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Doin’ it Big in NYC!

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In April of 2011, I was so incred­i­bly hon­ored to be named a “Doer of the Week” on Martha Stew­art’s Dream­ers into Doers com­mu­ni­ty, cre­at­ed to inspire and and help women achieve their dreams! Does the pic­ture look famil­iar?! At the end of the year, the oppor­tu­ni­ty arose to enter my name for a poten­tial invite to the annu­al event to take place in 2012 and in Jan­u­ary, I was thrilled to receive the offi­cial invitation!
This past week, I made my way to New York City to attend the event at the Martha Stew­art Liv­ing Omn­i­me­dia offices, includ­ing a tap­ing of The Martha Stew­art Show, pre­sen­ta­tions by some amaz­ing­ly inspi­ra­tional peo­ple and a chance to meet some of THE most tal­ent­ed and bril­liant women!
First on the agen­da was a tap­ing of The Martha Stew­art Show, which was such a fun expe­ri­ence to be part of the stu­dio audi­ence and wit­ness all the behind-the-scenes action! If offered, I would will­ing­ly and glad­ly move my stuff to live at the gor­geous set!
My sweet friend (and room­mate for one night!), Cineca from Dreamin’ N Details, sat next to me as we honed our clap­ping and “oohing” and “aahing” skills through­out the show!
Martha her­self was as fab­u­lous as ever! And just look at those cake stands! Seri­ous­ly, I might move in, even if not asked!
Back at the offices, we were spoiled by amaz­ing break­fasts, lunch­es and most impor­tant­ly, gor­geous sweets! We were so thank­ful to the entire team for putting togeth­er such a beau­ti­ful event both days!
Sev­er­al guest speak­ers were present both days to pro­vide an abun­dance of ideas, advice and inspi­ra­tion. The folks at Deluxe spon­sored the event and pro­vid­ed great infor­ma­tion to assist small busi­ness­es and Karen Lee dis­cussed the ben­e­fits of going “green” in busi­ness. Bryan Petroff and Dou­glas Quint, who found­ed the NY based Big Gay Ice Cream, were not only super enter­tain­ing, but also had very help­ful tips regard­ing find­ing suc­cess with the use of social media.  We con­tin­ued to learn a ton from more staff and high­ly respect­ed edi­tors of the dif­fer­ent mag­a­zines, includ­ing Sara Carey from Every­day Food, and an excit­ing craft demon­stra­tion from the craft edi­tor-at-large, Jodi Levine!
Not only were we pro­vid­ed with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to soak up all this valu­able infor­ma­tion from these suc­cess­ful and cre­ative peo­ple, we were also able to meet, net­work and devel­op con­nec­tions with the awe-inspir­ing atten­dees of the event. How extra­or­di­nar­i­ly for­tu­nate I was to min­gle with with such remark­able tal­ents! I was so excit­ed to final­ly meet friends I had made on-line in per­son (as if we had been inter­net dat­ing and were anx­ious for our real first date!), as well as make new ones! A large part of these ladies were “par­ty girls” that I have admired and actu­al­ly worked with… from afar! So excit­ed to leave with so many new friendships!
Sharon {Cup­cakes & Cut­lery}, me, Abi­gail {paper & cake}, Cineca {Dreamin’ N Details}, Eliz­a­beth {Par­ty in Style by Elle}
Me, Melis­sa {Tru­ly Chic Inspi­ra­tions} and Cineca {Dreamin’ N Details}
May­lene {Malu Bou­tiques}, Cineca {Dreamin’ N Details}, Hol­ly {Pais­ley Petal Events} and Lin­da {Frog Prince Cake & Cook­ie Design}
Ebony {Sparkling Events & Design}, me and Michele {Intrigue Design Stu­dio ~ who designed this very blog!}
Janet {Sweet Temp­ta­tions}, Gem­ma {Brain­Fry Con­cepts}, Sarah {Dream­ers Joy Events & Design}, Jen {Ban­ner Events}, Sachiko {mim­ic­afe Union}
First pic: Abi­gail {paper & cake}, Car­rie {Half Baked}, Michele {Cake­walk Bak­ing}, Cineca {Dreamin’ N Details}                                                                 Sec­ond pic: Ebony {Sparkling Events & Design} and me                                                                        Third pic: Mandy {Wait­ing on Martha}, Cineca {Dreamin’ N Details}, Jamie {Month Mark­ers}, Ebony {Sparkling Events & Design}, Michele {Intrigue Design Stu­dio}, Gem­ma {Brain­Fry Con­cepts}, me, Janet {Sweet Temp­ta­tions}, Sarah {Dream­ers Joy Events & Design}, Abi­gail {paper & cake}, Hol­ly {Pais­ley Petal Events}, Jes­si­ca {The Hope­FULL Com­pa­ny}, Nicolle {Lib­by Lane Press}                                       Fourth pic: me and Melis­sa {Tru­ly Chic Inspi­ra­tions}
Although I unfor­tu­nate­ly don’t have pho­tos to share, I also had an amaz­ing time at the mix & min­gle event put togeth­er by Gigi Page of Bou­quets of Choco­late, as well as the din­ner put togeth­er by some fab ladies for us out-of-town­ers: Khali­ah of The Par­ty Muse, Gem­ma of Brain­Fry Con­cepts, Vanes­sa of Vanes­sa Grant Events and Dawn of Bee’s Knees Par­ties! Mer­ci beau­coup for your hos­pi­tal­i­ty and an amaz­ing time!Upon leav­ing the event, we were gift­ed with incred­i­ble swag bags, inclu­sive of good­ies sent in from all the Doers them­selves! How amaz­ing to not only meet them all in per­son, but then to receive their works of art! Mer­ci beau­coup to each and every one for shar­ing their work and gen­eros­i­ty! Just look at this pic­ture tak­en by my friend, Lin­da of Frog Prince Cake & Cook­ie Design!
Since I did­n’t think it would be too ben­e­fi­cial or use­ful to just send in some fon­dant, I made a trip to the craft store to pur­chase some poly­mer clay and try my hand at it for the first time! I want­ed to repli­cate the cup­cake in my logo (or close to!) and also resem­ble fon­dant, so I end­ed up mak­ing lit­tle cup­cake charms! Lin­da came up with the idea of sell­ing these dessert charms and call­ing them “Lyn­lee’s Petite Bakes”! Hmmm…

I am tru­ly so grate­ful for this entire expe­ri­ence! I can­not thank the Martha Stew­art staff enough for all the work they put into orga­niz­ing and exe­cut­ing the event and came home feel­ing so extreme­ly sup­port­ed, spoiled and inspired to keep on dreamin’ AND doin’!!! ♥

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  1. AMAZING!! A bunch of tal­ent­ed, fab­u­lous and empow­er­ing women!! That’s what DID is all about! 🙂

    Wished I cold have been there to meet you guys!

    • Oh, I so wish you could have been there, too, sweet friend!!! It real­ly was inspi­ra­tional! One of these days we will def­i­nite­ly meet so I can soak up all your fab­u­los­i­ty! Beijos! ♥

    • I seri­ous­ly had so much fun with you, Cin!!! So hap­py to have final­ly got­ten through the jit­ters of our first date and move on to our “hap­pi­ly ever after”! LOL! Long live Shrek! ♥

    • YOU rock, Melis­sa!!! So incred­i­bly for­tu­nate to have met you, lady! And so hap­py to have left with a true FRIEND! Too bad you prob­a­bly won’t read this reply. 😉 ♥

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