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Ten Flights Later…

Happy Friday! Quick updates first:

  • If you’re trying to order our book (to read, for Christmas gifts, to use to kill bugs, etc), and you’re getting a “sold out” or a “1-2 month wait” message through Amazon, B&N, or anywhere else online, there are thousands of books making their way to warehouses in trucks right now, so in a few days they’ll be entered into the system and should all be available for immediate shipping then (so check back in a few days and they should definitely arrive before Christmas!). #godspeedlittlebooksintrucks
  • Tomorrow we’ll be in DC doing some Living Social events at 918 F Street. These are pre-ticketed events, so if you’ve snagged a spot we can’t wait to see you there! Then on Sunday we’ll be back in Richmond for a free signing at Mongrel in Carytown at 1pm (more info here).
  • Dude, you guys are hilarious. See the 800+ comments here as evidence.

It’s been two weeks, so we owe you another #warningitslong tour update. We’ve finally caught our breath after the busiest portion of our tour so far. It was both awesome and exhausting and we’re very thankful to be back at home sleeping in our own beds again. During the 11 days between hitting up Boston on Nov 7th and Dallas on Nov 18th, we’ve clocked 6 cities, 2 countries, 10 flights, and 6 nights away from Clara & Burger (we knew they’d be more comfortable at home with my mom and dad than on those 10 flights). And I won’t even dare tally the number of cookies we consumed (thanks to the locally baked creations at each of our six West Elm hosted events).

West Elm Cookies

Our last tour recap two weeks ago left off in Toronto, which we flew out of on Tuesday and headed back to the states. The state of Minnesota to be exact. We’ve always heard great things about Minneapolis, so we were bummed when our schedule didn’t leave much time for exploring (even though our event wasn’t ’til Wednesday night, we had tons of blog stuff to catch up on between phone interviews scheduled by our publisher, etc). But despite missing out on the good sights that MPLS had to offer, we did get to take in plenty of the good people of the Twin Cities at our event. Cue the crazy faces.

MPLS Weird Faces

Like previous West Elm events, the staff was awesome (“Elmers” as we hear they’re called) and those of you who came to meet us were exceptionally kind, patient, and fun! We even met some familiar faces, including Jen from IHeartOrganizing and Jackie from Teal & Lime (we’ve featured Jen’s office and Jackie’s dining room so meeting them meant that we got to put a room to a face, which is always fun). And apparently we need to work on varying our photo poses a bit. #Ipromisewe’renotstatues

MPLS Jen IHeart Teal Lime

We also had the pleasure of meeting hilarious Sarah, who we previously referred to as “frame wall girl” thanks to the photo she tweeted to us after receiving her copy of the book (which we included in the photo collage in this post). She was even kind enough to share a follow-up photo with her now-signed book…

MPLS Frame Wall Girl

We always get a bunch of good stories out of these tour stops, and we wish we could share them all with you guys, but here are a few highlights. Like this one that comes complete with a video (thanks Laura!). It was Amy’s birthday the day before mine, so she and her friend Ashley brought four cupcakes – one for each of us – and made Sherry keep her word that she’d sing happy birthday to her. Sherry just learned her lesson to double-check someone’s name before breaking into song. Thanks Amy for being a good sport! The funny thing is that we later learned that Amy’s friend Ashley was also a birthday girl, so stammering out both names actually kind of worked.

And while there have been plenty of fun inscriptions we’ve written, this one may take the cake as the weirdest. Yup, I wrote “I’m watching you poo” in someone’s book. You’ll have to read Daci’s post about it to get the full story. I promise it wasn’t totally gross and out of context. I was just following orders.

MPLS Watching You Poo

One of the most amazing moments was when West Elm asked us to sign the leg of this parson’s table for them. They auctioned it off that night at the event and were able to make $170 to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! We’re so grateful to have been part of that act of kindness that the Minneapolis Elmers thought up.

MPLS Signing Table

That pretty much wrapped up our night in Minneapolis. If you want to read more about our time there (from a not-us perspective) you can check out these posts from Malisa, Jen & Chrissy, Kirsten and Carolyn… because after about 5 hours of sleep, we woke up early the next morning (Thursday) and headed back into the air on our way to Houston, Texas. Thank goodness for in-flight wi-fi so that we could keep our regular blogging schedule.

