All the Relevant Details: Blogger Meet-Ups with Photos of Only Me

Here’s a re-cap of our latest Chicago blogger meet-up at Deliciously Vintage.  All the relevant details are here…unless you want to know anything of substance.  I’m afraid I’m all out of substance.

Dress (vintage, thrifted, hacked, $3), belt (thrifted, $2), clutch (thrifted, 50 cents), necklaces (various, wicked cheap), earrings (gift), bracelet (artisans in Namibia) shoes (UO, $10).

1: It took four forms of transportation, 54 minutes, and an embarrassingly large number of “Excuse me!”s  for me to make it to our meet-up spot.  One of the forms of transportation was my bike, on which I rode with 12 nearly smashed cupcakes and one bottle of rapidly un-chilling champagne, almost running over a small child who was gawking at me.  It was an oddly fun commute (well, maybe not for that child).

Andrea's response to this face? "Typical." Okay, the girl knows me.

2: Upon arriving, Lisa and I discovered that we’d both worn dresses with hacked-off sleeves.  We each did the hacking ourselves, but not in coordination with one another (mine actually occured during a slumber party with Tania).  Anyway, this is what happens when someone is your blogger partner- you share freakish similarities.

3: The goody bags, wrangled by Tabitha and Lisa, were killer.  I’m a gift-grubbing greedy-pants, so I was excited to find that our tote bags looked more like loot from a robbery.  Though, come to think of it, there weren’t any big screen tv’s in there.  I’ll have to talk to T and L about that for next time.

Waah! The goodest of goody bags!

I'm trying to look like I'm not guffawing. Instead I just look like I'm sleeping upright.

4: There are some cool bloggers in Chicago.  Despite my tiredness and the aforementioned sweaty commute, I managed to have some great conversations with a number of ladies I’d never met (including Annie, who is new to the city and straight-up awesome) and a few of my favorite gals, too.

5: I’m so vain I had my photos taken by both Lisa and Andrea (my own camera died about 3 minutes into the meet-up).  I think they both made me look better than I do in real life.  I should probably be bothered by that, but I’m not.  I was wearing one of my favorite colors for summer/fall, this crazy royal blue, so I was too pleased to be bothered by pretty much anything.

And there you have it, the least important details of an evening full of conversation and “get-to-know-you”ness.  For actual information and pictures of someone other than me, check out the posts of some of the other bloggers who were there.

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