G'day campers, how you going? After all that waffling in the last post, this may end up short and sweet, it may not. Glad you all liked the bus blind and thanks for all the emails, if I haven't got back to you I am working on it (still not got my computer yet so things are a tad behind 'round here – a Dell from Hell Update coming soon)
Today, sadly is the last day of the summer holidays for us at the Beach Cottage and after a lovely day spent celebrating Australia Day yesterday in true Aussie style with swim, barbie, boat, beer and sunshine we are all ready to start the New Year properly.
It's gonna be an interesting time for me too…I am starting on a few ventures of my own – more to come on this blog as I get those Beach Cottage Kiddos happy and settled and start to think about me…
Anyway, back to today, I wanted to talk about magazines. Because mine are getting outta control. And my New Year Kids Back To School Resolution is to sort them out.
Please tell me you have the same problem with magazines and stashing them as I do? Or am I some sad old bird filling some void with eye candy and then furtively stuffing them in any open and available orifice, to return to at a later date for more lusting?
And it's not even really that I buy bundles of magazines, because I don't. I have two or three faves that I love and one or two that I buy religiously…the trouble is, and that is how this post started, I cannot bring myself to send the ones I have off to the nearest St Vincent's De Paul.
I always, always buy Country Living, both UK and USA - this is one of the first magazines I came across when I started stalking, I mean, liking vintage things…but the best thing was it wasn't a general magazine about the 'country' look, it really was a magazine about the country, with interesting articles and features on people living the kinda life I secretly dream about…one where pigs and chickens roam around somewhere outside, where I have a swinging old field gate and all manner of fruit trees in the orchard.
OK, that's all a pipe dream, though I've really really tried to get Mr BC to let me get a few chicks (no, Favours, did not work in this case)…he told me I would hate the mess, that I would whinge and whine and moan for England, I scolded him and told him I would love them and wander out there with a basket on my arm, a faded flowery skirt flowing and would talk to them as I happily collected the eggs…he told me that is very much a { insert blue word } joke…and flatly refused to go anywhere near a chicken-buying farm…
But that is what I like about Country Living, pipe dreams, yet just about attainable all the way…
This is comfort reading on so many levels…a good magazine, a cup of tea, a slab of chocolate and an hour tucked away on the deck, in the hammock, or my favourite, mid-evening but early-to-bed and tucked up in bed.
It has to be one of the most comforting things to do…without the brain-power for reading a book or the concentration levels to keep up with a tv plot.
Just a simple page flick here and there and oh-so-much inspiration.
And one knows when one might have hit a problem when one decides to decorate with the piles of them that seem to be growing uninhibitedly around the cottage
…when one begins to de-clutter and finds, instead of releasing them to other needy-magazine-lovers, one instead sorts them into new and different categories
And so to try and pass-on my obsession to one of you and with my latest penchant to offer you goodies on this here blog, I am suggesting we have ourselves another Beach Cottage giveaway.
Just in case you are in need of a little comfort, a little magazine bolstering. If I'm still feeling generous, and I'm not in the bad books with Mr Beach Cottage, I'll be signing up more than one of you to a lovely subscription…
see ya later beach chicks, you'll find me Down Under, somewhere under a pile of mags…
and if you're interested in the ladder, I found it out treasure hunting, it was in a bad way but was complete with beautiful old rusted hardware, mmmmmm…I did my usual simple paint treatment on it (video tutorial here)
and other ways I've used old laddders for that beach vintage look, here, hereand here.
{ *simply leave a comment to enter & I'll get a neato little subscription swiftly to your door* }
I’ve actually never bought an issue of Country Living but I will now that you’ve recommended it! I think my favorite magazine would have to be Coastal Living. They have a ton of great ideas and I enjoy dreaming about having a little house right on the beach…you might even say a “beach cottage.”
