Highly Commended - National UK Blog Awards 2014!

Hello......Happy Sunday, hope you are all enjoying your weekend?! So, Friday evening was the event of the year; I'd been so excited to attend - albeit rather nervous, of course. I'd spent many weeks planning and searching for the perfect dress, bag, shoes etc. I finally (after weeks of searching) found my dress on Fashion Bone on etsy and had it shipped over from Ohio, US. It's not often a girl like me gets to dress spectacularly for an event such as this in such a prestigious venue in London.  If I'm honest, I have mixed feelings about the whole evening. I'm so, so happy that Dear Thirty was awarded 'Highly Commended' in my lifestyle category. I knew the obvious winner would be 'Life as a Widower'  - I'd thought that right from the very beginning.......he's had amazing success with his story and blog; has appeared on national TV, among other things. So really, coming runner-up to this blog is an amazing achievement for me :) I was a little bit confused however about the dress code of the event. Most people looked amazing - black tie!  Alex from Bambella Blog (Congratulations Alex for winning in your category!) who looked stunning with blue hair and a black floor length sequin gown - simply timeless! However, there appeared to be a number of people in jeans and converse - erm?! What?!? Another confusing thing: In our goodie bags, we had small square carpet samples from carpetright - confusion.dot.com with that one! They were also handing out wallpaper roll to everyone - erm.....I didn't want one understandably. Aside from the oddities of the evening, the event was beautifully put together (although they'd run out of free champagne by the time we'd arrived ) (and bottles of wine were £27.50 - Eeeek!) with free popcorn and candyfloss to eat whilst the awards took place. I did feel however; the evening centred around 'How to make money from your blog' -  my blog makes me zero £$£$ - I have no interest whatsoever in cashing in on my blog........ Now don't get me wrong: if I happen to make a bit of cash along the way, or if fabulous companies want to send me nice things to try - then fine, why not? but I won't go looking for it! It was a little presumptuous on their part, to assume everyone who writes a blog, does it only to make money...... but, whatever, I let it wash over me........andddd, tried (very hard) not to pass out in my 1950's dusky pink girdle - How women wore a girdle all day long is beyond me......although, I do believe mine was a couple of sizes too small for me, so that may well have something to do with it ;) All-in-all, we had a lovely weekend in London and I'll post more pictures soon! Did you attend the UK Blog Awards this year? What did you think?