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!
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!
Tracey ~ My House of Giggles “Blend 2011” |
Sarah ~ Prairie Perch “IDS Recap” |
Lily & Rachel ~ Birch + Bird “Our Big City Weekend” |
What a wonderful, energy-filled group we had join us for Blend!
Guests:
Our Special Guests
Zoe Pawlak and Jen Knight, PR Ikea Coquitlam
Guests:
Michelle Morelan | |
Dawna Graham | |
Lily Ellis & Rachel Janzen | |
Albarosa Simonetti | |
Maria Killam & Irene Hill | |
Darryl Bueckert | |
Astrid Thomson | |
Tamara Komuniecki | |
Corey Klassen & Vanessa Vera Plaframan | |
Victoria Lambert | |
Rosa Pearson | |
Andrea Johnson | |
Dale Kosowan | |
Heather Ross | |
Barbara Matson | |
Michelle Mollinga | |
Tracey Ayton | |
Karla Adamatsu | |
Yvonne Vanderkooy & Peter Vanderkooy | |
Sharon Laxon & Gary Laxon | |
Ashli Malinek | |
Nancy Marcus | |
Erica Reed Cook | |
Tracey Kofoed | |
Jennifer Findlay & Mark Findlay | |
Janis Nicolay | |
Sarah MacMillan | |
Jil McDonald | |
Lesley Stenning | |
Sherri Birt | |
Sheila Zeller | |
Megan Close, Darci Ilich & Stephanie Volger | The Cross |
Carol Smyth | |
Sari McNamee | |
Jodi Bueckert | |
Amanda Swanlund | |
Danielle Hardy | |
Heidi Nyline |
Our Special Guests
Madeliene Löwenborg-Frick | IKEA Canada our Premier Sponsor! |
Andrea Mills | IKEA Canada our Premier Sponsor! |
Jen Knight | IKEA Canada - Coquitlam our Premier Sponsor! |
Suzanne Dimma | Canadian House & Home |
Mark Challen | Canadian House & Home |
Kelly Deck | Kelly Deck Design |
Shauna Levy | IDS Toronto |
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
More gorgeousness… designer Carol Smyth from The Design Pages and Meesh Mollinga who’s blog is i dream of chairs.
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
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!!
Looking AbFab, designers Maria Killam from Colour me Happy, Heidi Nyline, Warline Painting and Jil MacDonald of Reflections Interior Designs.
Andrea Johnson (From My Living Room) and Astrid Thomson (Delight of Design) brought even more glam and design talent into the room!
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…
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 |
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 |
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
and
Victoria, Nancy and Karla
11 comments:
Awesome re-cap! It feels as if I was almost there ;)
It was a great night, and winning a prize made it just that much better.
Looks like a good time was had by all. Sooo sad I missed out! Maybe next year....
It was so much fun to shoot you all, not literally of course but with the lens. I had a great time and look forward to next year and hope that even more of our fab members can join us. Thanks again to the organizers, what a task you accomplished and thanks for the great blog post, kudos!!!
Great memories of a wonderful evening. Thank you for taking the time also to write this long post full of details. Looking forward to the next meeting/party!
What a great recap of an incredible evening! Thank you somehow doesn't feel like enough for all that our dream team organizers did to coordinate this for us... but thank you so much Victoria, Barbara, Nancy & Karla!!!
It was a lovely evening and I look forward to our next shindig. Nothing like surrounding yourself with beautiful and talented people.
Such a fun night! Can't wait to see everybody again very soon :)
You ladies really pulled it all out - it was a lovely event! I only wish I had been able to be there for the entire evening! Next time. ;) See you all soon.
Reliving a fabulous evening through this post. Can't wait for Blend 2012!
This was the funnest night EVER!! great recap Barbara :) can't wait for next year :)
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