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New Dates: Austin & Melbourne (again)!

Your headmistresses always aim to please, and when we announced the full wack of dates back in March, there were some outcries that we weren’t going down to any of the Southern US states… Well, your wish is our command and so we’ve added an extra date in Austin date during August. YEY!

But that’s not all…The Melbourne class sold out so speedily, that we’ve decided to add a second date on our way home from Australia. It means we’re pretty much going to be away from home for a whole month (!) but hey, know you’re gonna make it worth our while! Our poor suffering husbands will just have to hold the fort at our respective homes a little while longer I guess…

If you’d like to hop on the school bus with us, you can book your spot on either of these classes via the registration page. As always, for the two new dates we are offering an earlybird special price if you book before midnight Wednesday 15th May. Spaces are limited to 30 graduates per class and remember, all our previous classes have been sell-outs, so speed is of the essence!

We can’t wait to meet you!

Love & Adoration for our Los Angeles Sponsors!

Los Angeles was everything we could have hoped for and more! The latest crop of Blogcadettes were total babes and after every class, the three of us always go away feeling like we’ve just made thirty new BFFs.

As always, big love to our awesome sponsors who made the LA Blogcademy as sparkly as possible!

These Basik 855 coin purses are perfect for a blogger on the go…and have just the right amount of space to stash those business cards!

These MARGRAVINE x Sewmaryann bows are perfect for wearing on your lapel or slipping in your bouffant!

We love these glitter shoe clips from Head Full of Feathers!

The Moorea Seal pieces were all gorgeous.

Everyone was also treated to a beautiful Mr Yen LOVE laser-cut card.

Oh, Crown & Glory. Where would we be without your fabulous sparkly ears?

The IF Ladies purses & nail wraps were so fun!

Saturday Sequins handmade everyone a pair of these gorgeous blue and silver sequin earrings!

Classic Hardware sent a bunch of awesome jewellery treats.

We are so in love with these custom coffee cozies handmade by Twinkie Chan!

And finally, Zevia kept us hydrated with oddles of their delicious zero calorie soda.

We had an extra special treat in store for this class since it was Kat’s birthday on Sunday. We rented a photo booth from LA photo booth rental company Snapden and we had an utter blast getting all silly and snap happy!

Los Angeles, you treated us so well! We hope we’ll get to visit you again sometime soon!

The next round of workshops are taking place in June and we’re off to New York and Minneapolis! We are currently accepting sponsors for both dates so if you’d like to get your product or service in front of 30 enthusiastic bloggers as well as featured on our blogs (with a combined reach of over one million readers!) then please get in touch.

And if you’d like to join us at one of the workshops, we still have spaces remaining for both dates. Booking your spot couldn’t be simpler, but feel free to drop us an email if you have any questions before you register.

We can’t wait to hit the road again really soon. Roll on, June!

All Photography: Milou & Olin Photography

We Have So Much Love For Our Portland Sponsors!

Class four: Portland!

Oh, Portland, City of Roses: you have our hearts.  What a beautiful city, what an incredible group of women, and what a bloody good time we had!

The Blogcademy: Portland was everything we could have hoped for… And then some! Of course, none of this would even be possible without our amazing sponsors. Thank you to each and every one of these babes for helping to make this event happen!

Ears from Crown & Glory – no Blogcadette worth their salt is ever without a pair of ears place firmly on his or her head!

IF Ladies sent us a huge box of quirky purses, cards, tee-shirts, umbrellas and nail wraps!

MARGRAVINE x Sewmaryann made some custom hair bows which doubled as brooches in Blogcademy blue and silver glitter. They would also like to offer anyone reading this 15% off any order from their online shop until the end of May! Simply use discount code BLOG15 to qualify.

Moorea Seal supplied all this amazing jewellery.

The glittery Head Full of Feathers shoe clips added some much needed sparkle to our toes.

The Pink Samurai painstakingly knitted 30 beautiful teal and grey scarves.

Lex Cosmetics via Cloud Parade supplied everyone with fantastic grey glittery nail varnish.

The greeting cards were from the super talented Mr Yen.

Everyone also got an awesome Basik 855 coin purse.