Houston Working On Plane

By the time we landed in Houston and were finally able to check into our hotel after a few hours of waiting in the lobby (long story, we’ll spare you) we once again had lost pretty much any time to explore the city. But we did get to chow down on some Tex-Mex, shower, get dressed, and head to that night’s event. A little birdy (Sherry) had clued them into the fact that Thursday was my 31st birthday, so my jaw dropped when I saw this waiting for me. I know you already saw it in last week’s post but I still can’t get over it. And the fact that someone went through all of this trouble for me… I’m a modest guy when it comes to birthday celebrations, so this is like 100 times above and beyond.

Houston Cake

Oh, and Emily (who was conveniently waiting in the line nearby) sent us this video of me attempting to blow out my candles. I was soooo determined to get all 31 candles out, so you’ll see my disappointment when I realized it wasn’t gonna happen. #trickcandles

But enough about me. Let’s talk about the people we met. And the weird faces we made (are you sensing a theme?).

Houston Silly Faces

This next picture still cracks me up. It was this lovely woman’s well-intentioned husband’s attempt at Idea #141 in our book (Sketch Each Other). We even wrote on that page that “this could go terribly wrong” but they still might “become lovably entertaining.” Consider me entertained. If there wasn’t such a thing as Beavis-ification yet, I believe this man discovered it.

Houston Bad Drawing

Lori Ann’s request for a funny photo started off like many others. But it ended with Sherry’s marker-stache falling off and somehow making a huge red dot on the middle of her neck. Like a single-fanged vampire got her good.

Houston Markerstache

In addition to funny stories and weird faces, people continued to be so thoughtful and generous. Kiki (who came with her friend Roxy) painted two small canvases with matching cows on them. This picture doesn’t do them justice, but hopefully the expression on Sherry’s face proves how impressed we were with the gift. We already hung them in Clara’s room and she’s in love, so we owe you a picture.

Houston Cow Paintings

Since our schedule in Houston didn’t really leave much time for taking on Texas, we were grateful to have more time at our next (and final) stop in Dallas. We left Houston first thing Friday morning and were in Dallas in no time. Our hotel there was da bomb – and I don’t break out past-its-prime slang for just anything. It was the new Omni in downtown Dallas and it was so cool we’re gonna “crash” it in another post. I mean, just look. There was a TV screen built into the bathroom mirror (if I were less refined I would slip in another watching you poo referenced here… but I’ve already done that once in this post).

Dallas Hotel Bathroom

But as captivated as we were by that screen, we had a date with another screen: a Skype call with Clara. It was harder to squeeze these in during this trip than we expected. It seemed whenever we were settled into a hotel she was at school or napping or out on some adventure with my parents (who graciously watched her at our house so she and Burger didn’t feel displaced). Here she is below presenting me with my birthday balloon:

Dallas Skyping

Once we dried our eyes after chatting with our baby, we were ready to take in some of the big D. Yes, this was the view from our hotel room. And we took full nerd advantage of the floor-to-ceiling windows by taking some random silhouette photos.

Dallas Window Kissing

Then this happened. I’d worry that you’ll question our maturity, but if you’ve read this far you’re probably not one bit surprised. I actually thought Sherry was pretty creative considering that wasn’t a pole (it was actually the frame between two large window panes). #funwithshadows

Dallas Window Pole11

With our eating and sleeping schedules firmly off any semblance of normal, we walked down to the West End where had a 3:30pm dinner of Tex-Mex (we couldn’t resist it again) and then moseyed into a cowboy boot store. We didn’t buy any, but we did splurge two quarters to test ourselves on this “Guide To Romance.” Neither of us ranked very high, but at least we scored the exact same thing. Basically this machine thinks we’re soul mates. The funny thing was that Sherry asked the guy working there if it was based on hand temperature or pressure on the handle and he said it’s totally random and that he never saw people get the same one since it just seems to bounce around each time. #whataretheodds?

Dallas Love Meter

After exploring a bit more between the West End and our hotel (the history nerd in me was glad we stumbled across the JFK Memorial Plaza), we decided to make the most of the night (it was only 1 of 2 nights that entire week that we didn’t have an event). So yeah, we went in the hot tub. It was awesome. We highly recommend a stay there (the Omni, not the hot tub) if you’re ever in Dallas. We snuck a peek at the bill for our room and it was only like $150. It certainly felt fancier than that to us!

Dallas Omni Pool

The next morning we packed up our stuff, contemplated ditching our signing for another soak in the hot tub (okay, not really) and taxied our way to West Elm. There we ended up hanging with more kind and hilarious people (someone in the press referred to the event as watching “hundreds of people politely mob the store” which cracked us up). And yes, more goofy faces were made.

