My First Vlog: Top Five Things to Bring to a Blogging Conference

<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Well, well, well, look who finally held up one of their blog goals that they've had for the past TWO years. It's me! Coming at you live through video. I'm so glad that I was finally able to put a quick video together. I think it's so fun seeing people on camera, and isn't it weird to hear someone's voice after you've been following their blog for a long time? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I suppose I was inspired to tackle something on my blogging to-do list with <a href="http://blogpodium.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Blogpodium</span></a> coming up this weekend. I need to figure out a better lighting situation, but all in good time. I had such a blast at <a href="http://blogpodium.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Blogpodium</span></a> last year, but I definitely learned a thing or two about what to bring with you and what to leave behind. Learn from my mistakes last year in the video below!</div><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WXWFTAJFq44?list=UUMOpUWotS5liQJQmZyNT1Yw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Will I be seeing you on Saturday? I hope so! Let me know in the comments below!<br />xox<br /><a href="http://s1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/?action=view&current=Tiffany-27.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/Tiffany-27.jpg" /></a></div>

My First Vlog: Top Five Things to Bring to a Blogging Conference

Well, well, well, look who finally held up one of their blog goals that they've had for the past TWO years. It's me! Coming at you l...

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Blogpodium Recap Part 1 of 2: Overview of the Day

