ORIGINALLY POSTED JULY 26, 2012
Up until midnight Sept. 3, we tossed your names (326 to be exact) into my hat (actually Mia’s wheelbarrow) for a mighty good glamporific giveaway …
The lucky winner receives two free nights in my B&B (June 15 & 16, 2013) that include one free glamp-mate companion. The giveaway also includes a $300 travel reimbursement check toward gas or airfare once our winner arrives.
And the WINNER is …
RACHEL!!!!!!
Rachel, check your e-mail for details. You’re the one, girlfriend! Congratulations! Looking forward to pampering you next summer.
Rachel said:
“I pre-ordered your glamping book because a few months ago I purchased a 1968 Frolic camper that we are now in the process of restoring. Once it is done, I can’t wait to take her out and go glamping. I have already made blankets and pillows; the curtains and towels are on the list to be done. The whole idea of a comfortable getaway is very thrilling.”
Just a word about WHY we didn’t draw the name while on the road: “Stay tuned right here for my drawing that will take place in a glampground, somewhere between here and the Black Hills of South Dakota—streaming live from my Airstream.” I took a printer for my laptop with me on our odyssey. For the first part of our trip, everything worked like a charm, until that one big bump in the road near Dillon, Montana, that sent my printer flying from its designated place and onto the floor of my Airstream, plastic parts everywhere. Amazingly, once I got it home and put it back together, the thing fired up and still works. If you’re looking for a beyond-sturdy printer, I paid $60 for a Brother HL2240. What a great traveling companion it proved to be.
“One busy, hectic afternoon in my house, I sat down to take a quick peek at Glamping. Over two hours later, I was still reading, blissfully lost in MaryJane’s beautiful world. I’m dying over this book. I absolutely, positively LOVE IT!”
–REE DRUMMOND
THE New York Times best-selling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks
Glamping in my ’68 Airstream. Renovation details in book!
I can’t wait to add this to my collection of MaryJane books & magazines! It’s first home will be in our camper, which is parked on a campsite up north. Being a first-time owner of a camper, I’m expecting to find lots of inspiration in this book to glamp up our camper’s living quarters and to customize our many trips that we plan to take in it. Thanks for being such a visionary, MaryJane!
I pre-ordered your book because I have your other books & love them. I also get your magazine & read it cover to cover.
I camp with six children, ages 6-16.
I am ready for ideas to make our trips more galmorous.
I order two books…..one for my daughter and one for me. We both love camping and do it in a glamping style. My daughter lives in California and “glamps” when camping. She cooks gourmet meals, etc. and amazes her friends that camp with her. I love the magazine and have all the your other books. I am so excited about having this one to add to the rest and to use as a reference for new ideas in glamping.
Your books are so beautiful for reading and dreaming! I have all of your other books and ordered this one because I love them all! A book starring MBA Jane would be fun too. THANKS for all you do! Mary Beth
I ordered your book and cannot wait to receive it. I have your others, that are now dog-eared from so many nights of flipping through the beautiful pages, and let them take me to dreamland. I participated in your first Glamping weekend in Alabama this year and had so much fun. I took away so many wonderful memories! Can’t wait for GLAMPING!
I can’t even remember how/when I first found you! It seems we have been “friends” FOREVER…..lol Your Ideabook has post its all thru it & goes w me whenever I travel because I KNOW at some point I WILL need some little ol’ piece of information/inspiration:) I can’t tell you how many times someone has asked “how do you know that?” & my response is “MJ told me,of course!”. You have brought SIMPLE & beautiful back to life….YEAH!
I KNOW that whenever you say a new book/magazine is coming that it is going to be AWESOME!!!! Thank you MJ!
LOVE your magazines and this whole farmgirl lifestyle!
