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This is for all Kitchen Cure discussions, a free form space for questions, answer, inspiration and links to what you're doing.

Please comment below and feel free to include links to pics or sites where you are documenting your Cure. Also, please remember that if you want us to post your progress you should email us directly at any time of night or day:

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Submissions are closed, but take a gander at all these amazing small projects completed recently and submitted this month! All info for Do it Now! our Small Project Contest is here.

• Audrey's Kitchen Chalkboard Wall - Apartment Therapy

• Liz's Totally Rebuilt Love Seat - Re-Nest

• Erin's Hacked Walmart Crib - Ohdeedoh

• Holly's Cake Stand - The Kitchn

• Sejal's Home Office Wall-sized Corkboard - Unplggd

• Kerry's Mud Room Lockers - Apartment Therapy

This is the last weekend to get yours in! Enter our Do it Now! February Jumpstart Project. Latest entries below....

• How To: Make a House Rabbit Littergarden - Re-Nest

• How To: Bed Cave Curtains - Ohdeedoh

• How To: Sew Your Own Bedding - Apartment Therapy

• How To: Kids Art Area - Ohdeedoh

• How To: Create a Contemporary Color Accent - Apartment Therapy

• How To: Make Kitchen Storage with Wine Crates - The Kitchn

The month is 1/2 way over! Get inspired. Start a project. Share your wisdom.
All info for Do it Now! our Small Project Contest

• How To: Upholster a Sofa - Apartment Therapy

• How To: Make a Coffee Table from Reclaimed Wood - Re-Nest

• How To: Make a "Seussery" - Ohdeedoh

• How To: Sonogram Silhouette Portrait - Ohdeedoh

• How To: Transform a Wall with Paint - Apartment Therapy

• How To: Give Your Home Electronics a Makeover! - Unplggd

The month is 1/2 way over! Get inspired. Start a project. Share your wisdom. Do it Now!

• Laura's How To Chalkboard Wall - Ohdeedoh

• Erin's Dresser for Baby to Be - Ohdeedoh

• Adrian's "Frame" Wall Decor - Apartment Therapy

• Adriane B's Bathroom Stripes - Apartment Therapy

• Cheri's Painted Laminate Kitchen Countertops - The Kitchn

• Meg's Upgrade a Kitchen with Chalkboard Paint - The Kitchn

Get inspired. Start a project. Share your wisdom. Do it Now!

>> Darling Customizes a Plain Wooden Dining Table - Apartment Therapy

>> Lindsay's Gold Frames on a Budget - Apartment Therapy

>> Kendra's How to Paint a Kitchen - The Kitchn

>> Shawn's How to Hide a Home Office - Unplggd

Get inspired. Start a project. Share your wisdom. Do it Now!

>> Charissa's DIY Tufted Headboard - Apartment Therapy

>> Annie's Prettify (and Kittified) Ugly Dishwasher Panel - The Kitchn

>> Jason's Drawbridge "Murphy Table" Countertop - Apartment Therapy

>> Allison's Make Your Own Starburst Mirror - Apartment Therapy

>> Kaliedescope Style's Paisley Wall Decor - Apartment Therapy

>> Jasmine's Whole Home Makover with Recycling - Re-Nest

Get inspired. Start a project. Share your wisdom. Do it Now!

>> How To: Decorate Your Own Tea Set - Re-Nest

>> Paint & Wallpaper Go a Long Way - Apartment Therapy

>> How To: Save a Wood Floor - Apartment Therapy

>> How To: Create a Wall of Spoon Hooks - The Kitchn

>> How To: Make a Faux Zebra Hide - Apartment Therapy

Marfa Brands got its start with handmade soaps. Then, about two years ago, creator Ginger Griffice started making glassware out of reused glass bottles from nearby Mexico. In Mexico, the bottles are reused again and again, not recycled as they are here...

[via Apartment Therapy]

What do you get your pixel pushing, computer obsessed friend who also enjoys some behind the stove time? How about some oven mitts in 8-bit glory for those vid game inspired cupcakes for your next Wii party?

[via Unplggd]

What's your project going to be?

This month we're doing it again - inviting all of you to join us and the can-do folks at Etsy as we each tackle one household project and get it done now. We're also expanding the project this year to cover our entire network, looking for projects from all parts of your home and giving prizes to 12 of the most helpful submissions. To aid us in this we'll be introducing approval voting for the first time in order to highlight the positive and support the sharing that we want this project to be about. Interested? Got your project? Join us here:

>> The February Jumpstart Project

Last night we completed our first ever Homies Awards, celebrating the best in home blogging in 2008, and it's my pleasure today to announce five six winners.

It was an impromptu, get the ball rolling kind of affair this year that was meant in the best of spirits to direct attention at the Home Blog niche (because no awards ceremonies do), to award a bit of money ($100) and share as much link love as possible from our sites to others (some of which are bigger than us, some of which are smaller).

I firmly believe that the web works best when there's mutual cooperation, and we've certainly benefited from the help of others over the years...

Dear Kitchn Readers,

Yee-haw! We're doing another book, and I'm hoping we can feature a number of your amazing homes.

This time we're specifically focusing on small and creative uses of space. It's all going to be professionally photographed, and we need homes that no one's seen before in either the New York or Los Angeles area (though we are going to tap the winners of the past two contests).

We're looking for 25 homes in which we can professionally photograph at least 1-2 remarkable, small, beautiful and creative rooms of the following sort...

Voting closes tomorrow,Tuesday, at 8pm Eastern.

Thanks to all of you who sent in nominations for this year's best Home Cooking Blog. We received 43 amazing nominations and whittled the field down to six based on your comments and a few other factors including how often they posted, if they were a standalone blog, how new long they'd been around and/or how closely they spoke to home cooking as a category (yours didn't make it this year? There's always next year). You can check out all the nominations below the jump and then vote on your favorite of the top six here. Nominations here. All prizes & info here.

• veganexplosion.com
• simplyrecipes.com
• thepioneerwoman.com
• smittenkitchen.com
• lottieanddoof.com
• hungrycravings.blogspot.com