I have been excited for this meet up for weeks - since I first saw it being mentioned on twitter and I signed up way back in January. I have never been to anything like this before. To be honest up until recently my blog is something I did in the secrecy of my sundays and non of my 'real life' friends and family knew about it.
So as I left my house yesterday and made my way to Nottingham for the meet up I was ready to burst with a mix of excitement and nerves. I am not the best in social situations when it comes to mingling with people - especially as I didn't know anyone there. I wouldn't say I was socially awkward I am just quite shy when it comes to meeting new people - so sorry ladies if you all thought I was a bit of a loser!
The meet up was organised by 2 lovely ladies Kelly who blogs at Twobecomemum (on the right) and Emma at Frugally Peachy (on the left).
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As soon as I arrived at the venue these 2 lovely ladies made me feel instantly at ease. I had been chatting online with them both since they started organising this so it was both lovely and strange to meet with them in person! It did feel a bit like I had known them for ages!
The meet up was held in Malt Cross which is a venue near the centre of Nottingham town centre. I have never been to Nottingham before, Google Maps on my phone was definitely my friend - I have a bit of a history of getting lost but I managed to get there in one piece.
The venue itself was beautiful and definitely the perfect place to hold the meet up! I mean who can resist a venue with bunting hanging from the balcony.
Emma and Kelly had been sneaky little souls about what the day involved in order to keep the day as surprising as possible. I remembered that they had mentioned about the Body Shop being involved which I was looking forward to!
It was so lovely to sit and chat with fellow like minded people who love make up and the such like as much as you do. Everyone has their own story - their were bloggers that had been blogging only a few months or some like myself had been blogging for a couple of years. There were beauty bloggers, lifestyle bloggers, mummy bloggers and foodie bloggers. I loved chatting to everyone and hearing all about everyone. A lot of the bloggers at the event were from Nottingham but I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was another Blogger from Stoke! Its weird you begin to think there is no one in your area who blogs but obviously there are!
After we had been treated to a lovely lunch we had a fantastic talk from 2 ladies, Sophie and Autumn from the local body shop. They brought with them lots of goodies that we could play with and get stuck in and test including some of their new and unreleased products!
The 2 girls were absolutely fantastic! Their knowledge of all the products was amazing. As you can see here we all got stuck in swatching and sniffing the fantastic smells! We also got a lovely voucher for some discount which I know me and a lot of the other bloggers made use of - Me and the other Make Up Mafia as we got so named trekked to the Body shop.
I picked up lots of yummy products - definitely making the most of the discount. I am going to do another post on what I brought both here and during a little shopping spree I had after so look out for that later this week!
We got an amazing goodie bag which contained some fab products - There were goodies from Weleda which is a brand I have seen about but never actually tried so I am looking forward to trying these products. There were also products from Swizzels Matlow because you know who doesn't love Love Hearts and Drumsticks! There was also a lovely recipe book and a chocolate mode from the lovely Iris who was one of the ladies that attended the event on Saturday and runs the website http://www.bakedbyme.net - I got the Pizza mould - Iris has some fantastic things for sale on her site! Seriously get yourself on and have a look! I anticipate some pennies being spent on here!
We were also given a lovely cupcake handmade by the lovely Emma which looked far too good to eat (but I did manage it!) and amazing it was too!
Overall I can not even begin to tell you what a fantastic day I had! I hope that I can continue to chat to all the lovely ladies I met and that this will be just the first of many blog events I go to! Emma and Kelly did an absolutely fantastic day organising it so Thank you ladies! xxx
As soon as I arrived at the venue these 2 lovely ladies made me feel instantly at ease. I had been chatting online with them both since they started organising this so it was both lovely and strange to meet with them in person! It did feel a bit like I had known them for ages!
The meet up was held in Malt Cross which is a venue near the centre of Nottingham town centre. I have never been to Nottingham before, Google Maps on my phone was definitely my friend - I have a bit of a history of getting lost but I managed to get there in one piece.
The venue itself was beautiful and definitely the perfect place to hold the meet up! I mean who can resist a venue with bunting hanging from the balcony.
Emma and Kelly had been sneaky little souls about what the day involved in order to keep the day as surprising as possible. I remembered that they had mentioned about the Body Shop being involved which I was looking forward to!
It was so lovely to sit and chat with fellow like minded people who love make up and the such like as much as you do. Everyone has their own story - their were bloggers that had been blogging only a few months or some like myself had been blogging for a couple of years. There were beauty bloggers, lifestyle bloggers, mummy bloggers and foodie bloggers. I loved chatting to everyone and hearing all about everyone. A lot of the bloggers at the event were from Nottingham but I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was another Blogger from Stoke! Its weird you begin to think there is no one in your area who blogs but obviously there are!
After we had been treated to a lovely lunch we had a fantastic talk from 2 ladies, Sophie and Autumn from the local body shop. They brought with them lots of goodies that we could play with and get stuck in and test including some of their new and unreleased products!
The 2 girls were absolutely fantastic! Their knowledge of all the products was amazing. As you can see here we all got stuck in swatching and sniffing the fantastic smells! We also got a lovely voucher for some discount which I know me and a lot of the other bloggers made use of - Me and the other Make Up Mafia as we got so named trekked to the Body shop.
I picked up lots of yummy products - definitely making the most of the discount. I am going to do another post on what I brought both here and during a little shopping spree I had after so look out for that later this week!
We got an amazing goodie bag which contained some fab products - There were goodies from Weleda which is a brand I have seen about but never actually tried so I am looking forward to trying these products. There were also products from Swizzels Matlow because you know who doesn't love Love Hearts and Drumsticks! There was also a lovely recipe book and a chocolate mode from the lovely Iris who was one of the ladies that attended the event on Saturday and runs the website http://www.bakedbyme.net - I got the Pizza mould - Iris has some fantastic things for sale on her site! Seriously get yourself on and have a look! I anticipate some pennies being spent on here!
We were also given a lovely cupcake handmade by the lovely Emma which looked far too good to eat (but I did manage it!) and amazing it was too!
Overall I can not even begin to tell you what a fantastic day I had! I hope that I can continue to chat to all the lovely ladies I met and that this will be just the first of many blog events I go to! Emma and Kelly did an absolutely fantastic day organising it so Thank you ladies! xxx
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