The Miss Elaine-ous Life

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BlogHer Top 12 (because top “tens” are boring, right?)

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It’s hard to sum up my whole Blog Her experience this year because there was just SO. MUCH.

So much walking.  So much hugging. So much laughing.  So much dancing.  So much love.  So much friendship.  So much fun.  So much swag (yes that too).  So much picture-taking.

But after going through the photos that were taken with my camera (many not by me, since I’m in them – YAY!) I came up with a little list that I think does a fairly good job.

It was a great time and I’m SO glad I went and got to hang out and meet my friends from the internets.  They really are quite amazing!

So here it is…

My BlogHer Top 11:

12. Realizing you have an awesome roommate when after only 5 minutes of meeting her, you and your other wonderful roommate are already laughing with her about her awesome swag, a battery-powered hairbrush. 🙂

It really was awesome.  We all tried it and our hair looked very smooth and shiny!! 
11. The views from your hotel room look like this and it’s 60-something degrees when you walk out on the balcony.



10.  You enjoy dinner with seven of the loveliest ladies you’ve had the pleasure of spending time with.  And a nice, albeit “leetle” (gosh, could you spare just a tad more vino???) glass of wine.

Melissa (@bargainshopmom), Amy (@nevertruetales) Me and Jen (@MomMadeItLookEZ)

Christine (@Evolving Mommy), Rachel (mommyneedsvaca), Jen (@buriedwithkids) and Kelly (@kpugs)

9. You get up at 5:30 to go run a 5K (that wasn’t really a true 5K but oh well) and see pretty boats and bridges while you’re out and about.  Oh and you see a friend there that you just had dinner with (@kpugs)

wearing the tee from my awesome sponsor, Canvas Press!

8. You have the opportunity to hear an amazing photographer (Penny De los Santos) speak in her own personal poetry and show you some of the most amazing photographs you’ve ever seen and you are TRULY inspired. (thank you to @shesuggests for suggesting I go! ha!)

7. You hop in the flying paper money box at the expo and win ten bucks for cab fare!  WOOT!  As well as send a Hallmark card to your mom with a beagle on it that looks like the one you grew up with (miss you Chester! Oh and you too Mom!) AND take a pic with Cookie Monster and Elmo and your super fabulous roomies!

6.  You go to parties with great friends and talk to a lot of great people (even some who you don’t realize who they are at the time – hey @mommyofamonster!)

Me and Tracy (@sellabitmum) Love Her! 

5. You dance and party like it’s 1999 with thousands of fabulous bloggers and then your thighs hurt badly in the morning.

Tracy, me and Tracy (@chimomwriter – who took the pic!)

4. You take a little walk in the gorgeous weather and come back feeling refreshed after taking a few pretty pictures.

3. You go to the movies (to see “The Help”) with some gorgeous ladies and cry your eyes out after many attempts to push back the tears.  It was amazing.  Go see it, the first chance you get!!!

 Amanda knows how to rock the smile!! 

Aren’t my roomies stunning?

2. You can hang out at a party for a couple of hours with a personalized Micky D’s paper bag on your head and no one thinks twice about it.
1. THE COMPLETELY FABULOUS, WONDERFUL, WISH YOU LIVED NEAR ME, LET’S FORM A COMMUNE, PEOPLE!!!!

Me and Liz (@libismorgan) getting down at CheeseburgHer

Jessica (@mytimeasmom) and me at the Aiming Low party (yes, I was getting tired by this time)
 
Me and the sweet, beautiful Galit (@GalitBreen).  She’s amazing, inside and out. 

Me and Amanda at the Cheap Sally party. (and @ByWordsMusings enjoying her drink in the background!) 

Yes, my eyes are closed but it’s the best of the 3 that Zdub (@Zakary) and I took!  

Melissa and me at the Big Toy Book Party where they had champagne, yummy Pink Berry and where I got the boys a Hex Bug from KidzVuz! 

I also want to give a shout out to these ladies who I loved seeing but are not in any of my pics but I wish they were.  Boo to that… Jo-Lynne, Ilana, Nicole, Cheryl, Nichole, Mandy, Heather, Ellie, Jennifer, Angie, Jill, Stacey, Yuliya, Haley, Heather, Becca.

