I am in proud mama mode this morning. We have 114 bloggers participating in Adopt a Blogger #3… this is our biggest Adopt a Blogger yet!
You all are an amazingly talented group of people. I have enjoyed reading through your blogs this past week and trying to make compatible matches. I hope I succeeded and you all get as much possible out of your mentor/mentee relationship! As I was looking through some of the “newbie” blogger sites, it reminded me of one thing. Remember how awkward and not so cute you felt in high school? Now, when you look at high school girls you are amazed at how beautiful and sophisticated they all look? Our group of newbie bloggers is just like that. When I first started blogging, it was awkward and took me awhile to figure it all out. These newbie bloggers are sophisticated and have beautiful blogs! I am very impressed.
Before I get on with with the matches, I need you all to head over to Michele’s blog, Life Lightly Salted. Michele is giving away a brand new digital camera in a giveaway especially for newbie bloggers. If you have had your blog up and running for less than a year, you are eligible to enter. Michele has all the details and requirements. How cool is that? Thank you so much, Michele, for being such a huge supporter of Adopt a Blogger!
Now, for what you have been waiting for… Mentors, meet your new blogging babies! (After the jump)
- The Veggie Queen is adopting Raw Jules
- Picky Cook is adopting Healthy Lessons
- Blog Well Done is adopting Healthy Happy Life
- The Reluctant Vegetarian is adopting Passion for Eating
- Tastes Like Home is adopting The Cookbook Chronicles
- Equal Opportunity Kitchen is adopting Foodie with Family
- Family Friends and Food is adopting Lynda’s Recipe Box
- City Mama is adopting When Mama’s Happy
- Slashfood is adopting T.O Reservations
- Panini Happy is adopting Mindy’s Mouthful
- Jenn Cuisine is adopting Playing House
- I Love Food 4 Thought is adopting Erin’s Food Files
- Recipe Girl is adopting Cinemon Girl
- Karen Cooks is adopting With Knife and Fork
- In Good Taste is adopting The Not So Skinny Kitchen
- Joy the Baker is adopting Sweet Treats
- Dana Treat is adopting Sassafras Cafe
- Di’s Kitchen Notebook is adopting It’s All About Food Family & Life
- Hopie’s Kitchen is adopting Lemon and Cheese
- DLYN is adopting Eat Play Live
- The Life and Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch is adopting Tried and Tested
- Seriously Good is adopting Chef Holly
- Mommy I’m Hungry is adopting Love Big, Bake Often
- Ezra Pound Cake is adopting Good Life Eats
- My Kitchen in Half Cups is adopting Randomosity and the Girl
- The Comfort is Always Here is adopting Dishing Up Delights
- Anya Cooks is adopting Thyme for Nourishment
- Gourmeted is adopting BRB…Eating
- Foodie Reflections is adopting Chef the City
- Bunny’s Warm Oven is adopting Baking for the Boys
- Cupcake Project is adopting Cherryspoon
- Modern Girls Kitchen is adopting Don’t Forget Delicious
- Feels Like Home is adopting Up on Lavender Hill
- Barefoot Plumies is adopting Spirited Miu Flavor
- Dianne’s Dishes is adopting Make a Whisk
- Big Black Dog is adopting FoodBat
- Erin Cooks is adopting 17 and Baking
- Grow Cook Eat is adopting Eat This
- The Adventures of Kitchen Girl is adopting The Reluctant Chef
- Life Lightly Salted is adopting Kat’s Kitchen Place
- My Baking Heart is adopting Shelley Bakes
- Sass & Veracity is adopting Dessert-o-Licious
- Foodalogue is adopting Jeremy Hanlon
- Adventures in the Kitchen is adopting Hungry Bruno
- Off the Meat Hook is adopting Going for Seconds
- Tomato Kumato is adopting Give Peas a Chance
- Cupcake Rehab is adopting Is This Thing On?
