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Reading Room:  Favorite Magazines  |
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BarnChickCecily
True Blue Farmgirl
673 Posts
Cecily
Corydon
IN
USA
673 Posts |
 Posted - May 26 2008 : 12:15:20 PM
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I love:
MaryJanesFarm
Country Living
Victoria
Better Homes and Gardens
Country Women
Cottage Living
...basically whatever strikes my fancy. I subscribe to a few of them, too, However, I am really disappointed lately at the amount of advertisements in ones such as Better Homes and Gardens and such. I feel like if I were to cut out all of the ads, I would only have a few pages of reading material. Also, these magazines talk about going "green" and 'natural' and 'healthy', yet advertise harsh chemical cleaners and lawn fertilizers that can cause cancer and long-term breathing problems...what's up with that? I am REALLY happy that Mary Janes Farm is sticking with ads that aren't hypocritical of what she stands for. Thanks MaryJane! |
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MarySueK
True Blue Farmgirl
96 Posts
Susan
Richland
WA
96 Posts |
Posted - May 26 2008 : 3:00:03 PM
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| Lots of cooking magazines - Cooks Illustrated, Cooks Country, and more. If you like needlework, look at Piecework. (from Interweave press) It is so interesting - all different types of needlework, from all over the world and way back in history. They have a small sample project so you can try these techniques. (Though I haven't done too many of them.) |
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Aunt Em
True Blue Farmgirl
137 Posts
Emme
Carnation
WA
137 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2008 : 7:46:15 PM
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I just found Living Crafts Magazine and its awesome! And I'm not even that crafty! (yet)
Farmgirl Sister #138
http://www.LilBitCrunchy.blogspot.com
"In my world everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows and poop out butterflies." -Horton Hears a Who |
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Rebekka Mae
True Blue Farmgirl
965 Posts
Rebekka
Moscow
ID
USA
965 Posts |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 8:23:36 PM
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Hey Emme- I was JUST going to post about Living Crafts- it is amazing and WELL worth every penny. You should order the back issues while they still have them- they are so good;) The nice thing about Living Crafts is that the projects are simple and are process oriented. I once went to a folk art school at a Waldorf school in Portland and it is all very similar. Mary Jane's is my only regular subscription, Erik likes The Week to keep up on new and world events. I like to pick up copies of Sunset and Natural Living but they can get redundant so I don't subscribe anymore- then when I read them it is a treat.
Rebekka
www.bebebella.etsy.com
As a woman I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf |
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bushelnpeck
True Blue Farmgirl
262 Posts
Debbie
Sparks
Nv
USA
262 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 8:16:19 PM
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hello fran, i read your post about tearing out pages from magazines and i have found a solution for myself that maybe you could use. i bought a few three ring notebooks and started filling pages of all those torn out pages and made my own special to me magazine. you can make them to what suits you and i always have books of dreams to lose myself in and no advertisments and i like everything in them. i can get rid of somthing if i lose interest and i don't have to keep the whole magazine to save one picture or article. it is fun and so much pleasure....Debbie
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all
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Edited by - bushelnpeck on Aug 01 2008 8:17:32 PM |
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lacisne88
True Blue Farmgirl
1181 Posts
Chelsey
Lake Stevens
Washington
USA
1181 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 5:05:22 PM
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I LOVE MaryJanes Farm of course!
Hobby Farms Home
Cosmopolitan
Interweave Knit
Vogue Knitting
Vogue
Glamour
Miniature Collector
These are all among my favorites!!!
Chelsey
Farmgirl Sister #283 |
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
404 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 6:10:09 PM
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Hey Debbie, that's so funny. I also clip and save useful articles that I like from magazines and have made my own little book of clippings. I've been at it for about 5 years, and have built up quite a collection of article. I have a small magazine addiction. I subscribe to...
Everyday Food
Martha Stewart Living
Real Simple
Canadian Gardening
Canadian Home & Country
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 7:56:42 PM
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I so feel at home here! I thought I was the only one with a magazine addiction! I subscribe/buy:
MaryJanes Farm (it has truly been life-changing)
Country Living
Cottage Living
Country Home
Body & Soul
Grit
Mother Earth News
There would be more (and there probably are some I'm not thinking of) but this was such an issue (pardon the pun) for me that I went on a magazine fast last fall for 40 days. I realized after a while that the decorating magazines were making me disatisfied with my home instead of loving it. After I stopped buying them, I began to like my little home. My husband and I live in the home my parents build 40 years ago. I grew up in my grandparents country farm house and we moved up the road when my parents built this one. It just never really felt like "home" the way the old house did. After my fast, I realized God was showing me that I would never be truly happy anywhere unless I appreciated what I had. This happened one afternoon when I was sitting in my chair, looked around the living room and thought, "I love my little home!" Where on earth did that thought come from??? I realized then that God was teaching me gratitude. Since then I look at this house with new eyes.
