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Julia M. Usher 10/2/224:05 PM

I may have missed the Saturday Spotlight, but I promise you this Sunday Spotlight is just as good and sure to impress! (I was traveling yesterday and got to my destination much later than planned, so I needed a little recovery time before settling into writing this post.)

Congrats to all who are featured this week, especially to @Lorena Rodríguez for nabbing the coveted cover spot with her Halloween haunted house set! (So apropos!) And, also to @Anita Kiss, because, if I am not mistaken, this is her very first Spotlight. You'll also see some incredible Challenge #51 entries peppered throughout this post, which will hopefully serve as a reminder to get your entries in before the challenge closes on October 4 (5 pm CDT). I am giving away a couple of my online tutorials, plus there are 10 other awesome prizes and lots of learning along the way, so you won't want to miss out!

Now, on to this week's hot list* . . .

#1: Season's Greetings by Petra Florean

#2: A Set Created for Shana Tova by Little-Fancies

#3: Save the Nature! by Di Art Sweets

#4: Simple by Wendy Cubic

#5: Haunted House by Jani May Cookies

#6: Warm Pumpkin Nest by Petra Florean

#7: Trick or Treat by Anita Honey

#8: Ghosts' House by Lorena Rodríguez

#9: One-Year-Old’s Birthday Cookies by Stevie Jean

#10: Assorted Contoured Planters by teeadri

And that's a wrap! Congrats again, everyone. FYI: I will be in transit again next Saturday, so don't be surprised if you see another Sunday Spotlight. (Actually, next week's Spotlight will be our Challenge #51 recap, but it may still come on Sunday for the reason just noted.) 'Til then, have a great week, and don't forget to submit those challenge entries!

* As a reminder, a word about how the rankings are determined: The rankings are not at all subjective. In fact, they are determined essentially by you, our members, and the activity (number of views, likes, and comments) you've bestowed on each photo. The site uses a top-secret algorithm that weighs these various factors to determine which photos are trending most quickly (i.e., are the "hottest") over specified periods of time. As such, the hot list at the time of this announcement may look a little different a few hours or a day from now as more photos are added to the site.

So that no one has an unfair advantage in making it onto a hot list, the algorithm is secret even to site administrators. Only our platform developers know the code, which has been exhaustively tested by those developers and Cookie Connection staff.

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