Because I love your sense of Romance and I find your books very inspiring
I have enjoyed reading your posts and your website. This is why I bought the book at Amazon! I can’t wait to get it; and I am inspired by the rich beauty and charm that your photos portray. The world of glamping is new to me; but I have always been a camper (mostly wilderness) and; as my husband and I grow older; we are now ready for some long distance travel. We visited Idaho briefly on one of two road trips we have taken in the past two years from Virginia. We made it to the west coast both times. Next year, I would like to see more of Idaho; and would dream of staying at the Bed and Breakfast! I enjoy the simplicity and elegance that your farmlife and glamping seem to represent. It draws the individual down the pathway of a nature; and to a more serene life; which is what we all need, in this busy, time conscience world. Blessings!
I pre-ordered your book because I LOVE to camp and I LOVE to decorate…a great combination, don’t you agree? I can’t wait to get INSPIRED! Thanks for putting my name in your Glamping Hat!!
I have read your magazine from the start of it. LOVE IT!!!! I read it from cover to cover on arrival. I also have all your books–well read & earmarked. We have moved more than a few times with military orders but now settled in Fairhope, AL. Your books & collection of back issues have been the items I personally move & are taken when we have to evacuate the coasts during storms. Thank you for what you do & I hope to meet you on day.
My husband just bought it for me, and the Ideabook. An early anniversary gift! I had to have it because of all the joy it will bring me! Plus, I’m looking for inspiration for my little soon-to-be glamper! (it’s still just a camper right now and has a long way to go!) I can’t wait to receive both of the books! #4468 🙂
Today I discovered you/your books and from what I’ve seen so far – I’m hooked! Last summer I bought my first little “old” trailer and have been cutifying her ever since. I can’t wait for further inspiration once the book arrives. Who knew this could be so much fun!
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This awaited book will be a treat for me and my sweetie who is now finishing up his second retirement vintage trailer restoration. It’s a 22′ 1962 Streamline Duchess with a Hawaian theme. I’ve just finished the curtains and am working on the seat covers for the booth. Plumbing is almost finished and the heater is going back in. Ebay has been successfuly gleaned for raffiaware, melmac and bamboo themed stainless for the kitchen. Vintage Revereware has been buffed to look like new as will the trailer itself when she has her final polish. When we win the fabulous B&B weekend we’ll bring the Duchess and you can sleep there while we stay at your place. Annie G
I ordered the Glamping book for several reasons. I love all of your stuff. I used to drive from Akron, CO to Greeley just to find your magazine in Borders!
My husband and I are cleaning up a 13 acre “spread” that we must sell in order to pay for his parent’s health needs. Once we do this, we will be, well, homeless! We have decided to sell just about everything we own and buy a second hand something to turn into a Glampmobile. Our inheritance is solid gold – 3 beautiful pomeranians to add to our one so we need lots of good ideas in order to carry all of us in comfort and style!
I love all the maryjanefarm books. I preordered the glamping book from amazon the minute I saw they had it. I love all the tips and the whole atmosphere of what Mary Jane has in her books. It takes you back to a more simple time.
I love all the things you publish in your magazines. I have been a Country Girl all my life. I have my Glamping book from Amazon on it way.
I ordered your book because my husband and I both love camping, and being a shabby chic girly girl, what better way to do it than in glamping style? I can’t wait to be inspired by all the ideas in your book!
Because you’re the best!
My neighbors renovated a 1962 Avian 24′ and did such a wonderful job that I bought the book as a gift to them. It took them 3 years to refit and rebuild from the axles up, keeping it as original as possible. We (my husband and I staying in a B&B) have traveled with them and have watched how much they enjoy their rolling home. I wanted to give them a book that complimented their efforts. Also because of Alicia’s work.
because i love the happy place your magazines take me to, eras ago to a time when faith, family and home actually mattered.
My dream of sharing the joys of camping with my girls is why I ordered this book. I grew up with one parent from the US and another from Canada and we spent every summer on the road in our camper van. I loved those times, our family of five even spent six months in our VW camping across the UK. I want to share the joys of camper life with the younger generation. It was a big part in the making who I am today. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
Thank you for truly representing us farm girls out there. Can’t wait for the new book.
