Dear Readers,

After two weeks of nominations and finals voting, and over three quarters of a million pageviews (double last year's pages), we finally have six remarkable winners to wear the Homies Champion Crown for 2012:

THE 2012 WINNERS

• Best Recipe Blog: Munchin with Munchkin • Best Healthy Cooking Blog: The Clothes Make The Girl • Best Food Photography on a Blog: Nom Nom Paleo • Best Home Design Blog: Bower Power • Best Family Blog: Rockstar Diaries • Best DIY Blog: A Beautiful Mess

Dear Readers, Please click on our 2012 Recipe Blog winner:

Munchin with Munchkin

Bloggers: Kris
Location: Dallas, TX

Please check out Kris's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Munchin with Munchkin will now join our pantheon of Best Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

Dear Readers, Please click on our 2012 Healthy Cooking Blog winner:

The Clothes Make The Girl

Bloggers: Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan
Location: Austin, TX

Please check out Melissa's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. The Clothes Make The Girl will now join our pantheon of Best Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

Dear Readers, Please click on our 2012 Food Photography on a Blog winner:

Nom Nom Paleo

Bloggers: Michelle Tam
Location: Palo Alto, CA

Please check out Michelle's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Nom Nom Paleo will now join our pantheon of Best Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

Dear Readers,

This is a super exciting day for all of us here at the office and beyond, where a bunch of us work from home. We're all sitting behind our computers madly typing away on the blog, IM, Facebook and Twitter as the traffic ramps up, and we deal with tech issues, fan mail and questions that come with the territory of such a big change on a Monday morning.

We've been working on this for at least two years, and I want to explain a little bit of the thinking behind what you see here.

We're looking for a great full-time web designer to join us in our NYC offices as we revamp everything from top to bottom this year.

In particular, we're looking for someone with strong graphic design and branding skills, who also has a very good working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

The first job will be to join in our redesign process with our art director, Thomas Porostocky, and work through a complete redesign for launch in September. With general look and feel being completed now, we'll be applying design to all of our pages and then working them into front end form. The more you can do with HTML and CSS, the better.

Kicking off our new series of How To Videos, here's a fully filmic version of one of most popular winter posts about how to turn the skin of a yummy clementine into a dinner party show stopper.

• See the video at Apartment Therapy

Dear Readers,

After eight days of vigorous voting*, this year's winner for Best Home Cooking Blog is:

Gina's Skinny Recipes!

Blogger: Gina Homolka
Location: Oceanside, New York
Blogging Since: 2008

Please check out Gina's great blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Gina's Skinny Recipes will now join our pantheon of Best Blogs, and we'll see you next year in January.

Best, Maxwell

* Please note that to counter vote stuffers, we removed any instances where we saw an extreme amount of votes from one unique IP address. We did allow for instances like universities, where there could be many people on one IP, and we did examine IP locations. We applied the exact same criteria to each blog and vote entered in the contest.

We're in the final week of our 2010 Holiday Giveaway. From Monday to Friday of this week, all the remaining gifts will pop up for you to win. After that, it's all over until next year. Check out the freshest crop:

Just Opened 12/14/2010
• Handpainted Halo Sunburst Mirror
• Ivanhoe™ Sinclair Industrial Porcelain Pendant
• Hanging Pod Trio from Mudpuppy Ceramic Studio
• LifeCam Studio and Arc Touch Mouse from Microsoft
• Baby Carrier from Fawn & Forest
• ZWILLING ONE Knife Set

Opened Yesterday 12/13/2010
• Bouroullec Brothers Algue from BabyGeared
• Tao Bookshelf from Gingko Home Furnishings
• P5 Headphones from Bowers and Wilkins
• 4-Piece Crib Bedding Set from Olli and Lime
• Bamboo Chop Block and Utensils from TruBamboo
• Hand Blender from De'Longhi