Adelaide!
On to other exciting news, I’ve just had the details finalised so I can let everyone know I’ve been invited to be special guest speaker at the Adelaide Beauty Conference! I’ll be speaking about blogging and giving a nail art demonstration on a couple of the girls attending. So excited! I’ve never been to Adelaide and I’m so lucky that the first time I get to go it’s because I’m being flown in to talk to fellow bloggers! They wrote the most flattering article about me on the site too, I feel very fancy!
To see more about the conference take a look at their website over here:
http://www.adelaidebeautyconference.com/
IMATS!
In other travel news James and I will also be attending IMATS in Sydney this year. IMATS is the International Make Up Artist Trade Show which is held every year in Sydney. This year there is a blogger’s weekend happening around it called ABBW (I know, so many acronyms I’m confused now too!) and we will be flying down to Sydney for the weekend! I’ve only been to Sydney once before and it was just overnight so I will be very happy to spend a bit more time there with like minded people and explore!
Blogopolis!
So as you’ve probably guessed, on Saturday James and I were lucky enough to go to Nuffnang’s Blogopolis Conference. It was basically a conference with around 300 bloggers from all around Australia who came to talk about the ins and outs of blogging. There have been a lot of run downs of the day already including some really in depth looks at the content covered so I will just show you guys photos and my funniest moments from the day ^_^
Full gallery with many photos of me posing with various awesome bloggers and people I respect. I will update with everyone’s URL’s and info as soon as I feel a bit better as well as the link to the professional photos.
Apologies for the crappy picture quality, I didn’t realise some of the settings on my Lumix had been changed until we got home >_< the other half of these are from my phone that I was live tweeting on the day.
                                            
My favorite parts:
On the way out in the morning it was pretty chilly! It was an early start so we left home at around 8am to walk to Fed Square
This is how James looks that early in the morning…
My outfit for the day was my Jesus Diamante dress, a belt and a shawl.
We got a bit lost on the way there but were lucky to meet up with Tim and Ming who are the founders of Nuffnang, below I’m with Tim while Ming was signing in! I was so surprised how big Federation Square was, even though we live very close by we haven’t actually been over to explore in the entire year that we’ve been here, how sad is that?
This is what a bunch of bloggers look like when we conference ;) Oh yes, everyone heads straight for the coffee table!
Miss Grace and I had a Nail-Off competition, I’m pretty sure she won haha! We decided that I should do a whole line of Grace inspired nail art which involves large amounts of chips. How cute is her jewellery? The one on the left is a little mouse!
I failed pretty miserably at playing Blogger Networking Bingo. Basically we had to introduce ourselves to people in the room and see if they fit the boxes, first one to fill them all won. I was too shy to get many though >_< Next time give me a game of Pictionary and that will get us all talking and possibly yelling and beating each over the head with note pads! BAM. ICE BROKEN.
There were a lot of talks and advice given, the most amusing of which I took from this was from Mr Gadget: don’t write your slides on the plane ride over very late at night because you will accidentally confuse your dot points and tell people to give up blogging hahaha!
You may also have some serious stock photo abuse going on too hahaha! Don’t worry Arnold I still loved your presentation and your stylish suit made up for it!
Morning tea was yummy cupcakes and short bread. I was so excited meeting new people that I forgot to get milk for my tea before the next session started *_*
For lunch James and I went out with Ayr and Super Kawaii Mama for some sushi and Lord of the Fries.
We were nicknamed “The Fancy Hair Brigade”…. no clue why ;)
On Friday I stayed home for ages and was late for several appointment because I was waiting for my new business cards to arrive, very inconvenient but worth it because I’m really happy with how they turned out! Of course I kept forgetting to hand the damn things out which was pretty stupid. If anyone wants some let me know and I’ll post them to you!
I think the main difference I noticed in this convention to other blogger gatherings I’ve been to here and overseas is that everyone here was really shy! Quite a few people later sent me messages saying the were too shy to say hello and I kind of felt the same way, there were so many other wonderful people there that I wanted to talk to but it was hard to get the courage up to make the first move. I think maybe because everyone was there to learn and take notes that maybe the tone of the event was different than the meet ups and awards I’ve been to in the past. Who knows, I still had a great time!
If you wanted to say hi but were too busy/couldn’t find me/were too nervous, say hi here!
I finally got to meet Lori who writes one of the most heartfelt blogs that I have ever come across. She has so much strength and determination and she has been one of my role models for a long time.
She gave me my most treasured item from the day: a wrist band with her url and the word SPEAK. I can’t explain the motivation behind it as eloquently as she does but the message is clear: if you are in trouble please SPEAK.
