Southern Lady Celebration & Giveaway
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A wonderful women’s event is coming this fall to Savannah, GA and I am happy to partner with Southern Lady magazine and Hoffman Media to help spread the word.
What would be more fun than having a girlfriend weekend in Savannah?
SOUTHERN LADY MAGAZINE BRINGS TV CELEBRITIES AND ENTREPRENEURS TO SAVANNAH
HGTV’s Erica Glasener, TLC’s Laurie Hickson-Smith and Sister Schubert Headline Weekend
- EVENT: Southern lifestyle magazine, Southern Lady, will bring the pages of the magazine to life with the seventh annual Southern Lady Celebration weekend in Savannah, Georgia.
- The event will feature a weekend of inspirational speakers, delicious food, how-to demonstrations, a shopping tour of Savannah, on-site shopping boutique and fabulous entertaining ideas and tips from the editorial staff of Southern Lady.
- PRESENTERS: Celebrity presenters will include the popular interior designer and co-host of TLC’s Trading Spaces, Laurie Hickson-Smith, HGTV’s Erica Glasener and Patricia Barnes, better known as Sister Schubert. Additional speakers will include artist Diana Hansen of White Flowers designs, devotional speaker Lael Melville, Southern humorist Bobbie Staten and the Editor-in-Chief of Southern Lady magazine, Phyllis Norton Hoffman.
- DATE AND TIME: Friday, October 9-Sunday, October 11, 2009
- LOCATION: The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa
One Resort Drive
Savannah, GA 31421
The Grand Ballroom
- REGISTRATION: The $429.00 registration fee includes four meals, all speaking programs and presentations, how-to demonstrations, access to the Celebration boutique and a shopping tour of Savannah. For more information or to register, visit Southern Lady magazine.
And to help foster some excitement for this event, I’ve been given the privilege to give away some fun goodies. So, even if you can’t make the event (I don’t think I’ll be able to go, but it sure does sound like so much fun!), you can at least enjoy some of the eye candy. We can’t give away a ticket to the event, BUT…..
One of my readers will win 4 books from the featured speakers, as well as some extra special little Southern goodies that will be added to the giveaway:
Gracious Spaces, by Hoffman Media CEO, Phyllis Hoffman. This is a visually beautiful book on entertaining and has some wonderful pics.
You might remember that we all had fun with the book review I did recently on the above book, Honey It’s All in the Shoes. This one will be included too.
Remember Laurie Hickson-Smith, from Trading Spaces? She has a beautiful design book out too, Discovering Home.
And last but not least, Sister Schubert’s cookbook, Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters. Do you love Sister Schubert’s rolls and do you have them in your grocery store? We sure do love her products. She’s an Alabama girl and has wonderful breads right in the frozen food section of your grocery store and they are all yummy.
I’m fortunate to be getting copies of all of these books for my home too and cannot wait to read them all.
So, all you have to do to win is leave a comment right here on this post! Tell me about your girlfriends and what you enjoy doing with them when you get the chance.
One of you will win all these wonderful books AND if any of you have the time and opportunity to attend this fun event with your girlfriends, I know you will thoroughly enjoy it.
Please leave a comment and you just might win those wonderful books! I’m going to leave this giveaway open all next week (until Sat., the 19th) and when I return, I’ll pick a winner!
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I gather with college girlfriends every Oct and we stay in a house at a ski resort. Fall has just settled and the mountains are awash with every autumn color, it almost is magical. We put on our pj’s when we arrive and for the next 48 hours all we do is eat, maybe have a glass of wine, laugh, and cry. No makeup, no TV,no hubbies, no kids, just girls. It is wonderful.
I love your blog and I am Southern through and through.
What a great giveaway…got my fingers crossed. I would love to have a big get together with all of my good friends, but being military some of them are not even in the same country. LOL
Cece
My best girlfriend and I have babies around the same age, and we’ve been friends since we were 9 (that’s 30 years and counting). So we’ve been through the note-passing in math class stage, the alt-rock, dyed-hair stage, and all the rest. Now? We meet up with the kids and drink coffee, trade recipes, and enjoy just being together. Not as intense as dying each other’s hair, but still loads of fun!
