Ten days’ holiday, three days at Food Blogger Connect and it feels like a life time away from the blog. I will do a more detailed post (or three!) in the next couple of days but in the meantime here are a few pictures to give you a flavour of FBC10 which took place in London this weekend.
Fabulous venue at The Hempel… all ready to kick off on Friday night
Inspiring bloggers giving presentations both in person and by video
Including The Sugababes!
Saturday’s conference room in The Hempel gallery space
Taking a break in the beautiful Hempel garden
Enjoying some cool food between sessions
But most of all, it was a chance to spend quality time with other people who are passionate about their food blogs, learning from each other, meet people you’ve “met” online and making new friends too.
After my little hiatus in May, due to the new hosting shenanigans etc, I am definitely back now and delighted to welcome any new readers who I have met at FBC this weekend.
Coming up on Maison Cupcake blog this month there will be:
- Further coverage of Food Blogger Connect
- A strawberry chocolate cake with a GIVEAWAY from Matcha Chocolate
- An apple and walnut cake that totally blew me away. I don’t even like walnuts but this was fabulous.
- Food photos taken in my garden that I was sooooo pleased with
- A travelogue of my recent trip to Ile de Ré
- Very easy party nibbles using ingredients from Baxters’ range of beetroot, chutneys and preserves
- The usual (occasionally weird) weekend stuff like Postcard from Secret Nuclear Bunker and Counter Cafe Hackney
…and at some point amidst this, a switch over to my shiny new blog on WordPress. I hope all of you readers, familiar friends and new recruits, enjoy the ride!
Lovely to see you again this weekend! I will be absorbing FBC for while I think 🙂 Good luck with the switchover to your shiny new wordpress blog – hope it all goes well.
Looking forward to all the fun changes and great information, Sarah. 🙂 Looks like you guys had a marvelous time. I'm so glad! 🙂
Looks exciting! Looking forward to all your upcoming posts! 😀
I am so looking forward to read your other post too, to expirence it virtually.
i missed it this time too…but looks like u guys had a fab time
Aaaah, a lovely bunch of photos to bring back happy memories! It really was a wonderful weekend – good to make new friends and renew acquaintances; to learn stuff; and of course to LAUGH! Glad you enjoyed it & see you soon!
Hi Sarah, thanks for tracking me down on Twitter! Great to hear about FBC10 and looking forward to reading and hearing more. Wish I'd been there – had too much on. Hope we get a chance to catch up again soon.
Caroline (Sugargrain)
Wonderful photos and weather to boot. I'm glad you guys had fun, I can well imagine how superb it was. Welcome back
Great post, and what a great weekend. We learned so much, now to put it all to use!
@dailyspud Lovely to see you again too and to get to chat for longer this time.
@ramblingtart Hopefully new site will be up very soon. You would have LOVED fbc!
@faithy and @happycook Reading everyone's write ups will be next best thing to being there and I get to relive it all again too
@anopenbook you should definitely try to make it next year!
@jeanne Yes I will definitely see you soon!
@caroline There will be heaps of pictures and reviews, not just me but everyone who was there, I can't wait to read them all either!
@Kitchenbutterfly HONEY! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!
@staceyandtash I quickly checked out the PB blog but not had chance to comment yet but it looks fabulous, when you guys really get going you're going to rock!
What a great weekend it was! Great meeting you! Looking forward to following your blog – who doesn't love cupcakes?!
What a fantastic post about all the FBC10 food! I'm so glad you captured it all, and so beautifully, as I missed most of it. So nice to see you again over the weekend honey x
Great post Sarah, looks like a brilliant time. I wish I could have come, missed you loads!
@mowie You too, see you again soon x
@nicisme It was… you were missed. Next time?
Your coverage of this event was brilliant Sarah! It sounds like so much fun! 😀