Dallas Weird Faces

One of the first people in line brought this along with her. It’s a relic from back when we once sold YHL t-shirts. I thought my dad was the only who still had one.

Dallas YHL Shirt

More t-shirts that we were excited to see where these colorful ones that Jill & Laura were sporting. They literally came straight from their 5k race (much like this one that I ran a few months ago) to the West Elm event. Had I known it was going on that morning I probably would’ve tried to run it myself!

Dallas Color Run

On the other hand, I was less than thrilled to see what Susan brought with her. That’s gear for the Virginia Tech Hokies, my alma mater’s rival. I agreed to take a photo with the stuff, but I wasn’t going to be happy about it!

Dallas Go Hokies

Stefanie was also sporting some Virginia pride, since she’s originally from Richmond. We loved this little sign she whipped up, but were even more enamored with the Lowe’s and Home Depot aprons that her kids Nolan & Leah were sporting. Gotta get one of those for Clara.

Dallas Apron Kids

In Dallas we also saw Jess, who had come to the Houston event two days before. She’s gonna try to make it to our Austin stop in January too, completing a hat trick of Texan signing events. See you in a few weeks Jess!

Dallas Jess Second Visit

Dallas might win for “most unusual items that we signed.” We certainly put our names on plenty of ceramic animals throughout the stops, but I think this was the first time I signed someone else’s book. This friendly young man accompanied his mom in line and then realized he didn’t want to leave without getting a book signed. Presumably he had little interest in a DIY book, but he did bring his Harry Potter book along… so he asked me to sign it. I felt a bit like I was stepping on J.K.’s toes, but how could I say no to such a mannerly young gent? So Ms. Rowling, if you’re reading this (ha! yeah right), feel free to sign one of our books in return…

Dallas Harry Potter Book

And then there was Ellen, who invited Sherry to sign her baby. She posted a video of it on her blog. Let’s just say baby Marc was a good sport about having a strange lady take a pen to his onesie (which Sherry pulled out to avoid sharpie-ing his belly directly… moms!).

Dallas Signing Baby

This Saturday event was one of our longest (I think it was over four hours) but we thankfully got out in time to make our flight that evening. News spread around West Elm that we had a 3pm flight, which made the folks coming up to us after 2pm very apologetic, but our flight wasn’t until 6 (we just heard we should leave by 3:30 to make sure we made the flight since the airport was a ways away, so we think that’s how the 3pm rumor started). So don’t worry, no flights were missed and by about 11:30pm we were home in Richmond, staring creepily at our sweet sleeping bean (and getting cozy with The Burgs who was very much awake). Of course since then we’ve had our recent DC signing and have another two this weekend so we’ll have to update you on those in two more weeks. #betitsgonnabelong

Oh and one last thing. We just heard that in the first month of our book being out, we’ve raised over $1200 for charity (both for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through West Elm events and a local charity for kids thanks to auctioning off book projects here in Richmond). We couldn’t have done it without you guys, so thanks for making such an amazing difference!

Boston Sign

Now we’ll end this long wrap-up with a big big thanks to everyone who’s made our tour stops such a pleasure – from the awesome event hosts and the many many taxi drivers who have helped us get around, to you guys who have taken the time to come see us – many of you with thoughtful cards and sweet/tasty treats. We’re so incredibly grateful to live through an experience like this. It has been crazy. And it has been a bit tiring. But ultimately it has been such an amazing feeling to get to see all of these places and meet so many hilarious and kind people. And now, in case you’re wondering for a future event- we will sign your baby, your Harry Potter book, or write poo in your book. #gladthat’ssettled

Comments

  5. Meredith says

    I think you thought about skipping your signing, not your singing, although maybe you sang at the signing? In which case, awesome. :)

    Meeting you guys (in Chicago, woo-hoo!) was AMAZING! So glad you did the tour!

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  6. Kiki says

    Thanks for the shout out!! I’m so glad you loved the cows and this is one of my favorite Sherry pictures ever. I’m not just saying that because you have my painting in your hand. It’s truly great and makes me smile every time. So fun to see you guys and so glad to have the book!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aw thanks Kiki- you’re so talented! And every night we say “goodnight cows” as one of the things in Clara’s room we say goodnight to before turning off the light.

      xo
      s

  9. Beverley says

    Oh my goodness – I only read halfway through the post and nearly spit out the coffee I was drinking when I got to the picture of Sherry on “the pole” Hilarious! :)

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  10. Lindsey d. says

    Ha! The couple I made friends with while in line for Dallas swore up and down the Color Run girls would make the blogs. She was totally right…

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  11. Lauren Campbell says

    I’m the winner of the table from West Elm in Minneapolis! Somehow the table fit in the back of my tiny Honda and we transported it back to Des Moines, Iowa!

