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List Price: $29.70
Our Price: $19.95
You Save: $ 9.75 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
Manufacturer: Belvoir Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: Belvoir Publications, Inc.
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Belvoir Publications, Inc.
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: Belvoir Publications, Inc.
Release Date: 2001-11-23
Studio: Belvoir Publications, Inc.
Subscription Length: 365
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The home decorating magazine from the famed illustrator, providing women with ideas and inspiration to be creative with home.
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Summary: LOVED the old Home Companion magazine
Comment: It's interesting to see all the rave reviews for this magazine were written before they changed the format, and the one that gave not so good review was written more recently. Why no good new reviews? Maybe they are doing what Mom taught us, if you don't have anything nice to say....
I am saying something because I wish they would go back to how it used to be. I loved this magazine and looked forward to each new issue. In fact, I have all of them and still enjoy them. But when they changed it I let my subscription run out. I tried it again a couple years ago, and it still didn't live up to the old style. I was hoping to see some good recent reviews here...hoping it had improved. Mary Englebreit, what happened?!
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Summary: love ME and this mag!
Comment: My favorite feature is the artist highlight where they show different artists and their workspaces. I also really enjoy the homes and decor. I have found so many great ideas for my own house! I enjoy the variety of advertisers and the free prints.
The paperdolls are cute but they were so tedious to cut out that we never attempted it again. I still enjoy looking at them though.
The only part of this magazine that I consistently don't like are the recipes. I would rather those pages be used for holiday, home, or project ideas!
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Summary: Very Little I find Useful
Comment: I wasn't sure what to expect from this magazine, but I know I was thinking I would get some interesting/unusual crafting ideas, home decorating tips, and maybe a few recipes. Although visually appealing, this is my least favorite magazine of the ones I subscribe to. There is so little I find useful. There is an abundance of ads, very little applicable content. I will not resubscribe.
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Summary: What I think of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine
Comment: This is a very interesting publication. It shows different styles of decorating how to incorporate them into your home spaces. It takes you to different areas and reccomends places of interest,shares some recipes,shows some of Marys artwork and gives a page you can frame, if you choose. Mary has different artists work featured and gives you insight as to how they came to do what they do.
I would say it is a very interesting magazine and is a bright spot in my day when I need to unwind.
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Summary: The only one left.
Comment: I had only one non-professional magazine subscription (I'm a graphic designer) up until about two years ago, because that one magazine covered all my periodical interests, and was incredibly beautiful (so much so that I often used its photos as subject matter for my art projects). That magazine was Victoria. I was pretty much at a loss when it stopped coming.
I started sampling and even subscribing to a few other rags I found lying around at the gym and the doctors' office: fashion magazines (mostly a bit snobby, tritely oversexed and/or mainstream, and EXPENSIVE), cooking magazines (too time-consuming and too many calories), home decorating magazines (my home is already pretty dang charming, and I can only take so much decorator drivel. People's homes should be their own creations, even if they have no evident source of income and no other creative outlet or artistic bent), health and fitness (too obsessed with external beauty and the latest diet trend), and lifestyle mags (like RealSimple and MarthaStewartLiving--too minimalist, cheap-looking, fussy and overwrought, or space-agey post modern).
So I get this thing in the mail for a free trial issue of Home Companion. I am not a giant fan of Mary's Art, (while I think some of it is clever and makes for not-too-sappy greeting cards, and children's books), but I am a big sucker for free stuff and for anything "try-before-you-buy", and I liked the idea of peeking into other real artists' habitats. So I mailed the card, never having seen the mag.
Needless to say, I subscribed. It is kind of a 30's- through 60's-style take on the same subject matter as Victoria: Entrepreneurship, decorating, craft and DIY ideas, food, organizational tips, unique shopping, short fiction, etc.
While I still prefer Victoria's classically elegant turn-of-the-century through roaring twenties style, and miss its offbeat fashion features and listing of local cultural events nationwide, and the occasional international content (my being from a bi-continental marriage), Home Companion is well-balanced, creative, attractive (lovable and well-designed in a campy Americana sort of way), and an all-around fun read. It makes me happy, and does a fine job of filling my need for a practical, sensible, beautiful, girly respite from my career self.
I'm letting those other subscriptions expire, one by one.
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