<div style="text-align: center;">On Sunday I attended Blogpodium with about 250 other amazing bloggers. </div><div style="text-align: center;">You guys, I had the BEST time. If you were there, then you are probably as inspired as I am by all the talent, creativity and advice that we were surrounded by all day. The blogging community is just as amazing and supportive in person as it is online - and that is something to smile about. If you weren't there, you best be coming next year - but in the meantime I will catch you up:</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I will admit I was a bad blogger while I was there...I took about zero photos. I'm going to chalk it up to being in the moment and being busy socializing! Luckily the always amazing <a href="http://www.annawithlove.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Anna with Love</span></a> captured the day better than I ever could:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsJURcngg5uf2FHNdc_8qjC4ZXpLfnaF5eqxa7Pm2jcCRBLfVaNIabjVn4i3bsZWfrP_MWvhGrmBu9lY5CobYAreQduc9a2CU5rvsZ0bpv0N5dwDCxygeuaOvH-5MLT79jppLVLM7ndI/s1600/blogpodium+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsJURcngg5uf2FHNdc_8qjC4ZXpLfnaF5eqxa7Pm2jcCRBLfVaNIabjVn4i3bsZWfrP_MWvhGrmBu9lY5CobYAreQduc9a2CU5rvsZ0bpv0N5dwDCxygeuaOvH-5MLT79jppLVLM7ndI/s640/blogpodium+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ^ The decorations provided by <a href="http://www.minted.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">minted</span></a> were absolutely perfect! I loved all the pretty details.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xkCHAzJ9TcG36P-nstijFq2BTXns3TlTc5xOQlW-jHEATCoHrL8CvMZwf9xKTMJumEDHSXpcpDnbFUT0u4jDHW29dcNkClgH1BsumMy_6ltBk-KnVvnFSEunwXKs_3MKbpWhfpnOAAM/s1600/blogpodium+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xkCHAzJ9TcG36P-nstijFq2BTXns3TlTc5xOQlW-jHEATCoHrL8CvMZwf9xKTMJumEDHSXpcpDnbFUT0u4jDHW29dcNkClgH1BsumMy_6ltBk-KnVvnFSEunwXKs_3MKbpWhfpnOAAM/s640/blogpodium+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">^<span style="color: #ea9999;"><a href="http://www.sarahrichardsondesign.com/">Sarah Richardson</a><span style="color: black;">'s</span></span> keynote speech was one of the highlights of the day for me. She spoke about her struggles to get to where she is today, about her family, her style, her business. She was totally open.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS696z0F7bSlp7WH4GitSI84eezhyZWrurQzLc-0H-lY7dLVaxV5D4AA_DN0-EXFMGTu9OPpuAymKCCI_lmt3803IR4vBwecEwGBo-zRkIeYfztNYfHQp9yLvxuBhdXcwEnF5TlOiqufM/s1600/blogpodium+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS696z0F7bSlp7WH4GitSI84eezhyZWrurQzLc-0H-lY7dLVaxV5D4AA_DN0-EXFMGTu9OPpuAymKCCI_lmt3803IR4vBwecEwGBo-zRkIeYfztNYfHQp9yLvxuBhdXcwEnF5TlOiqufM/s640/blogpodium+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">^Getting ready to learn from fabulous <a href="http://www.stephaniesterjovski.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Steph Sterjovski</span></a> with some old and some new friends! Elyse, that hair flip is pretty unreal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uksWh1LUuqOrpj4n5AeN7aHR3ZVC6wOTKr82M_mX-m10-LAT1qdWTsFsBIhaIQPszcaZlbeg4ypJl1rid-NCFwwrwiRgvl4rPCqnP6st5obm9VtTgkcWeQ8nIZ3Ljk3AsqgFkEGgBOc/s1600/blogpodium+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uksWh1LUuqOrpj4n5AeN7aHR3ZVC6wOTKr82M_mX-m10-LAT1qdWTsFsBIhaIQPszcaZlbeg4ypJl1rid-NCFwwrwiRgvl4rPCqnP6st5obm9VtTgkcWeQ8nIZ3Ljk3AsqgFkEGgBOc/s640/blogpodium+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">^ So proud of my girl <a href="http://www.stephaniesterjovski.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Steph</span></a>!  Her presentation was invaluable. Such a genuine heart!