Oh Rhoda, I wish I could go. We hope to move to Sanvannah in the next couple of years.(We have actually been in contact with our real estate agent this week) It is one of our favorite cities and we will be back in April 2010. I subscribe to Southern Lady and look forward to each one. What an opportunity to enjoy both at the same time. Anyone who attends will have so much fun.
Thanks for the giveaway too. Laurie Smith is a favorite too-always uses such gorgeous fabrics in her designs.
Hope you will have time to go.
Debra
Sounds cool!
oh, they are the best…….we are church friends and we love to shop, to eat, to have coffee, some of us like to go to thrift stores, some don’t, but we always have fun!
Suzanne
I love decorating and I love eating, what a combination of books. Count me in. When me and my girlfriends get together, of course there is food involved, and our favorite store is Lowes…ha. These books would be awesome to have. Thanks for the giveaway. Debbie
Oh, my!!! I’m a Southern girl, I just happen to live in the Southwest! My family is from Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma… how I love to visit. My heart yearns for a porch to sit on with green grass, lush trees and flowers blooming all around. I want to invite my neighbor over to have some fresh tomatoes out of my garden and we will sit on the porch and drink sweet tea and talk about what to do with all of our zucchini! She might even show me how to “put up some peaches.” MMMmmmm. BUT since I don’t live in the gracious South, I live my life vicariously through the many beautiful southern blogs (Rhoda, yours is the first place I visit in the morning to get my Southern fix for the day) southern magazines and my memories! I scour these places to try to bring a little Southern Hospitality to the hot dry desert! I am happy to know there is a Southern Lady magazine….I feel an overwhelming urge to subscribe. I would love to have the books to read and set on my coffee table to encourage my desert friends in “Southern Ways” Sorry for this lengthy tome but the Southern way of life is dear to my heart……Donna
I love this! I would love to attend the event, it sounds like a lot of fun. However, it is definitely NOT in the budget !
My best girlfriends and I love to get together atleast once a month to scrapbook. We either meet at each other’s home or go to one of the nearby stores and attempt to make some pages. Usually, we end up chatting and laughing more than actually working but it is a good time and I look forward to it very much!
I would love the books.I think they are all so beautiful and I think I could be inspired by each of them!
My best girlfriend lives about 2 hours away and when we get together it’s all about garage sales, cooking, shopping and remembering the “good ‘ole days” and all the laughs we’ve shared over the years and making new laughs with each experience our girl weekend brings. The stories just keep on coming and we have had so many memorable moments together. It’s like a reunion everytime. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome giveaway.
My girlfriends and I meet once a month for “book club.” Loosely translated that means eating, catching up with each other’s lives and at least mentioning the title of the book. They keep me sane and have rescued me many times.
Oh! I couldn’t miss this opportunity to have my name included in this wonderful drawing, Rhoda. How fun! And oh, how I would love to go to Savannah any day of the week! My girlfriend and I have more fun just going “junkin”. Of course we have fun together no matter what we are doing. And by the way, we do get Southern Lady magazine here in the midwest!
Donna
We have a Ladies Day Out each year. It’s usually in the fall of the year. We spend the whole day shopping at fall festivals, antiques stores, etc. as well as eating lunch together. We have moms, daughters and now granddaughters who get together to have fun and share memories of past Ladies’ Day Out days!
What an AWESOME giveaway, Rhoda!
I am so excited. Most of my closest girlfriends are ladies I’ve met through my Mothers of Preschoolers group. As busy young moms, it’s hard to find extra time away from our families, but I believe that spending some “serenity” time with girlfriends really helps me to feel refreshed so I can be a BETTER mom when I go home. 
We meet at the gym for classes, we do crafty stuff together, play dates, shopping, coffee (!), and I started a Chick Flick club…we go out to a chick flick once a month. Sometimes we grab dessert or dinner beforehand. I’ve learned that I can’t just sit around and wait to be invited to events…I have to start planning them for myself. These books would give me a leg up. 
We have a monthly girls nite at my house …. food, adult beverages, fun and lots of girl talk. It gets us thru the good and the bad times!
