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Blogst Conference 2013

November 19, 2013

Hello everyone! Wow, this was an amazing weekend! I’ve been to the Blogst conference for DaWanda and had an absolutely fantastic time!
Have you ever heard of Blogst? It’s a conference for bloggers who want to get to know more about topics like photo editing, SEO, social media, DIY, cooperations, etc., but most importantly, it’s an amazing networking opportunity.
The conference was again lovingly planned and organized by Ricarda of 23qm² Stil and Clara of tastesheriff who carefully chose clever, charming and interesting speakers and acquired great sponsors who help financing the conference and provided awesome goodies for everyone.
DaWanda was one of the sponsors and since I was super sad about having missed buying a ticket before the conference was immediately sold out, I was even happier when my team leader asked me about coming with her for DaWanda, yayy!

The conference took place in Essen at the Unperfekthaus where we had a whole floor for all the laughing and chatting ladies (and few gents), it sounded like in a huge bee hive. :D
So funny, I felt a bit schizophrenic, like a double agent on a mission: I was mainly there because of my job at DaWanda, but of course I also met many Luloveshandmade blogger friends and am rather known for my blog than for my job at DaWanda. :) It was funny to try finding a good balance and connect both sides. :)
During the last few weeks, I have been planning our booth for this event and my job during the conference was taking care of it and providing the visitors with information about DaWanda, giving them funny sticky tattoos with DaWanda-icons for a competition and taking photos of all the lovely bloggers in our photo corner. :) Do I still have to make clear that I love my job? :) 
The hall was filled with inspiring people and on the right photo you can see the two founders and organizers of the conference. Thank you again, it was such a pleasure and I enormously appreciate the work you did! :*
Aren’t our DaWanda photobooth props the prettiest?
It was so nice meeting all those great people, here you can for example see Johanna of Pinkepank and Julia of mint lametta. :) // Among all those great lectures and presentations there were some people which especially touched me and Juli of heimatPOTTential and VOLL TOLL was one of them. She talked about the relevance of blogging and how much it is an emeotional matter and that you should only blog about what you love in order to be relevant! She made a little video which includes what blogging means to some of her fellow bloggers, I’m also part of it. :) You can see the video at the end of this blog post. :)
In between, I took a little break to walk around. Being with nearly 200 chatting ladies is awesome, but can also be a bit exhausting. ;)
Lucky me, my hotel room was on the sixth floor and I had a breathtaking view! Too bad I didn’t have more time, I’d have loved to explore the Pott a little!

Right photo stolen from Anna (Anna Sterntaler). :)
After nearly one year, it was super lovely meeting my sweet blogger pal Katha of kathastrophal again. :)
Moreover, I also hadn’t seen my lovely pal Vivi of Piepmatz for nearly one year and I was so happy about seeing her again! :) // Do you like Igor of Happy Interior Blog‘s sticky tattoo as much as I do?
Grrrrr with Fee (Fee ist mein Name) & Stef (Magnoliaelectric). :) // Vivi, Sarah (Erdbeerwald), Anna (Anna Sterntaler & DaWanda), Katja (Mädchen mit Herz), Stef & Nadine (dreierlei Liebelei).


The Backbube (= Baking Guy ;)) won our Instagram sticky tattoo challenge and I was sooo happy seeing Stef again. :*

These are our super pretty goody bags.


Lovely Bine (was eigenes) & Andrea (jolijou). :)
Such a flattering moment: I felt so extremely honoured when Bine and Andrea showed my social media channels as example for a good virtual indie business identity. :) Yayyy!

Aren’t they great, those DaWanda sticky tattoos?

The ladies from IKEA also had a booth were you could print out your Instagram photos of the conference and embellish stationery from their paper shop.

Photo stolen from Juli. :) :* // It was a super long weekend filled with laughter, chatting and tears (of joy and emotion) and a lack of sleep. :) On Saturday evening, there was a great party with lots of dancing and jerking around and on Sunday in the the afternoon it was really hard to say good bye! 
Wow, Christmas in the middle of November! After I came home, I unpacked all the great goodies (and my shopping scores from HEMA) and it was nearly overwhelming. :)

Even two days later, I still feel Blogst-sick and miss all the people so much! It’s unbelievable that most of those 180 people only know each other because of the Internet and because of their blogs and that so many real friendships have developed out of those networking connections. Breathtaking! I still get gooseflesh when thinking about this!
I’m as happy as one could be and so excited about and thankful for all the opportunities that blogging has given me!

Thanks for this wonderful weekend, can’t wait for Blogst 2014!
Lu

P.S.: What has really touched me to tears is the following video by Juli! Visit her blog to read her blog post for the story behind it!

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Hello and thank you for visiting my blog! I am Lu, 33 years old, living in wonderful Berlin and am making the world bright and colorful! Let's get crafty together and enjoy the happy things in life!

