The Irish Blogger Awards 2008
What do you get if you cross Twenty Major with Grandad Headrambles, throw in a Bright Spark, the odd mohican, George Bush, an ice-cream man in wellies and finish with a healthy topping of Lady Bloggers and sticky moustaches?
The Irish Blogger Awards 2008! Check out the winners here!
We all piled down to support my friend Michelle Gallen who was up for the Best Technology Award. She didn't win (Boo! Next year!) but we all had such a great time anyway. We started off at the Lady Blogger's Tea Party in the Market Bar where tapas, wooden shoes, and white wine were on the menu. It was organised by Sabrina Dent (who made us feel really welcome, THANK YOU! and who also won Best Designed Blog- check out the gorgeousness!) I tried out my collection of different sized moustaches on everyone, by the time we were leaving most people had embraced their masculine side, and disturbingly some really suited the tiny taches (MaryRose!).
Then on to the Alexandria Hotel for more boozing and shameless moustache promotion. The ceremony was great with hilarious intros courtesy of George Bush himself, and presented by Rick O'Shea who was brilliant and could hardly see past the podium later on in the night, for all his awards adorning it! I hadn't a clue about the scene or who was blogging about what, but now I have enough reading material to do me for the next year. I still have to check out the blogs of everyone I met. I got Grandad Headrambles into a Curious Tales T-shirt. Check him out on the T-shots page. And I bothered Kieran Murphy, the ice cream king, about where I could get my hands on an ice cream van (I'll tell you about that later!)
Twenty Major rounded the night off with Best Blog of the Year, and we even got to see what he looked like (as local legend has it, he is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.) It was so brilliant, everyone was dead friendly. It was so inspiring that my friend Karen is going to start up her own blog called Magpie, which is going to be full of delightful glittery encrusted things. Watch this space!
Labels: Grandad Headrambles, Irish Blog Awards 2008, Michelle Gallen, Rick O'Shea, Sabrina Dent, Twenty Major
posted by Julie-Anne Graham at
Monday, March 03, 2008
5 Comments:
and you got to meet me.......which must have been a highlight......no? okay but it was good to meet you....
It was a fab night, wasn't it! Although, I think I have a past life I need to deal with, coz every time I stuck on one of those moustaches, I could only talk in a loud British accent, and felt like flogging one of the natives...
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Yeah it was cool to meet you too, Manuel. We were cheering for Well Done Fillet and our fellow Northerners! ;) And chelle, didn't get that urge myself. What secrets lurk in your past reincarnations?
Great to meet you Julie Anne and you get best Guerilla Marketing Award for the 'tache on seat action! Well done. Maybe see you next year when you might even be swooping in for an award yourself.
Thanks! It was so much fun. Was great to meet you too and cheers for embracing the humble tache so fully! I'm sure they appreciated hanging out on your upper lip!
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