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This is the final installment of our bee blogger ornament exchange! It was so fun to see the incredibly creative ornaments the bees came up with this year!

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• Part 3
• Part 4

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The bee ornament exchange continues! Check out these cuties!

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to - I tracked down two dozen unicycle charms, hung them from a ring at different lengths with sparkly embroidery floss, and suspended them inside a glass ornament

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Hi hive! Hope you had a fabulous Christmas! We’re back with Part 3 of our bee ornament exchange!

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to - As I made the ornament, I tested fruit recognizability by making Mr. GP guess what each piece was after I made it.

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Here’s the reveal of part 2 of the Bee Ornament Exchange!

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to - Dyed, painted, sewn, stuffed, and capped—a DIY ornament from one crafty bee to another!

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The yearly bee ornament exchange is one of my favorite parts of being a bee, and it’s hard to believe that this is already our FOURTH annual bee ornament exchange! Each year, the blogger bees all get together and participate in a secret Santa ornament exchange. With a $15 budget, each bee is challenged to come up with an ornament (handmade or store bought) that represents the bee’s moniker that they’ve drawn! This year over 100 bees participated! WHEW! Check out the adorable ornaments the bees came up with:

to - Wishing my Taco friend a muy Feliz Navidad with a necklace-turned-ornament from Etsy

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One of the questions that are asked of me most frequently is, “How do you choose new bee bloggers?” Well, we like to think that they choose us. All applicants apply to become bees—we don’t recruit bloggers beyond occasional posts showing off our new and current generations of icons and a link to where and how you can apply. In an attempt to demystify the process, here’s how Weddingbee goes about reviewing all our blogger applications!

ALL applications and corresponding applicants’ blogs are read carefully by a 12 person committee made up of current and past bee bloggers. The committee is anonymous to the public, to keep the process fair.

1. Potential bee bloggers submit their applications and they land in our inbox. Once we receive 5-10 applications (typically within a 2-4 week period), we gather all outstanding applications and send each one to all committee members to review. We also pass along an editable spreadsheet. This spreadsheet contains a column with committee members’ names in it where they can mark each blog with yes/no.

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

We made it to our final post of the 2010 Bee Holiday Ornament Exchange!

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Posts will be light today and tomorrow as we celebrate prime rib Christmas with our families!

card via Minted, Kelly Chau Photography

Merry Christmas hive!

For the second year in a row, the lovely hostess-with-the-mostess Mrs Dahlia had us NYC bees over to her apartment for eats, treats and wine at the Bee Holiday Party 2010.

Although I arrived a bit tardy (I had to split between two parties that night, of all things!), I got there in time to taste some of the awesome hors d’oeuvres (bacon wrapped dates! cheese!) and made sure to help Mrs Thimble stuff red velvet mini-cupcakes into our mouths with reckless abandon…

Mmmmmm, tasty little suckers!

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Whew! We had tons of bee blogger participants in the ornament swap this year!! Here’s the next installment (only one more to go!) in the 2010 Bee Holiday Ornament Exchange…

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Here’s part 5 of our bee ornament exchange! The blogging bees have been participating in a Secret Santa where we exchange ornaments or objects in our fellow bees’ likenesses, with a budget of $15 or less. Check ’em out!

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Here’s part 4 of our bee ornament exchange! The blogging bees have been participating in a Secret Santa where we exchange ornaments or objects in our fellow bees’ likenesses, with a budget of $15 or less. Check ’em out!

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Here’s part 3 of our bee ornament exchange! The blogging bees have been participating in a Secret Santa where we exchange ornaments or objects in our fellow bees’ likenesses, with a budget of $15 or less. Check ’em out!

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Continuing our series of Secret Santa ornament exchange posts, here’s part two! And in case you missed the first part, since 2008, the blogging bees have been participating in a Secret Santa
where we exchange ornaments or objects in our fellow bees’ likenesses, with a budget of $15 or less.

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It’s that time of year again! Since 2008, the blogging bees have been participating in a Secret Santa where we exchange ornaments or objects in our fellow bees’ likenesses. With a budget of $15, check out what some of the bees have come up with!

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