Thank You!
October 26, 2011Happy Halloween, and Other Stuff….
October 31, 2011Well hello! Happy Friday!
I’m back from my little jaunt to the Cosmo Awards (plus a very enjoyable day at a beer festival yesterday) and I shall tell you all about it as promised!
As you may know already I didn’t win, but then, I wasn’t expecting to. The runner up in my category was last years winner Wish Wish Wish and the winner was Cupcake’s Clothes.
I got the train down, so spent much of the day feeling very over dressed for the middle of the afternoon. I arrived about half an hour early and found that the venue was just down the road from a pub called The Clachan which I’d been to before, so I settled in with half a pint of coffee porter to wait for a reasonable time to head off. By the power of Twitter I was also saved from arriving on my own by meeting up with fellow nominee Ritzi from Climbing Ritzi’s Ladder. We wandered along to 24 Kingly, which was very shiny and posh, and oddly I *hadn’t* been to before! It seems I’m definitely a pint of ale in a pub girl rather than a cocktails in a shiny club girl!
Unfortunately there was no one available to take proper photos of my outfit before I left so I did my best with the bathroom mirror and a camera phone. I was, of course, too stupid to actually use my proper camera to take photos in the bathroom mirror. Duh!
These are just hilariously bad. See, people who post such hideous photographs don’t deserve blog awards. Especially when they have a DSLR slung over their shoulder. Note the look of intense concentration on my face….
❤ Dress - Vintage Kitty Copeland ❤ Leather Obi Belt - ASOS ❤ ❤Shoes - Salvador Sapena ❤ Pearls - Vintage Lotus Pearls ❤ Bracelet - A gift ❤ ❤ Handbag - Vintage ❤ Hair Clip - Babyliss ❤
I’ve worn this dress several times before, so apologies for the boring repetition! If you believe twitter I’m just about the only person nominated who didn’t get someone to dress her for free and I couldn’t afford new frocks, so my trusty Kitty Copeland vintage dress it was!
When I arrived I duly snaffled a Cosmo from the bar.
Then I was almost immediately grabbed by Stylist Pick who wanted to interview me on camera about shoes. I stuffed it up a bit as they asked me who my celebrity style icon was and frankly I couldn’t think of a single one! (P.S. Just spotted a tiiiny photo of me with weird glowing eyes next to very tall Stylist Pick trends editor on their website here) Hopefully I shall find out whether I get my 5 seconds of fame in the finished video soon or whether I am just too awful to even grab a sound bite from!
The awards were announced at 7pm, and it was all over by 7:15! I’ll be honest, I’d envisaged it being a little more like a proper awards ceremony, with the winners allowed the chance to do speeches. I thought it’d take a little longer than 15 minutes! All the winners have now been published on the Cosmo website, so you can find them here!
By this point I’d drunk about 6 free Cosmos, and weirdly was feeling no ill effects whatsoever. They certainly weren’t as strong as *I* make them, they were being poured from a jug, so if they contained any alcohol at all I’d estimate it at about 1 unit of alcohol per jug. We could have ordered any vodka based drink we liked from the bar courtesy of sponsors Stoli, but frankly it was easier just to grab the very nearly alcohol free ready made ones from the bar. On the plus side, I at least was prevented from getting too drunk and embarrassing!
I did meet some lovely bloggers during the evening. The aforementioned Ritzi, Big Fashionista, Adore by Chloe, Emily’s Nail Files, Body of a Geek Goddess and Judy’s Vintage Fair were all kind enough to keep me company at various points, but to be honest I felt a little out of place. Whoever the DJ was after the awards played horrendously loud and thumping music that made me feel very, very old and a little bit cross. So at about 8pm I was all ready to call it a day and head off home, when I bumped into the very, very brilliant Alice from th’ink , Bethany from Arched Eyebrow and Jazzy Elizabeth from Hivenn.
We played in the photobooth….
We drank some more alcohol free cocktails.