Hi Sarah,
I too, have piles of mags. One of my faves is “Victoria”. I have 16 hens in the suburbs and I absolutely love them. We get exquisite brown eggs, and because they are in a moveable pen they are not a mess. The “coop poop” goes straight to the compost bin and my garden is loving it. Your blog is one of my treats with a cup of tea. I saw a new storage idea at pottery barn that I am trying to figure how to copy. http://www.potterybarn.com/products/collapsible-canvas-baskets/?pkey=ckitchen-laundry-organization
Country Living is like doing an easy trip to the country, without the cheese and bacon sarmies.. every time the wheels turn anywhere, I HAVE to make ‘padkos’.. (road food)..Country Living Mags is my escape excuse to have a long soak in the bath with a good glass of Red! aah… thanks for your BRILLIANT inspiration Sarah.. I’m also an Oz chick! (my Mags?.. Kikki K has great ideas for keeping them all safe for years to come!) PS.. I’d love a subscription please.. tweet, tweet x
DEAR SARAH,
I LOVE COUNTRY LIVING. I LOVE YOUR LADDER. I HAVE ONLY BEEN TO THE BEACH…MYRTLE BEACH IN S.C. WHEN I WAS 12. WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO WALK THE BEACH. SHOULD I BE SO BLESSED TO WIN THIS GIVE AWAY WOULD YOU INCLUDE SOME SHELLS AND A JAR OF SAND. MY ONLY DAUGHTER GRADUATED TO HEAVEN IN OCT., 2009 AND I KEPT A JAR OF SOIL FROM HER RESTING PLACE. I DECIDED IF I EVER HAD THE CHANCE, I WOULD ASK PEOPLE TO SEND ME A JAR OF SOIL FROM WHERE THEIR FEET WALKED….I’M WEIRD….BUT IT IS A SMALL PIECE OF THE EARTH I CAN HOLD AND PRAY FOR.
I ENJOY READING YOUR POSTS VERY MUCH. I AM ADDICTED TO MY MAGAZINES BUT I BUY THEM AT THRIFT STORES.
BLESSINGS
SIMPLY DEBBIE
DEAR SARAH,
I KNOW THE DOOR GIVE AWAY IS CLOSED BUT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT AND I THINK A BEAUTIFUL MERMAID HAND PAINTED ON IT AND FIND BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PIECES OF DRIFT WOOD THAT WOULD SERVE AS A TOWEL HOLDER…IT COULD BE PUT SO MANY PLACES…MY DAUGHTER PAINTED ME 4 YEARS AGO A FULL BLOWN CHEF ON OUR DOOR GOING OUT TO THE GARAGE…IF WE EVER SOLD THIS HOUSE WE WOULD TAKE THE DOOR WITH US AND I AM SURE SORRY I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR BLOG AND DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE ANTHRONPOLOGY STORE…I COULD SURE HAVE FUN SHOPPING WITH A CARD FROM YOU….YOU WOULD HAVE A RIGHT UP TO NO END TO IT BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE 100 MILES TO GET TO ONE……ANYWAY, I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT GOT TO KNOW YOU BEFORE NOW…..I HAVE A BLOG THERE’S AN ANGEL ON MY FRONT PORCH AND THAT WAS AMY AND HER CANCER AND GOING HOME…..THROUGH THE GRIEF I CAME UP WITH THE BLOG SIMPLY DEBBIE…..MY JOURNEY WITH AMY WATCHING OVER ME FROM HEAVEN AND MY ONLY SON AND HIS WIFE WILL BE SHOWERED WITH LOVE AS ALWAYS…..I HAD TO FIND OUT WHO DEBBIE WAS….I THINK SIMPLY DEBBIE IS A DIRECTION OF MANY THINGS….VINTAGE JEWELRY REMADE…PURSES, BOOKS, AN ART FOUNDATION OF SOME KIND IN MY DAUGHTERS NAME…….I AM A POOR WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN GIFTS AND HAVE HAD MUCH GRIEF AND SORROW BUT I I WANT TO BE KNOWN AS AN INSPIRATION AND ALWAYS HELPING ON THE MISSION FIELD….I HAVE DREAMS…I HAVE GRIEF…I AM 54 YEARS OLD AND FEEL I HAVE JUST BEEN SET FREE OUT OF A CAGE.