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbDp4-dhD3f8rhFgYuy5Rdg1EAX5Q0557H6pfyychWGof2bAfzQvz005nd8DaLl6vka8fRzreSgxT07w_YFvpoNnshgCin-tOpOpvnLu3txhGgJ8PIM-suQRPfsakYzOMu6P7KD5NPdw/s1600/blogpodium+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbDp4-dhD3f8rhFgYuy5Rdg1EAX5Q0557H6pfyychWGof2bAfzQvz005nd8DaLl6vka8fRzreSgxT07w_YFvpoNnshgCin-tOpOpvnLu3txhGgJ8PIM-suQRPfsakYzOMu6P7KD5NPdw/s640/blogpodium+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">^ Amazing food all day long keeps this blogger very happy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiL-ETBwJmqRdjJfHP1hpx51ygBGUTmegpJmP1XlkouQ_A9exD-dLwArA1qii9myvForN4bfr7bibT5ioj_li8rbqtcMpgdSpAAJLLVvUwI6VEFMe5ZsqLu_42zwFPPRIO-xwKH8Mf5gY/s1600/blogpodium+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiL-ETBwJmqRdjJfHP1hpx51ygBGUTmegpJmP1XlkouQ_A9exD-dLwArA1qii9myvForN4bfr7bibT5ioj_li8rbqtcMpgdSpAAJLLVvUwI6VEFMe5ZsqLu_42zwFPPRIO-xwKH8Mf5gY/s640/blogpodium+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ^A seminar on "How to grow your blog using Social Media"...I have to say <a href="http://meredithheron.com/blog"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Meredith Heron</span></a> is exactly as I imagined her to be...hilarious, honest, and amazing. I got to spend some time with her throughout the evening and learned so much from this inspirational woman!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyVA9UQk8Uc2qO96VGguVWvqN9tdLskmp2wlV5lhagGm9R_wAZeWeCLMIDXvXsA0RCDufy4SHXaQK2HsTJGUEjgPtGS1iw_SBOq3tFo-osrFeQ4VMKdu6y4ghgqQT6ahPHnWO9424Mis/s1600/blogpodium+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyVA9UQk8Uc2qO96VGguVWvqN9tdLskmp2wlV5lhagGm9R_wAZeWeCLMIDXvXsA0RCDufy4SHXaQK2HsTJGUEjgPtGS1iw_SBOq3tFo-osrFeQ4VMKdu6y4ghgqQT6ahPHnWO9424Mis/s640/blogpodium+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ^Cute ribbon wall to display all of our business cards!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVZBrLQHBZe_eacsWiSrccnr7G9KmS2qHPkJKmPTJEnbQfv_FjoTLONlaw5h-DdJiZS8eQC1cxN8v6CTWAez4_iTrbJf37IrZPe_06upc4D8PXFjARPZvXv3VT9JXqVawgxhT9FQxEeQ/s1600/blogpodium+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVZBrLQHBZe_eacsWiSrccnr7G9KmS2qHPkJKmPTJEnbQfv_FjoTLONlaw5h-DdJiZS8eQC1cxN8v6CTWAez4_iTrbJf37IrZPe_06upc4D8PXFjARPZvXv3VT9JXqVawgxhT9FQxEeQ/s640/blogpodium+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">^"This is my goodside" - evening photobooth backdrop...You will see it in action tomorrow.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">And in case you are wondering what I wore, this is the only picture I have of my outfit. Luckily it's a cute one and features me with my newest bloggy friend, Lynsey of <a href="http://www.froufrouandfrills.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Frou Frou and Frills</span></a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRGVD1Pg-IdEVWEkj_T-FqdBIHcPZJrtmoh-3TgTyb5_UbjQcBN5WlyI0ynT7Kx5M8IIqn8F3zENF9gtAfGYjRa6gqeZriJh7_7mwHQOpzsEZC2wKJUn_VW4nHeISFqvfM_HmwlhgG3M/s1600/my+outfit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRGVD1Pg-IdEVWEkj_T-FqdBIHcPZJrtmoh-3TgTyb5_UbjQcBN5WlyI0ynT7Kx5M8IIqn8F3zENF9gtAfGYjRa6gqeZriJh7_7mwHQOpzsEZC2wKJUn_VW4nHeISFqvfM_HmwlhgG3M/s400/my+outfit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> A red/orange pencil skirt, basic grey tee, some bling bling and a little leopard belt. With some gorgeous studded flats that have left me blistered and defeated.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Come back tomorrow for some of the most useful things that I learned and some photobooth fun (way too much photobooth fun).</div><div style="text-align: center;">How was your weekend?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**All photos except the last one courtesy of <a href="http://www.annawithlove.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Anna with Love Photography</span></a>.<br />Too see the rest of the photos from Blogpodium,<a href="http://annawithlove.smugmug.com/Blog-Podium"> <span style="color: #ea9999;">click here</span></a>.</span><br /><a href="http://s1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/?action=view&current=Tiffany-27.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/Tiffany-27.jpg" /></a></div>