    The day after the event, I was Pre-approved for a mortgage – soon my table will have a home, and I’ll have my first house!!

    I must say that you two have given me the confidence that I can buy a house and make it a home!!! THANK YOU!!!!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      That’s so exciting!!! What a steal you got on that table- and for such a great cause! Good luck with everything and thanks so much for coming and bidding and making a difference!

      xo
      s

  12. Heather says

    I was at your DC signing on Wednesday, thanks so much for coming out! I was the unlucky person who had the last book sell to the person in front of me :( And then I got the 2 month wait notice on Amazon when, BUT I must have gotten to B&N before they ran out because my copies are on their way! Here’s my write-up of the experience, funny John twin story included: http://skilletsneakerstyle.blogspot.com/2012/11/young-house-love-dc-book-signing.html#

    Thanks Again!

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  14. Haley says

    Ok, so I’m loving being on YHL overload and bought the book yesterday for my nook. Between reading the bloag as usual every day and now snuggling a bit with you guys in the book before bed, I’ve gone off the deep end and am now dreaming about you guys. Last night I had what felt like a 3 hour dream with you guys – we were just hanging out, being besties, and you both decided that you were going to name your next child Toboggan. I was having this major crisis on if I should tell you that name is crazy and risk ruining our budding friendship, or if you would appreciate the feedback and invite me to dinner.
    The decision was so stressful it woke me up.
    Best. Dream. Ever.

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  15. Ann L. says

    I laughed so hard I cried when I saw the “Beavis” sketch. In fact, I’m giggling again just thinking about what it looked like. I could totally see my Husband doing a similar drawing and I don’t know if I would be more amused or horrified. Maybe I’ll try tonight to find out!

    That shot of Sherry on the “pole” — risque! A few days in Dallas seems to have made the Petersicks extra fiesty!

    PS: I know it’s a typo, but I love that at the end of your post you called “Harry Potter” “Harry PotterY.” You guys are just so home-oriented you can’t help it!

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  17. Shannon Cooper says

    Lots of love from Minneapolis. My husband was nerdily ecstatic that John signed our book “Peg John” and proceeded to go to Home Depot and buy more pegboards so that he can make the photo project that John featured the other day! Dudes and their pegboards I tell ya.

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  18. Lindsey @ A Pear to Remember says

    Please don’t think it’s pathetic that I am DEVASTATED I cannot make the DC event. Like, seriously, my heart sunk. Titanic-Jack-slips-from-Rose’s-cold-manicured-hand.

    Since the moment you guys mentioned your book tour, I’ve had my heart set on meeting you (and bringing my dear friend Emily along, as we first bonded over YOUR blog). Then I looked at the LivingSocial ticket and realize it’s on the same evening as a rare dinner with my birthfather, the man who gave me up for adoption 27 years ago this month, with whom I reunited recently and, so, it’s kind of a big deal.

    But my heart SUNK. Really. I am sooooooooooooooooooooo sad I will not have the chance to meet your smiling faces (since I’ve been following you guys over three years) and congratulate you on your book. So CONGRATS and enjoy this amazing ride!!!!

    Best to you always,
    your very loyal reader,
    Lins or A Pear to Remember

    P.S. My parents live in Lewes and we visit Rehoboth at least once and month (where I spend most of my time in Bella Luna, Mod Cottage, Browseabout Books, and Bibion). So, I’m kind of optimistic our creative stars will cross on the coast one of these days…

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  21. Emma (Broke Ass Home) says

    Guys! Congratulations on A.) Being a NYT Best Seller (whatwhattt!) B.) SELLING OUT of books and C.) Raising so much money for charity. If these aren’t accomplishments to be proud of, I don’t know what would be.

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  23. Ellen says

    Yay! It was so much fun meeting you guys and hanging out with the other YHL fans in line.

    And as I said… “he’s not ceramic, but he is pretty white” and I was honored to have you sign Marc.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Tomorrow’s event is actually parceled out with different time slots so I think it’s 100 people per hour for each meet & greet (so 200 for the 2 hour slot)? Should be fun!

      xo
      s

  25. Kami says

    Oh man, I’m so excited for when you come to Salt Lake City!! I’m just assuming it’s gonna happen, puttin’ it out into the Universe. :) We have a West Elm now too!!! Love you guys!