I don’t know if I can enter being Farmgirl of the Year, but I thought I might as well post.
I recieved the book a week ago and it is amazing, cover to cover, wonderful details and wonderful pictures. It is a great addition to the MJF Library. Somewhere between the magazines and the books, you could take them all glamping, and make yourself a weekend of epic Mary Jane Farm stuff.
Because I love all of your other books (the ones I’ve been able to find so far!) and I always learn a ton of new things from you!
I ordered the book because I LOVE Mary Jane — always an inspiration, whether it’s starting my first flock of chickadees this year, hosting visitors with down-home style and hospitality, or understanding what true luxuries are in the wilderness 🙂
I joyfully ordered Mary Jane’s GLAMPING book today from Amazon because I am so inspired to get in touch with the world as you–and the pioneering women of the past–already know, harmonize with, and respect. I spent the night “camping” in the family mini-van, parked on the driveway, in a downpour just after I first read about Mary Jane sleeping outside, under the stars after she put her babies to bed just inside the house. Resting & reading in her Idaho wall-tent has been in my list ever since! Thank you, Mary Jane!
I am so excited to get the book! Right now I’m shopping for a tiny trailer that I can pull with my small suv. I want to fix it up really cute and sit outside reading, knitting and just relax! Someday I want to be able to come to the B&B, I see the pics and daydream of having a wonderful bath outside!!
We are holding our first Rabbit Hutch Chapter gathering of Farmgirls in Rogers, Arkansas, in September, and I am honored to be Mama Hen. There is already such energy and anticipation! We are Farmgirls at heart, here in the heart of the Ozarks!
I am so excited and can’t wait till I get your new book. I just can’t get enough of MaryJane! We are still planning on our Farmgirls on the Loose Glampout in Oct and I am looking forward to getting some new ideas for it. Am watching the mailbox from the window. I am stuck in my chair right now recovering from my surgery so this will be a nice pick me up when it comes!
You inspire me & make my spirit soar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dream of retiring & being able to glamp through an entire summer.
Actually I got my copy last week 🙂 LOVE IT and now I am lusting for a trailer. I had pre-ordered from my local bookstore and was so surprised to get the call that it was in.
My husband and I recently bought a 1960 Fan camper trailer. We have been busily repairing and redecorating and surfing the web for inspiration. When I came across your site, I was amazed! Can’t wait to get my copy so I can have inspiration (and motivation) at my fingertips!!
Oh, THANK YOU, Mary Jane! My copy of GLAMPING just arrived today! Actually, it’s not for me, but my mom who loves the RV-life–except that she and my dad haven’t been healthful enough to take more than 1 trip this past summer, but were grateful for that. I gave Mom a subscription to your magazine 2 years ago, for Christmas, after communing with your blessed farm life myself via magazine the past few years BECAUSE IT IS THE LIFE THAT MY GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT, AND MY MOTHER PASSED ON to me. I have become more “citified,” having left my native South Dakota almost 25 years ago, but I have faithfully sojourned back every summer to fish Walleye at the Secret Fishing Spot where my parents have first taught my daughters about REEL LIVING! I sighed happily, reading of your Glamping in the “Paha Sapa,” or beautiful Black Hills, of my beloved South Dakota. Though this summer’s trip back meant nursing my mom’s health for a month and tending her garden, instead of fishing, I promised her next summer we would camp (‘glamp”) even writing down Mary Jane’s farm in Idaho at the TOP of the list. I can’t wait to give Mom your GLAMPING in the dead of South Dakota winter to keep her spirits up til Summer 2013! We love you, Mary Jane, and all your Team!
