Finally a long overdue re-cap of our fabulous event!
On Saturday, Oct 1, our blogger soiree we called Blend 2011 came to life! We held it at
The Loden Hotel, a fabulous boutique hotel downtown Vancouver. The food was amazing and the company equally superb!
The event was sponsored by our premier sponsor,
Ikea Canada.
We were spoiled by fabulous food, wine and drinks.
Photo: Darryl Beuckert
Photo: Sari McNamee
Many of our Network Members who attended wrote about our fantastic Blend 2011 party so be sure to check out their posts!! You’ll find we’ve listed the posts in reverse alphabetical order by blogger name for no absolutely particular reason. LOL! We’re crazy like that!
What a wonderful, energy-filled group we had join us for Blend!
Guests:
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Lily Ellis &
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Maria Killam &
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Sharon Laxon & Gary Laxon | |
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Megan Close, Darci Ilich & Stephanie Volger | |
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Our Special Guests
Madeliene Löwenborg-Frick | |
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Delta Faucets Via Twitter |
Zoe Pawlak and
Jen Knight, PR Ikea Coquitlam
Photo: Sari McNamee
Photo: Sari McNamee
Jil MacDonald with Barbara Matson from
hodge:podge, and one of the four organizers of the CLDB West Network.
Photo: Victoria Lambert
Photo: Sari McNamee
Photo: Sari McNamee
Photo: Sari McNamee
Not only did Ikea Canada sponsor the whole event but they brought famous guests with them as well.
Suzanne Dimma, editor-in-chief for
Canadian House and Home,
Mark Challen, VP of Communications {also a fabulous designer} and
Kelly Deck from Kelly Deck Designs, our local HGTV star and the next "Sarah Richardson" of design!
Photo: Sari McNamee
Photo: Sari McNamee
Suzanne Dimma and Mark Challen
Photo: Sari McNamee
Organizers, Nancy, Victoria, Barbara and Karla with the fabulous Mark Challen!
Photo: Sari McNamee
On the left we have Kelly Deck with our own Michelle Morelan of
A Schematic Life. Michelle used to work at Kelly Deck Design so for her, this was a terrific opportunity for her to catch up!
Lighting up the other half of the room, Heather Ross again along with talented graphic designer Rosa Pearson from
FlutterFlutter
How fantastic that Sarah MacMillan of
Prairie Perch could come join us all the way from Saskatchewan!! She’s pictured here with Tamara Komuniecki, editor of
Delish Magazine. Tamara took photos of everyone’s shoes and shared them with her followers on Twitter. What a fun idea that got us all laughing and modeling our lovely heels!!
Found hanging out in the back room (we suspect they liked to be nearer to the bar and food {it was soooo good!!}!) Sari found…
Photographer, shop-owner and so much more, Heather Ross who writes
Heather Ross : The Natural Eclectic, Michelle Morelan again, as well as designers Amanda Swanlund of
Twenty One | Two and
Brillante Interiors’s Albarosa Simonetti.
It’s hard to see her in this photo, but the woman also staying close to the bar ;-) all while surround by good friends, Yvonne Vanderkooy from
Layers and Layers, a blog AND a fabulous designers resource centre.
Here we have Carol Smyth again only this time she’s mingling with Sharon and Gary Laxon. Sharon is the other very important half of
Layers and Layers :-)
Going black & white you’ll find Sheila Zeller with Jennifer Findlay of blog and on-line home “lovely stuff” store
Nicole Jane Home and from
Edin’s House, and one of our CDLB West organizers, Victoria Lambert.
Many of our members are interviewing and writing blog posts about some of the fabulous Designers taking part in IDSwest.
The highlight of the evening was the drawing of all the fabulous prizes!
A detail post about the prizes and sponsors will follow..
As fun as blending at Blend 2011 was, it was made even more fun because of our door prizes! Thank you so much to those who donated items to give away:
IKEA Canada: $1,000 Ikea Gift Certificate – Darryl Bueckert |
Delta -Bathroom Faucet: Sheila Zeller |
Delta – Shower Head: Erica Reed Cook |
Delta – Kitchen Faucet: Tammie Brown |
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Nicole Jane Home: $100 Gift Certificate – Deena Easton The Cross: Designer Guild Pillow - Barbara Matson {thanks to Madeleine Lowenberg-Fisk} Nancy Marcus: Art Print - Rachel Janzen Tracey Ayton Photography: Lily Ninkovic Ellis Zoe Pawlak: Print - Michelle Mollinga Vintage Home - vintage mirror - Sharon Laxton Sari McNamee - Photo Canvas Art - Jennifer Findlay Kerrisdale Design - Laquered Box - Dawna Graham Delta - Book: Domino: Jodi Beuckert Delta - Book: Undecorate - Tracey Kofoed Delta - Book: Pale and Interesting - Suzanne Dimma Delta - Book: Tricia Guild - Amanda Swanlund Delta - Book: Thomas O'Brien - Danielle Hardy Ikea - Vase: Carol Smyth Bracelet from Mo Funk Designs: Albarosa Simonetti
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Even our special guest, the lovely Suzanne Dimma with her prize, "Pale and Interesting"
The drawing of the $1000 Ikea gift card - which Darryl Beuckert won!
{That is his wife -Jodi, in the white dress}
Tracy from My House of Giggles with her prize and Astrid.
Erica from Moth Design with her Delta Faucet shower head!
Photo: Victoria Lambert
Many of our guests were tweeting with @beigeisdead (on behalf of Delta) in the hopes of wining their Tweet Prize… and Sheila Zeller won a bathroom faucet!! @beigeisdead announced Sheila’s win live on Twitter and I helped by posting this photo for the Twitter world to see!! :-)
So many beautiful/handsome faces and simply wonderful people!!!
We can speak for everyone in attendance – and we hope for all of our Network members – when we say… everyone is excited to be part of the growing CDLB West Network!!!
What an absolutely wonderful, fantabulous evening we all had!!
Many of us were still energized after the party so we took things up to our suite…
including some left over yummies from the buffet table!
We chatted, laughed and just enjoyed ourselves until our beds were calling to us.
Then it was off to bed for us organizers – these are the sweet slippers placed lovingly beside our bed by The Loden staff and we just had to share!
Pitter Patter Renew Revive
Perfect words as we scrambled into bed (i.e, pittered and pattered), shut our eyes and got our much needed beauty sleep (yep… you got it… renewed our energy so we would be revived come morning) :-
The next morning a few of us enjoyed a fantabulous buffet breakfast at the Fairmont Pacific Rim down the street!
We are excited at the possibilities the future holds for our network and members.
If you are a design or lifestyle blogger in Western Canada {BC, AB, SK, MB}
shoot us an email to get added to our list!
Barbara
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Victoria, Nancy and Karla
