Wednesday night I had Beau take me on a date up to the East bench of Salt Lake City to this great little book shop called
The King's English where I got to meet one of my favorite blog writers and now
cookbook author!
We stood in line for the tickets to actually get her to sign the book about hour and half. And Boy! am I glad we got there when we did. The line wasn't too bad but it seemed right after we got there so did every one else!
About 6:30 they had us all pile into this gorgeous Gallery that was next the the book shop where she spoke and answered questions. There was way more people than this bookstore ever thought there would be and so we were everywhere in that gallery. Some on chairs, a stair case, the floor, and standing in the back, where we ended up!
Waiting in the Gallery
There she is...
Ree Drummond She was great!! She talked a little about her life and how she started with just a blog to show her Mom her kids and then she started writing about living on a ranch and the craziness of it all. She has a great fun wit to her stories! I love reading about her daily life. Then she start posting some recipes with step by step photos. Random people starting leaving how much they loved her recipes, stories and photography and 3 years later here she is... greatly successful and a new cookbook!
Here's the crowd of people waiting for there letter to be called to go into the book store to see Ree!
We were so lucky that we were letter "E" and were one of the first 100 to go see her!!
There was 20 people to each letter! They ran out of letters before we went into the Gallery!!
There we are!!
Here poor hand must be so dead by the time she gets done with a book signing night!
She told Beau that we was a good man to come with me! Beau was flattered and he told her "Sure! Anything for my Wife!" :)
He was really great for going with me. There was probably 20 other men there! Beau says that he was behind in his time to start a blog. We was really inspired by her and how she had a money making site. That's Beau dream. To live in the country, work from home, have a big money making website! One day... maybe one day!!
(I gave a copy to my Sister for her birthday, she loved it!)
It was truly inspiring to meet someone that I've been admiring for about 2 years now and to actually see her success and to have the chance to go to her book signing and hear her speak of her life and successes. I'm so glad I went. I'm more excited to have my new cookbook! She has all her recipes on her site and they are very delicious and pretty dang simple!! Check her out!
Everything came from Dollar Tree, one of my favorite stores! The wreath is just made out of a dumb wire hanger re-shaped into a circle and the plastic ornaments are just strung on the hanger. Just twist up hanger and TA - DA!! So stinkin' cute!