This is a great giveaway! My girlfriends and I usually get together monthly. Sometimes it’s a wine night to just catch up with each other. We have been in painting classes with a local artist lately. We live in a small Alabama town but seem to find ways to get together.
Rhoda, what a lovely giveaway, I’ll keep my fingers crossed. Savannah sounds awesome, will have to think about it. Marla
Loving this giveaway!!
I would love to be in on this giveaway and oh, please pick me. I would give the Sister Shubert one to my Nanny who introduced the rolls to me last Easter. She would love it. I promise I won’t be stingy.
I recently went to Savannah (you can read about it on my blog), might use this as the perfect reason to go back.
By the way, flattery is everything, I do love your blog and come visit it at least once a week. Not big dog enough to join in just yet but soon perhaps…
Megan
My girlfriends and I like to shop, eat lunch together and go to special events, such as local festivals. Thanks for sharing the news about the Southern lady event!
Oh, you don’t even know how bad I want to go!!! I swear if it was not Allie Claire’s 1st birthday party I would be there if I had to walk to Savannah. (My husband is rolling his eyes over this, no doubt!)
Savannah — a great place for a girls’ weekend. Wonderful give-aways, too!
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I’m not familiar with her. The only southern lady I “know” is you.
But, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Rhoda – stop over and see me today. I mention you in my most recent post – I won the lemonade clock from Hudson Goods during your feature at houzz. I love it!
TGIF!
Have a great weekend!
My best friend is my daughter, Allison. She’s also the mother of my soon to be 2yr old grandson. So, our most fun times are spent with him. They live in Houston, TX and I live in Jackson, MS, so we don’t get to see each other as often as we would like to.
All these books look wonderful. What a fun give away!
Oh, what wonderful books!! Being a born and bred Southern gal myself, Savannah sounds awesome!! Thanks for the opportunity:) So much fun to get together w/ girlfriends!!
Being a farm chick stuck on the Ponderosa in the middle nowhere in the Ozarks I need a good read every once in awhile. With just me and the cows spending the day together I need to get in touch with my diva within. I would love, love ,love to be the grand owner of some new reads. God bless and ya’ll have a great day!!!
Great books! I’d love to win them!
Hey great giveaway! I would love to attend and would love to go to Savannah but considering I live in NW ohio it would make traveling there a little diffucult! But would love to win the books!
Leslie
Hi! I love your blog!! You always have such great ideas. I live near Philadelphia but we love love love going to the south. One of our most favorite vacations was in Savannah!
Great giveaway! That’s one place I would like to go especially with my girlfriends. My Circle of Friends recently had our girlfriends getaway in Clearwater Fla. We had such a great time.
This sounds like HEAVEN for Southern girls!! I may just have to see if I can swing a trip to Savannah!!
Oh my goodness, that first book is certainly eye-catching! I graduated from college just two years ago, and since then, most of the time spent with my girlfriends is usually centered around generally chaotic events – a wedding or the arrival of a baby. The BEST times we have together, however, are those times that we actually don’t have anything we HAVE to do – but we get to sit together, eat some homemade food, talk about our new homes and families and catch up on life. Whether it’s in a cramped apartment in a city, the front porch of a mountain home, or anywhere inbetween, those are the times we enjoy the most – making time slow down for just a moment and just BEING together.
Love your blog! Im a Bama Belle myself, and love all things Southern. Keeping my fingers crossed. Keep up the fantastic blog.
I’m a southern girl through and through. I would love to win these books. Thanks for the opportunity, Miss Rhoda!
I have wanted to go to the SL Celebration for YEARS now, and there always seems to be a reason I cant! I am hoping next year is my year… maybe I’ll win these great books, as that would be a great consolation prize!!!
I always loved Laurie Smith’s designs on Trading Spaces. Fabric can make such a difference in a room and I always appreciated her use of it. The weekend sounds like fun, but I live north of the Mason Dixon line, now, so I won’t be able to make it. My family is from Virginia, so I’m a Southern Girl at heart.