- Inn Cuisine is adopting What’s Cooking Blog
- The Diva of Dining is adopting Post College Kitchen
- Midwest Neurotica is adopting Cre8tive Kitchen
- Tartelette is adopting Deelish Dish
- LaDue & Crew is adopting Burp and Slurp
- Culinary Concoctions by Peabody is adopting Spork or Foon
- Bucky’s Barbecue and Bread is adopting Discover the World of Artisan Beef
- Ms Adventures in Italy is adopting Taste As You Go
- Dinners For a Year and Beyond is adopting Pink Family Dinners
- Cooking by the Seat of My Pants is adopting Aromasysabores
- Gina’s Weight Watchers Recipes is adopting Cook Appeal
There you have it – all of the Adopt a Blogger #3 participants! For a complete list of participant expectations, please visit this post. Please contact your match ASAP. If for some reason you have not heard back from your match after one week, please let me know (but please also keep in mind that I am due with baby #4 any time now, so be patient if I don’t respond immediately). Also, if you are unable to find contact information for your match, let me know that as well!
I will be promoting your Adopt a Blogger posts on Dine & Dish, my Twitter account, my Facebook account and on Stumble Upon. If you write anything about Adopt a Blogger, please link back here or send me an email and I will be sure to promote it. Also, throughout the next couple of months I will be featuring each of you on Adopt a Blogger round up posts. Stay tuned for more information! If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. please let me know kristen <at> dineandddish <dot>net. If you are interested in placing the Adopt a Blogger #3 badge on your site, you will find it in my right hand side bar. Thanks for participating and supporting Adopt a Blogger #3!
Oh – and if I missed someone or you discover a broken link, please let me know!
Now, for those of you here for the Irish Cream Bundt Cake recipe pictured above, click here for my post about this delicious cake!
I would love to be adopted.
Eeeeee! I am SO excited! Tartelette, give me a high five! We’re gonna rock this! Woop woop!
Deelish Dishs last blog post..make-him-your-slave lemon cake
Thanks for including me on such short notice!! I look forward to working with everyone! Now I need to see that Irish Cream Bundt Cake recipe… oh and congrats on baby #4!!
Brenda Campbells last blog post..Anyone want free chocolate??
YAY!!! I am so excited! This is going to be so much fun!
Tanias last blog post..Thoughtful Thursday…Beginning of Summer
Thank you!!!!
Marthas last blog post..I’ve been adopted!
Yay! I’ll head over to BRB…Eating. 🙂
Joys last blog post..Cranberry Granola
Forgot to say thanks, geez.
Thank you so much for doing this! I know you’re busy and expecting your baby #4 soon. You rock!
Joys last blog post..Cranberry Granola
Very interesting roundup of food bloggers. According to the definition I’m a newbie…btw I’ll post a link to this event in my next events-posts.
If you’re adopted, will you receive this delicious cake also? hehe 😉
Have a great weekend!
Gera
Gera @ SweetsFoodss last blog post..Culinary Art School Classes for Becoming a Chef, Cooking for Fun or Simply Food Passion? (Poll) and Salad Poll Result
Kristin, Anja already made me snort my tea! your’re good 🙂
Tartelettes last blog post..In The Kitchen With Lemonpi
I am so excited! thank you!
Jos last blog post..Tanka Bar Giveaway Winner!
This is so great Kristen! Thanks for putting all of this together! It feels so so special! Yay!
Joy the Bakers last blog post..Brownie Bottom Ice Cream Cupcakes
Sweetie, I don’t know how you do it! Find the time to blog, arrange events such as this and still have time to write for other sites! You are Super Woman!!! 😉 Make sure to take a few minutes for yourself, OK?
LyBs last blog post..California Rolls or Beginner Sushi
Great response — and so many new blogs to explore. Good luck with child #4.
Yay! Thank you Kristen! What a great turn out. I look forward to getting to know my buddy as well as other adopt a bloggers!
Now where’s the badge? =)
lol, I see it! I was looking for the old style one. Haha! =)
That’s quite a list of folks who in the adoption program. How great!
The Duo Dishess last blog post..Let Them Eat Cake
THANK YOU SO MUCH for organizing this Kristen!!! What a huge thing to take on when you have baby coming any day. We soooo appreciate you. 🙂
Lori @ The Recipe Girls last blog post..Lunch with Mario Batali: Asparagus Risotto
Thank you for including me on the list and organizing all of this!
Elissas last blog post..Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria
ooh that sounds like such an adorable family! 🙂
What? You might not respond right away because of baby #4? Fine – I guess that’s a priority. 😉
You’re awesome for doing all of this. Congrats on such a successful event. So much for keeping it relatively small – it’s just too popular!
