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With millions of blogs floating through blogland it can be difficult to get noticed. That’s part of why at SITS we do what we do. Featuring a variety of bloggers throughout the week is one way to spotlight a blog and introduce it to people who might otherwise have never found it.
While this is important to us and extremely rewarding, we also recognize that there are bloggers everyone should consider for their blogroll. Bloggers who, for whatever reason, stand out as experts where blogging is concerned. Once a month we will pay tribute to bloggers you should know.
Through a combination of excellent content, a distinct niche and brand, time, hard work and sometimes just plain old luck, these bloggers have succeeded at building an audience of loyal readers. Love them or hate them, they consistently do what we all strive to do…they provide meaningful posts and keep us coming back for more.
It seems only fitting that we start off this series with The Pioneer Woman.
Ree Drummond is both the beauty and the brains behind this website. She started blogging in May of 2006 and in no time at all sky rocketed to bloggy super stardom. She has a novel based on her real life love story with her husband in the works, a cookbook available, and from what I’ve understand there’s even a movie coming up where Reese Witherspoon will play the part of the blogger we so adore. Can you even IMAGINE!?!
The Pioneer Woman is the mother blog of all niches. Ree not only tackles a number of different topics, but she masters them. Each tab on her blog is like it’s own website inside her website.
She gets some help from other experts in certain niches because there’s no way in God’s green earth this woman can put together a PhotoShop actions tutorial AND home school her children AND bake petite vanilla scones from scratch AND wrangle cows all in the same day…or can she?
The best thing about Ree is that everything about her screams humility. She’s knows her life is beautiful. She wrangled herself a handsome cowboy, he’s helped her make some beautiful children, she lives on property in Oklahoma that many of us only see pictures of in magazines, and you can tell she’s grateful for every last bit.
Her posts are funny, well written, and valuable. I’ve personally installed many of her Photoshop Elements actions and follow the tutorials she provides for improving my own photos. She offers and features tons of great recipes in her Tasty Kitchen and often posts her own recipes in her cooking section. She supports homeschooling and offers free materials and games to try with your kids. She shares some of her favorite things from fashion and design to gardening and hotel room tours. And she blogs about her everyday experiences at the ranch. Is there anybody she doesn’t appeal to?
Be sure to check Ree out…if you’re anything like us, you’ll fall in love and add her to your blogroll too!
*All photos courtesy of The Pioneer Woman
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And, as always, when you see this:
Her blog is just beauty and simplicity and it’s no wonder she’s had so much success.
I have loved her blog since the first time I found it a few years ago. I think she is a great inspiration for us mommy bloggers. I love the fact that she has a published cookbook too because I LOVE her recipe posts!
LOVE HER!!!
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!
She is in my blogroll! This post is very fitting for me today because I am doing 31DBBB and am on Day 4: Analyze a top blog in your niche. Mine is cooking, so it was between Steamy Kitchen and Pioneer Woman. Love them.
PW is in my blogroll and is one of my favorite blogs! Her cookbook rocks too! She certainly is an inspiration.
Had a coffee and am now ready to face the day.
The Pioneer Woman was the 1st blog I subscribed to. A friend kept telling me, ‘You need to check it out just to read the love story’. So I did… read it through in a day and was completely hooked! She so inspired me, I started my own blog. Thanks Ree!
I’m a bit concerned about her health though, with all the butter and cream in her recipes! Don’t want anything to happen to her, ya know.
Wow, her photos are so delightfully pretty to look at!
I have heard about her, but haven’t visited her blog yet. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!!
Amazing what big things can come from something little! I was just saying the other day with out one of so many tiny little catalysts your life can be drastically different.
http://www.sublimebynature.com
Wowie! This FB sounds absolutely amazing! What an inspiration!
A movie, hmm? I liked it when it was called Sweet Home Alabama.
Just kidding.
But when I read her whole meeting-her-husband story, it totally reminded me of that.
I LOVE Pioneer WOMAN! I have been following for a long time and NEVER get tired of what I can learn!
BOO Am I the only one who misses Saturday Share fest!!?
Happy Saturday =D
What fun! I love the pictures!
Twitter: alittlebiteof
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I had a chance to meet her last Nov at her cookbook signing. She is as pretty and funny in RL as on her blog!
I simply LOVE Ree’s blog, though I find myself reading more of her cooking section than anything.
I’ve tried a few of her recipes and they are DELICIOUS!!! She’s so funny when she goes step by step and, mainly because I’m a fan of doing so, I like her use of a Macro lens when she does the food blogs.
