I’m going to meet Sandra Lee! #bySandraLee

Photo courtesy of http://www.semihomemade.com

I have been invited to meet Sandra Lee in NYC next week! I’ve just spent the past couple hours getting to know Sandra’s style by visiting her website, Food Network and Kmart in order to create a Pinterest Sandra Lee board. Her tablescapes are amazing and I wish I had that eye for decorating. I hope to learn some great tips for her. I keep telling my husband that I need to take classes on how to photograph food and how to add elements to the pictures. Sandra has a new line of dinnerware, serveware, small appliances and kitchen gadgets that just launched at Kmart and Sears.

An Emmy-nominated and internationally-acclaimed expert in all things kitchen and home, Sandra Lee has predicted and changed the trajectory of American lifestyle with her signature “smart and simple” philosophy. She empowers people of all walks of life to create memorable meals, hospitable homes, and creative crafts and shows them how to entertain for every occasion―with ease.

Sandra is the foremost recognized authority on creating impactful content that makes aspirational living, affordable and attainable. She is the host of Food Network’s Sandra’s Money Saving Meals, which is entering its’ fifth season and Semi-Homemade Cooking, a veteran program on the network in its’ fifteenth season, as well as the host of HGTV’s Sandra Lee Celebrates, a series of holiday primetime specials. She is also a New York Times best-selling author.

Widely-respected for anticipating the needs of the modern homemaker and consumers, Sandra has launched several lines of home, garden, and craft products and produced a successful DIY home improvement series. Her new home products line, entitled Sandra by Sandra Lee, will be available at Sears and Kmart in spring 2012.

With a commitment to service and charity, Sandra works with numerous philanthropic organizations including UNICEF®, Share Our Strength® and Feeding America®. Since 2002, Sandra has released 23 cookbooks as well as a memoir “Made From Scratch.”, the combination of which have sold over four million copies.

I am so looking forward to next weekend! First of all, I’ve never been to NYC! It’s going to be a whirlwind trip but it sounds like fun. Here’s our itinerary:

Thursday, April 26
Cocktails & Dinner in Midtown, NYC
Friday, April 27
Store Visit with Sears Design & Merchandising Representatives
Brunch with Sandra Lee
Hands-on Workshops with Sandra Lee
• Entertaining
• Tablescaping
• Semi-Homemade Cooking
• Cocktail Time®
Q&A with Sandra Lee

I’m looking forward to the whole event, but mostly Tablescaping and Cocktail Time! Good thing I don’t have to fly the plane home! 🙂 If you want to learn more about the event, you can follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #bySandraLee. I’ll be posting from the trip via Twitter and Facebook and do a wrap up post here.

Note: I was invited to this event by Sears/Kmart. All expenses are paid by them. All opinions are my own.