Psychgrads last blog post..Peanut Butter Banana Bars
Thank you Kristen! I’m so excited to be taken under Equal Opportunity Kitchen’s wing. I can’t wait!
Rebecca (Foodie With Family)s last blog post..Taco Joes: If a sloppy joe and a taco were to marry and have a baby…
Thanks for organizing this! I just announced my participation in the program and introduced my adoptive blogger here: http://mindysmouthful.blogspot.com/2009/04/food-challenges-and-adopt-blogger-3.html. Not sure that there’s anything to promote there, but thought I’d let you know!
Mindys last blog post..Roasted Tomato and Brown Rice Stuffed Peppers
Thanks for including me – I can’t wait to collaborate!
Thanks for organizing such a large project. I am thrilled to be included!
Tammys last blog post..Barefoot Bloggers: Croque Monsieur
Yay, thanks! I can’t wait to get to reading and “mentoring” 😀
Marillas last blog post..Flat Iron steak & oven-roasted potato wedges with cilantro-lime mayonnaise.
I’m having so much fun discovering these new (to me) blogs of all the participants! I posted today about my adoption: http://tinyurl.com/cd6jts. Hope you’re having a relaxing weekend after all your hard work to put this together 🙂
Amy I.s last blog post..I’ve Been Adopted!
Kristen – thank you for all the effort and thought you put into this. What a wonderful way to give back to the community that we all love so much – food blogs! I have contacted my mentor – Donalyn over at http://dlynz.com – and look forward to her insight and support in my development.
I hope I have the opportunity to participate as a mentor on the flip-side of this glorious ride!
Once again, thanks!!
Dawns last blog post..Tasty Thursday…
Oh, man– I can’t believe I missed this! I’ve been waiting for weeks to sign up, and I guess I missed your call due to business trips and moving. If you have any unmatched mentors left, I am still interested in participating. Congrats to all the current participants and I wish them lots of fun! 🙂 K
Not part of your adoption program this year, but I found you via Tastespotting and wanted to let you know I make your Irish Cream Bundt Cake and it was awesome! Thanks for sharing…I linked back to you in my blog post.
http://nagle5.blogspot.com/2009/04/game-night-already.html
Erins last blog post..Game Night?! Already?
great job organzing this kristen… i couldn’t be happier with my match – THANK U!
Danis last blog post..#56) Double Chocolate Chippers
Thank you Kristen for including me.I appreciate your hard work in this undetaking.
I’m looking forward to being mentored!
Lyndas last blog post..Pineapple Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (a.k.a. Mexican Fruit Cake)
Thanks so much for coordinating this; I am really looking forward to participating and appreciate all the veterans who are sponsoring us newbies.
Lizs last blog post..Balsamic Chicken with Baby Spinach and Orzo
Too bad I just found out about this. Oh well, newbie or not I’m carving a niche and loving what I do!
Leighs last blog post..Food in brief: simple, wine…swine?
I would love to be adopted if you have another round of this. I am so unsure about how to do so many things and would love the help and advice of someone more experienced. Thanks!
yaels last blog post..Chag Atzmaut Sameach! Happy Independence Day!
I would love to be included in this next year! Even though I’ll have been blogging for a year, I still would like to participate. 🙂
Niki Reagans last blog post..Chocolate Mint Cheesecake: WARNING! slight failure ahead
Awww, I hate I misseed this. I’m a new blogger and would love to be adopted. Sign me up for the next one!
soooo excited!!! Cannot wait to get going – Don’t Forget Delicious, welcome to the food blog world! and many thanks to Dine and Dish!!!!!!
Emma Williamss last blog post..The ‘Little Black Dress’ of Cupcakes
Is it too late to be included??
I just found out about this, but unfortunately I’m sure I’m too late. This sounds like a lot of fun, though! When do you think you might organize the next one?
Floretas last blog post..Make Friends with BuddyPress
I posted a tribute to my adoptee here:
http://ldylvbgr.blogspot.com/2009/05/meet-my-adopted-blogger.html
🙂
I wrote about my adoptee here:
http://ldylvbgr.blogspot.com/2009/05/meet-my-adopted-blogger.html
🙂
I just wrote about my mentor, and am very excited to be paired with Julia! Thanks again for putting together such a great program!
