Vintage postcards....

Thank you to my lovely new followers! If you'd like to follow Modern Country Style, the super-shiny brand new 'Follow' button is on the sidebar to your right. See it? It just needs a teeny click and you're there!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVFUKzmp0647sUXdNaTPKML9UjrlSD4JIaVOE1C6hEIW9f07jwZ0AfJOBlPvdu57eg782ztsHLSHc2yahf7H6c1HBc5zpyZGqiUzkKU5C_F1DK_UF13OwfHLuzU-3C8C9riP902k_A8Ma8/s1600/19aug10+082.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507443444702807474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVFUKzmp0647sUXdNaTPKML9UjrlSD4JIaVOE1C6hEIW9f07jwZ0AfJOBlPvdu57eg782ztsHLSHc2yahf7H6c1HBc5zpyZGqiUzkKU5C_F1DK_UF13OwfHLuzU-3C8C9riP902k_A8Ma8/s400/19aug10+082.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br /><div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmx07tx1ZohpbImngX9W0TSNIdj8mCEeQtU91Hkcd0Rqx2fBBJs90pvXF9loPiUMz4MHCxSPNs7NAMKshMl-_s0j7uDwXqTTwV9Q5YXJtpqQiF2gF_ORKJBB0HyV5PwpA81cLnio_gUsBL/s1600/19aug10+075.jpg"></a></div><div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>When I was a little girl, an old lady I used to visit once a week called Mrs Exeter gave me a pile of old letters and postcards. At the time, I thought it was rather a boring present (yes, I am ashamed I ever thought such a thing...) but now I love them! They're not just any old postcards. They are correspondence from 1930s England between my friend and her godson Gordon. </div><div><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507444391753817186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKBrH5O15mONY8ZpFc0x4zkOlUniYdETFiks3Ud26xqbhyIr3saQ1x56f6_09cuOLjTnjawybNO4-CuckXq9I6K3BCsQHp0ndr5UahIEZaEfZ7oUBFagI8BJm2IJXEtycaPDYUecAAA5oi/s400/19aug10+072.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> They've been sitting around stored away and I had all but forgotten about them in the hustle and bustle of every day life. Then last week, they suddenly popped into to my mind and set me a-wondering what I could do with them. It seemed such a shame to just have them stashed away. I wanted them, or at least some of them, to be on display. But how to do it?<br /><br /><div></div><div>I found two picture frames that I really loved. I'd bought them a while ago but hadn't yet used them. Do you buy the frames before you've decided how to use them or buy as you need them? </div><div><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507440180332817378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7gCoZyS2hbliFP8UtZ3vd0bIoM5yjpJnezqE5D1xMLcsK93xeKOrxeyxcXu-i8IlvBdjXfZhbQH3eR_Ksna2SsKNHEbb2NJvd8rCSWdLBERry8r57OrrzbO_rTCR_mD42w9tFza5jopY/s400/19aug10+070.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />I find if I buy when I need them then I can't always find what I'm looking for. So, if I see a picture frame I particularly like then I often buy it and look out for how I can use it. I will, of course, have to stop this frame-buying fetish sooner or later, otherwise our house will be filled top-to-botttom with picture frames!<br /><br /><div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507440172026665826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEsYHLe1MtMahSqV_56pidXoxttnlIUZc3ROd0zo0K6D3-yCvsvPMMEqY-X_zkF1wuQSIcOGHwOQT4Sdt8DO9qt-Ak0YC2KPTSq4C-dr4gW2HYi9kzKcapcTULcxod-tNjI3mDtWxZ53c1/s400/19aug10+069.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br /><div></div><div>They're slightly distressed off-white wooden frames. One is slightly larger than the other, which I like. Adding interest and all that.</div><br /><div></div><div>I picked out two letters that I liked the colours of especially (no orange stamps for me!!!).<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507444385105236434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzZjRJL7HLlqrgIMdEmNd0JVWASww1zTUKXT2JZ51FFJEng8_cEp_ugXgWyQzXh3Ed-IZp815Xan1bvI_DGXkWaF90yjYEsJbjQp5CZj9RodPOGznp8-6rQji8G_KIydEdOvFdk9sTNoC/s400/19aug10+071.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />One has a lovely old red stamp and slightly yellowed paper. Aaaah! So gorgeous. Really and truly vintage.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507446307125533906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JOS94EHTPNP2ag4Fj9G8zQOwxAw2Gq-WXCFD4l8EGu0ASbbAGEZATHXYNw59bDtooNPUfeOVFJsxNx5RXN_PmGHWLb81vAc7yQghZiEYkGR_e_u3rJ9vF91CXy8fHJ7Ev7xdFNqWGS3P/s400/19aug10+074.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br /></div><div>The other is the envelope from a letter in a gorgeous grey-green-blue colour (as you will know, my favourite ever colour, in its many guises).</div><br /><div>Then it was just a matter of popping them in the frames. The envelope did need trimming slightlyto fit, which I feel terribly guilty about. But, I decided it was better to be cut and out, than hidden away in a box, so I got scissor-happy....<br /><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507441749910098994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0iTJrGiSBAuXJGR0MnirzN-ChrRmjq1f0dU6-RRejJdwvdhyHU9AC6KARVa7zeoSuZsLhpHDfapcNIYCx7TyziMbC5bLuQZ4LYbsB0UQ0mkSFcpYrAoJhcGoeja8TFE8Y0a_oGOhI4Fdz/s400/19aug10+077.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> <div></div><div></div><div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507440170736045362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQG92kvLJp1G43Ka9SZ1X8byoxwUZauIRCxXuLTLccWW06IgI5AecL6GQW9cjeZgiaRF4oMGFLynDpotIEI58Ltp8ELpb2Zq9Xw7dbMYi-iUbxIdgyhaNAj-SXuNV1OXS6bSLAnFfIpRTP/s400/19aug10+068.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507440158787488082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEior0H1HHtlQF2TVxdCUucTUWam2m2dKhUaZzDCcWBNYnZBbLBp6u4Xy0yCON1U4jdnLUJ0oUCgyYFLIHd78kBuET8ZMO24WVuFot86N1dbx_QmtqQGPNbHgm4Qqc-SLjbWw86ZNGp_qrbi/s400/19aug10+067.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div></div><div><br />And putting them out on our console table in our living room, which was looking a little bare.</div><div></div><div><br />I'm so pleased with this project! What do you think? Do you like them? </div><div> </div><div>What would you have done with a box of old letters? Ideas on a postcard!! (hoho)....or, much easier, you can leave a comment below....</div><div><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507441753027876242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvlT6vcoZ2OizqTtDZh69_YHzxnbSMnRsd7edh42fuy1xiDWkv2CKJFWTqUjG9Fu7BkbO7aj_qDhCC-L8L4XmR5wogUNDZpa1js5hPc8u4bynDuKETvXjADuwQz82-j1UvW8m6mQIeQeo/s400/19aug10+080.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507443438555513042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpYGN17DJ1DNWrKnaZcZ1lK_eSEjlVYgUlROL4DIsh6-zv-X7EIUfIwLdc4v8kOjZWM068DZr7KVmCiAkddltUt4kkFq7h8msZpURuV3B0V98n1OwVGcAP8R8ZAR2VcIhjaAFqvg0wBm2G/s400/19aug10+079.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><p>Well, it's Friday again, which means a lovely weekend ahead! I hope you have a smashing time, whatever you do, enjoying the last of the summer days. </p>

