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

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

A Beautiful Mess

Bloggers: Elsie Larson
Location: Springfield, MO

Dear Readers, Please check out Elsie's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. A Beautiful Mess will now join our pantheon of Best Home Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

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

The Rockstar Diaries

Bloggers: Naomi & Josh
Location: Washington, DC

Dear Readers, please check out Naomi & Josh's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Rockstar Diaries will now join our pantheon of Best Home Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

Dear Readers, Please click on our 2012 Home Design Blog winner:

Bower Power

Bloggers: Katie & Jeremy Bower
Location: Atlanta, GA

Dear Readers, Please check out Katie and Jeremy's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Bower Power will now join our pantheon of Best Home Blogs, and we'll see you next year.

Best, Maxwell

Dear Readers,

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

Technology Your Way

Blogger: Mandi Ehman
Location: Cumberland, Maryland
Blogging Since: 2008

Please check out Mandi's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Technology Your Way 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 inordinate amount of votes from the same IP address. We did allow for instances for votes from universities, where there could be many people on one IP, and we did examine IP locations. In the instance here hundreds of votes originated from one single IP in Romania, we were skeptical. We did, however, apply the same criteria to everyone.

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Dear Readers,

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

A Way to Garden

Blogger: Margaret Roach
Location: Hudson Valley, New York
Blogging Since: 2008

Please check out Margaret's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. A Way to Garden will now join our pantheon of Bestis 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 inordinate amount of votes from the same IP address. We did allow for instances like Universities, where there could be many people on one IP, and we did examine IP locations. In the instance of hundreds of votes coming from one single IP in Romania, we were skeptical. We did, however, apply the same criteria to everyone.

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Dear Readers,

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

Under the Sycamore!

Blogger: Ashley Campbell
Location: Oklahoma
Blogging Since: 2008

Please check out Ashley's awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Under the Sycamore 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 inordinate amount of votes from the same IP address. We did allow for instances like Universities, where there could be many people on one IP, and we did examine IP locations. In the instance of hundreds of votes coming from one single IP in Romania, we were skeptical. We did, however, apply the same criteria to everyone.

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Dear Readers,

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

Young House Love!

Bloggers: Sherry & John Petersik
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Blogging Since: 2007

Please check out their awesome blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Young House Love 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.

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Last year we started an awards thingy for home blogs because we were tired of everyone lumping us into categories like "general lifestyle" or "topical" on all the other blog awards thingys. It was a great success, we discovered a ton of awesome blogs and we drove a lot of traffic to them (check out last year's winners here). Tomorrow we're opening up this year's submissions for the best home blogs in five categories. AND unlike most online awards, we've designed it so that it emphasizes sharing, celebrating and discovering new blogs. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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... More