We celebrated the very first Blog Camp right after my birthday (and I did go on about being 30 maybe a teeny tiny bit too much!). Barely two months after that, we organized an almost impromptu Blog Camp 1.5 in England. There was Blog Camp 2.0 which I couldn't attend but I followed in the Blog Camp blog. And we have just come back from Blog Camp 3.0. So you could say that my year of being 30 is also the year of the Blog Camp :)
This was the last time that we celebrated Blog Camp in the mythical blue room, and in the place where the idea of Blog Camp was first conceived. Incidentally, I was reading back to the wishlist Julie posted when husband had the idea for Blog Camp, and you should go and read it because that's exactly what Blog Camp 3.0 was!
Like both times before, I had an amazing time and it's taking me some time to digest it all. I'm still reflecting on the fun and the laughs, the photographs taken and the creative art journaling (that you can see here), the conversations (at Starbucks, in the kitchen, at the table, in the blue room...), the food, the coffee, the wine, the thoughtful presents. But above all, I'm still marveling at the fact that I've been so lucky to find real friends through this dear blog. That something that started as a personal project to push my writing has given me this community of friends, online and offline. And that I've actually got to meet some of them.
It's been there all along, but I truly saw it last weekend. It's not simply that there are real people behind the blogs, it's that there are real friends. The ones who have been at every Blog Camp with me, the ones who came to the first one, or the second one, or the new additions on this third one. They're all friends.
And I'm so grateful for it.
you're so right, there are real people behind the blogs...and they are truly delightful. i have such bittersweet feelings about the final BC in the blue room...it was a wonderful one to end on, but it feels pretty sad that there won't be another in that particular space.
ReplyDeletei love seeing your art journal pages, because i didn't really get to see them, thanks to the cooking and the chaos and all...
xox,
/j
it may be an end to blue room BCs, but I'm sure julochka will have NEW room BCs that will be sure to rival it. Oh, and you forgot to mention real live people that, unfortunately due to mean old husbands, didn't get to go to any of the european blog camps. But there was a Reno one too!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds fantastic!! The blog world really is an amazing place!
ReplyDeleteWhat is blog camp and who is invited and why?
ReplyDeleteyay for blog camps! i love the happy ending pic you made - that totally resonated :)
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Makes me feel so happy when I read your reflection on 'the' weekend.
ReplyDeleteYou 'campers' are so creative !
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff.
You've done so much in just a few months, has your life always been this eventful in your past 3 decades?
ReplyDeletemmm m encantan tus historias del blog camp, espero tomaros el relevo cuando sea un poco mas mayor(iba a decir cuando os hagáis viejas, pero para la gente moderna como tu eso nunca es un impedimento para seguir haciendo cosas asi, eso es xq seréis siempre jóvenes)
ReplyDeleteComo siempre,mil gracias por tus comentarios y por hacerme creer en una madurez dinámica,original y esperanzadora,que se aleja de los encasillamientos :)
y ahora permiteme fardar de tecnológica xq t estoy escribiendo desde mi móvil... Maldita muchachada consentida jajaja
well said! it's definietly been The Year of the Blog Camp, I can't wait to the next one - and all the mini ones in between!
ReplyDeletelooks like so much fun. besos!
ReplyDeleteloved reading your thoughts on this - and that last photo is so, so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteit looks like so much fun. i hope to one day attend. : )
ReplyDeletei love the stamping in your book. the quotes are lovely.
xo
visiting from soul aperature; enjoyed the lovely photos. very nice cards!
ReplyDeleteAh this is so lovely, made me feel all warm inside! You're such a talented writer and art journaller xx and such a generous person. I'm so happy I met you! xx
ReplyDeleteI've just stumbled fortuitously into your world ... and I like it here :) Looking forward to returning to this colorful place! Blog camp? How perfectly delightful!!!
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