Vintage postcards....

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Modern Country Style blog love: Room Seventeen

I've just stumbled on a new blog - well, new to me anyway - and it's perfection! You know how it is when you see blog link after blog link and then one of them REALLY leaps out at you. That was this one for me. It's called <a href="http://roomseventeenstyle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#33ffff;">Room Seventeen.</span> </span></a><br /><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506729673019365858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFOvdsngw3oR9RyrYDwJmJ9YcNJmzYZmBd-NYvSmwfKdiT3rNXaLH7-H9BY7LvHuQhHV4Wo0RVMCSwodiPfPih6Gru4KEWqTQOFSwKPfQw8_54SEq_o48JYF7rDv74nrDqXhEuSE-gtZQ/s400/100_9135-1.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />It's a Dutch blog but thanks to the wonders of Mr Google, it can be translated reasonably well in a twinkling of an eye. Magic, isn't it. I could just stare at these photos all day, couldn't you? The colours (or lack of!!), the texture, the way the rooms are styled. Ooooooh!<br /><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506729678535340130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8eG8AXUyzKhoNLaZLT_aAQ4eXYZyQT41bhIiWd-ZIcipiLG8F0_MBkWtvZkiByAzEM35hvfak80N-CH8tzTDKMOl08SUg5nBs-axoUD4N4YLxChuH_zwLgkd4lmTmQqnBXYpBiCjWhAPb/s400/Dec2.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>I love the branches in the rough urn and the dark, brooding walls, contrasting with the cosy armchair, complete with cushion. Who wouldn't want to sit there and pass the afternoon away reading by the light of the lamp?</p><p>Room Seventeen has a mixture of inspirational posts and privileged peeks into the author's life and home. My favourite kind of blog. There's not too little inspirational material that it feels like a diary and not too little 'real life' posts that it feels impersonal. </p><p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506729691407398098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiflAiSnJIulZS9eminSuMqS9NIqS9k4QA_1ub_QPKZt2qo5sa1phrRXuewl7uMaQyCgjhsxKkaAQuPa-GRr7NvMMBlJS_-E2JyXm6aBdMy9HpZdxvb2tfGrNfraoWcV_4r8EB4ZLXireh/s400/interieur.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 265px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 326px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> </p><br /><p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506729683843969810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNBPaqFmsGxY8siY3zXSsNLZvBGeHMQQ9gQThUmxw-7vBgnvLVPkWWygL5TH9-nyQFlo4PYfBq62WzFbSP2SZ7id4Wu2AeRAutDymemZ3XX2w4SEfuy1rVv9PrJs9wKlH_xKdJ2ZsV-Qh/s400/Foto+19_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></p><br /><p>The content is generally plain, elegant and simple. All in a good way. In fact, 'plain and simple' probably undersells the care and attention to detail in these photos. Beautifully put together, they encompass all that's lovely about Modern Country Style.</p><p></p><br /><p></p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506733126069317746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4KsZ5w73lrmdZygd7tOI5kUSzVLw_pv5YrAFqZ5MB399dGkUirZG4IccEc_Xg5fS7nIRVKXzc4CV4nIaVsqDd4GXImcOaHmORPYeRQ9HPvuVSyFJLzpslxw0D_R5QUF-olw0-VuM77kA/s400/rm1.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> <p></p><p>Chrome lamps with wicker shades. How original is that? Complete clash of old and new. And pulled off so stylishly.</p><p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506729686463830114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzyDgw-OqqVBF5zgpV2y7Jz6lZRWWhqm0Zx831BL0YDkWAPyIDnuTSEYppyQGK4t08RQAzwBX1TfBeKXAgd-iPPIG2gmDdh0wWoxRQ7GvEOBfMDWRzJ46yo-GTEmk3RFDXfineUW9F0yP/s400/inspiration_02.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></p><br /><p>Thank you so much for stopping by at Modern Country Style. Please have a good snoop around and don't forget to let me know what you think!! </p><p>Thank you for all the lovely comments recently. Can you hear my heart skip?!</p><p></p>