My girlfriends and I love renting sappy movies, drinking wine and gossiping all night. We all have kids and enjoy the mini-vacation we get once in a blue moon.
blahblahblah I just wanna win!!LOL
My best friend is my sister and this winter we went to the Tucson Bead and Gem Show together. We had a ball!
Too bad our eyes were bigger than our wallets.
Fabulous give away
My best friends are my sisters (both living in England) and a BFF who lives in Tucson, I rarely see any of them. I’ve been blessed these past 2 years to have moved next door to a wonderful girl and her mom and dad just live 2 doors away. I feel like I have found ‘family’. We get together often (her sisters inc.) and enjoy wine and cheese tasting parties. It’s so much fun. We love sharing decorating ideas with each other too.
Oh how you have captured my heart with this Southern giveaway! I’m a displaced Southerner living in Arizona and I would just be delighted beyond measure to win these Southern books!!
Maybe they would help me get my southern accent back!! 
Terrific giveaway – what a combination! Eating and decorating – my favorite things! Thanks so much, Rhoda. Your website is the best; just started reading it yesterday and stayed up way too late last night…
Oh Rhoda,how I would love to attend but alas will not be able to attend.What a great group of speakers. I would love to have even one of these books to add to my library, please submit my name in the drawing, Thank you Kathysue
Those books look absolutely lovely! Can I enter even if I don’t live in the USA?
One of my best friends had a baby girl back in November last year. I love visiting with them and grab every chance I get to cuddle little Rebecca.
Another good friend and I usually meet in the USA (though both of us live in Germany *g*) when we share a room at the annual Romance Writers of America National Conference. This is always great fun. On the first day we typically go sightseeing and/or shopping, and during the conference proper, we squee over our book finds, share the latest gossip, go to parties together and generally giggle a lot.
Going to RWA National with my friend always makes me feel as if I were 16 again and we were on a school excursion …
I am trying to be a Southern lady! My only regret is not moving sooner. I miss my best friend, but she has promised to visit in the winter. She wants to go to Ballard Designs, which is a fun store, and only thirty minutes away.
Food, fun, and cute shoes! What more could a southern girl want! Count me in this great giveaway. Thanks!
Count me in!! I love all things southern, and I use every opportunity possible to teach my daughter the ways of a Southern Belle. Thanks for the fun giveaway.
Great Giveaway Rhoda!! I live in the South so I need those books! LOL
What a fabulous giveaway, I would love to win
Last fall a group of girls went to Gatlinburg for the weekend and had so much fun! We are doing it again in early November and I can hardly wait. Thanks for reminding us that it is good to take care of ourselves…. as well as our families!
I enjoy catching up with friends, and it’s usually around good food – whether at a restaurant, coffee shop, or one of our kitchens
What a great giveaway!!!!!
Love your blog ! I wish I could go..please include me in your giveaway! I’d love one of the books!
Jan
Greetings from the Northwest. The trip sounds fabulous. Although I have visited a lot of the South, I have never seen Savannah. My friends and I spend time together thrifting, trading plants for our gardens, beach trips and tea parties. We have to travel 180-miles round trip to experience the best high tea in Oregon, but it makes a nice day trip and we go once a year at least. I’ll bet that is not a problem in Savannah. I feel blessed that a couple of my friends like to do their own high teas and we all look forward to them.
P.S. I have only recently discovered your blog and enjoy it very much.
A busy schedule limits the time I have to spend with girl friends but no matter the length of time when we get together be it a week, a month or even a year the conversation alsways starts with “now where were we” as if we had neer even parted – such a wonderful feeling. Please include me in the give-a-way. Winning the books will be a great subject to share with my girl friends!
Oh, I am drooling at the thought of going to Savannah……but, it’s not in the cards for me this year! I love doing many things with my girlfriends and topping the list is shopping for antique and vintage treasures…..followed by lunch, of course! I can get lost in a wonderful store full of treasures for hours and have a couple of friends who enjoy it, too! I can just imagine the wonderful places to stroll through in Savannah…….someday!
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your giveaway. The books look so interesting and I’d love to add them all to my personal library!