    That’s a lot of exclamation points…

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  27. Katie says

    The post I’ve been waiting for! I’m an expat living abroad, but my home is the Minneapolis area, so I’ve been anxious to hear how that went. If I had been in the states, I certainly would have gone to meet you!

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  28. Allyson says

    Hi guys! I can’t thank y’all enough for raising money for St. Jude! It’s such a wonderful and worthy organization and you’re really helping to make a difference! Big favor: do you mind editing this post to use our official name: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I know it’s a small difference, and you basically had it right, but especially since you have so many followers we like to keep it concise!
    Thanks again!

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  29. Ashleigh H. says

    Tip: when watching a video of John attempting to blow out candles, first ensure that the volume on the computer is muted! A computer lab full of college students stressed about finals coming up next week just heard most of “Happy Birthday to You” on on full blast as I scrambled to turn it down, haha. I can’t wait until you guys come to Charlotte, NC! Loved the post, keep up the good work! (:

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  31. Amanda says

    I am so impressed by the fact that Sherry can keep her energy level up so high after so many flights and lines! Is she dosing herself with Go-Go Juice like Honey Boo Boo? ;)

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      People give me energy! I’ve always been like that. Leave me at home all day and I’m chill and quiet. Put me in a room with three people and I start getting hyper. Add a bunch more folks and I’m bouncing off the walls. Hahah!

      xo
      s

    • heather says

      Extrovert high-five. I sometimes turn on the TV JUST so I can have interaction when I’m home. This includes if Andy is upstairs working in the addition and I’m folding laundry. I’m a people lady.

  33. Steph says

    It’s true, you guys seriously have the NICEST fans. I haven’t been to many a book-signing in my life, but I’ve been to many a concert and fans can be crazy. I’ve almost seen fights break out before. There was nothing but chatting and laughing at your signing.

    Also, that pole picture is awesome.

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  34. Emily says

    Where did you get Tex-Mex in Houston & Dallas? I’m a Houstonian and was sorry I had to miss your signing here (duty calls, I was at a board meeting) but I’m glad Texas treated you both well! I meant to share some of my restaurant recs before your visit but it totally slipped my mind. I love reading these recaps & I love your book!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aw thanks Emily! We went somewhere in the West End (we could walk there from the hotel) and forget where in Dallas. It was in a shopping mall with an iron rail and you walked up to the second story to get in. Bad description, sorry!

      xo
      s

    • YoungHouseLove says

      John here. I’m better at remembering this stuff. In Houston we ate at a place called “Canyon Cafe” that was near the Galleria / Container Store. I believe the place in Dallas was called R.J.’s? Okay, only slightly better at remembering…

      -John

    • Emily says

      Haha, thanks John! Here are my better late than never recs:

      If you have time when you’re in Austin you should eat at Chuy’s for Tex Mex or County Line on the Hill for BBQ (with gorgeous view of Austin from the patio). Also Toy Joy on Guadalupe is a really fun shop. There’s a million things to do in Austin but those are some of my favs.

      Hopefully I’ll be able to drive over for the Austin signing. :)

  35. Rachel says

    I LOVE the silhouette pics and especially the pole dancing Sherry pic!! HILARIOUS!!! Im not creative to think things up like this but I will def be creating my own versions!! So funny!!

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  36. Rebecca says

    I was in Houston for a wedding (that I contemplated skipping) while y’all were in my home city of Dallas so I’m so excited to meet y’all in Austin in January! WOOHOO!

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  37. Barbara in CT says

    Maturity is over-rated. Please stay your same nerdy, goofy, silly selves. It is always helpful to have a place to go that makes you smile. We’re counting on you.

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  40. Amelia says

    I met you guys at the Minneapolis event and walked up right after Sherry proclaimed that she was NOT pregnant (for the 2nd or 3rd time that night!) But I am! You guessed it was a girl and we just found out you were right!