~Brianna
Happy Saturday!
I love her photography. Amazing shots – amazing life!
Twitter: soaringonwings
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Happy Labor day weekend ladies! Hope you have a GREAT time relaxing and celebrating! =]
Wow! I feel so unworthy…
Nicole @
http://blessingsandbling.blogspot.com/
I love The Pioneer Woman, she is absolutely genuine and deserves all the blessings she receives. Looking forward to a movie!! How exciting.
Blessings & Giggles
Love PW!!
I found PW’s blog my first month of blogging… and she is of course… my favorite blogger! She makes me laugh all the time… i love her humor and her humble upbeat attitude about life! =) She is an inspiration to thousands! I really need to clean up my blog page… and my blog roll… I added folks if they visited me once… yep… baby blogger style! ha! I need to go back and start fresh now that my feet are more than wet~ =)
Twitter: greenearthbazar
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Happy Saturday gals! I have so much blog reading to catch up on since the start of school (homeschool), but I must say that the Pioneer Woman is a member of my feedly. Her blog is beautiful, and overflowing with inspiration!
Peace.
Looking forward to a beautiful weekend and checking out the FB! Enjoy!!!
Excellent woman!
She acomplishes so much during the day I feel she should make a tutorial on how to organize one’s day-and what a success it would also be!
Keep up the great work, Ree!!!
Tamara
She is wonderful! Everyone have a great weekend. Time to head back to some laundry and spray painting!!
Twitter: elizabeth_agd
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What a great idea to focus on experts of their niche! Pioneer Woman is great. Thanks for introducing us to her.
Twitter: JessNunemaker
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Love the looks of those recipes! Glad you are bringing her back to my attention.
Can you ever have too many recipes?
i have not had the pleasure yet of being introduced to PW…..til now! thanks SITstahs!
I’m about to announce big news guys…..stay tuned. hee hee hee!!!
I honestly have not really paid as much attention to The Pioneer Woman, but I love the photography. Amazing! Of course it always makes me want Photoshop even more to see the tutorials.
Twitter: elizabethpatch
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love this Pioneer Gal! I am a country girl at heart, and even though now I live right outside NY, I still keep a big ol’ garden! This week’s post & illustration: IF you’ve ever held back doing something until you lose weight, my advice is to do it NOW!
I can’t believe that I’ve never been to that site. I’ve heard about it often.
Hey, we share the same name, so I’m bound to like it, aren’t I? I particularly love the photos on The Pioneer Woman. Since a lot of the pix on my site are of homes and interiors, I’m making a mental note to self: Get a better camera, girl, and learn how to work it properly!
I have Singled-White-Femaled her for about two years. LOVE THIS FREAKIN WOMAN. We’re pratically the same except that I don’t have kids.. or a husband… or a ranch in OK…. or a camera…. or a talent for cooking. Otherwise, we’re like twins.
I have read her blog once or twice, but you make a good point – as usual. Thanks!
Best,
Colleen
I am loving Pioneer Woman’s photography. And the PSE actions are so cool…now if I only had time to figure out how to use them! : )
Beautiful blog. Definitely adding her – thanks for drawing our attention to her!
Who doesn’t love the Pioneer Woman?!? Not only does Ree have a great blog, awesome recipes, and lovely writing skills, but she just seems like a really nice person. Like someone we would want to call a friend.
Great feature, SITS!
-Aimee
Her blog is just so beautiful. Every time I go to her site I feel this connection to nature and the desire to go out doors and just look at stuff.
She’s AMAZING, and she reminds me of Dolly Parton .. just so darn cute, but completely down to earth!
Pioneer Woman must be an alien. It’s the only way to explain how she does it all.
Pioneer Woman’s blog reminds me of a magazine. Well organized, little previews like a table of contents.
Twitter: capabilitymom
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I love this site and found it last week – wonderful write-up.
Yahoo Pioneer Woman! Happy SITS Saturday!
Latest Post:
http://makingitworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/09/pearls-of-wisdom-for-tweenstar.html
I actually just came across her blog earlier today and then read this feature. Her blog is amazing, I’m so envious!
Happy Saturday & happy weekend!
I stopped The Pioneer Woman & tried to comment on some of the posts, but couldn’t, so I’ll just say her pictures are absolutely gorgeous & the story of how she ended being a ‘pioneer woman’ is very interesting. Thanks for introducing us to her blog. There is something for everyone there.