Pretty Nostalgic Vintage Gathering

A few weeks ago the lovely Angela from Little Apple Tree tweeted to ask me if I was going to the Pretty Nostalgic Vintage Gathering at Kings Weston House. I tweeted back asking to say I was and wondered if someone should organise a bloggers meet up. Lo and behold, before I knew it the wonderful team at Pretty Nostalgic had arranged free entry, a press pack and a bloggers networking hour!

 

 

I was really looking forward to the day; there was a few other bloggers I knew of going and I'd finally be able to put a face to a name, plus meet some new people as well.

 

 

The day started at 10am at the gorgeous Kings Weston House in Bristol; I arrived about 10.15am and the first person I spotted was Lily from Lily Doughball - it's very surreal spotting people you recognise from their blogs, you feel you kind of know them but have never actually met them in person!

We checked ourselves in and were given a quick tour of the event by Rachel, the Head of Creative Marketing. I'd never even heard of King Weston House before but it's filled with beautiful and quirky architecture and design. The house itself is only open to the public occassionally but the grounds are owned by Bristol City Council and are open all year round. I definitely want to take Andrew there for a walk sometime.

 

There was a whole series of events and talks going on throughout the day and the first one we attended was by Pretty Nostalgic founder, Nicole Burnett who explained all about the ethos of the magazine, what they are trying to do with it and the charity scheme they're starting from next month.

Source: Pretty Nostalgic 

 

Next up was the turn of Annabel Beeforth, who runs the incredibly successful Love My Dress blog. I have to confess although I'd heard of Annabel's blog, I'd never actually looked at it, mainly because it's primarily a wedding blog and that special day was long long ago for me. Annabel was really interesting though, her passion for weddings and dresses certainly shone through; even though I'm not planning on getting married again, her blog is still beautiful to look at.

 

 

I then spotted Angela from Little Apple Tree (who had actually spotted me first!) and popped over to quickly say hello before the next talk which I wanted to see - Susie Parr talking about the history of swimming.

 

After that it was time to head into the yurt for the bloggers networking hour.
I wasn't sure at first how we were all going to fit in, but the cosiness soon broke the ice and then business cards were being flung all over the place. I apologise now, I was rather cheeky and handed out my business cards for my Carnival photography website as well as my blog but thankfully (or hopefully) no-one seemed to mind.
It was really great to meet everyone, some of whom I hadn't met and some of whom I'd talked to before on Twitter or commented on their blogs.
In total there was 10 of us - myself, Catherine (from Vintage Frills), Emily (from Fishee Designs), Angela (from Little Apple Tree), Lily (from Lily Doughball), Eli (from Eli Trier), Helen (from Gwen's Bridal Bazaar), SJ (from Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion), Lucy (from Capture by Lucy) and Jo (from Slummy Single Mummy).

After a slightly awkward round-the-table introduction from us all, we quickly got into swapping blogging tips and ideas. I picked up quite a few hints and my question about advertising on other people's blogs was quickly answered with some great confidence-building inspiration from everyone.
All I need to do now is manage to design a blog button!

 

After the networking hour, me and Angela had a good chinwag about blogging, Carnivals, Scotland and all sorts of other things whilst perusing the stalls and exhibitors. One stall was advertising the Dig For Victory Show next July at the North Somerset Showground which looks really interesting and we'll definitely be investigating the possibility of attending with Andrew's lorry.

 

I also fell in love with these seaside postcard bags and purses by Sarah Culleton - one to put on my Christmas list methinks...

 

 

All day long people had been wandering round eating delicious-looking wood-fired pizza from PizzaMonkey so as well as taking home some ration chocolate and chocolate moustaches from Revolution Chocolates, some chocolate cake pops from Chocolate Delores Cakes, and some Halloween biscuits from Mullion Cove, I also bought a Classic cheese and tomato pizza to take home and share with Andrew. Although it did make the hour-long journey home in one piece, it didn't last very long once it got through our front door and I completely forgot to take any pictures. It was very very tasty though :-)

 

 

 

 

All in all, a fabulous day.

Thanks Pretty Nostalgic for organising it and inviting all us bloggers!

 

  

The lovely team at Pretty Nostalgic did invite me to the event and kindly let me have a free ticket, however all words, opinions and photos are my own. I did have a wonderful time!
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