Getting Mini: Moo Business Cards

Last week I bit the bullet and ordered myself some MiniCards from Moo, which turned up on Saturday.  After attending several blog events and not having business cards, I thought these would be pretty handy.  I decided to go with my blog theme, making two different cards - one with my blog header and another with the striped background I use.  I got 100 for just over £10 which I thought was extremely inexpensive and they come in a nifty little box too! 

Have you invested in some Moo cards?

An award, a thank you and a new addition

A bit of a random mis-match post today. On Tuesday, Mary from It's Another Girls Life awarded my blog with the Liebster Blog Award.  For those of you who are unaware of what this is, it's an award set up to acknowledge blogs of under 200 followers, to try spread the word and support the newbies as blogging has become an extremely popular outlet for writers and photographers. 'Liebster' is a German word, meaning beloved or favourite and I was really pleased to have my blog recognised for this award.  In return, I am to state my five winners of this award, let them know and pass on the love.  The blogs I award are supposed to thank and link back to my blog when they post about it.  So without further adieu, here are my five picks :

1. Maria's Gaga

2. Cityscape Bliss

3. MOLYNEUXOXO

4. Would You Like Some Lala?

5. It's All So Scarlett

I'd like to say a big thank you to you guys who read and follow my blog also, as I got to 200 followers on Tuesday evening! I'm really pleased with my blogs progress and as they say 'onwards and upwards'.  

I think anyone who knows or meets me, knows that I'm a family girl through and through.  Possibly the most exciting news I've had for a while came yesterday when I became an auntie for the 5th time (I'm not even 20 yet!).  My brothers wife gave birth to their second child yesterday, a beautiful baby boy called William and he is absolutely adorable.  Here he is with his big sister.  I saw him last night in the hospital and had a cuddle, safe to say I'm completely smitten.

That's all for today, how has your day been?

Handpicked Media Gets Social

Yesterday I attended the Handpicked Media event.  If you don't already know, it was a blogging and PR event in London where we got to meet bloggers, have great talks from industry professionals and also get a chance to put questions to a beauty and fashion panel, made up from extremely well known bloggers.  I didn't take very many pictures due to being so engaged in the event but I will put the few I do have, in this blog.  

The Bloggers Lounge.

I admit, I first off was put off by the price, (£75 is a bit steep) but when my lecturer told us we could get tickets for £25 I was instantly swayed.  I'm so glad I went, it was INCREDIBLE.  I managed to meet some new bloggers as well as see some old friends.  

Getting some lashes stuck on at the Shu Uemura beauty bar.

We had to be in for 9am, where we were signed in, given goody bags and then led into the 'bloggers lounge' where coffee and croissants were on tap.  To one side of the room there were companies such as Biotherm, Kiehls, Bourjois and Shu Uemura were giving out freebies or talking about new products coming out.  

The Shu Uemura beauty bar.

At 10am we were lead into the auditorium where our first talk was from Garry, who went through the basics of blogging giving us tips and tricks on how to increase our blog traffic.  After that we then had a series of talks from industry professionals such as Rebecca Miskin, Shaa Wasmund (particularly inspirational), Mark Borkowski and Jane Cunningham from British Beauty Blogger.  

The beauty panel.

My favourite part of the day was the panels.  We started with Beauty where we had the editor of ELLE, Jennifer, my favourite vlogger/blogger Fleur from FleurDeForce, Emma from Beautyandthedirt.com, Jen from A Beauty Junkie in London, Lee from The Grooming Guru and finally Dil who writes For the Young Dude. 

Jane Cunningham's blog, British Beauty Blogger.

After the beauty panel has educated us, we moved onto the fashion panel, made up of Lily Melrose from LLYMLRS, Simon Glazin from The Very Simon G, editor of FHM Joe Barnes, Ella Gregory from Coco's Tea Party and Angela Buttolph editor of Grazia Daily.  

How amazing are these lashes?!

It was a really good day and I learnt a lot from it and look forward to the next one!  If you didn't get to go this time, I highly recommend splurging the pennies next time as it was extremely worth it.  If you did go, what did you like about it? 

A vintage affair to remember.

Last night was my first event working for the Push PR team and it was a treat indeed.  During the day it was mostly running around getting everything perfect for setup but once 5 o'clock came, the party really started.  It was a press and bloggers event for 18 AND EAST, Gigi Vintage and Tara Starlet (all AMAZING companies btw, you should definitely check them out).  There were a mixture of bloggers, magazine journo's and friends of clients, as well as the lovely Sinead Quinn who played an intimate set (with the aid of myself and Hannah playing her maracas - pun intended).  Here are a few images from the night, fortunately for Team Push there was so much left over cakes and sweets...

The girls from Tara Starlet, including Tara hereself (on the left).

Hannah and a couple of bloggers playing dress up. 

The intimate gig with Sinead Quinn. 

The lovely girls from 18 AND EAST, mingling away. 

Gigi on the far right with her pals enjoying the sparkling wine! 

One of the gorgeous Tara Starlet ladies, modelling a Gigi Vintage leather jacket. 

The lovely Sinead, rocking along to Johnny Cash.