registration is now open!

Registration is officially open! You can sign up for the next Canadian Design Bloggers Meetup here, over on Eventbrite. Be sure to list your blog and email address too. It's going to be another great event, with a few surprises as well!

Also, a reminder, if you'd like to exchange contact cards with your fellow bloggers, now's the time to have the printed/made!

Hope to see you there...

welcome our bronze sponsor :: GlucksteinHome...

New to the Canadian Design Blogger Meetup this year, we're excited to share that GlucksteinHome has signed on as a bronze sponsor!

GlucksteinHome is an affordable line of designer-driven home furnishings created by renowned interior designer Brian Gluckstein. Launched in 1999, GlucksteinHome offers a complete assortment of home furnishings including bedding, bath, dinnerware, furniture, decor, patio and holiday. Designed with a collections approach, GlucksteinHome reflects the luxurious yet functional appeal of Brian Gluckstein’s signature interiors with a variety of choices for home decorators.

We're happy to have GlucksteinHome join us this year!

Photos: GlucksteinHome

welcome our silver sponsor :: Delta...

Today we're very happy to announce that Delta will continue to sponsor our event for the third time! Delta has been incredibly supportive of the design blog community and we are excited to partner with them again.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Delta, they deliver exceptionally well-made, stylish faucets and related kitchen and bath accessories. Delta believes that there are better ways to experience water, going beyond excellent design to incorporate smart thinking that anticipates people's needs, with products such as Touch20® Technology faucets that turn on with just a touch, and In2ition® Showers with integrated showerheads and handshowers.

Looking forward to another event together!

Photos: Delta

meet our premiere sponsor :: House & Home...

Today we are very excited to announce one of our gold sponsors... House & Home magazine!

As Canada's #1 design and decorating magazine, we are thrilled to have House & Home on board! You'll find plenty of inspiration in print and online, including dramatic makeovers, the latest furniture, fabrics and accessories, expert renovation tips, and tricks for organizing and entertaining with style. We're so happy to have House & Home share their experience and design savvy with us, so stay tuned for more details, including a special guest speaker and info on their latest mobile app!

save the date for a new meetup!

A new year, a new event! It’s been a few months since our last event, but we've been quietly working away our next official meetup.

Like past events, it promises to be the place to meet up with the bloggers you know and love, and connect with new friends too. This year we decided to host the event around the Interior Design Show, so for those of you coming a little farther, it’s just another reason to spend the weekend in Toronto. The more, the merrier!

Stay tuned, as in the coming days we’ll be announcing our sponsors, as well as all the exciting details, including registration. We can't wait!

Hope you're all having a lovely time gearing up for the holidays...

feedback from our sponsors...

Hello everyone, hope you're all having a great Summer. Below we thought we'd share some of the feedback from our sponsors, and thank them again for helping put on a great event earlier this year!

"IKEA was thrilled to sponsor the Canadian Design Bloggers Meet Up. At IKEA, we believe strongly that this community represents an increasingly influential group and it was great to participate in strengthening the connection between its members. We personally found the attendees to be an inspiring group of passionate and interesting women (and one guy!). It was a pleasure to connect directly and to put a face to the blog."

– Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick, IKEA

"It’s always so inspiring to see the power of networking in action at Canadian Design Bloggers events, and the strong partnerships and friendships that they foster. The calibre of the blogs produced by this network of savvy design enthusiasts is incredibly high. It’s a pleasure to be associated with the Canadian Design Bloggers - we look forward to continuing our work together! Congratulations to Vitania and Daniella for a stellar evening."

– Anita Griffin, Delta Faucet

"It was an absolute thrill to be in a room brimming with such talented and passionate bloggers! We’re so grateful for the opportunity to engage with the Canadian Design Bloggers, and thankful to Vie and Daniella for establishing and continuing the conversations and events. This group of designing women and men continually opens our eyes to the newest trends in design and décor, and insights into the world of social media."

– Dita Kuhtey, Cohn & Wolfe

“On behalf of Rowenta, thank you for hosting such a stylish and fun event with such

an amazing group of bloggers. We were thrilled to give away the Rowenta Pro Compact Steamer (congratulations to @whitewashco Jo Alcorn) and look forward to your

next event so we can do it all again!”

– Laurie Hall, Rowenta

CDB2011 :: a fabulous event!

Monday morning is here again, but this past weekend we had a fabulous time at the Canadian Design Bloggers Meetup! Thank you to everyone who came, we hope you all had a wonderful time! It was so great to see some people from the last event and meet a bunch of new bloggers too. With everyone exchanging blog cards, we sure have a lot of great new ones to check out.

A big thank you again to all of our sponsors - IKEA, Delta, CIL, along with House & Home, Crate & Barrel, Sytle at Home, Kravet, and Rowenta. We we're able to put on a great event with all their help, and same to Brassaii, for the wonderful service. Congratulations to all our winners too! We hope you enjoy your new prizes, and hope everyone picked up a goodie bag on their way out too.

As you can see our photographer Leah from Forever Moments did a fabulous job taking shots throughout the night! We are so thankful for her help on Saturday. It great to have all these wonderful photos. If you'd like to use them on your own blog, be sure to link back and link to Leah's website!

All in all, we had a great night and are thankful it turned out so well. Hope you all have a great Summer, and we're looking forward to visiting all these new blogs!

PS. Anyone else still dreaming about those delicious mini grilled cheese and fish n' chips? lol....

Photos: By Leah Kirin from Forever Moments