Quick note: Tomorrow (Saturday, November 10th) we’ll be in Chicago at the West Elm on 1000 W North Avenue for cookies, cocoa, and a book signing at 1pm (arriving on the early side might help ya get a jump on the line). More info here. We’d love to see ya there!
Who’s ready for our once-every-two-weeks recap of our book tour-y adventures (here’s the first one)? Just us? Okay. Here we go anyways! #warningitslong
As most of you know, weather has been kinda crazy in the Northeastern part of the country lately. Between Hurricane Sandy two weeks ago and this spontaneous Nor’easter this week, well, things have been a little crazy. And it just so happens that all of our book tour stops in the last seven days were scheduled in the affected areas. Cue the adventure! Actually, first cue the worry and concern. Having lots of friends and family members in those regions (not to mention bunches of you) made us cross our fingers for safety, warmth, and electricity for everyone.
Those things are far more important than frivolous things like book signings, so when the SoHo FLOR store said they were without power and there was no option other than rescheduling (the new date’s still TBD but we’ll keep you posted!) we were completely expecting it and totally understood. But surprisingly both hosts in Connecticut and New Jersey had been open, with power, for a few days before our scheduled events – so they were actually eager to have us come up. They thought it would be a fun distraction for folks up there dealing with loss of power/heat and all of the other comforts they were sorely missing, and we thought that sounded great too. We were eager to drive up and see all of our friends and relatives up there to make sure they were ok (and bring some supplies to Sherry’s family), so on Thursday around noon we packed up the car and set our sites on Wilton, Connecticut.
The other crazy behind-the-scenes happening was that Sherry actually developed a kidney infection, but thankfully she was diagnosed on Tuesday and antibiotic-ed up so she could recover just in time to hit the road on Thursday. (Her PSA is that if you ever have strong pains on one or both sides of your lower back along with a fever and nausea, get to the doctor asap).
Clara joined us for this trip so that she could spend some quality time with Sherry’s mom, aka Nonna, while we tended to our book duties. Burger stayed at home with my parents since we figure Clara-wrangling was enough to keep Nonna busy for this trip (and Burger’s idea of heaven is being house-sat by his Grammy and TomTom). As for how Clara did on the drive, don’t let this trip photo fool you. The bean is not all hugs and naps all the time. But we made what ended up being a nine hour drive and lived to tell the tale.
We landed at our hotel in Connecticut around 10pm, waaaaaay past Clara’s bedtime. Did she seem to notice? You be the judge.
The next morning we found ourselves at the Wilton Library, which was a beautiful library, btw (and this is coming from a guy whose mom worked in the public library system growing up, so I have high standards). We were so grateful to see lots of smiling faces in the audience. Whether they were happy to see us or just happy to have heat, we didn’t care. We were downright psyched to have them… as clearly demonstrated by this that photo Crystal took of us giving our presentation. Just kidding, this is right before we started (no idea why we look so blank, because I promise we were all hyper and nervous on the inside). We think it’s pretty funny that we’re both sitting the same way and looking the same direction. #twinsies
Crystal actually did a really sweet post about her morning, which you can check out for more photos. She says she was very shy, but I’m not sure I buy it. After all, she’s the only one who suggested that we recreate our book cover pose with her and her husband Aaron. Looks pretty good, right? #dorksforlife
The people of Wilton were super nice, which is encouraging because we worried that Cincinnati’s kindness was just an isolated case of Midwestern-ness. Phew! Sherry even got her second opportunity to sign a ceramic animal. See how her eyes light up at the opportunity. She’s never happier.
There were also fun requests like this one to sign $herdog on this over-sized clothespin for someone’s desk.
And just like in Cincy, people went out of their way with little gifts that made us ooh, ahh, and make other incredibly weird expressions. You guys totally don’t have to do that! Seriously. But check out this charm that someone crafted using a tiny printed thumbnail of our book cover. Clearly Sherry is impressed.
While there we also got to finally meet Connecticut resident and hilarious blogger-friend Roo from SemiProper. She was kind enough not to give me a crazy look when I suggested that she, Sherry, and Clara ride the animal statues outside the library. Though she later one upped me by Photoshopping me having a Slurpee binge at a 7-Eleven.
Roo is famous (infamous?) for her mad stick figure drawing skillz, so I got all sweaty-palmed when she challenged me to sketch something inside her book. Eventually I came up with this masterpiece of Sherry fist pumping and me being ashamed of her. I’m not sure why I drew Sherry in a skirt. I think it’s my default for girl stick figures. Though I guess I should be more concerned that I drew myself pantless.
