Hello beautiful people, as some of you may already know I
was lucky enough to be shortlisted for the Best Newcomer Award sponsored by
Next at the Cosmo Blog Awards. So on Wednesday I donned my glad rags and made
my way over to the OXO tower in London for the Blog Awards Bash to find out who
the winners were.
My outfit choice for the evening…
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| Dress ASOS, necklace Debenhams, shoes Miss KG, coat Topshop and handbag TK MAXX. |
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| The most beautiful shoe boots in the world? |
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| Gorgeous green clutch. |
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| My nails for the evening. |
You weren’t allowed a plus one and so I put my brave face on
and with a glass of bubbles in my hand, I went to introduce myself to some
friendly looking bloggers. I met some lovely people but the most lovely of all
was Rachel, the very same lady that had alerted me to the fact that my blog was
shortlisted in the first place. Rachel and I found each other within about 10
minutes of arriving and we had many giggles over some cocktails whilst we
waited to find out the results. You can check out her awesome blog here.
After about an hour and a half of mingling, all of the
bloggers gathered at one end of the room to hear the results we had all been
waiting for. Louise Court the Editor and Pat McNulty the Digital Editor of
Cosmopolitan took to the stage to announce the winner and the highly commended
blogger in each category. After watching some of my favourite bloggers walk
home with one of the coveted awards finally last up was my category. The highly
commended blogger was fashionista Gillian Lee Rose (you can check out her blog
here) I was really pleased for her as I love her blog. The last award of the
night went to LAURA LOUISE AND HER NAUGHTY DISEASE! Yes ladies and gents this
little old blog WON an award I didn’t even know I was nominated for until 2
weeks before the end of voting. I was in total shock when they called my name
but I tentatively made my way to the stage to collect my award, posed for a few
photos and then made my way back towards a very smiley Rachel for a hug. Check out the list of all the winners here.
The rest of the evening was spent drinking one too many of
the delicious cocktails provided by Pinky Vodka, meeting fellow bloggers,
posing for photos and smiling so much my cheeks hurt. I was in such a daze from
winning that I forgot to take many photos, big error I know, but luckily a
photographer from Cosmopolitan was on hand snapping away. You can check out the
amazing photos here and here. Unbelievably I also managed to make their style gallery *I
chuckled muchly when I discovered this* but you can view some of the other
amazing outfits worn here. Below are the two photos that I did remember to take…
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| Me and the lovely Rachel who is wearing a gorgeous Boohoo playsuit. |
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| Me posing with my award at the Best British Blogger stand. |
So there you have it, after what can only be described as a
rollercoaster of a year so far for me something great has come out of an
otherwise rubbish situation. It still hasn’t settled in yet. It was an honour
to even make the shortlist out of 43000 entries but to win is something else
entirely. I can honestly say that it was the best day of my year so far. Thank
you to all of you for following me and my journey so far and providing me with
so many lovely messages of love and support and a big fat thank you to everyone
who voted for me too. The lovely people at Next have written a great blog post all about the evening which you can read here. I have lots of other things to tell you all about from my London trip so I will be blogging again soon but for now I shall leave you with this image.
Love you long time. X
