London, you delight us every time. You are always the most eccentric, the most enthusiastic, and you make us laugh until we cry. We know you’ll turn it out. And of course, you did.

We’re always staggered by the amount of wonderful women we meet at The Blogcademy: it seems like they all come crawling out of the woodwork to descend upon class. What a blessing! What a babefest!

I mean, just look at these lovelies!

Lynsay won one of our scholarships and we’re so glad she could join us!

Holly Wood: best name ever.

Yes, everyone who comes to class has to wear the ears.

Loving the colours!

Too cute.

David papped me while I was giving Lydia some blog feedback!

Jocelina and Sara are awesome.

Click click!

Eating candy and giggling are essential activities.

Nicole is a gem.

Shell can always be counted on for colour and a killer smile!

Our sponsors killed it…

A goodie bag with a view! It was full to the brim…

Our blogcadettes clipped on a bit o’ bling with these gorgeous chevron teal bows by AlternateNormality.

There are no excuses for forgetting about social media with these tweet ceramic heart brooches by Love & Lovelier Ceramics!

Fifi was a star student, and she was pretty happy about her sparkly star necklace by Headfull of Feathers!

Halfway through the day, we had a visit from Old Fashioned Sweet Cart!

Perfectly on-brand tie-up scarves were supplied by Remixed by Jackie.

Shauna, Kat and I haven’t taken off our believe, faith, love and hope bracelets from Junk Jewels (and we suspect our blogcadettes haven’t, either).

The space was filled with intensely beautiful flower arrangements by Wildabout.

Our babes were delighted to receive a copy of Reeta Krishna’s WordPress For Beginners book… Now they’ll all be WordPress geniuses!

Curtain Road was decked out with brilliant signs, enormous picture-frames and gorgeous decor by Scene Setter.

This frame was a huge hit!

Ears were, as always, produced by one of our favourite companies, Crown and Glory (and you can even see the brains behind Crown and Glory, Sophie and Gareth, in the background!).

…And we had very colourful class photos.

Class one!

Class two!

And of course, we’re doing it all over again in a month’s time… Brisbane and Melbourne are 100% sold out, but we have a few spaces left in Auckland! We also give away a scholarship spot to each city, so be sure to submit yours on our Facebook page! (The deadline is Saturday the 5th of October for Brisbane, Wednesday the 9th of October for Melbourne, and Saturday the 12th of October for Auckland!) Come along and join the fun…

Photos from class one were taken by Alexa Loy, and photos of class two were taken by David McNeil. We love them both SO much!