Hasta Luego Bloggiesta
Posted by caribookscoops on June 21, 2009
You know how life throws you a few curve balls (maybe your life is not like mine and always runs smoothly). Well I had great plans to get lots done on our blog this weekend, but then my baby got sick and since I was flying solo most of this weekend I held her most of the weekend – being a mom is more important than blogging. Gratefully this curve ball wasn’t to bad, her illness was nothing serious (special thanks to my newly graduated MD brother who indulged me by checking her ears, which were fine) and as of early this morning we are fever free!!!
Here is what I got done
- Reviews of One Wolf Howls by Scotti Cohn and Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
- Participated in Blogging Buddies at My Friend Amy (wasn’t planning on this, but an excellent article) and Britt at Confessions of a Book Habitue brought it to my attention by inviting me to be her blogging buddy.
- Started re-doing our theme and fixing our sidebars
- Natasha would like those who participated to tell how many hours we spend on Bloggiesta and how many comments, etc, 4 hours (I had planned on six) and well my comments are not what I would have liked, but here it is a big whooping 4, but I will do more.
Overall, despite my inability to participate in the way I wanted, this was an excellent way to light the fire under myself so to speak and I plan on checking out some of the other mini-challenges as they have some excellent articles and advice later on this week and making several more comments. I hope Bloggiesta comes around next year or even sooner (if anyone is interested).
Thanks to Natasha at Maw Books Blog and all her amigos, bloggers and publishers who sponsored an excellent challenge this weekend!
PS. Let us know what you think of the new theme in our comments.
Sheila DeChantal said
Just cruising through the Bloggiesta participant blogs and meeting my fellow book bloggers. I think the beauty of the Bloggiesta is that we can continue to upgrade and learn even though the challenge is over. I love looking at different blogs and seeing what people are doing.
caribookscoops said
Sheila – Thanks for stopping by and I agree the beauty of this whole challenge is that we can keep updating and making our changes.
Britt said
OOh, very clean and professional! I like it!
caribookscoops said
Thanks Britt, that was the look I was going for well actually I hadn’t thought of the professional part, but I was going for the clean part. I want the blog to be easy to read and find stuff on.
melissa @ 1lbr said
I like the new look – I kinda wish there was a pic or something up top, but it definitely is clean and easy to read!
Natasha @ Maw Books said
With this new theme, I totally see your tagline now. Which I love. I’m sure I saw it before, but it makes more of an impression. I’m THRILLED that you participated in Bloggiesta. I’ll definitely do it again.
AZ said
The new layout looks nice! Really sharp.
caribookscoops said
Melissa – Thanks, yeah I would like some type of logo, but we haven’t gotten that far and we had to make some sacrifices, a three column theme that we liked without a customer header. Maybe in the future we will pay for an upgrade, we’ll see.
Natasha – Glad you like the tagline, that’s one of the reasons why we picked this theme – you could actually see it. And I am very glad we participated in Bloggiesta, I plan to be at the next one.
AZ – Thanks!!! We like it.