October 2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

Bento of the Week: Halloween

Thank you to everyone who participated and/or voted in the Nick Jr BOTW. Congratulations to Corey at Family Fresh Meals for getting the most votes for There's a Party In My Tummy bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and the winners gets a special blog button announcing their win!

Remember this themed bento meme will be posted each Friday and will accept entries through the following Tuesday. Instructions for submitting a link can be found here. At that point voting will be enabled. You can vote on Wednesday & Thursday. Full guidelines for this meme can be found here. Next week starts our November technique challenges.

Week 5 Theme: Halloween

Week five's theme for Bento of the Week is Halloween. Please post the direct link to any Halloween bento you've created. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week as long as it fits the them. Please visit other participants and leave some love! Please grab the special banner for this week's theme and add it to your blog post.
Next week's theme: Sandwich Balls

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Time to Vote for Nick Jr!

Voting has been enabled for the Nick Jr Bento of the Week Meme. Since there were only a few entries, I have enabled it to only 1 vote per person (IP). You cannot vote for any you submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not. Voting goes until 11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. If there is a tie, I will confirm IPs. Scroll down to vote!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Bento of the Week: Nick Jr.

Thank you to everyone who participated and/or voted in the Pumpkin BOTW. Congratulations to Corey at Family Fresh Meals for getting the most votes for her Pumpkin Harvest Bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and the winners gets a special blog button announcing their win!

Remember this themed bento meme will be posted each Friday and will accept entries through the following Tuesday. Voting will take place on Wednesday & Thursday. We've had some fairly easy themes, but this week requires more creativity. November will be technique challenges. Upcoming themes are listed on the sidebar.

Week 4 Theme: Nick Jr

Week four's theme for Bento of the Week is Nick Jr. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that depicts a Nick Jr show, either past or present. You can see a list of all Nick Jr shows here. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted on a previous week, but it must fit the theme. Please visit all the participants and leave some love! Please grab one of the Bento of the Week graphics (at the bottom of this site) to post on your blog. Please help spread the word about Bento Blog Network!! Next week's theme: Halloween

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Few Site Changes

I've made a few minor changes that I wanted to let you know about. First off, the upcoming Bento of the Week meme themes are now listed on the sidebar. This suggestion was submitted by Lindsi and will help you plan ahead in your bento making. Next, we will be taking submissions for the Bento of the Week meme all the way through midnight CST on Tuesdays. That will still give you all Wednesday & Thursday to vote. Finally, there have been so many new participants in the weekly meme that I have divided the blog list on the sidebar into 2 columns to even out the length of the sidebars. I will add new blogs to whichever column has room.

Thanks so much for your participating at BBN! Remember that you can vote each week for your favorite 2 bentos whether you submitted or not, that you can submit tutorials to be posted (you will be credited and your blog linked), and that you can request to have your blog button added to the list at the bottom right.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Time to Vote for Pumpkins!

Voting has been enabled for the Pumpkin Bento of the Week Meme. There are 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any you submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not. Voting goes until 11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. If there is a tie, I will confirm IPs. Scroll down to vote!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Bento of the Week: Pumpkins

Participation in the second Bento of the Week meme was just as great as the first week! I thought that fewer people would participate since there was a theme, but there were just as many links as week 1. Thanks so much to everyone who participated and voted. Congratulations to Candy Girl from BentOnBetterLunches for getting the most votes for her Sea, how cute! bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and the winners gets a special blog button announcing their win!

Remember this themed bento meme will be posted each Friday and will accept entries up until 8pm CST on the following Tuesday. At that point voting will be enabled. You can vote through Thursday. We are starting out with fairly easy themes, but we have some good challenges coming up. November will be technique challenges. Feel free to suggest themes!

Week 3 Theme: Pumpkins

Week three's theme for Bento of the Week is Pumpkins. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has a pumpkin. This can be a pumpkin shape or even food make with pumpkin, such as pumpkin muffins. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week, but it must fit the theme. Please visit all the participants and leave some love! Please grab one of the Bento of the Week graphics (at the bottom of this site) to post on your blog. Please help spread the word about Bento Blog Network!! Next week's theme: Nick Jr, must be from a current or former Nick Jr Program

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Time to Vote!

Voting has been enabled for the Smiles Bento of the Week Meme. I was just going to have 1 vote per person but since there were so many submissions there are 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any you submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not. Voting goes until 11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. If there is a tie, I will confirm IPs. Scroll down to vote!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Tutorials Needed

Many of us who participate/visit here are new to creating bento lunches and could use some help with how to do things. If you have a tutorial that you would like to share, please let me know. I can copy & paste the tutorial from your site and you will get full credit and a link.

For the month of November all the Bento of the Week memes will be technique challenges based on a tutorial. I have 2 tutorials lined up, but I still need 2 more. If have any ideas for these challenges let me know.

You can reach me via the Contact/Submit link above the header.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Bento of the Week: Smiles

Participation in the first week's Bento of the Week meme was awesome! Thanks so much to everyone who participated and voted. Congratulations to Charlene at Bentos for Bella for getting the most votes for her LOVE bento! This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and wins a special blog button announcing their win!

Remember this themed bento meme will be posted each Friday and will accept entries up until 8pm CST on the following Tuesday. At that point voting will be enabled. You can vote through Thursday. We are starting out with fairly easy themes, but challenging ones will be thrown in every so often. Feel free to suggest themes!

Week 2 Theme: Smiles

Week two's theme for Bento of the Week is Smiles. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has a smile. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your photo. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week, but it must fit the theme. Please visit all the participants and leave some love! Please grab one of the Bento of the Week graphics (at the bottom of this site) to post on your blog.
Next week's theme: Pumpkins

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Vote for Bento of the Week

Voting has been enabled for the first Bento of the Week Meme. 2 votes per person (IP), but you cannot vote for any you submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not. Voting goes until 11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!