Here’s Roo’s drawing in our little tour yearbook that we have been asking everyone to sign (more on that blank-book-business here). See, isn’t she much more skilled at these things? Roo actually has a new line of notebooks out that may or may not feature some DMX-inspired lyrics on them. So yes, she’s Sherry’s old-school-rap-loving soul mate.
When things wrapped up in Wilton (and we successfully wrangled Clara away from the library’s train table) we started our journey back across the Hudson to New Jersey. Given that it was lunch-ish time, we were very lucky that readers Bill and Kristin had invited us to check out their sandwich shop which was right on our route. Lunch was delicious and here’s the cute pic that Sherry snapped of our mealtime hosts.
And here’s the photo that Kristin and Bill instagrammed later. If ever you needed proof that Clara is a normal 2 year old, here it is. And yes, I’m posting this so when she’s older I can say “see, that’s why you should’ve listened to Daddy when he told you not to pick your nose.” Ok, Sherry will probably make me take it down in a year or two to keep from “scarring her.”
Here’s where you should pretend to hear a record screeching to a halt: after lunch we arrived at our hotel in New Jersey just in time for Clara’s nap before our NJ event… only to find this taped to the locked and bolted front doors. #wompwomp
We feel bad even sounding upset about this, since the situation for residents affected by Sandy who had been living with stuff like this for days already – and more days to come – are MUCH more deserving of anyone’s compassion. The first floor of Sherry’s brother’s apartment in Jersey City was flooded and her grandma was without electricity and heat for nearly a week. We’ve had to deal with no power and no heat ourselves before thanks to Hurricane Irene last year, but the lines for gasoline were like nothing we’d ever seen. There were lines of cars literally miles long at each gas station that was open. Sherry heard of friends and family members waiting upwards of four hours just to get their tanks full.
Thankfully we had fueled up in Connecticut so we only had our hotel issue to deal with. So after spending a couple of hours on the phone only to find there were no vacancies within a 50 mile radius, we heard that one of Sherry’s mom’s friends had a spare room where we could crash (with power and heat!). We were so thankful. So with that settled we ran over to Bookends in Ridgewood NJ for our signing there.
We weren’t sure who would show up thanks to all of the gas/heat/power issues, but we were just happy to visit with anyone who could make it out. We were so grateful to everyone who made it out to see us and they seemed grateful that we made the trip! Mutual gratefulness. We had a great time with Sherry’s (sorta) hometown crowd, and although it was a smaller group than originally expected, it was still an awesomely smiley and friendly crowd – including this little fellow named Greysen (who had fun “playing trains with the girl from the computer” – aka Clara). And of course we completely understand that everyone who couldn’t make it out had far more important things to use their gas supply on! Heat > book signing any day of the week!
Being in Sherry’s home state meant some familiar faces were able to swing by, including her bestie Heather (whom you’ve seen here and here before).
My sister Katie and her boys – her husband Martin and her sons John & Ben – even braved the trek from Manhattan since the SoHo event had been postponed. Can’t believe we didn’t get a picture with them! Maybe it was due to the three toddlers that we had running around…
When that event wrapped up, we ventured off to Nonna’s friends house for the night. We were so happy to have a warm, safe place to rest our heads after a long day! Seriously, we slept like rocks and were never so grateful for two mattresses on the floor.
And instead of driving back home on Saturday morning, we stuck around for some quality family time with Sherry’s family. We got some breakfast with her dad, stepmom, and grandma and then celebrated an early Thanksgiving with the Nonna side of the family. Clara even got some quality time with her Uncle Monkey (Sherry’s brother Dan). Note: quality time was often defined as poking Uncle Monkey in the nose so he’d make funny noises. He’s a good sport that guy.
When fake Thanksgiving wrapped up around 6pm, we hit the road for the long and mostly dark roadtrip back to Richmond. It was smooth sailing and we’ve never been happier to see our beds. And to get an extra hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings Time…
Fast forward four days to 4:45am (go go gadget alliteration!) and we found ourselves waking up verrry early on Wednesday morning to catch a morning flight to Boston for our first West Elm event. Clearly 6am flights are not a good look for me. I need to work on my awake face.
The awesome news about that early flight into Beantown was that it got us in by 8:15am, which meant we actually had some unexpected time to enjoy the city… if only the city weren’t about to get slammed by a Nor’easter. The wind made our flight a little white-knuckled at moments and the cold / impending rain meant that we spent more time bundled up in our hotel than we had planned, but it didn’t keep us from grabbing a delicious burger lunch with my cousin Casey and her husband Kevin at the Boston Burger Co. Yum.
