Victoria Magazine: The Early Days

Victoria Magazine 1990

Rose Vine Covered English Cottage

I was chatting with a fellow blogger

Michella Marie

today about the Victoria magazine of the late 1980s and  1990s.  If you haven't visited Michella, you owe it to yourself to take a look at her beautiful style.  I'm sure we'll see lots more great things from her. Victoria folded in 2004 and was then republished beginning in 2007.  I had no idea it was back on the stands!  Shows you how often I go magazine shopping.

 Remember all of the dreamy whites?

the lace and hydrangeas?

the architectural salvage

who could forget all the lace?

and silk and satin?

  of course the roses...

the lavender

the silver

the ephemera

the wicker

Victorian influenced jewelery

never too much white!

I subscribed to this magazine for several years (20 years ago!) and waited each month

for the latest issue to devour.  Maybe I'll have to go pick up a new issue!

xox

Nancy

From Another Viewpoint

A view from my house

Last week I had a visitor from out of state...an old friend I hadn't seen in 28 years!  We used to work together as flight attendants...back when flying was still fun.  Phyllis took some photos and just sent them to me. It's interesting to see what caught her eye. 

The road less traveled?  My driveway.

My attempt at a "white village" in Spain.  Too bad you can't see all that is actually blooming here now.

   

A "little" visitor we had one morning!

  What would a trip to California be without a short drive to the coast?

Thanks for the great photos, Phyllis.  It was good to see you!

Linked to:

A Southern Day Dreamer 

Architectural Salvage: Make Some, Buy Some

My living room/dining room is one big, boring rectangle with no architectural interest whatsoever. When remodeling this room recently we thought about putting in some columns with shelves but that just wouldn't work as it would have cramped the living room.  The next best thing would be to have the "illusion" that the two rooms were separated without losing the views from both sides or losing precious space.  That's when I started looking for a pair of antique corbels.

I won bought a pair on eBay. Couldn't live without them.  You know how that goes!  I wanted to hang them between the two rooms.  But normally corbels are attached to a beam.

Beam?  What Beam?

 
Not a problem when you have a junk heap corporation yard like we do.
There's some nice aged redwood in there.  Just enough for a beam! 

We made a trial beam.  Thumbs up!

Gerry and my husband (The Professor) building the beam.

Supports are up.

Beam is up.  Time to nail it in place.

  Oops.  Poor baby. Not a good thing to hammer your finger instead of the beam :(

I love my new beam!

Once that finger isn't so sore we'll put the corbels up.

For now the corbels look nice on the sideboard.  Can you see the beam in the mirror?

Linked to:

Simply Designing The Shabby NestBetween Naps on the Porch It's so Very Cheri Tip Junkie 

Crates: Tins, Trivets and a Planter

I have always loved old crates and wooden boxes.  This one was in my laundry

room for years and has now been upgraded to a place in our breakfast room. It sits in 

a sunny corner and makes me smile everytime I look at it.

The colors on this starch crate are very vivid and the corner fingerjointing is a nice detail.  Isn't

it amazing how much work went into one box of starch?

Don't you love the picture of the washer women?

My "Apple Crate"

This crate I found in my mother's barn.  I call it my "apple crate" but it obviously wasn't built for produce.  It was built with square nails and it has hinges (on the right side) indicating it once had a lid. It was probably  hung horizontally. It has a double letter tray (on the bottom right side). Maybe a home built wall unit that hung above a desk? I use it to store my tin collection and trivets.

Some tins are old and some are not.

Even a tin from an airline I worked for many years ago!

Perfect place for my trivets on the side

My favorite corner of my breakfast room!

In Loving Memory

Comet

...the wonder dog

10/18/98...6/12/10

My daughter's best friend and loving companion of 11 years fought a long battle with congestive heart failure and more recently kidney failure.

We will miss you COMET!

Brie and Comet
inseparable for 11 years

My First Slipcover: A Burlap and Muslin Settee

This little settee was cute
in 1980!

  Some heavy muslin was laying around screaming to get

used. The heavy muslin makes up the seating area

and since I had purchased a huge bolt of 60" burlap I thought

I had better start making use of it. Then I dove into the numerous

slip cover books I had purchased and this is what I ended up with:

Side tabs are attached with velcro. Around the top is just a loop.

Velcro all the way around the bottom for the skirt

Bow ties on side are burlap, of course!

I'm so happy with the way it turned out that I started my junk store wing chair 

slipcover.  It's so much easier than I thought it would be.

Now it will be about an hour before my kitties are on it getting it all furry!
Oh...I made the "Paris" pillow just a few days ago.  Here is my tutorial on how I did that:
Making a "Paris" Burlap Pillow
Oh...and the rocking chair re-do was my FIRST POST!
Distressed Rocker....My First Post