I’m a die hard Pioneer Woman fan. I love her show, her food, her family, her work ethic, her ranch, her photography, the list just goes on and on, and I LOVE her Walmart kitchy kitchen collections. I’ve been a fan since her first episode on Food Network and I believe I’ve seen every one of them. I also was a huge Joanna Gaines fan back in the day. I’ve never been a fan of the Chipster, he acts so goofy and now he looks even goofier with that scruffy beard and man bun, let’s face it the poor fella will never be the Marlboro Man. But I thought Joanna was so talented, I loved her farm, her darling little children and all the animals. I eagerly looked forward to every episode of her show, and then I kind of lost interest.
I thought Chip and Joanna became too commercialized, they were spread too thin, Ttheir houses became too contemporary for me and while Ree was selling her Walmart line at awesome, affordable prices, Joanna teamed up with Pier1 and her products were really pricey, she was selling her pillows for over $100 a pop. And her rugs, oh my, they were as high as $2300. No, that’s not a typo, they’re selling them for TWENTY THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Total turn off for me, total.
But now Chip and Joanna are teaming up with Target with a new line, Hearth and Hand and guess what??? It’s inexpensive!!! No surprise here, The Pioneer Woman’s Walmart line sells like hotcakes and I bet Pier1 still has a boatload of those $100+ pillows left in their warehouses. And I’m sure those rugs didn’t fly off the shelves at $2300 either.
I hope she does well, she’s a sweet woman and I’ll be checking the Target site to see what she has to offer, but I think I’m more of a kitchy retro kinda girl. Oh, let’s face it, I just think The Pioneer Woman is da bomb, always have, always will. I hope she’s around for many more years and one of these days I’m gonna be on a road trip to Pawhuska. Yeah, I know it’s in the middle of nowhere, but I want to go. I have no desire to go to Waco and see the silos, but oh I want to be Pawhuska bound sometime within the next year.
Just my thoughts this afternoon, it will be interesting to see how competitive this gets. Walmart vs. Target, Ree vs. Joanna, I know who my bets are on...
Photo snagged from Facebook, blatant advertising on my part for the 2nd issue of her new magazine