And since it was nearby, we squeezed in one sight that I’ve been dying to check out since my mom told me about it: the Mapparium. It’s a three-story, stained glass globe that you get to walk inside of courtesy of a clear walkway that cuts through at the equator. It was awesome… except that photography wasn’t allowed. So here’s a shot from Northeastern University. You know I love maps, so I pretty much geeked out.
As the West Elm signing grew closer, rain turned to snow and we were certain no one was going to brave the weather. Seriously, Sherry talked about just playing with the ceramic animals in West Elm since the store would be empty. But New Englanders are apparently very brave when it comes to snow (guess you guys get a lot of practice?) and we were so shocked when the West Elm staff said there was already a line when we arrived through the back door to prep some of the book projects we’d brought along with us.
In addition to the great news than more than zero people showed up, West Elm was a super host. No one had to wait outside AND they had hot cocoa and cookies for everyone while they waited. Each of the West Elms that we visit will have cookies made by a local bakery (fun, right?) so here are the ones that a Boston bakery whipped up. In case you were curious, they were quite yummy. And quite large (or “head sized” as Sherry likes to call them).
After a lightning fast welcome and speedy explanation of some gift-y type projects in the book, we got straight down to book signing so that we could finally chat people up and congratulate them on being brave enough to come out during a nor’easter. Because, just FYI, it looked like this outside.
It was easy to forget the snow outdoors because the people inside were so darn friendly and excited to be there (or maybe just excited to have scarfed down a big cookie?). Either way, we were just so flattered that people showed up.
Since the store offered up plenty of ceramic accessories for people to pick up while they were there, Sherry found herself signing quite a few. Like this pretty snow globe…
…and we probably signed about two dozen ceramic owls. Here’s a shot that Karen snagged of Sherry posing with her colorful flock (from here).
Oh yeah, and here’s Karen herself. She wrote a very sweet post on her blog about the signing. Oh and see that yawning guy in the background? As a dude, I can totally relate to being the man on the sofa waiting for the wife. Hilarious.
In addition to seeing my cousins again in line, I also got to (briefly) catch up with some friends who now live in the area. I saw friends from college, high school, and even elementary school there. And although I hadn’t met these kind folks below before that night, they instantly won me over by bringing UVA shirts for us to “wear.” Wahoo-wah!
We could go on and on about all of the fun encounters that we had on Wednesday night… but I think we can all agree that I’ve already gone on and on enough. So let’s just say that Boston was awesome. West Elm was awesome. The weather was… well, less than awesome. But hey, at least we got to see Clara’s eyes light up yesterday when we landed back in Richmond and told her “Mommy and Daddy saw snow!”
Speaking of Richmond, we had our event here last night but will have to recap that for you in another post in a week or two. We’re actually publishing this from the airport terminal just before we hop on our plane heading to Chicago (so comments might take a while to pop up). It’ll be our third consecutive morning on an airplane, so forgive us if we start to lose track of what day it is! In summary: thanks again to everyone in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Boston! And to anyone who made it through this long rambling post, well, you rock too.
Shannon says
So jealous of all the lucky fans who get to meet you! Really contemplating making the trip to your tour in South Florida on my birthday (the January 11th stop)! :)
On a side note, love Clara’s ice cream cone pj’s! 0:)
Shannon
P.s. I would love anyones input on my bathroom remodel vanity dilemma in our master bath! :) –> http://fabulouslyvintage.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-vanity-dilemma.html
Thanks so much in advance!
YoungHouseLove says
I love the antique looking curvy legged option you found for $60!!
xo,
s
Shannon says
Thanks $herdog! :)
Jennifer says
I was so sad to miss you in Boston! Three weeks out of ACL surgery, in a knee brace and on crutches does not mix well with snow. Rest assured, however, that I stayed home reading your book, which had just arrived! Hope you enjoyed my home town!!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw we had so much fun! Hope you’re feeling better!
xo,
s
Miranda says
Are you going to be there at 1pm EST or CST?
