It's scrumptious!
Victorian Homes Magazine Winter 2013 is finally in my hands.
If you want some serious holiday inspiration like you haven't seen in a long time, you need this issue.
I am not just saying that because I have a couple articles in there either.
In fact, this is one magazine that I enjoy subscribing to.
(my article)
I have an extra copy to give away.
Just leave a comment to enter.
Here are a couple of my article pages filled with some of my Christmas decor..
Lots of tips and ideas, etc.
Also, I wrote the article for the cover image.
I could move right in 🙂
Beckett Media (which owns Flea Market Decor, Cottages & Bungalows, Victorian Homes and Romantic Homes, just to name a few) has a wonderful shop site called PlaidParasol.Com . They happen to carry some of my jewelry, cards, labels and prints.
I have spied a few things I might neeeeed 🙂
Look at this cake plate, oh my!
Fun stuff, they carry so much lovely treasure, take a peek here.
As for the Winter 2013 issue of Victorian Homes Magazine, I took a few bad pics (my good camera is still trying to be Frankenstein resuscitated at a camera hospital as I type)…
But it's unreal, serious inspiration to the max.
There is traditional Victorian decor, mixed with new Victorian style.
Sooooo gooood!
What a warm dreamy kitchen, no?
I love this entire vignette below.
Be still my heart…
This reminds me of Peter Pan in ways I can't even tell you…
Just awesome.
This issue really blew me away, it's so full of awesomeness.
I wish this was my room.
I think the reason I never had children (or the calling) is because I feel like a kid myself.
Always and forever.
It's like, the case is aging, but the instrument inside is still like new 😉
Imagine having a fire place like this?
Major huge?
Major fab.
I love so many styles of decor.
Traditional Victorian sweeps me off my feet.
When it's really done up fancy like, it's almost as though you are peering into a doll house, no?
Looooove this bedroom…
I am telling you, so many awesome tid-bits.
I love ice skates.
When I was a kid I used to ice skate and roller skate like it was nobody's business.
Ooooo, heavenly red silk…
If this isn't dollhouse perfection below, I don't know what is?
Imagine being in that room?
Hello fainting.
So beautiful and elegant.
And then there are articles that have images like the one below as well.
Isn't that just beyond inspiring???
Love it!!
Those are just some small snippets in a choc full issue.
Anywhooo, like I said…
I will priority mail an issue to a winner.
Just say something in comments, and I'll enter you.
Like, have you ever ice skated?
Do you like ginger bread?
I am so obsessed with the gingerbread houses on pinterest lately.
Every break I take you will find me pinning here these days.
I am turning into a Pinterest wacko.
I barely started pinning really this year, and I barely really joined facebook in May 2013.
I am slow, but once I plunge…
I get obsessed, I know.
(probably why I should stay away from such things, haha!)
Although my facebook account won't let me friend or like anyone, what's up with that?
I hit "like" but nothing happens.
Is it because it's a business account??
Phooooey!
OKay, see you sooon with a magazine winner!
Loooove, V
ps:
Have any of you Jane Austen fans seen the movie Austenland (the site is hilarious)????
What did you think?
Oh, boy! I’d love your extra copy and I love gingerbread, too!
Mercy me oh my, absolute and utter gorgeousness! I could loose myself for hours in that magazine!!
Have a great day.
Always, Queenie
I love Victorian stuff! I be the mag is fabulous! I used to subscribe to Victoria magazine back in the day but when they came back it was just so small with such a big price that I couldn’t justify it. Anywho, have I shown you my victorian style sitting room? It’s my Grandmother’s former living room furniture. Some days I want to get rid of it but others I want to hold onto it. Woa – ramble much? Haha!
love & blessings
~*~
This magazine looks lovely. I will have to see if I can find a copy here (just in case I don’t win…LOL!)
I *adore* old Victorians!! Someday I hope to buy one and refurbish it – and now I know exactly who to call to decorate it 🙂
True Christmas I’d say. Congratulations on the articles! Ginger bread houses are the best as well as the cookies. Hope that your holiday preparations are coming along smoothly.
Oh Vanessa….I would love your extra copy. My grandson and I attempt to make a gingerbread house every holiday….some turn out better than others….but the fun is in the making and the creating…..IS IT NOT??? Unfortunately IT IS NEVER EDIBLE. LOL LOL LOL
WOULD LOVE TO WIN.
xo
Jo
I would love to receive the magazine. I once made a gingerbread house and wanted to try and preserve it so I sprayed it with some sort of clear acrylic. I told my son that it was not edible….guess, what? he started eating it. He’s still alive and that’s been over 30 years ago.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
yes, it’s because it’s a business account but you are allowed 2 accounts on fb ..one business, one personal so get with the program missy…LOL
Yep.. I love gingerbread and please enter me in the contest for this magazine since they are once again sold out 🙁 It does look like an awesome magazine. And you know I always have to have your articles. You are a ball of blazing inspiration for me! And one of these days I will have something to photograph for you ( well hoping hehehe).
Oh wow… I cannot wait to see this movie…thanks so much for sharing it … I haven’t heard of it before.