Blogpodium Recap Part 1 of 2: Overview of the Day

On Sunday I attended Blogpodium with about 250 other amazing bloggers.  You guys, I had the BEST time. If you were there, then you are proba...

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Business Cards & Guest Post

<div style="text-align: center;">This Saturday is <a href="http://www.blogpodium.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Blogpodium</span></a>. I'm so excited, and also a little bit nervous. This will be my first blogging conference and I can't wait to finally meet so many of my local blogging friends here in Toronto (not to mention hear all the great speakers including Sarah Richardson and my girl <a href="http://www.stephaniesterjovski.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Steph</span></a>).<br /><br />One 'must' for every blogger is a well designed business card. I made the careful decision to custom design my own using photoshop and have them printed. I love how they turned out! The little watercolor zebra I painted is my favourite touch. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphTE4lI1AyYVRwMJiGHJNeR-mxxAvi1X6uEEUzmBYbxSUnKI1EvdKSg3-LLsET6zdmOO0L5i4EtnGvB2DYdCh476rmmX3O6sm89oQd7jsbxSpm3mWNg_xHiIDE5mHL_sJsRv568hli-o/s1600/026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphTE4lI1AyYVRwMJiGHJNeR-mxxAvi1X6uEEUzmBYbxSUnKI1EvdKSg3-LLsET6zdmOO0L5i4EtnGvB2DYdCh476rmmX3O6sm89oQd7jsbxSpm3mWNg_xHiIDE5mHL_sJsRv568hli-o/s640/026.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-PIrx5vx8sZLB19DHpF6NMi2pgdoizBE_IYDbMoKJtnhAgnEmRJz9ReiW6D88mHDRADkBzWBdxx23vPQg8L2LekfbgspQa-erDvtfFKyxutLAenxmmAMfySAXpE-4rmArW8rUaRtoXA/s1600/028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-PIrx5vx8sZLB19DHpF6NMi2pgdoizBE_IYDbMoKJtnhAgnEmRJz9ReiW6D88mHDRADkBzWBdxx23vPQg8L2LekfbgspQa-erDvtfFKyxutLAenxmmAMfySAXpE-4rmArW8rUaRtoXA/s640/028.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHJoeheAp84Akm4IEn2a_iLtwKbkhhQ1X2rJWvOUhMski4QGYfk9fpX2DwA9301bjMXZ_8FCZ5qHHGLE_nnObH2Spf3Ia-7EXKK4P6rhw7Etyop_ePPjo9tBE8_WhDLDJx-8Ms5kVCJc/s1600/022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHJoeheAp84Akm4IEn2a_iLtwKbkhhQ1X2rJWvOUhMski4QGYfk9fpX2DwA9301bjMXZ_8FCZ5qHHGLE_nnObH2Spf3Ia-7EXKK4P6rhw7Etyop_ePPjo9tBE8_WhDLDJx-8Ms5kVCJc/s640/022.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdO-hhIRJXWMFZaJVM7b_bBO1fWljdmGhU3HgMIdgXYY9pN4kYlp3jAuqYQy-WSGuzLp2nIiE8K8tYVOdRGPf2wyHgFoPIvTdKmhLB0pqNo9JIXSU1QDHGLwpPP1Y_D4lKZ5ZdeEbJv0/s1600/024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdO-hhIRJXWMFZaJVM7b_bBO1fWljdmGhU3HgMIdgXYY9pN4kYlp3jAuqYQy-WSGuzLp2nIiE8K8tYVOdRGPf2wyHgFoPIvTdKmhLB0pqNo9JIXSU1QDHGLwpPP1Y_D4lKZ5ZdeEbJv0/s640/024.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>I spy me in one of these pictures...can you spot it? Amateur hour over here. Also, you can see that I started to gold leaf the edges for an extra touch, but my beloved gold leaf pen ran out of ink. I will have to get another one. I also used my gold leaf pen to add the leopard sports to the little lucite tray that I'm using to display my business cards, which you can read more about <a href="http://tiffanyleighinteriordesign.blogspot.ca/2012/11/diy-leopard-acrylic-tray.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ea9999;">here</span></a>.<br /><br />Speaking of girls I'm dying to meet at <a href="http://www.blogpodium.com/" target="_blank">Blogpodium</a>, Sweet Elyse from <a href="http://www.peoniesandbrass.com/2013/09/the-hack-i-heart-most-tiffany-leigh.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Peonies and Brass</span></a> is going to be there and I just so happen to be blogging over at her site today about my favourite furniture hack.<br />Do you have an guesses what it is? Head on over to find out!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.peoniesandbrass.com/2013/09/the-hack-i-heart-most-tiffany-leigh.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKBpJSdlmtpr-fmtMx5nwzoscrXUwkv85EunJf8ONR-NK4Bs1HeU4Y5HM2v4r_c9P_Sek6554YysKmC8cg2x9asLVbXWw6qbDsag-JxzrIYAzgtvWpoPvQS1sLoXvGu2QgW0Qx31YRogg/s640/peonies+and+brass+logo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Will I be seeing any more of you on Saturday? I hope so loves. <br />xox<br /><a href="http://s1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/?action=view&current=Tiffany-27.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/Tiffany-27.jpg" /></a></div>

Business Cards & Guest Post

This Saturday is Blogpodium . I'm so excited, and also a little bit nervous. This will be my first blogging conference and I can't w...

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