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Ladies and gentlemen I am in LOVE with Haven 2012. I am presently in Atlanta for the conference and am having such a blast. I have really enjoyed connecting on a personal level with many of you girls whom I have been talking to for almost two years!

I had dinner tonight with some amazing ladies at one of the many restaurants here in Atlanta, GA, the Twisted Taco. Twisted Taco was yummy but the company I was with was priceless. I really enjoyed connecting with women such as......

Jennifer Carroll from Celebrating Everyday Life. Jennifer at one point was going to be my roomy at the Crown Plaza until Marian had an extra room she said I could have. I kept Jennifer's number and text her when I arrived, hoping she could be a familiar "face" I could have dinner with. I got here "knowing" a lot of people but I didn't really know them. It was so weird trying to scan the room and find the faces you recognize from pictures. Some look the same and some don't. Thank you to those of you who came up to me to introduced yourselves. You made me feel good and a lot more at home. Anyways...Jennifer has been a wonderful connection and I am sure a life long friend that I have made here at Haven. She is an amazing stylist. I really mean AMAZING. Jennifer was an event planner for 17 years, focusing mainly on weddings but is now sharing her knowledge with us through her blog. Look at this baby shower!!

You can find her blog here at Celebrating Everyday Life.

I also ate with Miss Carrie from Making Lemonade, a southern gal through and through but lives in Philly. She cracked me up talking about how her roots don't show down here and her dialect becomes a bit more drawn out. You know, a good "suuuuthun"(southern) girl wouldn't dare let those dark roots show. No Ma'am! I loved hearing Carrie's story of how she moved all alone from Boston to South Carolina to be a teacher after college. She adopted the south and the south adopted her. She is a precious, sweet lady and I loved getting to know her. She blogs a little about everything. I have been scoping it all out tonight. One thing that caught my eye was this orange pomegranate smoothie she made. I want one NOW! This looks delightful, doesn't it?

I also met my long time bud, Jessica from Decor Adventures. I am pretty sure we started our blogs at about the same time. We have chatted and tweeted and emailed over the past several years. It was so awesome to finally hug her neck in real life. She is such a sweetie as I knew she would be. 
I met Brieda with B....what a DELIGHT! I am not kidding. This chick is hilarious and her personality comes right on out on her blog. She is real and authentic and fun and her blog is only three months old! Y'all go give Breida with a B some Blog Lovin...she'll think you are TOTALLY cool. Yes I said cool;) 
I also hung out with Skye from Thumbprint Designs who creates really cute up cycled artwork such as this....which would totally go in my house....Dog hair is a problem....Not kidding....It is a GREAT thing that I won a new Oreck Vacuum while I was here! HOLLA!!

I have missed highlighting so many people and I hope to get to share more later but I am dog tired and have a big day tomorrow.  If you have not been to a blog conference yet, I highly, HIGHLY, recommend that you do. I have learned so much from so many different women and have TRULY enjoyed putting real faces with blogs. Thank you to all of you Haven Maven's who have shared your knowledge with us this weekend. It is greatly appreciated.