Big hugs,
Deb
Yay, pretty! I only just managed to get my hands on the last magazine you had stuff in. I really enjoyed Austenland. I read the books years ago so I was super excited for the movie!
What an awesome magazine to have the chance to win!! You asked if I had ever ice skated? Well, I was born in Chicago and during the winter when the snow was thick my dad would mound the snow up in the backyard to form a rectangle and then fill it with water…by the next morning we had our own private ice rink!! It was sure fun being a kid where it snows!
Thanks for your wonderful blog, Vanessa…you bring ‘happy’ into my heart 🙂
Years ago, I subscribed to Victoria Magazine..before it left and came back. That magazine depicted everything I loved and dreamed about…those homes, the scenery, the clothes, Ohhhhh the clothes…. That is my daydream in reality…….the way I would live if given the choice… ..I adored everything, and I mean everything about that magazine. In fact, I no longer subscribe to any magazine….and haven’t since that time it left….
Even though my tastes are ever evolving and more simple… I still adore this era… That and the 14-16th centuries… Love me a good romance with a Wench and a Fabio manly man! That’s a wholeeeeeee other conversation!
Your magazine contributions are absolutely stunning Miss V. I do love your decor. You’re a true renaissance woman you know? Artist, sculptor, musician, chef, baker, jeweller, gardener, home decorator. I’m sure I missed about a gazillion. What is it with this generation of women and their amazing talents? Gorgeous magazine overall, do enter me? 😉 And OUI OUI I love gingerbread! Tim Horton’s up here in Canada released a special gingerbread white hot chocolate for the festive season and it is to die for! Sort of tastes like a really creamy and sweet chai latte!
Congratulations on your articles!
It looks like a really neat issue.
I like gingerbread houses. We once made a gingerbread house that was an ALice Nizzie Nazzie adobe and it had roadrunner pipe-cleaner feet.
Bee-yoo-ti-full!
I once splurged on Victorian interior design books off Amazon a few years ago just to get lost in the glossy luxuriousness of it all, ahhh. While not gingerbread, this weekend my closest friends and I built a graham cracker party mansion and Sears tower with royal icing hehehe oh and the hubs got me to go ice-skating once–ONCE–and I stayed glued to the wall and went around and around like a goldfish in a bowl. But what did he expect?? I’m from the south!
Congrats on those articles btw!
My goodness what a scrumptious looking magazine/issue! Yes, I could move right in 🙂 And I didn’t know you wrote articles – fun!
I have spent this week making lots and lots of Jul goodies (and I will post about it on Sunday :)), but no ginger bread. The Swedish kinds are so spicey and kind of hard on my stomach.
I would love to win this magazine. Pick me!
I grew up on figure skates and hockey stick in my hand, skating every minute I could on a small pond across the street from my house in New Jersey. Now I’m in Idaho and my husband and I went through our sons entire childhood in the local hockey program in Salmon, Idaho. It was the best thing for our family! So much fun and so many wonderful memories. I just adore your work Vanessa, and would love that copy of the new magazine. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
What a beautiful magazine!! Gingerbread houses, ice skating, Christmas parties…I never did these as a child but as an adult! Once I had my three children it was like getting permission to be a child again but how I imagined it! My favorite thing to do is make little vignettes around my home so you get a ‘pop’ of a surprise where you least expect it 🙂
Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy New Year to you, Lovee, Matty and Milesâ¤ï¸
What a gorgeous issue! And congrats on being included in it 🙂 I would adore a copy! I haven’t been able to get out much this Christmas season thanks to the upper respiratory infection that won’t go away so my lovely holiday magazines are lacking this year 🙁
Thank you so much for sharing how wonderful this magazine is! I’ve never really looked at it before, but now I’d love to read (and win) a copy of the issue! One town I used to live in had major Victorian homes and some of them would have open houses during the holidays. I’d always go with my friends–we’d dress up and tour, then go somewhere to eat cake and coffee/tea.
Ohhh I see the Peter Pan 100%. I have been a fan of peter Pan since I was a small child. All of the old fashioned victorians remind me of Peter Pan. 🙂
OK Vanessa darling, I have been out of this blog land for days and consumed with stuff going on here! YIKES, Christmas is Wednesday!!!!
I had to check in and I needed to see what you have been up to and “CONGRATULATIONS” are in order my dear!
These magazine pages look like my kind of English Victorian YUM that takes me away like the old calgon commercial states. Truly scrumptious are these pages and reminds me of my past favorite Victoria magazine article from December 1999 with the author Rosamunde Pilchers home in Scotland. I just want to jump into them!!!
This movie has me literally squealing!!! I had no idea! I am sooo glad you posted about it!
Take care and sending holiday “LOVE” to you and the boys! Yummo gingerbread, I so want some NOW!!!;)
Congratulations on your published articles. Love all the pictures!