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  41. Janelle says

    So happy for you two! How fun was it to be gallivanting around the States with each other? Nothing like a couple of months of jet setting & exploring new cities to bring you even closer together :) (sorry, i’m extra mushy today. haha)

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      It was so strange to be alone together in a hotel room (before this tour we hadn’t spent a night away from Clara since she was born 2.5 years ago!) but you’re right about bringing you closer. It was good for us (and Clara had a great time with her grandparents too).

      xo
      s

  42. Momcat says

    Hi guys… I’m getting a sense that your book signings are CRAZYGOODBUSYWILDFUN events. I’m hoping that your event Sunday in RVA won’t be as crazy (Can’t Wait To Meet You!!), but do you have any idea how long the lines are and how long people are waiting to meet & greet you?

    I’m trying to figure out if I tell my husband, “I’ll be home in 3 hours” or, “Make your own lunch”, or even, “See you sometime before Christmas!”

    Thanks, and hope to see you (early-ish!) on Sunday!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aw you’re so sweet! Honestly the wait times have been around 3-4 hours at most events which is crazytown but everyone seems to have a great time and make line friends and take photos and be goofy together, which is awesome! I would definitely say if you’re not into the idea of waiting for a few hours I’d skip it since that’s sort of all you do for 99% of the time and then we get to meet you for a minute and chat, and sign, and take a pic (which everyone says is worth it, but I have a theory that they’re folks who don’t mind hanging out in line so it’s worth it to them while folks who hate lines might not ever stay that long, haha!). Since the Richmond event is free, in our hometown, and on a weekend we think it’ll be pretty packed, but hopefully it’ll be super fun as well! They don’t have an RSVP list so it’s just first come, first served. Hope it helps!

      xo
      s

    • Momcat says

      Did you SERIOUSLY just tell me to skip it??!?!!?!!?! #wounded

      I have thing(s) for you to sign and books to buy and squeals to share. No way am I skipping anything.

      Just needed to set expectations with the family. Momma’s got the day off! :) See you Sunday!

    • YoungHouseLove says

      Haha, noooo don’t skip it! The line folks all seem to have a wonderful time but I like to explain how it all goes down so people know what they’re in for :) Hahah!

      xo
      s

  43. cindy says

    Congratulations on your “sold out” status! I couldn’t be happier for you if I knew you in real life! What a great ending to the year!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aw thanks Cindy! You’re so sweet. We’re all stressed because we hate folks not being able to get the book but hopefully those little books will make haste and get logged into the computer so it doesn’t say there’s a 2 month wait time anymore! Haha.

      xo
      s

  44. Bethie says

    OH NO!! I just realised that you guys won’t actually be in Miami when I’m there for work (I live in London). I am SUPER bummed. I was so excited to meet you and take a dorky photo. The good news is that I get to eat the traditional (and DELICIOUS) chocolate biscuits that I bought for you all by myself. #chocolatelining

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  45. Maria says

    I am so so so so so sad I that I couldn’t go to the Georgetown event on Wednesday (it was my birthday!!!!! I really wanted to go but it closed out too quickly). And I REALLY wanted to go to the LivingSocial one tomorrow, but as a super poor grad student living in one of the most expensive cities in America, I have a weird thing with paying to go to book signings, so…that had to be out. Such a bummer though. I have your book anyway :) Hopefully you will come to more events around here soon!

    Also, I had to say, signing someone’s baby made me seriously laugh for 5 minutes straight. Too awesome.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Haha, signing the baby was pretty funny! Also, I knowknownknow we’ll run into you somehow! Either if they add a signing or randomly at Ikea or something. It’s a small world!

      xo
      s

  46. Sarah M says

    I love the silhouette pictures!!! I agree with Barbara up there- maturity IS over-rated!!! I try not to take myself too seriously and just have fun with the cards life hands me!!! I’m so glad to read a blog with the same mindset!!!

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  47. Amy @ This DIY Life says

    It was great meeting y’all! And I’m so happy that my birthday song video is out there for even more people to see [embarrassed blush]. My friend that actually came with me was Amanda. Ashley was stuck at home with her four little boys, but when she saw the video she said “OMG! She said my name!” Thanks again for making my birthday memorable :)

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  48. Megan @ Two Live Colorfully says

    I was part of the polite mob in Dallas and I had such a blast! Everyone was so excited to meet you guys!

    But I bet y’all are so glad to be home. I’m exhausted after one plane ride. I can’t even imagine weeks of traveling around the country!!! Kudos to you guys!!!

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  49. Stephanie says

    The gal with the sketch had me in tears. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I keep trying to stifle my laughter and its coming out in teeny snorts. I feel like that’s how my sketch would turn out of my husband. And the pole dancing picture is hilarious as well.

    *wipes tears away* thanks for the laugh! Hope to meet you guys in Portland!

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