Georgia Mallory
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I was raised in Savannah and it’s a beautiful city, full of charm and wonderful sights. Wish I could go to the event, but already have plans for that weekend. I know all those who attend will enjoy the visit and festivities. Love Southern Lady and Phyllis Hoffman. Her “Southern Lady Gracious Tables” is my favorite book! Rhoda, love your blog. It’s so inspiring and I feel so welcome here. Thank you for sharing your talents!
Unfortunately, the distance to the event is a bit too far – Minnesota to Georgia? Although in the middle of January, Georgia would be a great place to get away from the Frozen Tundra. Please include me in the give-away! Thank you, Rhoda.
I really love Southern Lady magazine. It always give me a special feeling–like this is the way things are supposed to be. My daughter and a friend went last year, and said it was a fantastic time. My friends and I enjoy going to tea–dressing up with our hats and feeling like we live in another time when life seemed much simpler. We always explore new flavors and share with each other. It is so fun just getting together.
I can’t make the event, but I’d love to entered in the drawing for the books. Thanks!
I dont get to go out much, but my favorite thing to do with friends is probably shop!
This sounds like a fabulous event!
My girlfriend and I like to take trips together where we can shop, eat, sightsee (we especially love touring historical homes/sites), and relax.
You never fail to get my hot button, and I’m try excited about the possibility of these books by people I’m truly interested in. What a great partnership–Southern Lady is a great publication along with everything Hoffman Media produces.
Kathie Martin
I love to get together with my gals and just catch up, it doesn’t even matter what we are doing!
I don’t really get much time with my “girlfriends” lately, but when we do, I love to go eat somewhere yummy and just catch up on everything!
I love Southern Lady magazine! I can’t wait each month to get mine in the mail. I would love to go to the Southern Lady Celebration in Savannah. I would also LOVE to win the books!
Donna
Love, Love LOVE your blog! The magazine too.
Nicole
A weekend in Savannah!!!! With girlfriends!!! Oh if I only had a couple extra travel dollars laying around. But I could read a Southern decorating book, on my porch, sipping a mint julep and pretending to be in Savannah, as I look out at the Wasatch mountains! oooh, pick me!
I love your blog…I think I was a Southern Belle in my former life…even though I am a born a breed Okie…keep up the good blogg’
I am so lucky to have a wonderful group of women friends. We are all in our early 40′s and most of us have the same number of children, 3. These ladies are the ones I can call if I ever just need words of encouragement or a buddy to shop with for the afternoon. Our differences compliment each other, but we have enough in common that we can easily empathize with each other. I look forward to many years of their friendship…
What a great giveaway and blog. I feel like we are decorating soul sisters because we have so many of the same items in our homes. Your blog and all of your great ideas always brightens my day. Thank you.
What a beautiful book, thanks for sharing.
I love catching up with how their life is going – fixing some good food, some drinks and playing some kind of game and having a good time.
I really want to go to Savannah, but can’t just now. I’m a “Southern Lady” subscriper & love the magazine…even if I live a little more north in Indiana. Would love to have one of the books. And I love your blog & check it frequently!
We have Southern Lady magazines in the stores in California! They are beautiful! I’m going out to breakfast with a group of old high school girlfriends tomorrow! Should be a lot of fun!!!
I love to get together with friends and go out to eat.
What I enjoy most with my girlfriends is sipping a good cup of tea, eating something wonderfully sweet and talking about life! I live in Savannah, and I’ll keep this event on my radar…
Silke
Dear Rhoda:
As always, love your BLOG love your giveaways…! These special books would give me such wonderful comfort in the tumultuous days of the economy and the hard times shared by so many these days! I know there is no special reason why I would deserve these wonderful gifts, any more than any of all of your other lady friends… just wanted to be included in the give away drawing! Keep up the many blessings you give to so many of us out there!
God Bless You, Rhoda!
Dana
What do I and my girlfriend LOVE to do? Two words — SHOE SHOPPING!
Thanks so much for the chance to win these great books! LOVE your blog! I have been reading it for a month or so now and so look forward to your new posts and ideas!
Have a wonderful day!
