'Dance the night away'

Friday night was the night of the Warehouse Stationery Annual Conference. I havn't been in years, or at all, with my current team. I was looking foward to it - alot.

At Conference there are always awards for Store..., Manager..., Assistant Store Manager..., Values Team Member...of the Year. And usually there is also a poster competition. I heart the poster competition. It's always so secret squirell between the stores as to who is doing what...I love it!

This year my store kind of let the ball roll on the poster front due to stocktake. So with one week until Conference I volunteered my creative goods and unbeknown to him, also Brad's photoshop skills.

We had previously discussed ideas with the team, so I had a rough idea of what we were going to do. The Conference theme was 'Dress to impress: Black & White'. As we have many film buffs in our store we decided to go with our version of the Godfather movie poster, except...bigger, with lots more people and in black and white. We also decided we would wear roses on the night to tie in with our poster, except we would theme in with white instead of red.

The original

We had crap photo's to work with but thanks to Brad's inner-geek, we managed to put everyone in a tux or frock, stencil effect them and lay them up on a HUGE poster.

Our Poster

Wellington store (that's us) won the poster competition! The prize is a lunch shout.

Team = Stoked. Me = Stoked! Brad? Not so much. He's a bit gutted he wont be there for the feast.

Anyway...poster aside we had a great ngith out, filled with food, wine and lots of dancing. Not to mention great company (in most instances anyway).

Peak's of the night:

Seeing Chrissy & the Coastlands store take out two of the major prizes

 Winning the poster comp

Passionfruit cheescake

Relaxing with my team & seeing how good everyone scrubbed up!

Dance circle madness

Pit's of the night:

Getting ready in 30mins, in the staff bathroom, after being at work from 7am. Not the coolest.

Witnessing unsavoury dance moves/violation of ceiling columns.

 Both Brad & I getting hit on by Males & Females respectively (no offence, just not that way inclined...obviously?)

The decorations. Probs could have done better myself.

The DJ. I mean, we made the most of what we had but really? Billie Jean & most tracks by the Bee Gee's are generally dance floor clearer's by today's standards.