YoungHouseLove says
1pm Chicago time! Can’t wait!
xo,
s
Michelle | Letters from Boston says
YAYYY!! So glad you had a good time in Boston (and glad us Wahoos were memorable :-) ). If you’re interested in reading about it from the other side, here’s a write-up I did about that snowy — but fun! — night!
http://lettersfromboston.com/2012/11/08/how-to-meet-internet-celebs/
PS: You’ll probably be embarrassed by the “internet celeb” label — sorry! :-)
YoungHouseLove says
Hahaha we love it! Thanks for sharing the not pregnant thing! Anyone who thinks I’m hiding something, click this link. Haha!
xo,
s
steph says
so glad you got a decent turn out! I was one of the many locals who could not make it because of the storm :(. I work too far away to have gotten in to the city in time. I already have a copy of my book! Just so bummed I didn’t get to stop by and say hi and have it signed!
steph says
I mean that I have MY copy of your book.. not my book. Thank goodness it is friday…
YoungHouseLove says
Haha!
xo,
s
Katie says
Does John always hold his pen like a three year old (see photo of book signing in Boston) or was that a special trick he was doing? ;-)
So sad I’m going to miss your stop in Chicago this weekend, but we are going out of town. Bummer.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha that was a weird fake pen hold for the pic.
xo
s
Erin {Home Everyday} says
Safe travels, youngsters! I love reading about your book tour experiences and all the amazing cities and people you get to see/meet.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Erin!
xo,
s
Jess @ Little House. Big Heart. says
Do I need to mention I’m more than bummed that I’m out of the state of Texas every time you’re in it? Probably not. I’m going to have one of my besties bring my book for you to sign, though!
Anyway, glad you had a safe trip!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw Jess, I know we’ll meet sometime!
xo,
s
Anele @ Success Along the Weigh says
Wow, you guys wear me out just reading about it, I can’t imagine living it! So glad you were able to find a place to crash after the hotel issue and able to see familiar faces/make new friends!
Ashley @ LibertyBelles says
Looks like so much fun! I really really wanted to go to Ridgewood, but it just didn’t work out with my schedule to drive from Philadelphia :( Maybe i’ll get to go to a different one!
Tasha says
Around Boston, the snow wasn’t that bad. It got pretty windy at times, but we are definitely pretty used to it. Sorry, I couldn’t make it in, not enough time between work ending to figure out how I was going to get there!
YoungHouseLove says
No worries Tasha! We totally understand!
xo,
s
Amy @ drivethirtythree says
had such a great time meeting you guys!! (feel free to check out some pics of the night over at my blog) glad you enjoyed the lovely new england weather! ha!
oh….and if you can link to it (or if anyone is interested) those owls Sherry is posing with can be found at my friends etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MonarchDesignLoft
YoungHouseLove says
Done! Just added the link.
xo,
s
Katie says
So glad I got to meet you guys in CT and I am thoroughly enjoying the book! Also, you are right about the Wilton library staff being great – don’t know if you remember my iPhone died just as I got to the signing table and the librarian offered to take a picture and e-mail it to me. Which she certainly did just a couple hours later and the photo came out great!
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so sweet! I love it. Thanks for coming out!
xo,
s
Chelsea says
Can’t wait to see you guys whenever SoHo gets rescheduled!
Lianne says
Loved this post! Hope you are feeling better, Sherry! I’m battling a kidney infection and stones right now too – so I feel your pain! Have a great weekend!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw feel better Lianne!
xo,
s
Krystle Clark says
It was great meeting ya’ll in Richmond last night! Stay safe on your flights and thanks for being an inspiration to us all!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Krystle! You’re so sweet.
xo,
s
Sophie says
You guys have has such an adventure so far!
My book arrived in the mail THIS MORNING! I was quite impressed it got its pretty butt to London so quickly. Loving it so far!
YoungHouseLove says
Wahoooo!!
xo,
s
Amy H says
Oh Sherry…way to rally from a kidney infection. I had one so bad a few years back…for me the pain rivaled child birth! Crazy!
YoungHouseLove says
Yes! It almost felt like contractions! I was like “am I on that show called ‘I didn’t know I was pregnant?!” … thankfully not!
xo,
s
Ginny @ Goofy Monkeys says
Safe travels!
Eliza says
J&S – i never comment on blogs (except for entering giveaways, i love free stuff), but i wanted to send a quick note to say 1) i started your book, i LOVE it and i already picked a few ideas i want to try…and 2) i live right near Wilton and was soooo bummed to miss you guys last week. I’d been planning it for a while but just couldnt make it work after the craziness of the storm and missing work etc. Anyway, glad you had a crazy/fun trip and hope you liked CT, it’s so pretty isn’t it? Congrats on the tour and the book, it really is awesome. xoxo.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks so much Eliza! It was beautiful. So glad you’re enjoying the book.
xo,
s
Pamela says
I live in CT too and had the Wilton event in my calendar since the day it was announced. Sadly, the stupid weather made it impossible for me to take more time off of work to come down.