So any suggestions for turning a 60's ranch house into a country farm house would be greatly appreciated!
God bless -
Karen
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clux64
True Blue Farmgirl
162 Posts
Celeste
Blair
NE
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 09:31:01 AM
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I'm a magazine tearer-outer too. I by those three ring plastic page sleeves by the box and put all my favorite articles in them and them keep them in binders. I have notebooks catagorized by decorating, garden/farming, kids projects, etc...Just like Debbie, it's my special to me magazine and keeps everything handy...and no more stacks of useless magazines sitting around. As for my favorite magazines;
Maryjane's Farm (of course)
Cottage Living
Backhome magazine (this is by the original Mother Earth News people who started publishing after MEN was taken over by a major publisher. Check it out if you don't read it already read it www.backhomemagazine.com)
Celeste
"No matter where you go, there you are"
--Confucious
www.urbanprairiehome.blogspot.com
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 10:12:30 AM
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I, too, am a bit addicted to magazines. I subscribe to
Country Home
Country Living
Cottage Living
Smithsonian
Martha Stewart.
Cat Fancy
Piecework
Especially in the winter i am so grateful to get a few magazines in the mail. I occasionally succumb to temptation at the local bookstore magazine racks, usually some decorating or maybe quilting mag. I love to quilt, but I no longer get any magazines about it. Lady's Patchwork Circle was my favorite and that bit the dust a few years ago...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
http://moodranch.blogspot.com
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
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bushelnpeck
True Blue Farmgirl
262 Posts
Debbie
Sparks
Nv
USA
262 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 09:42:30 AM
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Hi Karen...thank you for sharing your "fasting" story. How wise of you, gratitude surely gets hidden easily in our world today. It's always good to be reminded. I try to look at my torn out pages as a tool to give pleasure rather than to be discontent with what I have. I want what I have to still be me and work for my family, sometimes I just want ideas to tweek and change up things for a fresh attitude. Some things I know I will never get but it just gives me pleasure to dream a bit. I go to the library and look at magazines and then I will buy if they have things that speak to me. I hope you will find what works for you and I would love to live in the history of family like you do. Debbie
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 5:06:16 PM
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Hi Debbie. Thanks for post. Wait til you hear this story of my family history....
Since picking up my first MaryJanes Farm magazine, it has stirred something in me that I didn't realize I'd buried - my appreciation and love of the things I grew up around on our farm. Things I used to love to do (crochet, cross-stitch, sew, etc.)...I can't remember how long it's been since the last time I've done any of it. I'm beginning to believe that this house could become the country house I long for. I forgot to mention (1) that I also clip articles and pictures and put them in a notebook. I love looking through it because it fills me up. I've been waiting to get to "the city" to get MaryJane's Lifebook and (2) today was the day! When I got home I shut myself up in the bedroom for a couple of hours and just poured over the book. So many things remind me of magazines my mom used to read and how she would clip out favorite articles to keep (3). That reminded me of a box that's been sitting on the top shelf of our closet for who-knows-how-long of what I thought were embroidery patterns. I had my husband get it down for me to look at and (4) inside there was a pattern for a can hassock. Get ready for this - here is where 1, 2, 3 and 4 come together. The clipping was the same idea that MaryJane uses for her Can Hassock in the Lifebook! No wonder I feel so at home here!!!
I'd love to say that I absorbed as much from my mother as MaryJane did from hers but unfortunately, I didn't appreciate it when she was here to teach me. But I did learn a lot from the way my parents lived their lives and hopefully now I'm at least a little wiser at 52 and can live a farmgirl life worthy of my heritage. I'm feel so blessed to have found this community. I'm looking forward to learning from you all.
God bless -
Karen |
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fionalovesshrek
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Paige
kinston
North Carolina
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 5:15:37 PM
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Oh yay, we get one no one has mentioned yet, it's just "Country" which I think "countryside" is sort of a spin off of. We also get Backwoods Home which is totally awesome for the diehard selfsufficient dreamer...(that's us). Hubby likes the conspiracy theory stuff so that last one really suits him as well as myself on the farm/garden/barn animal side of things.