BLESSINGS
HUGS
MY MASCOT ON SIMPLY DEBBIE IS A CHICKEN NAMED GRACIE ANN WITH AN ATTITUDE AND SHE CHANGES HER COLOR.
SIMPLY DEBBIE
I totally agree, reading a favourite mag is just so easy and relaxing. My favourite place to enjoy my latest magazine is in the bath with a glass of wine, candles and bubbles.
Nellie xx
I lived with my mom before I got married. I used to read her Country Living. I don’t know why I didn’t get my own subscription when I moved in with my husband???
Your blog is soooo great! I love magazines and I have your problem too, there are piles all over the place. I love country living and been dying to get a subscription, so if I don’t win, I will just have to get it myself, but I much rather win
Oh dear, magazines… Would you believe that the oldest ones in my collection are the 50′s home mags that my grandma saved in her day. Also Seventeen from my teen years in the 70′s. Currently I have files for anything else since I have no problem ripping out the few things I want to keep. Umm, except my UK Country Living in white IKEA magazine files. Works for me.
Please include me in the giveaway! I’ve just been following the blog for a couple of weeks, my mother is a huge fan. She’s in Indiana and I’m in Brisbane, it’s nice to share favorite blogs and feel a bit closer to each other. I don’t get many magazines, but I love them so much. They are such an escape and feed my yearning for a place to ramble in a faded floral skirt. Thanks!
I too love magazines, and a collector of them too. Every time I travel to see family I load them up and give them to my sisters and mom. I hate parting with them, but it makes room for new one. I would love a subscription to CL.
I have just discovered your blog (yes I know, what took me so long???!!!)
Loving and devouring every word and picture.
I am a fellow magazineophile, with special mention to Country Living UK and Real Living Aus.
As for the piles of mags at home I have discovered that a nice stack of mags with a funky wooden tray on top becomes a wonderfully functional coffe table/occasional table/bedside table/lampstand/convenient place to place teapot and cup of tea!
I love Country Living, and it’s a magazine I’ve actually been hoping to get a subscription to recently. As a new lover of the vintage, fresh & clean feel, Country Living is one of my favorite magazines to flip through when I’m standing inline at the grocery store. And don’t worry..you aren’t the only one who wishes she had chicken in the backyard
i am a magazine hog! i too need to purdge! they are falling out of my “organized” basket! so, i will be making room hopefully for that yummy subscription! thanks for the chance! wonderful blog~
Tee hee, I love finding people like me. I horde Country Living mags and Scrapbooking mags. Believe me when I say they kinda take over every room of my house. Gonna be a good girl tonight and take some to a crop for recycling for a cause (hoping to get donations towards a charity). Wish me luck!!
Well I have to tell you that after reading some of the comments, I don’t feel so bad about all the magazines I have stashed here and there. But one of my goals is to go thru them and try to shorten the stacks I have here and there and everywhere!
I would love to be entered in you giveaway. I love Country Living. Oh and I absolutely am in love with your pictures you psoted with this. I love white!! Beautiful….beautiful!!!
I have a terrible hoarding habit with magazines, i have old Country Living Homes and Gardens and I keep looking at the pitiful piles in our local Drs waiting room and keep meaning to bring some, then when I look through them I find that great look I liked, a chair thats really nice and I put them back saying I will sort through them properly soon.
Great giveaway and more to add to my pile
Thanks Sarah
G'day! I'm Sarah, I live in a tatty old cottage, near the sea in Australia with a battered old deck & a big old fig tree out the back...stripped wooden floors, old sash windows & a jumble of vintage furniture. [Read More …]
Well G’day Beach Cottage ladies. Of course some of you guessed correctly, no flies on Beach Cottage gals are there? A Summer House window dressing, beach vintage style. One that I got very wrong. I’ll keep this short and sweet The vintage crochet patchwork curtain? Love. Pure love. But, put it this [...]
G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
I’m not sure how else to do this, so I’ll just tell you here that I blogged about your contest! My post is http://2dogcasa.blogspot.com/2010/01/giveaway-beach-cottage.html. Thanks for the chance to win and the LURVELY pics of your cottage life.
