Vol. 13 No. 2 - The Painted Garden

Vol. 13 No. 2 - The Painted Garden

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74th issue of The Storybook Home Journal™. Made & Printed in the USA. Categories: Magazine, Movie Shoes, Nancy Young, Noel Streatfield & The Painted Garden

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Vol. 13 No. 2 of The Storybook Home Journal

The Painted Garden


What's in this issue?

The Best Game the Decorating article

Creating imaginative home interiors by using inspirations from favorite books, time periods and grand houses



It's As If He Was Here the Hearth article

Hands-on tips and techniques for photographing and painting pets



Too Good To Be Eaten In A Hurry the Kitchen article

A compendium on acheiving a wide sampling starring the quick and delicious popover



Better Than Any Other Piano the Music article

List of 51 recommended composers of piano concertos.



Bowers Of Flowers the Garden article

How the Bougainvillea came to be, and how to grow it indoors and out



A Table As A Desk the Workshop article

Making a fabulous in-home desk and workspace using recycled materials



Living Richly Without Being Rich the Attic article

Recreating The Painted Garden as a family getaway



Some Of My Favorite Haunts the Writer's Garret article



From the Newsroom


Christmas issues of The Storybook Home Journal

By Nancy Young


These are the Christmas issues of The Storybook Home Journal, each of which is available directly from the Studios on the main product page for the Journal:... Read more »

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Storybook Life (overview)

By Nancy Young
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The Papers of Seymore Wainscott TM by Al R. Young (overview)

By Al R. Young novellas constituting the papers
Novellas constituting this product are available for purchase directly and solely from Al Young Studios.  They are not available in retail outlets.  Novellas are printed on demand, and can be purchased individually.  Each 24-page novella is printed in full color.  No advertisements.  Page size - 8.5 in. x 11 in. (printed on 11 in. x 17 in. sheets, folded and stapled).  Paper weight - 24#.

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The Boxwood Folios, currently consisting of a single volume, introduces the lytfolc whose world exists alongside the world of the greátfolc; however, the two peoples do not interact... Read more »

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Eastertide brioches and bouchons

By Nancy Young


For the first time ever the spring issue of the journal didn't make it out before Easter.  We blame the demise of two computers and their attendant files for the delay--luckily Tanner, our resident computer whiz, saved the work, but a new computer and reconfiguration ate up too many of the days of March.  (Of course, the issue will still be appearing in mailboxes soon!) 

By way of a modest apology, we're sending out a couple of easy, but scrumptious Eastertide baking ideas--Brioche a Tweets and Almond Bouchons as well as our wishes for a lovely and memorable Easter Sunday... Read more »

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"Dressing up in a big way" (The Painted Garden or Movie Shoes

By Al R. Young
 "Probably the most exasperating thing about the Fashion is its elusiveness.  Even the word has a dozen definitions, and when it is pinned down and qualified, as "the Fashion in woman's dress," it becomes ridiculous and stilted and is gone again.  

To catch at its skirts is the safest to say that it is a kind of miracle, a familiar phenomenon.  Why is it that a garment which is honestly attractive, in, say 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and therefore are jolly and exciting and in addition to the perennial interest of life... Read more »

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New Issue of the Storybook Home Shipped - The Painted Garden

By Al R. Young The The Painted Garden issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - The Best Game (5 pages)Hearth - It's As If He Was Here (4 pages)Kitchen - Too Good To Be Eaten In A Hurry (5 pages)Music - Better Than Any Other Piano (1 page)Garden - Bowers Of Flowers (3 pages)Workshops - A Table As A Desk (3 pages)Attic - Living Richly Without Being Rich (1 page)Garret - Some Of My Favorite Haunts (2 pages)The Painted Garden is the 80th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

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