Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
The words of the legendary Ol’ Blue Eyes sum up my blogging journey this last (almost) year.
My one year blogging anniversary is September 21 – the day I wrote my first post.
I had absolutely no clue what I was doing! Did I let that stop me? Of course not.
One thing I do know is that starting my blog is best thing I’ve ever done for myself.
That’s why I am so excited to share my blogging mistakes and how I overcame them, so …
I’m breaking out my inner Southern gal and gearing up for The Southern Bloggers Conference.
On October 12 & 13, swarms of women (and a few men) will descend upon Raleigh, NC to talk all things blogging and DIY.
Can you believe I’ll be among such a fabulous line up of speakers?
There’s Rhoda from Southern Hospitality who will share her amazing Blogging Journey.
Heather from At the Picket Fence will give us her insights on How to Find, Work With & Develop Long Term Relationships with Sponsors.
Karianne from Thistlewood Farm will present her 5 Proven Ways to Grow Your Blog.
And I’ll be sharing How to Avoid the Top Blogging Pitfalls (and I’ve fallen into quite a few).
And a fabulous new addition to the line up is Brittany from Pretty Handy Girl who will share her Thrifting Secrets.
There will be painting demos, food, frivolity, laughs, learning, free swag and prizes and it all culminates in a fun day of thrifting.
You don’t need to be Southern either (they’re welcoming a Jersey girl like me after all)!
I’m thrilled to offer an Eclectically Vintage reader a
FREE Ticket!
Southern Bloggers Conference
October 12-13, 2012, Raleigh NC
Three chances to win – leave a separate comment for each.
1) Leave a comment here on my blog telling me why you want to join us.
2) Tweet about the giveaway.
3) Share the giveaway on Facebook.
Giveaway open thru this Wednesday 11:59 EST.
I’ll announce the winner on Thursday!
Good luck and hope to see you there!
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I heart thrift shops, tarnished silver, cool collections, margaritas and vintage anything!
Join me as I fill my 100 year old home with personality.
First, you KNOW you want me there. C’mon. Let’s be real. You want me there.
I’ll be back to tell you the rest,
And I tweeted.
And I facebooked. You KNOW you guys want me there.
I would like to join you because I am wanting to start my own blog! I am a little nervous though because I am not exactly sure how to start. I would love to win this giveaway so that maybe I could get tons of suggestions and ideas on how to start my blog!
I shared this giveaway on facebook
I tweeted this giveaway!
WOW I sure would the the chance to join all you gals because Im such a newbie blogger and I feel theres so much more I could learn from the seasoned bloggers:) AND I know it would be an unforgetable BLAST!!!!!
I am a newbie blog follower and i am trying to understand all the things you bloggers do! I want to know more! I am amazed and want to be a part of you all!
I shared on FB.
To meet YOU, duh!
Shared on fb.
tweeted, too!
I would love to go to this. And would love it even more if I had a free ticket! It would be so great to meet you and Kari Anne and the other fabulously talented and ever-so-smart ladies leading this conference. Hope to see you there! ~ Angie
Tweeted!
And shared on facebook.
I continue to stand back and watch/read/enjoy all these blogs….aacckk! Stop the madness and HELP ME help myself do this thing. My heart is stirred at the site of treasures on a curb or the story of relationships grown just by sharing yet another DIY idea. I would love to be in NC where everyone is gathered in one spot!
I don’t know of too many bloggers in Chattanooga so I want to be the first one to attend.
It’s on twitter too.
I put a tweet out there!
I shared on FB.
I would love to go to meet my favorite bloggers!!!
Brenda
cottage4c.com
I think this is going to be an amazing conference! Can’t wait to meet everyone and hear you sing your best Frank Sinatra impression
Kelly….we are so excited to have you join the fabulous speakers of the conference….I am so very excited to finally get to meet you….I have been such a happy follower of your blog….
Good luck to all who enter…It is going to be an magnificent conference!!!
I dont have a blog…YET. I can’t seem to take the next step, so I want to be inspired to go for it! I would LOVE to attend to learn from of all of you awesome ladies whose blogs I’ve been following! I just know you’ll welcome another Jersey girl!
Thanks for doing the giveaway!
I Tweeted!
Shared on Facebook!
