Tuesday, October 27, 2009

My First Preppy Guest Blogger

Happy Tuesday!

Don't forget to enter my Preppy Sorority Giveaway from yesterday (if you are not in a sorority keep reading, there are other chances to win).

I LOVE Queen Bee Swain. If I had a little sister I think it would be her. We first bonded over our love for the prep life. If you don't read her blog you are missing out! She is a fun, terrific writer and all around cute class act!
http://queenbeeswain.blogspot.com/

So without further ado I'll let her continue with my Preppy celebration:

Just look at this adorable golf picture, I think it says it all!












I caught up with QBS and my burning first question:
When did you first realize you were a preppy?
 
"Not until early June, 1997 when I found my mother’s copy of the Preppy Handbook.  I still remember that exact moment and subsequent obsession for the rest of the summer (although it never has really waned) with the book.  It should have struck me as odd that my childhood in a liberal university town comprised of golf and tennis in place of softball (we would laugh and honk at the kids playing on summer evenings as we went off to the CC to play a few holes and then go for a dip in the pool), ski trips to Taos, Pagosa Springs and Durango when all of the other kids got to go to Disney during Easter Break, a mother that wore fur-coats over her pj’s to return videos in the middle of a blizzard, watching my father play in the finals of the Men’s City golf championships, a grandmother who was a delegate for our state at many presidential RNCs, a home full of my mother’s side’s (the Southerners) antique silver and duck-motif everywhere applicable and lots of emphasis on manners, charm and noblesse oblige; but it didn’t.  I was already living the dream (saying this with my tongue-in-cheek) before I even knew what the dream was!  Thank goodness my mother had TOPH so I was officially able to understand what I “was.”

And thankfully she did! I told you she is cute. Check out her blog for a chance to win a copy of my novel Social Climbers.


xoxo


SC

21 comments:

  1. She is more-than-adorable, and with a spirit that is amazing. Great guest Miss Bee!
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  2. Love it. I love how she knew in 1997...not before or after :)

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  3. I have to comment on my own post. LOL her mother in fur over pjs--I did that today! xoxo

    SC

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  4. I love QBS. It's the golf. It's definitely the golf.

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  5. I love this post...especially the fur over PJs thing! I'm going to go to her blog and follow now :)

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  6. I love this interview! She seems like a lovely person and I definitely need to check out her blog.

    "...a mother that wore fur-coats over her pj’s to return videos in the middle of a blizzard." I absolutely ADORED this line. :)

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  7. Adorable picture and I love that she would honk and laugh at the kids playing softball. Too funny!

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  8. Yay! I love QBS's blog and this was a great post!

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  9. Oh man that sounds like my life! The life of preppy southern belles is oh so true! Loved the post!

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  10. Twice in one week! WTG Queen Bee!!!

    Beth, you did??? I so desperately wanted to drop the kids off in my PJs yesterday... I wouldn't have gotten out of the car or anything... but I just couldn't... meanwhile Alexander has been out in his 3 days running now. Perhaps I should give him my old rabbit's fur jacket I wore when I was a little girl! LOL

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  11. Love the interview! I'm going to enter the giveaway right now!

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  12. I love the fact she was already livin' the dream before she knew it, then it was exactly 1997 when she discovered the fact that she was a prep! I'm gonna go check her out, not in a weird stalking way, I just want to read more.

    Ya'll have a fantastic day!!!

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  13. I LOVE Queen BEE! And I must say, I've been reading your galley and love it! I'm already up to the how to make friends part.

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  14. QBS is fabulous! She was my first swap partner and it has been so awesome getting to know her.

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  15. Very fun post today, alwasy fun to learn a little more about bloggers we have come to love!

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  17. How inspiring! That reminds me of how I grew up... sometimes I still feel I have "noblesse oblige" stamped all over my forehead. My mom did a good job instilling the preppy basics. :D

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  18. Classic, fur over PJ's!!!
    also the golf 'fit is toooo cute!
    Cameron
    www.conquerthemonkey.com

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  19. "fur is like frosting, it covers a multitude of sins" from her lips to God's ears, this is directly from none other than my MoMo :)

    xoox

    kHm

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  20. Great interview question and answers. QB's Mother sounds like she raised a really great daughter. Love the fur over PJ's comment too.

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Talk preppy to me! xoxo