Mr friend Ann and I went to a Calendar Girls Club on Wednesday. It was our first time and lots of fun. The speaker was a Natural Way nutritionist who spoke on healthy eating and we enjoyed champagne, orange juice and really delicious chocolates made with organic cocoa, coconut oil, honery, dates & macadamia nuts (very yummy), also humous and a really easy pesto sauce with avo. Would love to attend the event, but I live 10 000km away! Enjoy
I just like to BE with my friends…doesn’t matter what we do. Later this month my friends Patricia and Tisha & I are having a sleepover at Tisha’s home. We’re going to eat, craft, shop a little, eat some more and just share in sweet fellowship! We’re spending two nights there while her hubby is out of town. We can’t wait!! It’s going to be such fun…don’t you think?!
Thanks for the opportunity to win these great books!
Love love your blog, look forward to reading it each day. Hope to win!
I would love a chance to win the Gracious Spaces book. Thanks!
Hi Rhoda
I’d love to win one of those sbooks. Count me in!
Wow – I can’t think of anything I would rather win more!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved Laurie on “Trading Spaces” and Sister Schubert’s rolls are my favorite! I would love to be in Savannah for the conference.
I really like Laurie, wish I could attend too!!! I have 4 girlfriends from college and we try to have a get-away each year for a long weekend. We pick a different city each year and have lots of fun hanging out, eating, shopping and laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oohh enter me!! I love Southern Lady magazine, they are always gorgeous and have great ideas and recipes. Wish I could attend the event.
Wowza is all I can say!! How generous of you! I would be tickled pink to get this great package of goodies! Please include me and I am adding this giveaway to my post on 9/11 an dgiveaways. Hope you don’t mind since it may bring you more traffic. Love your style girl!
xoxo,
Tammy
Rhoda – I absolutely love your blog! I’ve gotten some great ideas and great recipes from you. We’ve been to Savannah twice and feel that if I chose to move far away from friends and family (in Kansas) it would be to Savannah. Please enter me in the giveaway. Thanks!
Carolee
Found my way here via Sarah. Fantastic giveaway! Have fun at the event and thanks for entering me.
Roberta
This giveaway is exciting! I have always enjoyed watching Laurie Smith on Trading Spaces and always felt her designs were so well put together and classical. What a powerful combination of books! Too bad I won’t be able to go to the conference, it sounds wonderful!
What a fun trip that would be! Would love to go but getting the books would be the next best thing! I love to catch up with the girls by going to lunch at a local tea room, going out for dinner for good laughs, and going to concerts to see our favorite performers!
Southern Lady!!!! What an awesome giveaway for us ladies!!!!!
Thanks for sponsoring with them…..
What a dreamy gathering!! I’d LOVE to go, but….ah well, I’d love to be entered in the lovely give-a-way. Thanks!
What a wonderful giveaway. Winning a book would be wonderful!
Oh Rhoda, enter me in the giveaway, these all sound like such great books. When we all get together, first of all we have lunch, then shop and all the while laugh a LOT. Those are always the best days.
Also, I would love to join your Fall Decor party on Oct. 1st. Do you have a button. If so, I will post it on my blog and let everyone know. Hugs, Marty
Nothing better than getting together with girlfriends to chat, gossip and give each other the moral support to make our lives richer. My friends are my priest, confidant, shrink, sister and good time buddy. Whatever you end up doing it is always better with girlfriends! Hitting the beach, shopping, having breakfast, lunch, dinner or drinks are all made better with special friends.
While I would love to go to this conference, living in So. Cal (and with economics), I unfortunately can’t. But winning these lovely books would certainly be the next best thing.
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
At eighty years I still get excited over finding that “treasure” at a yardsale, or the fun of sharing a day out “junking” with friends or just sitting and reading all your fun blogs. Am reminded everyday that “the world is so full of wonderful things that we should all be happy as kings.” Wasn’t Phyllis Hoffman a long-time editor of Victoria? And Sister Shubert is resident of my beloved Covington County, AL.
Rhoda – LOVE your blog! You are so talented & creative & inspiring! Your dining room redo looks great! Love it as well as all your creative doings! You inspired me to buy some Whole Wheat paint & am looking forward to using it. Could you come to Texas & help me redo my home to look like yours? Please keep up the inspiring blogs.
Thanks!
Sherrie
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