I spent most of the conference live tweeting and taking notes on my ipad which is funny considering by doing that I kind of failed as a blogger by not taking more photos! Enjoy staring at the stack of business cards I didn’t hand out XD
After everything was done there was a two hour gap between the conference and post drinks party so a group of us went out to dinner. Ming had a craving for lobster so we went out searching for a place.
Group of bloggers catching the tram= hell of a lot of fun camwhoring and falling over in inappropriately high shoes.
It was pretty rainy but that made it an even more fun trip!
Lobster was found and I was pretty excited because I had never eaten it before!
As it turns out, I love lobster! Sorry bank account!!
Of course there were some mishaps, Grace even had a lobster related injury. Don’t worry Grace, it matches your manicure :D
We headed home afterwards because I was too tired to do the after party but not without one last photo!
We happened to bump into Tim, Ming and Arnold again on the way and showed them our favorite bubble tea place. AWESOME night full of awesomely yummy things! So sleepy by the ends and very glad to be home!
So thank you again to everyone who made the day awesome, thank you to Nuffnang (especially Lynda) for holding the event, thank you to my hilarious friends for keeping me laughing and most importantly…
thank you to YOU for continuing to read!
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Yay! So excited to meet you at the #ABC!
And congrats for being in The Age and SMH, you look like your concentrating very hard :)
:D Thanks Neena, it was awesome to meet you!! Haha I was concentrating very hard on chatting on twitter XD Hard work fail!
Congrats Violet! You are such a sweetheart, and I adore your look. I was at Blogopolis, but didn’t get a chance to meet you. Hopefully next time!
Thanks so much Rhi! I wish I’d gotten to meet you too, fingers crossed for next time :D
Owh poor dearie, warm soup and loads of rest *patpat* take care. Looking forward to meeting you in DEC! <3
:D I can’t wait!
Congratis! Looks like a lot of fun being able to experience all of this!
I had a wonderful time, thank you!
Squeee! I was thrilled to finally get to meet you in person! :) And I can’t wait to see you again for the ABBW! Congrats on being the speaker for the Adelaide Beauty Conference and being featured the newspapers. :)
:D I was so excited too, I can’t wait to see you again at ABBW too! Thank you <3
Congrats!!! you earned it!!!
Thank you Cyndie!
Looks like you’ve been busy! Hope you get well soon!
Looks like you’ve been busy! Did you manage to get a clipping from the paper? Hope you get well soon!
Thank you! I think it was only in the online version so no clipping! I’m resting up this week after all the excitement!
Loved the run down Violet and so nice to see you and Jimmy again :)
Grats on getting on SMH.com.au
See you next time I’m in Melbourne.
Cheers,
Arnold
Thanks Arnold :D Definitely catch you again soon!
Hope you’ll gain more fans this way! Congrats again
Thanks Michael! I need to update my post with the photos from your speech too, loved it!
Congratulations! It is obvious you work so hard on your blog and the recognition is well deserved! Keep up the good work – and I guess you are starting a pink hair trend for Granny’s based on the news page comments?? :-) Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you so much Eileen! Haha bring on the Granny’s! ;)
Well done :D
Thank you!
Congratulations! :) (love the nails by the way).
Thanks so much!
I love your blog is amazing. You were the one that inspired me to blog and after a year of not so regular posting, I am up to 61 followers and I love the blogoshpere.
I wish there were more options for bloggers here in America. I would love to go to a blogging convention.
Kat
:D I’m so glad to hear that Kathleen!! I think there are a few conventions over there like BlogHer but you should start your own! Just have a local blog meet up and see how you go :D Good luck!
congrats hun! :)
Thanks so much Lily!
How fantastic to have your photo featured on The Age website! That’s completely awesome.
:D I’m so excited thank you!
Congratulations….
Thank you Marthese!
Super cute website!!! I soooo wanna make everything! <3~! Also am LOVING the hair!
:D Thank you so much!!
Yes, that’s how I discovered you – they had that article on stuff.co.nz :) YAY!
Hi Vanyaria! Ooo thanks for the heads up, I didn’t know it had been on so many sites! I hope you enjoy it here and let me know if you have any suggestions!
Naaawww… I didn’t realise that my injury did match my nails! :) Thanks for making my day/night that little bit sweeter too.. thought not sure how sweet our conversations really were… but yeh, Always fun having you there! P.S I thinks I’m getting blogged out, so stepping away a little from the blog scene…. and PPS Have fun fun fun at the other conferences!
:D Any night with you is a fun night, blogging or not. Deco date soon Miss Grace!