#lincsblogmeet 21st June 2014 – The Day
What a blog meet looks like the night before… |
Beautiful day for #lincsblogmeet |
Our first arrivals joined us slightly before the designated meet up time of 10am, and we waited, until just before half past. It was lovely having that time to get to know people and everyone seemed really excited and friendly. Due to some late comers we rearranged the group and sent them on their Photo Trail tour of Lincoln that we had put together. Most blog meets are all about the shopping but we decided we wanted to do something that would hopefully be fun! From the photos on Instagram and Twitter (as that was the point of it being a photo trail!) it looks like everyone enjoyed it, despite the hike up Steep Hill to the Cathedral! The Blue team were the winners and first to join us at Ask.
Soon the truly lovely Una from Weleda was ready to give us a talk about the brand. I have to put my hands up and say that before Bee had arranged this talk, I had no idea who Weleda were, despite being a brand that have been around for years! Although I was well into my photography duties I really enjoyed Una’s talk and introduction to Weleda as well as the chance to smell some of the products available. I was then lucky enough to win the surprise giveaway! It was the only giveaway that my name was in as I thought I was just filling in an inquiry form but I was incredibly grateful and can’t wait to give the products a try!
Then lunch was served. Both Bee and I had agreed at the beginning we would have starters as mains due to our #WLW, but in the end it was a good idea due to how little time we had to eat! I went for the Butterfly King Prawns and a diet coke. Which I would wholeheartedly recommend! I even managed to get photographs or my dish as well as Bee’s but you will have to check out her post to see that!
After lunch Bee had arranged (last minute might I add) a talk from the skincare consultant at Lincoln Boots. Julie arrived loaded with goodie bags for each of out bloggers, which was incredibly nice and filled with wonderful things to try. As she had been so last minute she gave us a short talk telling us what she was all about and a little introduction to looking after our skin. I was amazed at how much I learned in such a short space of time! We were so thankful for her visit, it was definitely interesting.
Finally, as a last part to our day, we had organised a beauty product swap. Again, we wanted to do something different so we asked our bloggers to bring in unwanted beauty samples or full sized products, trade them in for tokens and then select new products to take home and try. It turned out to be a complete success and so popular, I’d be more than happy to host another one again as everyone seemed to like our system and feel excited by what they picked to take home with them. I really look forward to seeing what everyone picked up!
Aside from the goodie bags we put together from donations from some amazing companies, which I will tell you all about in my post solely dedicated to our goodie bags, we were gifted some fantastic prizes to give away! Again, I will feature these in my next post, but throughout the day we drew names and made some of our bloggers incredibly happy! We ended our day by having some group photos and handing out the goodie bags. We were thanked so many times and it really felt like such an achievement for organising such a good day! I really hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did and thank you all for coming!
Team Blue John of Mr Wharff, Sally of Sally Bee Makes, Rhiannon of The Sparkly Panda & Eleanor of Creative Countryside |
Team Green Kate – Pieces of Kate, Megan of Student Style, Lucy of Lucy Jane, Alex of Champagne & Lemonade & Jemma of Bamboozle Beauty |
Team Orange Naomi of Think Fashion, Chloe of Alicia Deyes Writes, Charley of Ramblings of a Beauty Blogger, Courtney of Courtney Farrow, & Jemma of Dreams of New York |
Team Red Ann, Emma of Made in Hunters, Phil, Siobhan The Beauty Baker, Natalie of Twice the Mum & Kariss of Shy, Strange and a little bit Manic |
Team Us Bel of Journeys are my Diary & Myself |
Thank you all to your wonderful ladies & gents who attended #lincsblogmeet June 2014! |
8 Comments
Kariss Ainsworth
You both did an amazing job! Thank you again!
daisychain
looks like an amazing day Amy! x
New Girl in Toon
OMG I love the photo trail idea … amazing! It’s definitely good to do something different at bloggers events and I bet that was the perfect ice-breaker. As much as I love sitting about chatting it can be quite nerve wracking, especially if you’re new to the community.
The beauty product swap is inspired as well, what a good idea! And I love that you got loads of photos of everyone there in groups!
Looks like such a success … you’ll have to organise one up here next 🙂
Congratulations!
Chloe x
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Sarah Shermann
This looks like such an amazing wee event and you both look like you put so much effort in to arranging it I’m sure everyone enjoyed it. I wish someone would do something similar in my city 🙂
Jamie-Lee GlitterInfatuation
This sounds like an amazing day! You planned it all so well 🙂 xx
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Hayley Warren
It sounds like such a fantastic day, I’m so gutted I missed it! You’ll have to plan another one!
Kloe Anya.
Sounds like you had such an amazing day! I wish I could have gone! I love Lincoln! Haha
Kloe xx
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Chelsea Joan
This sounds amazing Amy, you and Bee should be so proud of yourselves! The beauty swap sounds like such a good idea as well! 🙂
Chelsea xx
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