Kelly,
We will show you some good ole’ Southern Hospitality and we promise not to make you eat any grits if you don’t want to. Ha
We Committee members of the SBC 2012 are thrilled to have you part of this event. I know you will add so much energy and laughs, too. I can’t wait. Thank you for coming down below the Mason Dixon Line.
Barb, The Everyday Home
Kelly, just remember to throw in a few y’alls in your presentation, and you’ll be fine! We’ve already bought our tickets, but I’d love to win one to give to a blogging friend of mine.
I would love to get to one of these blogging conferences—I’m just sure it would be an invaluable experience!
And I would LUV to get to meet some of the fab-women I’ve been following!
Catherine
Shared your giveaway on FB!
Tweeted!
I would love to attend this conference! I need all the help I can get about blogging! I know I would learn so much! Thanks for hosting!
I twitted about this giveaway!
I shared this giveaway on Facebook. Thanks for the opportunity to enter!
hey kelly,
i’d love to meet you and karianne in person so i’m leaving my comment in hopes of winning a ticket! and i’ll be tweeting about it too.
thanks for the opportunity!
and not that i don’t want to meet any of the other FAB.ulous bloggers!
check #2…done tweeting!
I live right here in Raleigh and didn’t even know about it. I would love to go! I’m always excited to learn how to be a better blogger! ~Linda
Because I am a southern girl, born and raised and would love love love to join learn more with my southern ladies!!!
I should be there to LEARN what y’all are doing and what this is all about. I’ve got lots of projects going on and want to share them (and my lessons — okay, boo boos — with this great group! I really want to come!
wowzers! what a great opportunity! would love to attend! I create and blog all while staying home with my 1 and 3 year old. I would love to network and get some perspective on how to more consistently blog and schedule projects etc. all while taking car of the littles. I’m in dire need of time saving tips and using social media effectively!
tweeted!
https://twitter.com/DearEmmeline/status/237638867988140032
shared on facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dear-Emmeline/248497641868087
Sounds like an absolute blast! And there’d be no saying no if I won
It sounds like so much fun and I’d love to meet all of the great speakers, but alas, I can’t go. Hope you all have a good time!
My sister and I started our blog a couple of months ago and would love to learn some tips on, well, anything blog related!
I could say I want to win because of all the valuable knowledge I would gain, but the truth is : conferences are SO MUCH FUN!!! I’d love to hang with all the fabulous women I have met but never “really” met!!
OMG…The south is in MANOR TROUBLE!!!!!! so wish i could go and double team jersey style : ) my favorite way to shock my friends down south is tell them that i don’t use sugar in my ice tea — i do believe there is a fine for that south of the Mason Dixon line — you should check! : ) I am sure that everyone will have a splendid time and the cool thing is — with your and Kari blogging about it — we will all feel like we were there! Sending hugs my friend and as always…you rock : )
I would LOVE to win and see all of ‘y’all again
I tweeted about it! @BeforeMA
What a wonderful give-a-way! I would love to win this trip to the conference since I am about to begin my own blogging journey, and the wealth of information and meeting y’all and other bloggers would be priceless!!!
I want to go to meet some of my fav bloggers, learn from them and of course what would be better than a bunch of Southern girls together??
I tweeted!
And Facebooked it.
I would LOVE to attend this conference! Can’t wait to see who wins
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I just tweeted about the giveaway! @WaitTYFGHome
Oh I so want to go to this-I’m only about an hour away and ave never met other bloggers!
I tweeted!
I facebooked!
I want to go because my blog is fun… but lame. And thrifting with other people who think it’s fun? Awesomepants.
First: I shared the giveaway on Face Book!!
Secondly; I tweeted about the Giveaway!!
First of all; I share the giveaway on Face Book!
Thirdly, I want so desparately to attend and meet Kelly and all the other awesome ladies because I need help taking my blog up to the next level, and their expertise would be PRICELESS!! Experienced Southern Bloggers, and fabulous ideas….oh, be still my southern heart. Hope to see Y’All there!!
Hi Kelly, just saw this on Google and I would LOVE to come! After BlogHer I’m looking forward to going to a smaller, more intimate conference, about my favorite subject: home decorating, DIY, and thrifting! I’d be trilled to win this ticket, and to see you and Rhoda again!
RT your tweet about this!
Shared of Facebook as well!