Count me in for the prize draw dear Vanessa! I love looking at the Victoria type (and the original) magazines with a magnifying glass in hand. I’ve done this for years. It’s all in the details my dear. There’s eye candy spilling over like a bubbling pot of 7-minute frosting and you can easily miss 50%+ if you don’t really look. So I take in the first sight and oooh and ahhhh and then get down to business with the glass. I spy each table, each counter, each shelf, each tablescape, each wall, well…every square inch really. I love looking but I could never in a zillion years live in it. I like little spots of it in my home. Tiny collections. Like on my work table in front of me is one fresh branch of holly with red berries laying behind an Italian oval shape porcelain candy dish (about 4.5″ long by 2.75″ wide at the widest point but the shallow sides curve up so the bottom is even smaller) in which sit exactly 4 snowmen and 1 angel with missing wings that are those wooden ball style painted figures from Germany originally but made in Japan and China also. This is my Christmas decoration for this year and it makes my heart sing. Everybody is smiling in that dish. It puts a smile on my face. And so does your blog. Holiday wishes to you V., *smiles* Norma, x
I think my message disappeared. Congratulations on your published articles. Lovely pictures.
How weird, typepad does eat comments sometimes 😉 Darn thing 😉
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In a message dated 12/20/2013 10:35:23 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,
Gorgeous post! Vanessa, dear…
What wondrous lovelies! I want the doll in the red dress with blond hair! And also the doll on top of the stand above the three vintage radios. I love vintage style dolls! (Of course!) These Victorian Homes magazine photos are over-the-top!
I’m so happy you were featured and wrote an article too! Fabulous!
Yes! I’ll say Yes! To your giveaway!
The vintage style elephant on one of the trees was so special!
Thank you for sharing these stunning photos.
Have a blessed day!
Miss Teresa
I was obsessed with ice skating, always watched the Europeans and worlds on tv but had never gotten the chance to go until about 5 years ago I went with my friend and promptlt fell…and broke my wrist in 3 places. Hence no more skates for me!!
As for Gingerbread, well I hate to say I never liked it! Theres a place in the Lake District here called Grasmere that is famous for its gingerbread, people queue for ages to get some, but I’ve never seen the fascination!
I LOVE ice skating. I wish I would have taken figure skating as a child cause I think it was one sport that I might have been good at. LOL. I used to roller skate every Sunday at the rink growing up too. What fun!
Don’t care for ginger bread though,
Congrats on the articles in Victorian Homes! Would love to win the copy from you.
Happy Holidays!
Tracy M.
Are you on facebook’s NAUGHTY list? It happens you know, and to all the best people.
I know they have a limit of 5,000 likes for personal pages. but I have seen business pages like at least a hundred. (I am way over 5,000 and they keep catching me.)
I was never a good roller skater but I felt I could glide on ice. Maybe because I wouldn’t be out as long. We did a lot of warming by the firering. We even had our own skating rink in the back yard when we were growin up – between the apple and plum tree!
And a company in our town was very responsible for developing fake (plastic) skating rinks back in the 60s. Come to think about it, there is a real plastic snow factory around here too!
One word came to mind as I scrolled down WOW! The colours the beauty of the era. Would love to win this magazine.
It’s all so beautiful! I’ve only ice skated once, when I was a little girl. I mostly fell down. I do love to decorate with old ice skates for Christmas though! I would love copy of this beautiful magazine. You bring so much magic and inspiration to my life!
facebook has a naughty list??? Oh my gosh, hahahaa, so funny!!
Someone said it might be because I dont have a personal account attached to the
business account…. oh well 🙂
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In a message dated 12/20/2013 3:24:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
In my 20’s I used to make things and sell them at craft faires. Country folk art, Victorian and rag dolls. I used to subscribe to all those beautiful magazines. I would pore over them and dream of my Victorian Gingerbread house, filled with antiques and beautiful things. I think that’s why I love your blog so much, because it reinforces that even though my talents have been buried for awhile, the spark can shine through one day. Thanks so much Vanessa for sharing your light.
Oooooh, that’s a gorgeous magazine and even if I don’t win a copy, I’ll have to look for one on the newstands. I subscribe to Victoria magazine and have a love for that time period. Everything seemed so lush, elegant, and simple.
Side note, I totally agree with what Dawn R. said above me. That’s how many of us feel about you, V.
Anything Victorian is wonderful! Maybe we need a Victorian Tea Party blog hop. :O)
Oh my, that magazine looks so amazing!!! Everything about it pulls at my heat strings🖤
Broke my leg ice skating in 2nd grade..I was wearing my Mothers ice skates that were too big for me…Love that kitchen..Hope you had a wonderful Christmas..
Dearest Vanessa,
I am so glad to make your acquaintance. Yes this was such an incredible issue and I am so sad that it is sold out. We were blessed to be in this issue along with you and the other incredible home that is in Pittsburgh I was responsible for getting included in the issue as well. It was a dream come true. Thank you for your kind comments on the photos of our home listed above. I would love to win this issue because I only was able to get a few at the time because it went so quickly. The magazine only gave us one complimentary issue. Now it is sold out and it doesn’t seem as though they are going to print any more! I would love to be able to give a very close elderly friend her an issue. Your contributions to the magazine helped make it such a sensational issue. Please consider me!!