Here it is!  My Blogshop Stockholm write up.  As mentioned before on previous posts I am a huge fan of the website DesignLoveFest a blog by Graphic Designer Bri Emery housing her inspirations, graphic design skills and personal style content.  Through her site I was introduced to the photographer Angela Kohler, an LA based commercial photographer and video director; and together their class they put on called Blogshop.  The main basis of the class and the content taught is photoshop tricks and blog managing advice.  I had taught myself photoshop for the past few years and though nailed the basics there were aspects I knew I could be doing better.  When I discovered that they were teaching in Stockholm this year I knew I had to go.  I am so happy I attended this class instead of visiting their previous classes in London as it made me discover such a gorgeous city, and of course became the location of my recent engagement!

I have some photos of the weekend here, let me take you though them!

The classes were held in the fancy Summit meeting rooms in Hornstull, Stockholm.  The venue was two stops away from my flat, or a 15 minute walk along a cool main street with fantastic shops.  The room we had our class was all white with a mirrored back wall, though the hallways and other rooms in the building were designed equally cool but with different styles.

The classes themselves were fantastic.  We learned so many cool shortcuts on Photoshop and style ideas of how to design a good post.  We also covered more specific photo related topics like retouching, composition and my absolute favourite; making Gifs!!  (Check out the title image.)

We were also feed really well on this course.  11am Mimosas, roast chicken lunches, cinnamon roll snacks and the best smoothie I have ever had as an afternoon pick me up.  It was so yum, and considering food in Sweden is really expensive I really appreciated it.

With what I have learned I intend to use towards totally streamlining my often mish mash clunky style of posting, may even change the provider of my blog so I can have more freedom to personalize most things and even branch out to branding everything so I can produce some affiliate materials like business cards and flyers, the world is my oyster.  Watch this space.

If you are reading this and this class looks fun to you why not check out the dates of their future classes.  They are mostly in the USA but they do branch out quite a lot and I could not recommend it highly enough!!

Woooohoooo!  How exciting!  We got shortlisted for the Company Magazine Style Blogger Awards 2013 for the Best Designed Blog category.  Thank you so much for all of you who nominated and voted for me thus far.  To proceed further with this I need to kindly ask for you to vote for again pretty please with cherries on top!  If you click on the voting site here you can click to vote for www.thebamboodistrict.com in section 4 of the shortlist.  Why not check out the other fantastic sites featured in the other categories too, there is some amazing work out there that the other bloggers have created too.  

Whether I win or lose I just want to say thank you all so much for supporting me and my blog, it really means a lot.  I enjoy posting here and I am happy that many of you enjoy browsing around sharing in my brain spill.  In the words of my brown town peeps of the Philippines, Maraming Salamat! x

Whoopie!!! I have a new phone...a phone that now has Instagram capabilities!!  I used to be a sneeky poster prior to getting this phone, setting up an account on my Momz phone (so sad) and lurked everyone else's posts using Webstagram (which is awesome fyi).  I am very excited about taking fancy pictures of all my meals, which comes to think of it I totally forgot to snap my baked potato, cheese and beans at lunch....would of been cool through a Valencia filter.... :p  In seriousness though, it is a great app and I am looking to capturing some cool moments which you can all see if you follow @mamabamboo.  Feel free to call me out though if I post too many potato pics though.

Soon to be released are The Bamboo District 2012 short shorts.  Only one of each, with sizes available between 8 and 16, maybe something here will take your fancy.  For lounging with the crew or dressed up with a cute blouse the short is super versatile.  Also keep an eye for the matching tops if you wanted the full head to toe (or should I say thigh) look! 

We headed to the beautiful Island of Tablas to capture the latest looks of The Bamboo District's latest summer offerings.  Beautifully patterned button up shirts, everyone's favourite Kimono sleeve multiway and cute mini shorts in luscious colours, the laid back tropical lifestyle is definitely brought right to you.  Keep an eye on the blog for purchase release dates.