Sounds like y’all have a lot of great things planned, so I’m sure that I would learn a ton!!
Blessings,
Linda
Sharing the giveaway on my Facebook:)
Blessings,
Linda
I want to meet Rhoda and you and others that I’ve been lurking around or following!!!
I’d love to attend! Earlier this year I finally started a blog but only posted a few times. Need this conference to kick start me back into action!
I would love a chance to go to this conference, I started my blog last year and have only made one real post. This fall I will be posting on a regular basis. I have spent time over the summer reading blogs and getting a feel for where I want to take mine. This would be such a great place to meet and learn from many of the bloggers that I have been following.
I am relatively new to blogging and still learning my way around. I would love to go to the conference to continue learning how to improve my blog. Thank you!
I tweeted and shared on Facebook, too!
I love all things vintage and I just stumbled across this contest. I am sharing with all my facebook and tweeters, too!
It would be so fun to attend this conference!
I would love to come because I am only a few hours away and I’ve never been to a blogging conference!
Please, please pick me-I’d love to go and I know I’d learn soooo much-especially in your discussion. I’m trying to become a better blogger and I need some serious help!
Tweeted about it too!
Tweeted, Liked and Followed! Oh My!!! For the last 4 years I gave up corporate America (to which i happily do not miss) to care for Both my aging parents, blogging has been an outlet to create and I would love to be able to attend this conference to learn more about going beyond basic blogging! (and to meet some way cool people too!)
Whoo Hoo yes a chance to meet, greet and learn. I too am a year long blogger and made a life changing move with hubby to North Carolina and have blogged my adventure. I would like to learn more and grow my blog. Thank you for this great opportunity!! Di
I have my room now I need a ticket!! Can’t wait to be with my blog sisters and to learn some more blog ideas.
Shared it on facebook.
I would love to go to this conference. Thanks for offering the opportunity. Love your blog.
Amy B. just told me about this conference and I’m excited beyond words. I never knew this group existed.
I established my blog name (Loud Thoughts Studio) and was geared up to spend the summer setting up/starting my long planned blog…. major computer failure…. so here I am, no blog. If everything goes as expected, it will be up and running before the conference.
This conference is just what I need for gathering information, soaking up tips and tricks, acquiring new friends with blogging interest, finding support for my new venture, and falling into the big world of blogging inspiration. Being able to share others experiences of failure as well as success is a learning curve beneficial to all bloggers. Others obviously have the same passion as I do for blogging and I look forward to meeting each of you. Thanks to each of you who have made this conference possible.
Happy Blogging!
Kelly,
Oh, would I love to come to the conference! I have so much to learn and would love to meet you, Karianne, Rhoda, and the Picket Fence girls!
It tweeted!
Shared on FB!
What a great opportunity to be able to attend this conference. I have not been able to attend the other conference, but the line of of speakers is AWESOME! Can’t wait to learn and write down the golden nuggets.
Thank you.
Vanessa
I tweet about the giveaway/conference.
https://twitter.com/homesbutterfly/status/238421996910833664
I post this on my Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.lund.94?ref=tn_tnmn
Can’t wait to meet you! You guys are all coming to shop at our store on Sunday!!
I would love to meet some blog friends, in real life !
Love!
I am new to the blogging-super-happy-land and I am hoping on getting help to get organized and get an idea of what I like… I really am looking at this like a full learning experience and I would appreciate the experience!
I would be over the moon to win a ticket to the conference. My two creative friends and I literally just signed a lease days ago on an old produce stand here in Raleigh with plans of turning it into a charming antique shop. We’re hard-working gals trying to make it work with the materials we have and we open our doors for business mid-October. We’re well aware that having a blog is a necessity in this business and we believe the experiences and knowledge we’ll gain attending your conference is exactly what we need to push us over the top. Please help us become a success story from your conference by granting us this ticket.
I Soo want to go! I’ve been blogging for almost a year now and really need help!
I found this give away about 12 days too late! Will anybody else be giving away tickets for the SBC? Such a great line up of speakers! And I am just a 4 hour drive away from Raleigh!
Hi Tricia – sorry you were too late! I think the ticket giveaways are over – but I hope to see you there! It’s going to be fabulous!
Kelly, did you announce the winner? I’m having trouble finding it on your blog.