So, what was in your top 12 at Blog Her?  And if you didn’t go what was great about your weekend?  And would you consider Blog Her ’12?  It’s in NYC…. We’ll see… 🙂

Oh and if this was a TOP 13 I would also include the gorgeous, funny and heart-felt posts read during Voices of the Year and the Listen to Your Mother Salon.  It’s so amazing to hear people read their own writing out loud.  (sorry this is an after thought but I was just SO tired after compiling this post!)

p.s. all photos on flickr

Linking up with WordFul Wednesday… 

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Comments

  1. a beautiful recap full of lovely pictures and lovely ladies! Glad to hear your perspective… and to run into you before our flight to Dallas too 🙂

  2. Perfect recap!!! You got some great pics! I was always the one taking the pics so I was hardly in any of them, I don’t know if I am happy about that or not! =)

    Come to think of it, you are IN some of my photos!

  4. Awesome. I wish I was back there! I started writing last night and just could not think of a way to summarize everything. You did a good job.

  5. I so think I should start blogging. I read many of the blogs that you mentioned already including yours.

  6. Lovely recap!

    I didn’t go 🙁 but I reorganized the kids’ toys this weekend. You would think that was NOT a good weekend, but I feel so much better now that they’re out of my living room!

  7. Love it. I can smell the sea air while looking at your pictures. Well, the pictures of outside. The actual “BlogHer” pictures has me remembering the smell of all those women, perfume and sweat mixed into one. I prefer the sea air 😉

  10. LOVE your pictures, and love this recap!

    I ended up with TWO – count ’em – TWO pictures from BlogHer. So I’m living vicariously through yours. 🙂

    Amazing to meet you. What a truly bright light you are in the world.

    -xoxo

    -Ellie

  13. What a fun recap! I loved seeing all the pictures of my home town. Boo, on me for not blogging more and missing such a fun event!

  16. I love seeing this! And not only because I wish I’d had the opportunity to go, but because I love to see my favorite bloggers having so much fun together. 🙂

  18. Your photos are AWESOME. Really – so many lovely ladies captured looking so happy! I enjoyed viewing them, and meeting you, even if it was for a brief time!

  20. You had great pictures from the event. I wish I had brought my camera around with me instead of my iPhone. Can you send me that picture of us? Please.

  22. I wasn’t there but love seeing everyone’s recaps and love your photos. Great to see everyone! So glad you had such a good time.

  26. Fabulous recap post. I loved meeting you. I don’t think we’ve connected online yet and I hope I can make up for lost time. I can’t wait to get to know you better.

    (And my camera wasn’t working all weekend so can I just use your images for my post? MMMkay? Thanks)

  32. Oh my beautiful friend! You captured BlogHer with style and grace and fun and whimsy- all that you are.

    So, so happy to have met you because you? Are pure incredible!

    XO

  41. Such great pics and good memories! So glad that we actually did meet (even though we didn’t know it!) and I walked by when you were wrangling money…I remember seeing your smiling face!

  42. Okay- totally jealous for so many reasons. 1- you got to go!!! 2- you got to go to one of my favorite cities in the whole world & 3- you got to meet Jessica. She lives in my same state & close to where we USED TO live & I am hoping our next trip home we can meet up. Looks like it was a SMASHING time.

  43. You better be at BlogHer next year… cause I will be there! 🙂 (And maybe Blissdom too, but waiting on details for that yet!)

    Looks like a fab time, wish I could have gone!!

  45. Le sigh. Looks like sooooo much fun, Elaine! I’m jealous of all the peeps you got to meet, especially Galit & Tracy/Sellabitmum….

    you look fantastic, and as usual, your mad photography skillz inspire me!

  49. Those are amazing photos. It’s so interesting reading all these recaps because in many ways it feels like we were at difference conferences. Just goes to show how much there is going on.

    Still sorry I didn’t get to meet you. Boo.

  52. What a fun recap! I found you through Yuliya and always love discovering new bloggers, especially when it turns out they’re blog buddies with all of my blog buddies! Which makes me wonder… HOW did I not know you in the first place? 😉