The funny office about talking near our Oprah
The funny office about talking near our Oprah-related feel during blogiversary week is that we talked nearly nigh appearing on Oprah’second present during our very starting time blogiversary calendar week (spoiler: nosotros got bumped last minute by Ty Pennington in addition to more or less twins in require of a makeover). So it seems, at once v years later, that things accept come up full circle. Was that an O pun I but made? Yes. Yes it was.
First of all, the exciting intelligence. For anyone who wasn’t able to watch or current the brusk film when it aired on Sunday, the variety folks at OWN accept generously provided a clip for us to share hither. So here it goes.
The nice affair about working with Oprah’s squad is they’re actually skilful virtually encouraging you to interruption too intend more than deeply virtually what a home really is in addition to what it agency to the people who alive at that place. Even watching it dorsum, in addition to the mode they edited a 24-hour interval’sec worth of words too footage was thoughtful. It just really cuts to the pregnant of domicile for us. And it was a reminder that every bit much as nosotros tin stress over how something looks together with whether a projection is turning out the fashion we want it to, those aren’t the things that make a house a home. They’re just a fun part of the journeying if y’all tin can make do to sit down back too savour the ride. Which is definitely what we strive to do everyday. We’re non trying to pretend that nosotros’re philosophers, only Oprah’sec editors certain tin can make you feel all warm too fuzzy.
But expect, the most insane “is this real life?!” moment was when Oprah herself said our names in the intro, which was only before the clip higher up kicked inward. Correct pronunciation as well as everything. So y’all know nosotros had to record it off of our TV, right?
Then right afterwards it aired on Sun, she tweeted a quote from our segment. Not entirely did she say our names, just she listened to us mouth. #brainexplosion
So how did this all come up to live? Let’sec rewind over x months agone to terminal November when our volume tour took us to Chicago, Oprah’s hometown. Through our publisher nosotros learned that a producer at Harpo (Oprah’second product fellowship) was hoping to chat amongst us piece we were inwards town. Um, certain! Our trip there was quick, so the meeting was rattling casual – equally inward “run into us in the vestibule of our hotel a distich of hours before we take a book signing” casual.
Heather, the producer that yous’ll run into here inwards a minute, was amazingly overnice in addition to awesomely enthusiastic well-nigh finding some way to collaborate. And when she tossed out the idea of a three-minute brusk film, nosotros idea it would live fun.
Ok, as well as we lost our minds a picayune, equally evidenced by this text-fest betwixt Sherry in addition to Roo.
The shoot 24-hour interval was dorsum inwards May, then we were notwithstanding living in our onetime menage. And since no behind-the-scene mail is complete without a “Look, John had to set on make-up!” shot, here it is.
The 24-hour interval was pretty slowly every bit shoots go. We had built upwardly a adept friendship with Heather (whom you lot tin can run across standing on the far left below) so it was nice to lastly take her over, along amongst a really dainty team of talented crew-members.
The hilarious happened-inside-ten-minutes-of-the-crew-arriving-story is that Sherry threw out her back for the offset time e’er. She was doing or so last minute cleaning in the living room patch they were inward the dining room setting upward in addition to she leaned over the sofa to set something away as well as said it felt similar someone pulled a piece of her spine out similar Jenga. She essentially cruel on her face on the sofa, couldn’t move, struggled to gyre over onto her back piece praying that no i would run across her floundering around on the sofa, in addition to stood upwards really tardily. Then she slinked into the bath too called the doc, who recommended a high dose of tylenol together with equally much lying down every bit possible. Thankfully the hurting-killers kicked in and she somehow made it through the twenty-four hour period… but inwards mortal she was a lot stiffer than usual. Which explains why Sherry describes the walking scenes of us equally “that fourth dimension she waddled similar a duck on national TV.”
One of our favorite parts of the twenty-four hour period was just watching the crew operate their magic. Here’s how they got some of those pretty shots of our (very missed) frame hallway.
Clara was at school or napping for nearly of the shoot, simply she was there for our fun little family unit activity of baking cookies. I love this shot because it looks similar Clara’second on the set of her own cooking show.
We likewise took a brief see over to the new home with everyone (our inaugural shoot inwards this home!) then they could capture or so footage near our “next chapter” (to pocket roughly OWN’s lingo). None of this footage made it into the concluding clip, which is belike practiced because I think nosotros were all like “So, um, this is our novel home. Please don’t wait likewise closely all the same…”
We’re incredibly grateful to Heather in addition to the whole Harpo crew for their excitement to run amongst us. We’ve always been big fans of Oprah, too directly nosotros take an even greater respect for all of the people too operate that stand up with her. Oh, together with for the record, never during this procedure did we run across or verbalise to Ms. Winfrey (equally we learned she’s called around the office). But possibly inward another five blogiversaries that will take changed. You never know…
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