Since I had been planning to buy the book at the event, I don’t have it yet. I am putting it on my X-Mas list instead.
Molly says
Ditto everything Pamela said! I’m so bummed to have missed you guys. Glad the tour’s going well so far!
Jaye @ Just Tryin' to Make Cents of it All says
You’d see snow if you came here to Denver. :-(
YoungHouseLove says
We’d love to end up there!
xo,
s
Amie says
Cool factoid: a group of owls is called a parliament :)
I really wish I could swing seeing you guys when you come to Toronto on Monday. I am trying to convince the fiancé it’s a worthy trip!
What are you planning on doing/seeing while you are in Tdot? Design Sponge has a great city guide http://www.designsponge.com/2010/08/toronto-guide-update.html
YoungHouseLove says
Best factoid ever! Love it. And thanks for the TO link!
xo,
s
Amanda says
I was in line just in front of the wife of the yawning guy on the couch in Boston – he and the baby were such good sports! He kept coming back to the line telling his wife how he will probably be in the background of a lot of people’s pictures and how the little guy was making all sorts of friends!
Thanks for trekking up to Boston in the nor’easter, we really appreciated it and it was so much fun finally meeting you both!
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so cute!
xo,
s
Hilary says
So excited to meet you tomorrow! Thanks for bringing decent weather with you, it’s going to be almost 70* in Chicago!
Linda says
Welcome to Chicago – you’re bringing good weather with you – we should be in the 60’s on Saturday! With snow on Monday. I hope you get to see a bit of Chicago, and sample at least a few of our great restaurants. Planning on seeing you at West Elm tomorrow!
YoungHouseLove says
So excited!
xo,
s
Crystal @ 29 Rue House says
Crazy!!!! Thanks so much for coming guys! I was so nervous about my picture idea!
P.S. I was at the library earlier this week and I could totally see you guys sitting on the animals in my mind. Probably will everytime now!
YoungHouseLove says
Hahaha!
xo,
s
Stacey says
I live right outside Boston, but was at a conference in Vermont for your visit. So glad to hear that you had a great time and that Boston treated you well. And yes, that snow was nothin’ for us. ;)
Karina says
Kidney infections are the worst! Had one when I was studying abroad in London and held off going to the doctor for way too long. Ended up in the hospital for 3 days. Glad you got it taken care of early!
YoungHouseLove says
Yes they wanted to admit me overnight but I begged them to let me be home with John and Clara. So thankful they took pity on me and let me go. Haha!
xo,
s
Alyssa says
I made it a little over an hour in line in Boston but had to bail – people are crazy about saving parking spots in the city whenever it snows so my friend and I got a little panicky. Boo! We did imagine all the awkward things that would likely happen upon our meeting though, so it was probaby for the best :) We were so impressed by your energy though! Sorry we couldn’t give you a better view of the city!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks for coming Alyssa! We would have been awesomely awkward.
xo,
s
susan says
I still find it so amazing and awe-inspiring that y’all have been able to do all of this. From your first blog post waaaaay back to this? Who would have thunk it!
YoungHouseLove says
I know right???! So crazy. Still in denial (this is all a dream, right?).
xo,
s
L says
How fun! I love that you signed ceramic animals!!!
Sarah says
Kidney infection = very painful. Glad to hear she is better. I hope I could make it to one of your signings.
Stacy says
I wanted to go to the West Elm signing in Boston, but sadly, it’s at least a 45 minute drive and with the snow – well, decided to hang out at home. Glad you guys were treated so well. You’ll have to come back again and do West Elm in Burlington or something instead so us Northshore fan’s can come!
Jennifer Flagg says
YES! I am on the left in your first audience pic from Wilton, CT – Orange scarf! It was a really awesome morning for me, couldn’t smack the smile off of me. I made a card for you two, and was secretly hoping it ended up on the post…womp womp, at least the back of my head made it!
YoungHouseLove says
We loved the card! So sweet!!
xo,
s
Monika says
Sounds like such a whirlwind for you guys! You guys are like rock stars! :)
YoungHouseLove says
I don’t know about that… Haha!
xo,
s
Stephanie says
That snow storm was nothing compared to what we’ll likely get later in the year. Seriously, my company has contigency plans for snow because we have to be in no matter what. Glad you had fun and those cookies were AMAZING. I started reading my book and already have like 3 projects I want to try!
