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Hi there. If you’ve been following me on social media, you may have seen that I spent last weekend in Amsterdam attending the Meet The Blogger conference. As you can see from the photo above (showing the winners of the VT Wonen / Meet The Blogger awards), this year the theme was Create, Collaborate & Celebrate. I love that. Besides keynotes, there were several Master classes and Break-out sessions to choose from and the atmosphere was great.

It was so good meeting up with old and new friends. On Friday we took a Green Instawalk, which started at wonderful plant shop Wildernis in Amsterdam. But more on that in a next post, I took lots of photos of course. Can’t wait to share them with you.

On Saturday I arrived a bit late at the actual conference because – oh the irony – I got stuck in a courtyard garden. I was staying in a friend’s house who was out of town and it turns out courtyard gardens have locked gates at night… who knew, ha! Eventually I was rescued by a sweet girl in a pink dressing gown and matching slippers (you can’t make this stuff up). Um, yes. All glamour all the time here, people.

 

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Here’s Holly Becker from Decor8 blog, talking about perfection. Her talk was really funny and sincere.

 

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Igor and Judith (yes, she won an award with her own fabulous blog Joelix.com) aka Urban Jungle Bloggers talked about their UrbanJungle book.

 

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Tom from Woonblog.be and WolfenWolkje.be talked about making the transition from blog to shop. Interesting stuff.

I also attended a Break-out session where Odet from paint brand Flexa and Souraya from Bintihome shared how to work with brands. And I forgot to take photos because I was listening so hard ;) No but really, such nice and talented people.

 

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And last but not least, Anne de Buck from Your Little Black Book and conference presenter Kirsten Jassies from JustK sum up what its all about: FOCUS.

Oh, and be yourself. Always. Leaving you with that snippet of wisdom for now. Back soon (still SO much packing to do. We’re moving house in 1.5 weeks, eek!).