A Return to Loveliness

I'll Take Romance

A Return to Loveliness

The pages of the February issues of Victoria Magazine

are among the most romantic.

Romantically composed, the issues invite you

to be their Valentine.

Then you're swept away to 

beautiful scenery of

romantic flowers, lace, table settings

and romantic dining.

February issues are among the most treasured

next to the Christmas issues.

I think Nancy Lindemeyer said it

so well in her "Dear Friends letter

in the 1999 issue. 

"Yes, I do hear a waltz and seek out a slipper moon,

so slim and delicate, and make wishes. I keep close to my heart.

I tarry outside flower-shop windows and gaze at the 

bouquets of roses wrapped in white paper and tied with

luscious red ribbons. I sip champagne and indulge my fancy 

for chocolate. In short, the happiness in my heart

knows no bounds in this month of love and joy.

What better time to admire a glowing bride or a child

with a tiny gold heart around her sweet neck? We romantics

are members of a secret society, and know each other by the 

way our eyes shine on a starry night and how we sway ever

so gently to a band playing old-fashoined love songs."

Nancy Lindemeyer

 Beautiful covers depicting the most romantic of flowers

Roses

There is much to find to love in the February issues of Victoria Magazine

I am thrilled with the newest issue, of which I shared a little bit here.

What a glorious month - filled with love, joy and promises.

I hope you find as much loveliness in the issues of Victoria as I do

both past and present.

Happy Valentines,

A Return to Loveliness

Is a blog party I host each week. I celebrate the inspiration

of the classic and current issues of Victoria Magazine.

They're timeless.

This is an opportunity for you to share how

you bring loveliness into your life and home.

To Join

Simply create a post linking back to A Delightsome Life.

Copy the URL specific to your post - and follow the 3 step Linky

provided below.

Come, celebrate with us - YOU are always welcome and make it special!

and

Winner to the Valentine's

$75 CSN 

Giveaway is

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Congratulations!

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Victoria Magazine - A Return to Loveliness No. 13

October marked a bittersweet transition

To

Victoria Magazine

In her familiar welcome, Nancy Lindemeyer noted

October as a

“time to gather dreams

month filled with hushed mornings and

brightly lit days

a time for musing on our dreams

month to find quality and value,

touchstones in our lives

month to capture the sensibilities

of Edith Wharton

to celebrate pilgrimages with Madeleine L’Engle

a month to celebrate the spirit and the prose of Colette

a time to bring home the patina of the past

and

a month for discovery and treasure hunting”

then it was in the October 2000 issue

that Nancy Lindemeyer bid

“Adieu”

to us, her friends

Victoria’s faithful readers.

Following that year, there were two more years

that Victoria was published.

Something fine was missing from the cover and the

pages of the following issues.

What made Victoria exceptional seemed to have

been filed away, stored on some shelf.

The font for the header changed and there was

no longer the familiar,

“Dear Friends”.

October remains a month of transition

a bittersweet month

we bid goodbye to the

balmy days of Summer

and greet the days with

crisp, cool mornings-marvelling at the

“brightly lit days”.

I will forever be grateful to Nancy Lindemeyer,

 the inspired writers, photographers

and all who worked together

to bring such a fine, feminine

reminder of the exceptional in our lives.

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I hope you join me each Tuesday as I and others

celebrate Victoria Magazine.

Simply:

1. Create a post celebrating a Victoria issue, column,

picture, writer or how you’ve incorporated

Victoria style into your life.

2. Copy the link specific to your post and add it

to the linky below.

3. Please visit as many others as possible. I understand

being busy, but it encourages others and

can inspire you!

Wishing you a very Delightsome day,

Kathy

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Victoria - A Return To Loveliness No. 10

In Praise of

September

Victoria

Finding the Quiet

Center of One’s Life

I am fascinated in that this time of the year I find myself

and others are reevaluating certain things in their lives. Whether

it be the scheme in their garden, the arrangement of the

decorations in their homes, their personal , mental

and physical life. Is it built into us? Is it due in part

to the onset of the Fall Season?

photo Toshi Otsuki - Victoria 1993

I love this thought visited by Victoria in
the September issues –

Finding the Quiet Center of One’s Life

photo Thomas Hooper Victoria 1993

Nancy Lindemeyer quoted Sarah Orne Jewett in the 1993 issue,

“Find your own quiet centre of life, and write from that to

the world”, the novelist advised Willa Cather.

photo Toshi Otsuki Victoria 1993

Nancy further noted that this advice “struck a chord”, that

she always “felt that so much in life – writing, painting,

mothering—falls into place when we address our own

quiet centers.

photo Toshi Otsuki Victoria 1993

I agree with Nancy that finding our own quiet centers takes

time “to bring us to a place of tranquility". It is through our

life experiences, through learning from others that we can

chart our life’s courses and see where we want to be, who

we want to be and how we want to live and appreciate our

life her on earth. 

photo Toshi Otsuki Victoria 1993

What wonderful advice from an extraordinary lady.

I hope you join me each Tuesday as I and others celebrate

Victoria Magazine.

Simply:

1. Create a post celebrating a Victoria issue, column, picture, writer or how you’ve incorporated

Victoria style into your life.

2.  Copy the link specific to your post and add it to the linky.

3.  Please visit as many others as possible. I understand being busy, but it encourages others and can inspire you!

Wishing you a very Delightsome day,

Kathy

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