Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
And Lo, the Craic Was Mighty
Back from the Irish Blog Awards, and as the song says, “Oh what a night.”
Major props to the Cork Airport Hotel, which in addition to being stellar hosts for the IBAs, did a stupendous job for the Ladies Tea Party. The apartment was stunning, the catering was abundant and beautifully presented, and the Tea Party was a great vibe with tons of women, much mingling, and abundant consumption of gorgeous cupcakes and copoius amounts of organic wine.
(The official count was that we started with five cases and ended up with four bottles left over. That turned out to be slightly inaccurate but we did do a hell of a good job.)
As for the Awards themselves, I did not win in my category – Michele Neylon scooped Best Business Blog. Despite knowing I was a most unlikely contender, I was extremely grumpy about this and could briefly be heard threatening to burn one of the polystyrene Blacknight horse heads in effigy or possibly put it in his bed. This shameful, booze fuelled mini-strop stopped the moment Suzy was named for Best Current Affairs Blog and then again for the Grand Prix – I was so delighted for her, I cried. An entirely noble and well-deserved victory, that one.
I knew more people this year than I did last year, so there were fewer revelations, but in the tradition of last year’s Awards, I hereby submit the following 2009 Unofficial Blog Awards:
- Best Badges: Will Knott, for “Ledgebag.” Absolutely legend.
- Hottest Husband: Gingerpixel. Woah, mama. You go girl.
- Hottest Missus: Walter Higgins. (Seriously, have you seen Mrs Walter?)
- Most Aptly Named: The Sexy Pedestrian who is indeed smokin’. (And frankly, you wouldn’t chuck Mr. Sexy Pedestrian out either.)
- Most Adorable: Elfinamsterdam, who to my great surprise, actually is the size of an elf. I thought she just gave out random gifts or something.
- Best Swag: CuriousWines, who did swapable badges that were so popular, people were stealing them out of other people’s booty bags.
- Best Tune: John Handelaar, who spun How Sweet it Is with Marvin Gaye covering his own song in German. (If you ask @handelaar, he’ll probably share it.)
- Sorest Loser: Joe Scanlon, who was not happy to be defeated in Inflatable Twister.
- Best Dressed: Ciara Crossan. Because the bride is always the best dressed woman in the room. Hilarious.
- Biggest Sucker Dote: Niall Harbison, who bought the afterpartiers in Room 201 a bottle of Absolute from the hotel bar. For €80.
Many of these people, and many more, ended up in Apartment 201 for the impromptu afterparty, which carried on until I finally chucked everyone out at 5:30 in the morning.
I smell like a pub floor before the smoking ban, my headache is undefeated, there are not enough cups of tea on all the world right now, and hilariously I have 12 people coming for a full-on Sunday lunch in 2 hours, but I would not have changed a thing. This night was EPIC. Thanks as always, Damien and crew.
PS: Remember, people – what happens at the after party, stays at the after party. And no, I do not have your clothes / phone / shoe / camera / shit – call hotel reception, ye langers.
22 Feb 2009
| In: Ireland + Social Networks | Tags:Blog Awards, IBA09
I wuz robbed. Flipping FANTASTIC night well done Damien and all involved. Great wrap-up Sabrina
22.02.2009, 3:12 pmSounds like some night and Niall is a total pet.
22.02.2009, 3:22 pmYay, I won something! Came downstairs this morning to find two horses heads on my kitchen table. A quick look through my blurry collection of photographs and a re-cap with Mr. Pedestrian revealed that I did, indeed steal said horses heads from the Blog Awards.
22.02.2009, 3:24 pmIt’s also quite possible I’ve broken my right thumb, thanks to some fruity cocktails and the fact that somebody allowed to to go on a giant inflatable Twister board.
It’s what great nights are made of.
I’d like to contest the “hottest husband” award. Has anyone seen mine FFS!?! ;-)
Congrats to all winners.
22.02.2009, 3:32 pmBrilliant night, first time in a long I felt sick about having to go homeat 2am
22.02.2009, 5:14 pmCongrats to all especially team Mulley
What a fucking night :-)
head go boom boom, that’s all I can physically write. You ain’t been to a party to you been to a Sabrina Party.
22.02.2009, 5:45 pm…great review! … lets me know what I’m missing out on : (
22.02.2009, 6:56 pmElf inspired my future cocktail splurges with her whiskey sours, and i’m pretty sure i’m actually in love with TSexyP.
This is my frist time reading this, but I did have it read out to me as I lay on my laurels last night… :D
You are awesome lady!
23.02.2009, 1:49 pmJoe: We wuz ALL robbed!
TSP: That’s Mr. SEXY Pedestrian to you.
RP: Elf is inspiring that way. She’s like the anti-AA.
The tea party was wonderful! I had a ball meeting everyone again.
Thanks Sabrina for a job well done.
23.02.2009, 2:30 pmHaha, thanks Sabrina, my husband went bright red when I told him about this…that’s a first!
23.02.2009, 4:51 pmSabrina, you did a FAB job organizing the Ladies Tea Party! Your hostessing even extended to checking in with me to make sure I wasn’t languishing alone and un-talked to during the evening. Please say I wasn’t the only one? I had a great time. Though am sorry to have missed the apparently rockin’ afterparty :-)
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23.02.2009, 9:20 pmSee you there next year. More fun, games and after-partying.
24.02.2009, 5:51 pmAh ha! People stealing popular badges eh.. I was wondering where my carefully stashed ‘tart’ badge travelled off to. Bah!
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