Magazines

I have a confession to make. Decorating magazines are like crack to me. Every few years I go on a binge...I can't get enough. I buy as many as I can find and then tap my nails on the coffee table until the next month's mags hit the stands.

In some ways I am a very visual person. I get a satisfaction from witnessing beauty. Art feeds me. Patterns, contrast and color are like condiments spread on the "meat" of the artistic piece; a canvas, a photograph or a computer screen. It's all good...and all fascinating to me.

I can stare at the pictures for hours, and then stare again, never tiring of the eye-candy.  Occasionally I will find an article worth reading, but I really just buy them to look at. I pore over every detail, then I dog-ear pages or tear them out and add them to my file of magazine clippings. Most of the time, I find it difficult to throw them away, because I know I will get the same rush if I look at them again, later. (and I do!)

It's a sickness, I know.

I especially love magazines that zero-in on specific things, like instead of a craft magazine, I'd like a knitting-with-hand-spun-yarns magazine. So when it comes to decorating, of course, I like to buy magazines that feature certain styles. I subscribe to Traditional Home magazine for this reason. I also enjoy magazines like Veranda and Renovation Style. But when I saw a magazine devoted solely to "Lighting",
I knew I had to have it.

I paid for mine off the newsstand, but YOU CAN GET IT FREE! I have provided you a link below, in case you are "quirky" like me and would like to take a look at some of the new concepts in lighting. Sconces, pendants, chandeliers...they have it all! Click the link below to request your free copy.

http://www.americanlightingassoc.com/

Now, let the visual feasting begin!