I’ve actually never bought an issue of Country Living but I will now that you’ve recommended it! I think my favorite magazine would have to be Coastal Living. They have a ton of great ideas and I enjoy dreaming about having a little house right on the beach…you might even say a “beach cottage.”
Hi Sarah,
I have 16 hens in the suburbs and I absolutely love them. We get exquisite brown eggs, and because they are in a moveable pen they are not a mess. The “coop poop” goes straight to the compost bin and my garden is loving it. Your blog is one of my treats with a cup of tea. I saw a new storage idea at pottery barn that I am trying to figure how to copy.
I too, have piles of mags. One of my faves is “Victoria”.
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/collapsible-canvas-baskets/?pkey=ckitchen-laundry-organization
Thanks for sharing your days down under.
Country Living is like doing an easy trip to the country, without the cheese and bacon sarmies.. every time the wheels turn anywhere, I HAVE to make ‘padkos’.. (road food)..Country Living Mags is my escape excuse to have a long soak in the bath with a good glass of Red! aah… thanks for your BRILLIANT inspiration Sarah.. I’m also an Oz chick! (my Mags?.. Kikki K has great ideas for keeping them all safe for years to come!) PS.. I’d love a subscription please.. tweet, tweet x
DEAR SARAH,
I LOVE COUNTRY LIVING. I LOVE YOUR LADDER. I HAVE ONLY BEEN TO THE BEACH…MYRTLE BEACH IN S.C. WHEN I WAS 12. WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO WALK THE BEACH. SHOULD I BE SO BLESSED TO WIN THIS GIVE AWAY WOULD YOU INCLUDE SOME SHELLS AND A JAR OF SAND. MY ONLY DAUGHTER GRADUATED TO HEAVEN IN OCT., 2009 AND I KEPT A JAR OF SOIL FROM HER RESTING PLACE. I DECIDED IF I EVER HAD THE CHANCE, I WOULD ASK PEOPLE TO SEND ME A JAR OF SOIL FROM WHERE THEIR FEET WALKED….I’M WEIRD….BUT IT IS A SMALL PIECE OF THE EARTH I CAN HOLD AND PRAY FOR.
I ENJOY READING YOUR POSTS VERY MUCH. I AM ADDICTED TO MY MAGAZINES BUT I BUY THEM AT THRIFT STORES.
BLESSINGS
SIMPLY DEBBIE
DEAR SARAH,
I KNOW THE DOOR GIVE AWAY IS CLOSED BUT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT AND I THINK A BEAUTIFUL MERMAID HAND PAINTED ON IT AND FIND BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PIECES OF DRIFT WOOD THAT WOULD SERVE AS A TOWEL HOLDER…IT COULD BE PUT SO MANY PLACES…MY DAUGHTER PAINTED ME 4 YEARS AGO A FULL BLOWN CHEF ON OUR DOOR GOING OUT TO THE GARAGE…IF WE EVER SOLD THIS HOUSE WE WOULD TAKE THE DOOR WITH US AND I AM SURE SORRY I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR BLOG AND DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE ANTHRONPOLOGY STORE…I COULD SURE HAVE FUN SHOPPING WITH A CARD FROM YOU….YOU WOULD HAVE A RIGHT UP TO NO END TO IT BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE 100 MILES TO GET TO ONE……ANYWAY, I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT GOT TO KNOW YOU BEFORE NOW…..I HAVE A BLOG THERE’S AN ANGEL ON MY FRONT PORCH AND THAT WAS AMY AND HER CANCER AND GOING HOME…..THROUGH THE GRIEF I CAME UP WITH THE BLOG SIMPLY DEBBIE…..MY JOURNEY WITH AMY WATCHING OVER ME FROM HEAVEN AND MY ONLY SON AND HIS WIFE WILL BE SHOWERED WITH LOVE AS ALWAYS…..I HAD TO FIND OUT WHO DEBBIE WAS….I THINK SIMPLY DEBBIE IS A DIRECTION OF MANY THINGS….VINTAGE JEWELRY REMADE…PURSES, BOOKS, AN ART FOUNDATION OF SOME KIND IN MY DAUGHTERS NAME…….I AM A POOR WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN GIFTS AND HAVE HAD MUCH GRIEF AND SORROW BUT I I WANT TO BE KNOWN AS AN INSPIRATION AND ALWAYS HELPING ON THE MISSION FIELD….I HAVE DREAMS…I HAVE GRIEF…I AM 54 YEARS OLD AND FEEL I HAVE JUST BEEN SET FREE OUT OF A CAGE.
