My Better Home and Gardens Feature is here…a perfect weekend!

October 16, 2012

Do you ever have those “perfect storms” in your life?

You know, the kind where everything seems to just happen in sync for good or bad?We’ve had a few of those recently, and no I’m not talking about my son deciding to actually wash his own clothes for the one hour I was gone and didn’t see that the washing machine hose was detached and started a load and went to his room to play X-Box and put two loads of water on the laundry room floor and flooded our finished basement…nope this is not THAT perfect storm.This perfect storm is a a Blogging Perfect Storm…and it was a good one!This WEEKEND was our Perfect Storm here At The Picket Fence! It started with an invitation for Heather to speak at the Southern Bloggers Conference and my BF Forever and ever and ever Robin was able to come with me(details to come!)

Rhoda from Southern Hospitality, Brittany from Pretty Handy Girl, Heather (me) from At The Picket Fence, Kelly from Eclectically Vintage and KariAnne from Thistlewood Farm

and then gained momentum when LG Electronics contacted us for Vanessa to not only review one of their brand new top of the line dishwashers, but then proceeded to fly her and one of our READERS to the Food Network Wine and Food Festival in New York City on the SAME weekend (more details to come!)…

….and then the perfect storm formed…because as if ALL of that was not amazing, surreal and fabulous enough…this arrived on newsstands Saturday…

my Better Homes and Gardens feature…and so it came to be, our most amazing WEEKEND ever on our blogging journey!I am still pinching myself. It was beyond my wildest dreams to purchase that magazine while in the company of one of the most special ladies in my life (where she proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs in a Food Lion) and then to share it with a group of the most fabulous blogging gals on the planet!

thank you Jessica of Mom 4 Real for sending me this picture

I mean WHO can truly, really appreciate a moment like that but friends on this blogging path with us. They shouted, and whistled, and I think there were a few tears (Shirley) and it made the moment beyond anything I could have imagined…well except, the PERFECT PERFECT storm would have been having Vanessa next to me. 😉 It has been the most incredible weekend of my professional life (I love I can say that THIS, what we get to do, IS a profession AND a passion now)

I want to say THANK YOU to Kit from Better Homes and Gardens for finding my kitchen worth gracing the pages of this amazing magazine…I want to thank Stacey for making my kitchen look magazine worthy with her incredible photo styling talent……and I want to thank Edmund Barr for doing what he said..making me feel good about seeing myself in print…and for including my precious Zoe. (Did you see her in the right-hand corner?)

Storms…they can be difficult, they can also bring new seasons and new breaths of life…this weekend was definitely that kind of storm! Love you all…from this gal who humbly and gratefully hangs here…at the picket fence!

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