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  1. Johanna says: November 19, 2013 at 11:07 pm

    Was für ein schöner Post übers Wochenende, liebe Lu, toll! Und du hast ja so viele schöne Fotos gemacht, ich hab dich gar nicht so oft mit Kamera in der Hand gesehen. Ich hab mich sehr gefreut, dich kennenzulernen, ich hoffe, du hattest heute einen schönen Abend mit Anna und ich hoffe natürlich, dass wir uns bald mal wieder sehen!

    Allerliebste Grüße von Johanna

    P.S. Du hast übrigens einen tollen Job gemacht, so als "Doppelagentin" ;-)

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  2. Nadine I Dreierlei Liebelei says: November 20, 2013 at 5:57 am

    Es war wirklich soooo wunderbar ♥ Und ich muss meiner Vorrednerin Recht geben, du hast einen 1a Doppel-Job gemacht! Schön, dich kennengelernt und so eine tolle Zeit mit dir gehabt zu haben! Ich drück dich!

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  3. charlotte says: November 20, 2013 at 9:15 am

    Ich hab mich schon so auf den Bericht gefreut :) Kann mir vorstellen, dass das nicht so einfach ist als quasi zwei Personen bei der Konferenz teilzunehmen! Echt schade ich wär gern dabei gewesen, ich komme ja ursprünglich aus Essen. Aber klingt nach einem durch und durch gelungenen Wochenende!
    Schöne Fotos, tolle Goodies und viele Blogger auf einem Haufen :D
    GLG
    Charlotte

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  4. Katholie says: November 20, 2013 at 9:24 am

    Das sind wirklich tolle Eindrück von der Blogst!
    Ich würde auch gerne mal zu so einer Konferenz gehen; Essen wäre gar nicht so weit von mir weg gewesen.
    Vielleicht ja beim nächsten Mal :)

    Ganz liebe Grüße,
    Katharina

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  5. heimatPOTTential says: November 20, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    Liebe Lu, ach, Dich könnt ich 100x drücken. Du bist einfach ein unglaublich liebeswürdiges Persönchen. Deine Ausstrahlung und Herzlichkeit sind sagenhaft und etwas ganz Besonderes <3

    Und Duuuu hast die ganzen Fotos gemacht, die iiiiich gerne gemacht hätte :D So schöne "Miteinander"-Bilder. Davon hab ich kaum welche. Ich Döskopp.

    Liebste Grüße aus Essen! Ihr FEHLT!

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  6. FeeMail says: November 20, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    <3 Hach!

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  7. Katha // kathastrophal says: November 20, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    Liebe Lu, es war soooo schön, dich wiederzusehen! Du bist einfach wirklich so toll und so positiv wie du es auch auf deinem Blog vermittelst und das tut so gut! ♥

    Die Taschen, die du bei Hema gefunden hast, sind auch so toll :)

    Ich hoffe, wir sehen uns bald wieder! Fühl dich gedrückt! :*

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  8. The Cookie Button says: November 21, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    Wow, this looks amazing! Hope you had a super fun time :) xox

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  9. Julia says: November 21, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Liebe Lu,
    was für ein toller Rückblick, sowohl deine Worte als auch die schönen bunten Bilder sind total Klasse und es schwappt wieder ganz viel von dem Blogst-Gefühl aus deinem Post über meinen Schreibtisch! Danke:) Ich habe mich gefreut, dich zu treffen, du hast ja so eine tolle Ausstrahlung und dann auch noch die Blog-Work-Balance super gehalten, ich bin immer noch begeistert von dir!
    Alles Liebe
    Julia

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  10. Anonymous says: November 24, 2013 at 8:51 am

    Toller Bericht! Da will ,am ja fast auch Blogger werden !!! :) Weißt du zufällig, wo man diesen schicken I <3 Rice Beutel auf dem Foto bekommt?? :-) Liebe Grüße, Amilie

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  11. Laurella says: November 24, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    Liebe Lu,
    was für ein schöner Post! Sieht aus als hättet ihr alle ganz viel Spaß gehabt..
    Ich selbst war da leider noch nie dabei, muss man zu diesem Event eingeladen werden um daran teilzunehmen oder kann man sich da anmelden?
    Ich stelle mir das so toll vor da ganz viele neue Gesichter kennenzulernen oder auch welche erkennt nur weil man deren Blog gerne liest. Hoffentlich bin bin ich auch irgenwann mal dabei, dich werde ich dann mit Sicherheit gleich erkennen ;)
    Liebe Grüße und noch einen schönen Sonntag,
    Laurella

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  12. julia I mintlametta says: November 24, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    juchu liebe lu! jaaaa, es war großartig und ich hoffe auf ein baldiges wiedersehen – liebste grüße JULIA

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