BLESSINGS
HUGS
MY MASCOT ON SIMPLY DEBBIE IS A CHICKEN NAMED GRACIE ANN WITH AN ATTITUDE AND SHE CHANGES HER COLOR.
SIMPLY DEBBIE
I totally agree, reading a favourite mag is just so easy and relaxing. My favourite place to enjoy my latest magazine is in the bath with a glass of wine, candles and bubbles.
Nellie xx
I lived with my mom before I got married. I used to read her Country Living. I don’t know why I didn’t get my own subscription when I moved in with my husband???
Your blog is soooo great! I love magazines and I have your problem too, there are piles all over the place. I love country living and been dying to get a subscription, so if I don’t win, I will just have to get it myself, but I much rather win
Oh dear, magazines… Would you believe that the oldest ones in my collection are the 50′s home mags that my grandma saved in her day. Also Seventeen from my teen years in the 70′s. Currently I have files for anything else since I have no problem ripping out the few things I want to keep. Umm, except my UK Country Living in white IKEA magazine files. Works for me.
Please include me in the giveaway! I’ve just been following the blog for a couple of weeks, my mother is a huge fan. She’s in Indiana and I’m in Brisbane, it’s nice to share favorite blogs and feel a bit closer to each other. I don’t get many magazines, but I love them so much. They are such an escape and feed my yearning for a place to ramble in a faded floral skirt.
Thanks!
Really enjoying your blog. Would love some inspiration in magazine form too! Thanks for the inspiration.
I too love magazines, and a collector of them too. Every time I travel to see family I load them up and give them to my sisters and mom. I hate parting with them, but it makes room for new one. I would love a subscription to CL.
I have just discovered your blog (yes I know, what took me so long???!!!)
Loving and devouring every word and picture.
I am a fellow magazineophile, with special mention to Country Living UK and Real Living Aus.
As for the piles of mags at home I have discovered that a nice stack of mags with a funky wooden tray on top becomes a wonderfully functional coffe table/occasional table/bedside table/lampstand/convenient place to place teapot and cup of tea!
I love Country Living, and it’s a magazine I’ve actually been hoping to get a subscription to recently. As a new lover of the vintage, fresh & clean feel, Country Living is one of my favorite magazines to flip through when I’m standing inline at the grocery store. And don’t worry..you aren’t the only one who wishes she had chicken in the backyard
magazines in the letrterbox waiting to be read with love ?
i am a magazine hog! i too need to purdge! they are falling out of my “organized” basket! so, i will be making room hopefully for that yummy subscription! thanks for the chance! wonderful blog~
Oh my fingers are crossed so tightly!
Tee hee, I love finding people like me. I horde Country Living mags and Scrapbooking mags. Believe me when I say they kinda take over every room of my house. Gonna be a good girl tonight and take some to a crop for recycling for a cause (hoping to get donations towards a charity). Wish me luck!!
Well I have to tell you that after reading some of the comments, I don’t feel so bad about all the magazines I have stashed here and there. But one of my goals is to go thru them and try to shorten the stacks I have here and there and everywhere!
I would love to be entered in you giveaway. I love Country Living. Oh and I absolutely am in love with your pictures you psoted with this. I love white!! Beautiful….beautiful!!!
I have a terrible hoarding habit with magazines, i have old Country Living Homes and Gardens and I keep looking at the pitiful piles in our local Drs waiting room and keep meaning to bring some, then when I look through them I find that great look I liked, a chair thats really nice and I put them back saying I will sort through them properly soon.
Great giveaway and more to add to my pile
Thanks Sarah