Paige Lavoie sent these fun Blogcademy branded mini hats which we all rocked in the photo booth. Finally, the amazing Paul Jarvis supplied a free digital download of his book, How to Be Awesome Online, for everyone (obviously not pictured).

Phew. Never can it be said that we don’t spoil those Blogcadettes of ours. Alongside their custom city tote bags, workbook magazine and other branded treats, those goodie bags were packed.

We also had some amazing décor sponsors this time as well. We fell held over heels for these teal and pink tassels and rainbow confetti from The Paper Jar via Cloud Parade… and we seriously battled over who got to take them home afterwards!

The whole shebang was photographed and videoed (!) by the utterly incredible, inspiring and amazing Made U Look Photography. We are so immensely grateful that they packed up their car and drove the 14 hour route from where they live in Bakersfield to Portland to be with us for the workshop. Christina, Marielle & Alie… We love you girls!

The next round of workshops are taking place in June and we’re off to New York and Minneapolis! We are currently accepting sponsors for both dates so if you’d like to get your product or service in front of 30 enthusiastic bloggers as well as featured on our blogs (with a combined reach of over one million readers  – yowzer!) then, don’t be shy, get in touch.

And if you’d like to join us at one of the workshops we still have spaces remaining for both dates. Booking your spot couldn’t be simpler, but feel free to drop us an email if you have any questions before you book.

We can’t wait to hit the road again really soon. Roll on June!

All Photography: Made U Look Photography

The Portland Video!

Oh my goodness, there are just not enough words to express how much we adore the video from the Portland workshop. Epic love and thanks to the utterly amazing, inspiring and all round babealious Christina, Marielle & Alie for creating this masterpiece. SO MUCH LOVE…

Photos to follow really soon!

Our next stops are New York and Minneapolis in June and we’d love to see you there. Reserving your spot couldn’t be simpler, but feel free to drop us an email if you have any questions before you book.

Dancing, kissing and all round big cheesy grins,
Kat, Gala & Shauna

Photo & Video: Made U Look Photography

Attention Los Angeles Blogcadettes!

Greetings from our Hollywood (b)loft! Your intrepid headmistresses are spending today stuffing goodie bags, blowing up ‘B’ balloons, and making notes… But mostly getting super-amped for the Los Angeles class of our world tour, which kicks off tomorrow morning!

As is customary around these parts, here are some quick reminders for all of you future graduates…

The venue is McCaddenSpace Studio, located at 1041 N. McCadden Place, one block east of Highland Avenue and one-half block south of Santa Monica Blvd. Look for a Spanish style building with large trees!

To pack in your school bag:

♥ A notebook, a laptop or an iPad — whatever you’re most comfortable writing on. You’re going to need something to jot down all those ideas and notes!

♥ A pen. Make sure you bring something to write with!

♥ A camera. While we are no longer teaching a technical photography section, the workshop is sure to be packed with many Kodak moments so don’t forget to bring something to capture them with! If you don’t have a camera, don’t worry, the camera on your phone will be totally adequate. Be sure to download Instagram, too, if you’re not using it already!

♥ Snacks and lunch. We’ll be providing delicious zero calorie soda from Zevia for slurping on throughout the day, but feel free to bring some yummies too. There are plenty of places to buy lunch (and green juice!) locally, but if you prefer to bring a packed lunch, there’s a turquoise (of course!) refrigerator you can use.

♥ Business cards… Because you never know who you might meet!

We can’t wait to meet you all, start practicing your #bloggerface now!

Much love from your sunkissed headmistresses,
Kat, Gala & Shauna

Portland, We Are Ready For You!

The goodie bags have been packed, the report cards have been signed, and we are ready to teach up a storm!

A little reminder for those of you coming along tomorrow about what to pack in your school bag:

♥ A notebook, a laptop or an iPad — aka something to write on. You’re going to need something to jot down all those ideas and notes. And make it a biggie… In London we had students who completely filled theirs up!

♥ A pen. Make sure you bring something to write with!

♥ A camera. While we are no longer teaching a technical photography section, the workshop is sure to be packed with many Kodak moments so don’t forget to bring something to capture them with! If you don’t have one, don’t worry, the camera on your phone will be totally adequate.