Then me, Alice and Bethany went to the pub for a proper drink and to trawl through our goodie bags. I’m quite excited to try out some of the products in the goodie bag, and I’m sure eventually I’ll review some. There’s a dainty doll blusher I’m keen to try, and some Moroccan Oil which is apparently great for dry hair.
So, as promised, that was my Cosmo Blog Awards experience! I’ve popped all my photos on my Facebook page if you’d like a nosy!
I want to send massive snogs to you all for nominating me, although I am definitely not all “fashiony” it IS exciting to be nominated for an award hosted by such a huge brand as Cosmo. It’s lovely to know that some people enjoy reading my random witterings. If there is anything specific you would like to read me witter about then do let me know!
I shall attempt to come up with a way to say thank you properly. Sadly I can’t afford to take you all to the pub for a drink, but next time you’re in one buy yourself a drink and pretend it’s from me.
15 Comments
I thought it would be a big old drawn out event too, all that effort for 15 minutes! Ah well you look fabulous and got free alcohol, who can complain ;o)
I also don’t have a celebrity style icon, neither modern or vintage, I like how some people look but that’s it. I don’t think I’ve ever had a style icon I’d have been stumped too!
Hope the beer festival was good, certainly sounds more like my cup of tea!
Yes, exactly! Not complaining, just surprised!
Well it looks like you had a fab time regardless. Don’t you just hate those cocktails though? They may as well just call them mocktails. Your dress looks lovely. x
Thanks!
Yes, they were definitely more fruit than booze!
I still think boooooooo – I’m making a point of not going to look at the other blogs.
I don’t have a style icon. I like bits of a lot of people.
There’s always next year, baby steps on the road to world domination! 😉
you looked so pretty 🙂 VERY disappointed about the fast ceremony, I was so looking forward hearing about it and to know that it was that short… oh well, you looked fab, proud I voted for you – but you dint win so what the heck and who do I have to write to to complain 😉 – Now more than ever I wish I would have also been shortlisted to meet you, Big Fashionista too she seems lovely, you two are some of my fave bloggers, but hardly anyone reads my site so maybe one of these years? xxxxx
Sorry to hear you didn’t win, but what a delight to get to attend such an event, with proper goodie bags just like the celebs get! You looked great, I love the photo of you guys drinking cosmo “cocktails” (sounds like the term was used lightly in this case).
I wouldn’t have the first clue what to say if someone asked me my style icon, either!
So nice to meet you in the real world! Thank you for being my queueing buddy!
We must catch up for a pint of ale next time you’re in town 🙂
RCx
It was so awesome you were shortlisted!! Woohoo!
I heard on a very reliable grapevine that the bar staff said that there was actually zero alcohol in the drinks….you had to pay extra for that. Cheeky I think.
You look a million (slightly fuzzy) bucks in your outfit pic 🙂 Boo to not winning – but YAY!!! to meeting some nice peeps from blogland 🙂
I think you looked super, the belt was a good call for that dress. I can confirm that Moroccan is fantastic. You really do only need a teeny tiny bit though!
What a shocker, booze free cocktails? For shaaame. I think I went to a New Look (as in the high street shop- I got tickets for winning something, not Dior, this is me we’re talking about here) party there and remember a similar event with 7 bellinis. Maybe that’s how they advertise the venue ‘no drunken disorder here…’!
You look super fantastic with an obi belt. I love that look, and shall steal it mwahahaha!
That dress is gorgeous on you! Shame you didn’t win but it looked like fun tho!
(I can now announce I’m pleased as punch that I can now get on your website again! Looks like it was my outdated IE!! Now, I’m just off for a catch up on all your posts that I haven’t been able to read for a while!! Yay!)
Hurrah! What a relief! I’ve been worried that I’d broken something somewhere!
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You look so gorgeous Retro ~ I love your hair clip. : ) And the dress is great too!
xox,
bonita of Depict This!
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