P~
living a good neighbor life
www.fionaswampington.blogspot.com
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Edited by - fionalovesshrek on Aug 04 2008 5:16:06 PM |
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Sandra K. Licher
True Blue Farmgirl
1106 Posts
Sandra
Horseshoe Bend
Arkansas
1106 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 6:45:22 PM
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Thanks all of you for sharing! I too am trying to "farmarize" a 60's ranch after giving up my farmette of 20 years but like you...there's a reason for all of this and actually I am so at peace and content...the old saying..."no matter where you go there you are" is true....whatever makes you happy is within you and it's fun to fix up and decorate to make it YOUR home but not a carbon copy of someone elses....you will make that a home and cozy and warm and a true reflection of you and your family and what YOU stand for...uniquely and lovingly YOUR home that YOU fashioned reflecting your unique personality and that of your family. It will be STUNNING! Guaranteed!
Magazines inspire me and motivate me and get the creative wheels turning...these are some of my favorites and isn't it funny how there is a common thread...literally throughout this post of some of the same mags or same type of mags.
old issues of organic gardening
O, the Oprah mag
old MArtha Stewart
Mary Englebreit
Real Simple
Mj's of course
Small Farm Journal
Mother EArth News
Country HOme
COuntry Gardens
Create & Decorate
I know there's more but that's all I can think of right now...I'm SO bad!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226 |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
4427 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 10:16:42 AM
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To be honest, I have NEVER ever seen a MaryJane magazine, sorry! But here I cannot buy that kind of magazines, would LOVE to see one, but alas.
A dear friend from the USA sends me magazines sometimes. I love the
Shabby Chic decorating ones,
Country Collectibles,
Romantic Homes
Country Decorating Ideas
Country Home
and more of those.
As I said, they are not in the Netherlands, but just once every blue moon I get a few from that friend. LOVE to have more, but....hehe
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy
"As you become secure in God's love, you will discover that you need not surrender to the opinions and judgments of others. GOD IS FOR YOU!" ~
Unknown
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
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keeperofthehome
True Blue Farmgirl
154 Posts
Suzanne
Atlanta
Georgia
USA
154 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 1:42:47 PM
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We have a magazine overload in our house. I buy Mary Jane's, Kiwi, and Victoria. I subscribe to Vogue and W just because I'm a fashion major and love clothes, but since I am no longer in the "field" I will probably let those go this year. My Mom gives me Country Living and Martha Stewart when I visit her every few months.
I use my lunch hour, even as a SAHM, to eat at the table and read while the boys are at school or are finished. That way I get a chance to relax and enjoy my lunch so that I won't eat so much so quickly!
Blessings!
~Farrah
www.homesteadblogger.com/keeperofthehome/
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
T
MI
940 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 4:57:47 PM
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| I too have TOO many magazines. I keep telling myself that I'll go on a magazine "diet" and then another new issue finds it's way into the house. I have so many knitting mags that I don't use... I like Grit, MJF, Hobby Farm and Hobby Farm Home, Belle Armoire, Back Home, the occasional quilt mag and the of course knitting stuff. I have started going to the library to read them instead. October's issue of Crafts-n-Things seems to have a BUNCH of crafts in it that I'd like to try so I think I'll get that one. I think I need to subscribe to a couple and then just peruse the rest. There is so much info on the net these days...I'm not sure I need to buy so many magazines but they can be so irrestible!!! |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2008 : 11:36:52 AM
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Let's see, I suscribe to:
Countryside
Cooks Country
Rachel Ray
Everyday Foods
Country Gardens
Penzey One
Cooking for Two
Taste of Home (I have every issue from day one)
MaryJanesFarm (New, have not received my first issue)
I have suscribed to several that I stopped the subscription but keep all my old back issues:
Herb Companion
Crochet magazines
Quilting magazines
Oprah
Martha
Along with maybe 4 health/nutrition news letters.
Every catalog under the sun finds it's way to my mailbox.
E-gads, no wonder there is such a mess around "my" chair. |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Aug 09 2008 : 12:32:50 PM
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I am one of those "can't throw them out" kinda gals too!
I have STACKS of magazines, bought in the USA last year :D
I had 20 kilo overweight, hehe due to the mags, amongst other things !! But the guy from customs was very kind and let me transfer a lot to my carry on bag (way heavy already) and ended up with 10 KILO too much weight, but he wavered the fine YIPPEE!
HOORAY for kind custom people in the USA!! :D
"As you become secure in God's love, you will discover that you need not surrender to the opinions and judgments of others. GOD IS FOR YOU!" ~
Unknown
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
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