♥ Snacks and lunch. We’ll be providing easter eggs for munching on throughout the day but feel free to bring your own too. There are plenty of brilliant places to buy lunch locally, but if you prefer to bring a packed lunch, be our guest!

♥ Business cards… Because you never know who you might meet!

We are SO EXCITED to meet you all,

Much love from your enthusiastic headmistresses,
Kat, Gala & Shauna

The Knot At The Blogcademy, Los Angeles!

We are thrilled to announce that Rebecca Crumley, picture editor at The Knot Magazine, will be doing a very special guest segment at the Los Angeles workshop on Sunday 7th April! Rebecca has a degree in photography and has been the real weddings photo editor for The Knot since 2004.

“I’ve seen the changes from film to digital, Friendster launching the revolution in social networking; blogging, pinterest, all of it!” she says. “While my day-to-day responsibility is picking and photo editing our wedding content, keeping current with technology and blogfeeds are the backbone to my success.”

Clearly this babe knows her stuff!

She will be speaking to the blogcadettes about how to pick the best imagery for their blogs, as well as sharing her insider knowledge on what kinds of photographs really grab a reader’s attention. She will touch on how bloggers can best go about working with magazines, as well as making herself available for some Q&A time!

We are so excited that Rebecca and The Knot have approached us to take part in The Blogcademy, and we just know our students are going to learn so much from her!

Roll on the good times!

Much love (and squealing with excitement and anticipation!),
Kat, Gala and Shauna

Stop The Presses! We Have A New L.A. Venue!

Mercury retrograde is notorious for throwing a spanner in the works… And it certainly did a number on us this week!

On Tuesday, we got the news that our L.A. venue had been double-booked.  Cue internal panic!  We had visions of trying to teach The Blogcademy on the side of a highway, or in our rented apartment, or at an In-N-Out booth… But thankfully, we found a replacement (and secretly, we think it’s even better than our original location)!

Located just a few inches from our original venue, we are so bloomin’ excited to kick it with you at the McCadden Photo Studio in Hollywood!

Just look at all this space…

Our favourite thing?  The psychedelic lounge area upstairs!  This exotic, mid-century modern wonderland is going to make for some amazing photo ops for sure. Stand by to use it as the perfect chill out area to munch your lunch, do your homework or gossip with your new blogging bffs!

…And let’s not forget the separate hair and make-up room with perfect lighting for practising your very best #bloggerface! Oh yes, dear blogcadettes, we really did lock down a goodie!

McCadden Photo Studio is located at 1041 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood, CA 90038, and we can’t wait to see you crazy cats there.

Oh, and by the way, we have a handful of spaces left, so if you’d like to join us on that amazing holographic couch (!!!) for a weekend of fun, we’d love to have you!

Lot of love from your resourceful headmistresses,
Kat, Gala and Shauna!

Meet Our Portland & Los Angeles Scholarship Winners!

Image by Danielle

Planning two workshops at once may be double the work but it’s also double the fun – especially when it came to picking our scholarship winners for both cities at the same time.

The three of us trawled though all your amazing entries late one night, emailing back and forth with our favourite ones. Although we were pretty unanimous that our Los Angeles winner had to be Danielle. Her entry was so cute, creative and fun. We can’t wait to meet you (although shh, Kat already has – and yes, she’s just as adorbs in real life!)

Then for Portland we picked Jessica. Her creative design skills really shone in her video. We love how she took a completely different approach to her entry by using her skills as a graphic designer to really show us what she’s about. We know she’s going to be a fantastic addition to the Portland class.

See you both soon ladies!

Lots of love, squeals and over excited kisses
Your headmistresses, Kat, Gala & Shauna

Scholarship Reminder…

Illustration by Veronica Dearly

Just a little reminder that you have until next Friday (15th February) to get your scholarship entries in for either the Portland or Los Angeles workshops. To read more about the scholarship and how to enter, check out the bottom of our FAQ page. We’d love to see you there!

Love from your always-excitable headmistresses,
Kat, Gala & Shauna