I love decorating magazines.  Before marriage and children, I would spends hours in a bookstore flipping thru magazine after magazine looking for my dream house style.   Back in those days when the money was all mine, I would also buy all those magazines.  I would then go home sit down and corner all my favorite pages.  After a few months had passed, and the magazine rack was over flowing, I would tear out those favorite pages and put them in a file.   After a flood in our closet last month I was forced to purge and throw away some of those pages.  It was funny to see the things I liked 10 years ago.

You know, it is interesting the things you come across going through boxes that have not been opened in awhile.  To my astonishment, I found months worth of my two favorite decorating/design magazines.
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Cottage Living was my absolute favorite. It focused on cottage style. The magazine would show pictures of inside other peoples cottage style homes. Boy the dreaming I used to do.

I would look at these pages and start planning what my future home would look like. They had this great section in the first pages of the magazine that focused on an area of the house, like a sitting area. The next few pages would then give you ideas on how you could create this look.

Ok, not the best picture, but anywho.

Next came domino. This magazine fed the eclectic in me. My favorite part was the page of sticky tabs that came with each magazine. You did not have to corner any pages, you would use the sticky tabs. Absolute genius I tell you.

I have since organized all the old magazines and put them away yet again. Searching through the pages has given me some great ideas to start decorating my home.

I no longer spend money on decorating/design magazines. The extra dollars go to what I like to call “mama” magazines. It was fun to sit on the floor and rummage through all those pages. It reminded me that I still have much spring cleaning to do. Time to get to work.