Week 1 of whiplash is now closed and judging has begun. I encourage everyone to go through the links and check out everyones entries, they are fantastic and fun. The three top entries will be receiving a copy of the book ‘52 projects’, of course there are many great entries and I would love to feature your favourites. So please leave a comment with your favourite entry and the most popular will be the subject of a special feature post.

I would like to thank everyone who entered, for putting up with my terrible instructions and the beta version of the upload link tool plugin which is still undergoing testing, notifying us of the problems helps us to get it right (hopefully eventually).

I also want to thank Rob for website testing and fixing and trouble shooting, Jon for writing the plugin and hopefully continuing to add features and Jan for designing the whiplash buttons. The authors and judges for putting up with me and for posting great stories and helping out. The readers for being so supportive and reading whipup daily, and our sisters and brothers craft website portals for spreading the word, being enthusiastic and generally posting wee stories about whipup now and again. Also the authors, publishers and sponsors of the whiplash competition - thank you for your generosity and support. (if anyone would like to donate for round 2 whiplash please get in touch via email).

Check out the fairly new podcast from Grace at design*sponge. Grace’s blog is an excellent resource for daily design eyecandy (try saying that fast!) and now she’s interviewing some great creators. First up was Lotta (if I have to put her last name, you’re in trouble, where you been? under a mushroom ;) ) and now there’s Amy Ruppel. Sound quality for Lotta’s interview is not quite there, the Amy interview is improved. Saying that Grace is an engaging interviewer and it’s worth hanging in there to see who else she’ll interview in the future.