Also, I totally just realized that I forgot to sign the guest book. I am sad now. :(
YoungHouseLove says
Aw next time!!
xo,
s
Bethany says
Whoot! See you guys in Chicago tomorrow!
karen says
ahahahahaha!! john your 6am flight face is hilarious!!!
i sure hope you are bringing clara to toronto!! i have no choice but to bring my husband and two kids.
Samantha says
So glad to hear you guys enjoyed Boston, even with all of the snow! As I stated on twitter about 83 times, I had an exam and couldn’t go. I also ordered an Amazon book and my surrogate picked mine up for me at West Elm. Brought my Amazon book home from school this weekend and my mom informed me that she is going to keep the Amazon one and I can have the signed book…glad she gets to decide! Looks like i’ve passed on (up?) the obsession!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha!
xo
s
carrie says
So sad I couldn’t be in Boston, but alas I’m in Pittsburgh! I lived vicariously through my bestie, Nora. She said you two were as wonderful in person as you are on the blog. Much love from your #1 Pittsburgh fan.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Carrie!
xo,
s
Krystal says
I’m SO freaking jealous that you’ll be in Chicago this weekend. I live about 3 hours down state, but I love love love Chicago. Add into that how much I love you guys, and I’d just as soon skip out on working all weekend (I’m a labor and delivery nurse) and make a road trip. Not to mention that Sunday is my birthday, and I’d much rather be doing anything but working! I hope you guys enjoy the city! Get yourself some Nuts on Clark popcorn! The cheese/caramel corn mix is the bomb!
YoungHouseLove says
Wahoooo!
xo,
s
Liz says
Ok… I have to ask.. Why in every photo where Sherry is posted does she tilt her head down and then look up?
Liz says
By the way, that should say posed.. not posted.
YoungHouseLove says
I’m awkward and have no idea what I’m doing. Simple as that. Haha!
xo,
s
Noel says
I do that too- maybe it’s a Jersey thing? LOL. Sherry always manages to look great so whatever she does to pose must be working!
Katrina says
I’m totally curious: what does Clara think of her parents being on the cover of a book? Of them being celebrities at these events? Has she started signing all her books?
YoungHouseLove says
She has no idea what’s going on. Haha! But it’s pretty funny because she saw our book on a table at my mom’s house and she said “we have one of these books too!” – so cute.
xo,
s
Olivia says
HA! That is adorable.
Robin @ Our Semi Organic Life says
I love hearing about the book tour! It was great to meet you last night in Richmond! Your power point was great! Even my husband was inspired after hearing you saying “we should work on our bedroom to make it a 7 or 8”.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Robin! So great to meet you too!
xo,
s
Kelli @ LittleCottageofMIne says
Ohhh! I hope your happy buzz isn’t over by the time you get back to NYC!!
I am sooooo jealous of all of the peeps who have gone before us now!
(Insert extreme upside down frown)
YoungHouseLove says
No way we’re so excited! Being NYers when we met makes us so excited to go back!
xo,
s
Ashley@AttemptsAtDomestication says
It was so great meeting you guys last night here in Richmond! I totally spazzed and forgot to ask you guys how tired you were from all the traveling ;) It seems like a ton of though!
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes we’re running on adrenaline. We love meeting you guys!
xo,
s
Katie Rose says
I am BEYOND bummed that I can’t make it to the Chicago signing this Saturday! :( I was planning on it but got invited to an out-of-town baptism. Know that I wish I could come out and meet you! Have fun while you are here!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Katie Rose!
xo,
s
Lindsey says
I live in NH and your “…because it looked like this outside” photo made me chuckle. That’s nothin’ for us up here :)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, we’re southern wusses.
xo,
s
Sandy P. says
So I never made it to Ridgewood to see you guys. :( With power lines down and trees and branches all over the place there was no way. Sigh … so depressing. Here’s hoping you guys come back out to Jersey for more book signing. So I now have a book and no signatures … more sighs!! Hope you guys enjoy the rest of your book signing tour.
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks Sandy! We’d love to end up back out there!
xo,
s
Taya says
I was so thrilled that you made it to CT and that in the background of one of the pics is the bag for Clara! EEEk. I’m only sad that I forgot to sign the yearbook. :(
But I’ve already read through the entire book (it took me like 2 days between work and writing papers for grad school). And I totally geeked out when I met you. (You’re me celebrity version of Nate).
Safe travels, Petersiks!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw you’re so sweet Taya! Thanks for coming!! Smooches from Clara.
xo,
s