South West Bloggers Meet
Hi lovelies!I am alive! I have not (as you may have wondered) fallen off the edge of the earth! I'm in the middle of moving house (hence this scheduled post!) and as a result any potential blogging days have been filled with cardboard boxes, packing tape and sharpie markers...I'm going to try and get some posts scheduled for next week to get a bit more of a schedule underway! It never hurts to be organised after all...
Anyways, a couple of weekends ago, after lots of waiting it was finally time for the much anticipated South West Bloggers Meet in Exeter. The event was organised by two lovely ladies, Liza of Glambeautys and Kerry of Lived With Love, who both did an absolutely amazing job...more about the organisers later though! As any fellow bloggers from the South West will testify I'm sure, there doesn't tend to be an awful lot of blogger based events in this part of the world as they tend to happen in London, so the opportunity to meet lots of bloggers, have a natter and try out some lovely products outside of London Town was one I absolutely couldn't pass up!
As this was my first ever blogging event, I was pretty nervous, but after a little wander down Gandy Street in search of the venue (a lovely cocktail bar by the name of John Gandys) with my newly printed business cards at the ready I bit the bullet and went in! After meeting Liza, and Jo from A Little Pop Of Coral I soon got chatting to some other girlies as they started to arrive. I met a few lovelies from Plymouth like Becky from Beckawoo and Nicole from Sleekchic and a few that I'd spoken to before on twitter like Albertine from Dippy Writes along with other girlies like Bella from B-Jolly and Amy from Beauty Loves it's always nice to be able to put a name to a face and meet people in person!
We were lucky to have some brilliant ladies from Lush Exeter and a super impressive selection of lovely goodies which as you can imagine all looked and smelled amazing! I haven't had a chance to have a proper look in there since the Christmas stock launched so it was fab to get a proper look (and sniff!) at everything. We also had Liz from teeth whitening company Pearly's there giving everyone a try of their teeth whitening products along with tips on how to keep teeth beautifully white and shiny. They're a company that I've been curious about for months so a chance to test out their teeth whitening powder and some other bits was ideal. My teeth felt incredible and were absolutely sparkling afterwards and I can't wait to receive some more samples in the post!
The entire day was topped off with a brilliant raffle with amazing prizes ranging from Enrapture hair tools to make up brush sets and all proceeds going to the Talia Castellano charity. The girls did so amazingly to get so many fab prizes and there were a lot of very happy girlies in the room along with a brilliant amount raised for a very good cause. Nobody left empty handed though as we all went home with a huge bright pink goody bag stuffed with full sized products like Cocoa Brown tan, Swarzkopft Osis hair spray (a personal favourite of mine!), a facial polishing kit and loads of others with absolutely loads of little product samples too... Prepare for lots of reviews!
The whole day was just fab and I loved having the opportunity to meet some brilliant new blog friends and discover loads of new blogs and products as well as encouraging me more than ever to well and truly get my blog on! As for Liza and Kerrie, thanks to you both for an amazing event, you worked so so hard to organize it all and it was very much appreciated!
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Hope you're having a lovely week!
Looks like a great meetup, you got some great goodies x
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