scottish bloggers charity meet

Calling all Scottish Bloggers, we're having another meet up! This time, it's organised by Kirsty to celebrate International Women's Day 2012.

Oxfam are encouraging women and girls to hold get togethers (tea parties, dinners, pampering days, clothes-swap days, whatevs) to help raise some money for selected women's charities around the world. Kirsty thought this would be a good opportunity for us bloggers to get together and has organised a tea party-style event with an optional clothes swap, raffle, quiz etc. There will be a few surprises on the night and also some goody-bags!


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The event will be held in Glasgow on the evening of Thursday the 8th of March, venue TBC, and is free and non ticketed (although being for charity, donations are expected) but you MUST register to attend.

E-mail k-mclaren@hotmail.com with your name and address, and those of any guests you plan to bring, by Friday the 10th of February.


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Hope to see you all there!

scottish bloggers meet

Yesterday was the day that my amazing co-organiser Rani and I had been planning for a while now and it turned out to be one of the best days out I've had in a long time!

We met in The Counting House where the ice was broken over a few pitchers of cocktails before taking a short walk to the absolutely gorgeous Thrill Room, hidden above the ROX jewellery shop, for afternoon tea. It was such a treat to be sipping champagne in such lovely surroundings, admiring the diamonds (and a £46,000 watch, madness) and the ladies at ROX were great hosts and they were generous enough to give us each a delicately wrapped gift bag with some sparkly jewellery inside. Next it was time for a spot of shopping, and a visit to the German market for huge sausages (mushrooms for me, I'm veggie!), churros and crepes before going to a random - but crazily cheap - bar. The night got a bit blurry after the 3rd or 4th shot, and I think it's safe to say we were more than a little drunk by the end of the night - in true Scottish style of course!

I think there will definitely be more Scottish meet ups to come! Everyone got on so well, and although I didn't know the majority of the people who went before yesterday, it's amazing how by the end of the night it felt like we had been friends for a long time.

Thank you to everyone who came, and also a huge thank you to Alison Jameson PR for the goodie bags and also to ROX Jewellery for the lovely afternoon tea and goodie bag!

The lovely ladies - and honorary boy - who came:
Rani, Paula, Lauren, Zoe, Ayden, Chloe, Andii, Morag, Max, Roisin, Gillian, Jen, Gemma, Claire.

scottish bloggers meet

With just 12 days left until the first Scottish Bloggers Meet and Rani and I thought now would be a good time to update everyone on the plans!



We've decided to meet at 2pm in The Counting House which is right next to George Square, across the road from Queen Street Station and a nice central location with plenty of seats!

We'll give everyone a chance to arrive and get to know each other and then at about 3.30pm we can brave the cold and visit the Christmas Market, have a mulled wine and do a spot of shopping.

At around 6pm we're hoping to go for something to eat and then to a few bars. We're still looking for somewhere budget friendly, that doesn't require a deposit, to have dinner and we do need confirmed numbers in order to book a table. After this we'll be hitting the town for drinks. Tiki Bar is definitely on the agenda!


IMPORTANT: If you plan on having dinner with us you NEED to let us know you're coming no later than Tuesday so that we can book a table and reserve you a seat.

Please also let us know your name and blog address so that we can make everyone name badges!

RSVPs can be sent to scottishbloggers@gmail.com

As we've said before, feel free to pop along later in the day if you've got work or other plans. Alternatively, if a group of drunk Scottish Bloggers isn't your scene then you can skip that part! ;)

You can also follow me and Rani on Twitter as we'll be tweeting throughout the day to keep you updated with the plans and where we're off to. We'll be using the hashtag #scottishbloggersmeet to keep track.

scottish bloggers meet

After seeing many posts and tweets about various blogger meet ups throughout England and being jealous about not being able to attend them, Rani and I have decided that it's about time we organised something for us Scottish Bloggers! The invitation is open to any bloggers (you don't even have to be from Scotland!) whether you have a fashion, beauty, lifestyle or another type of blog all together. We think it will be a great way to get to know each other!

We've got a rough plan at the moment which involves meeting in Glasgow at around 2.30pm, doing a spot of shopping, mooching around the Christmas market and then going for some food and drinks. We realise that it's quite a busy time of year and that some people might still be at work at 2.30pm so you don't have to spend the whole day with us and can just come for a short time if that's easier.

If you're interested in coming please RSVP by sending an email to scottishbloggers@gmail.com. This doesn't mean you can't change your mind at a later date, it's just so that we can have an estimate of how many are coming! Updates on the plan will also be emailed out to people who have RSVP'd (although we will probably tweet and blog about them too).

We've also created a button that can be put onto your sidebar or blog post to advertise the meet - the more the merrier. Simply copy and paste the HTML code below into your side bar and it should appear.


<a href="http://www.daintydresses.co.uk/search/label/scottish%20bloggers%20meet"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6388637487_d55657a148_o.jpg" width="180" height="180" alt="Scottish Blogger Meet"></a>

So... Who's coming?! I'm already excited!