thank you, Patrick! I hope 2022 is a great year for you too!
Thank you so much for featuring my gratitude sentence of the day post!
My pleasure, Joanne!
I’m so glad you had a nice holiday with your family April. Thanks for hosting this link party and have a happy new year!
Thank you so much, Julie! I hope 2022 is a wonderful year for you and yours!
Thanks April for helping my post, “Why Choose a Word for the Year?” I appreciate the opportunity to attend this fun blog party. Will pin your recipe for veggie barley stew to my plant-based lifestyle board and will check out the recipe ASAP.
It’s a pleasure, Nancy, and thank you! I appreciate you pinning the recipe 🙂
Happy New Year April! I’m so pleased you were able to spend time with your family.
Thank you for hosting and I hope you have a wonderful January.
Thank you so much, Debbie! I hope your January is wonderful too 🙂
Hi April ~ Back with a great potato dish (#222); wonder if it’s something that’s popular in the UK and Canada as well? Visiting more links, too. Really enjoyed one about the uses for empty containers.
Hi Jean! I have definitely heard of versions of the recipe you are sharing – but I really like that yours is a scratch version with fresh potatoes. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hi April,
Hope you are off to a great New Year and having a warm cozy day. I think of you sometimes when I am having my afternoon tea and brings joy to my heart. Thanks so much for the party and your have a great month!
Miz Helen
Thank you so much, Miz Helen!
The New Year really is off to a good start. I hope it is for you too.
I often think of you as well. I hope January is wonderful for you too! ❤️