I love all things MJ and have been glamping for several years now. I’m trying to keep my hobby (okay, addiction) under control. Once you get to decorating and making all things operable, you have made a love connection! Lord forgive me, but I still have that wondering eye, scouting along the country roadsides and looking in the pastures and tucked behind the barn. I say, “once bitten, you’re smitten!!!” Farmgirl #583
Well, to be honest with you, I am just learning about the Farmgirls and You. Another Farmgirl, Linda Atkins has introduced me the this old (new to me) wonderful world of the Farmgirls, glamping and much much more. She’s let me sample some of you products, yummy I may add! And I thought this book would be part of the beginning if a new era for me. As I get older I find life has so many wonderful new things for me to see, smell, taste, touch and not to be left out hear. I’ve not glamped yet but joyfully soon.
Well, first I am a MaryJanesFarm girl and have been for about five years! I love everything MaryJane; her site has taught me so much and I have made many friends’ MaryJanesFarm is just my style! Someday (soom, I hope) I will have my very own tiny trailer to “fix up” just the way I want it girlie and frilly; I know that Glamping book will help me through it (and it is a wonderful book) I am allowing myself some time each day to burrow in the new book and fall in love with MaryJanesFarm all over again!
I am so fascinated about Glamping. Can’t wait to receive your book. I would be so happy to come to your place, I feel a Happy Dance coming! Choose me, please
My ‘Sweet Spot’ is the ’63 Yellowstone parked in the backyard, overlooking my ‘lil bit of paradise. I lusted for it until it came to be mine many years ago. The hand-thrown pottery by Sarah Dudgeon, the leopard-print carpet and the paisley-upholstered cushions make it home. My friends think it’s the best tea-house ever, I think it’s a great escape but it’s hearing my grandbabies say “Gamma, can we go campering?” that really makes my day. I ordered “Glamping” within minutes of reading about it because I love to see what kindred spirits are doing with their ‘Sweet Spots’. I’m entering the contest because I secretly yearn to restore vintage trailers and open a B & B park someday!
I ordered MaryJane’s book because I wanna be a glamper and needed instructions!! Besides I needed the book to complete my collection of other MaryJane books!!
WHY did I order the book? Glamping epitomizes the best of the Western woman, the Farmgirl, and the Rosie the Riveter mentality. That mentality is–“You’re a ‘Can-Do’ woman, get out in the fresh air and enjoy!”
I am a glamper, thats who I am. So your glamper book and I go hand in hand.. Hugs. Deb
I ordered your book because I’m new to the Glamping world & I needed to learn from a Pro. We bought a 1959 Shasta that needs lots of work, but I can’t wait to Glamp it up. Can’t wait to get my book
Looking forward to reading “Glamping with Mary Jane.” I have a subscription to your magazine and absolutely love it. My husband said he wanted to purchase an RV. My first reaction was no thanks. Not my deal. But after reading your magazine, putting myself into the farm girl mode, I realized yes, I can do this. I’ll just have to fancy things up a bit! We are taking our first trip this next week. I am definitely glamping, not camping!
Thank you.
I bought the book at Amazon as a birthday gift to myself, after seeing it mentioned by Girl Camping Girl on Facebook. I’ve recently done my second vintage trailer restoration and am enjoying my dolled-up 1964 Jet. I love the inspiration and advice in your book!
Just showing my friend from Texas all of your magazines and the books I have, gotta have the glamping one! Thanks for taking the time to share your life with us! Heavenly blessings to you! Cathy in Idaho
I ordered your book because I recently just discovered Glamping and it has sparked something inside of me. I find myself looking online for vintage campers. Glamping in my mind fills my heart with memories I had when I was little and we would take off on a family road trip every summer (in a camper) and the other families we met at camp sites plus stories we shared just give me a good feeling. I long for the day to be surrounded by others who enjoy easy going outdoor mingling with a touch of glamour added to camping by ones craft or garage sale find and then hearing the story behind it. Happy Glamping ⛺
I am getting this book because I am so excited about it! I have been hooked ever since I first got interested in vintage trailers after reading about them in one of your other books! After that, I just had to have one, and now I am joining in on the glamping fun! Thanks for the inspiration, MaryJane!