Bloggiesta – Update #3 & Wrap Up

I am so glad I participated in Bloggiesta! I got so many things done on my blog that I’ve been wanting to do.  I also got to visit many wonderful blogs and see what everyone was working on. Of course, this lead to me constantly finding other things that I wanted to do on my blog – oh well, there’s always next time!

Here’s what I have accomplished on my to-do-list:

• Write up a few reviews that I need to post/set up posts for upcoming reviews
• Wrote and posted review for Fools Rush In by Kristan Higgins 
• Wrote and posted review for Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas
• Wrote up blurb and posted book trailer for Winder Warrior by Cynthia Roberts
• Prepare a few posts for rainy days 
• Set up templates for weekly memes– Completed
• Clean-up tags, category lists – Completed
• Update my side bars and add an awards page
• Update my reading challenges lists – Completed
• Update reading logs – Completed
• Revise my “About Me” page
• Clean up my Google Reader subscriptions – Completed
• Visit the Blogging Tips group on the Book Blogs Ning and find ways to improve my blog.
• Participate in at least 2 mini-challenges – Completed
• Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: It’s Not Cheating at There’s a Book
• created a cheat sheet with html codes, will continue to add to this
• Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Embracing Community as Bonjour, Cass
• so far, I’ve visited 10 new blogs and will go back and visit some more

Other things I accomplished:

• Redesigned blog – found a new layout that will allow me to do some of the things I have been wanting to do (any feedback on this would be most welcome!)
•  Set up page for books read

Things I still need to do:

• Make awards page
• Update side bars
• Revise “About Me” page
• Create “Review Policy” page
• Link book reviews to page for books read
• Combine 2 challenges I am participating in into one page

Overall, I put in about 18 hours. I had so much fun with this and am looking forward to participating in the next Bloggiesta!  Thanks to Natasha atMaw Booksfor putting this awesome event together!