Katies last blog post..My blogging mentor (Julia from Grow. Cook. Eat.), flowers, and farmers
Oh no, I forgot to enter again…. Hmmmmm… I guess I’ll have to wait for the next adopt-a-blog to come around!
Marthes last blog post..Flower Pot Cake
Congratulations on baby #4 Kristen! Don’t forget to show baby picts.I’m looking forward to see tons of baby picts!
pixens last blog post..Thai Pumpkin And Chicken Curry
I swear I’m late for everything! It’s horrible ; ) but I’m on board and really excited, so thanks for the huge amount of work you put into this Kristen.
kellypeas last blog post..To Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Back
I just stated a food blog about a month and a half ago… I would love to “be adopted” if you do this again!!
Krista Joys last blog post..What to do with extra Truffles?
I would love to be adopted!! Is it too late?
Thanks
gaby
Gabys last blog post..Culinary School – Week Eight – Vegetables, Herbs and Exotic Fruits
I just stumbled across your awesome site. I am new to the whole blogging thing. But I tell you. I now consider myself a Momger lol A mom and blogger I am an addict. I surf all day for new things. Love to read what people have to say and teach. I just started a blog and no it’s not anywhere as good as the ones I have seen. But I would love to be adopted next time around.
Ps Congrats
Maras last blog post..Who doesn’t love homemade?
Hi there — I just stumbled upon this post. What a great idea! Is it too late to join? I launched my food blog almost two months ago and would love to get a “mentor.” (My background is mainly in fashion, not food, so this is definitely all rather new to me…) Fingers crossed….xo Cheryl
Oh, I’m so sorry I missed this! It looks like such a wonderful project. A few others and I just started a collaborative food blog, so I completely relate to your comments on being a newbie. Best of luck to everyone!
Julies last blog post..Rice Flour Power
Hi there. I’m a newbie blogger… how do I go about signing up for the next adopt a blogger program?
http://butteryum.blogspot.com
ButterYums last blog post..Summer Salad Saturday – Asian Cabbage Salad
Hi, I’m very new to blogging and was just wondering how do l sign up for adopt?
Y x
Yvette Hooleys last blog post..
I hope you are goign to do another one of these soon…..I really need someone to adopt me :o)
.-= April´s last blog ..Surprise Pumpkin Muffins =-.
wow- I’d love to be a part of this. How do I sign up to be adopted??
.-= Blender Benefits´s last blog ..Dec 17, Blendtec Review – We Want To Hear From You About Your Blendtec Blender Experiences =-.
OH! I just discovered this wonderful Adopt a Blogger through MS Adventures in Italy! We are not a food blog at all…but I am wondering if you know of any Adopt a Blogger for other types if sites? We are call the Two Whos and are about stepping beyond life’s little things.
thanks
Cece
Is there an Adobt -a – Blogger #4? please?
I’m a newbie and I need help!!!!!! I want a beautiful, enticing blog to help promote me and my business. Can you help, fairyblomother?!!
I’m a newbie and I need help!!!!!! I want a beautiful, enticing blog to help promote me and my business. Can you help, fairyblogmother?!!
I was wondering if you’re still doing “adopt a blogger”? I was so excited by the idea, since I am very new to blogging and I would love any advice I can get.
Please let me know either way. Thank you so much!
Jess
Hi again Kristen,
Oops, sorry for typo of your name in my earlier message :OP
Hello I am a newbie as well in the world of blogging and I am very much excited to know that there are people who are willing to adopt and help! 😉 Glad that I was able to find your site /page while browsing online.. More power!!!
Will you be running another adopt a Blogger campaign soon?
Hi,
I started my blog in August and really need a mentor!!!!
Are you going to do another adoption anytime soon???
I’d love to get involved!
This is the perfect site for anybody who wants to understand this topic.
You know a whole lot its almost tough to argue with you (not that I really would
want to…HaHa). You definitely put a fresh spin on a topic which
has been written about for years. Great stuff, just excellent!
Yes i am agree with you and t I am wondering if you know of any Adopt a Blogger for other types of sites? We call the Two Whos and are about stepping beyond life’s little things.
Thanks