Modern Country Style blog love: Room Seventeen

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Book review: At Home with Country by Christian Strutt

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGC-HQ6H1Pj-AeIAaKb-VnfPEAwoTlLrz9EMagI2mvAMLVB_t57U0T6ISuDCac_u4e0-7bt5M5_nfMZP4ULnon4Tj0Joh-OOV0PFgdhCZ1sylpGJ1EJXY7NPknDjkAgukm7MvivJPZTrb/s1600/15aug10+031.jpg"></a><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Yes, another post on Cabbages and Roses! I was so inspired by my own blog that I popped over to Amazon, my second home, and got all <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">spendy</span>! </div><div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506366005924335730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAUGCLEqt4aTWvmFPX4RaE57h4OdpJkoHWucOh22PZzDs3JuuAEOl0WjevcQqalgGsWrBpD9iL0zyTZGUD-Q4WP0wc0HEuRhkWknykSD8CvnZNdrlFv7O_-sTzruMQ7cAQ6ZPlwsxXo9b/s400/15aug10+023.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506369736538714962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQWmIM7yjqIOAmMPOJ-36Tr3cUrtY7XWFP-x2L8Du_wNXsv2zE6onlzT3c2F8UCJBQbJfJUSYb1arjyXDGejl_KbfaLRydPVic3vnOZcCifXtV4pUfRohgMSYXlDgYSlkpcKtEqPgkClv/s400/15aug10+033.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />Christina <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Strutt</span>, founder of Cabbages and Rose, was, once upon a time, assistant Vogue Living editor. She certainly knows what's what when it comes to styling.<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>Her fifth book, At Home With Country: Bringing the Comforts of Country Home arrived this morning and I am simply bursting to share it with you! <div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506366018032273138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-ZfvOlQ3-8m6_swj1ahLkH0RO3rDlwx1AVy7LsvS4_LUeoQG0ENnr8cbx-FTQ5LuFdOPhjMzoJwCDBte-gRPJN-YCc2auPaAc6swiBmwk-_H7zIYU5VR5Glum8HLqd3puSOuVR31mFu2/s400/15aug10+025.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div><br />Something that really made me smile (and hop around and tell Mr Modern Country, who was most bemused!) is that the photo that I called 'genius' in my last <a href="http://moderncountrystyle.blogspot.com/2010/08/cabbages-and-roses.html"><span style="color:#990000;">Cabbages and Roses post</span></a>, is the title picture for the chapter called 'Modern Country'! Isn't that the coolest coincidence?! Don't you love it when that happens?</div><div></div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506366024378883794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35wWZNx_uxp8_PqyoX7OhmIeU4lhD4sqLBnxDZFFJXnvuWujOQ5X65PfrzC-8n_cBYcEvZrmAX7-yHOv4TShs67nr77W4lEd0JcsX-5qpDw980WA7FGb0Qia4HNofgR4QsQ7t142fmffD/s400/15aug10+027.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> <div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506366032371639458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KNySmQBrPPtNsLEK9nbjAOnqhav4JAv1U7gHSAOpLnBGwt6dLJlYJWV1yIs2cSD-WliyVWjotgOJe8ZoAyA2A_qrT-t2Bm4J9AD2ldUBZdgwEwqfoYTQ4OU2la0rn2EJ9ihzhtmZogC0/s400/15aug10+028.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div><br />One of the aims of the book is to show that the Cabbages and Roses style needn't be reserved for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">classic</span> traditional country home but can be applied, with thought, to enhance almost any look. However, it's the Modern Country Style pictures that most draw me in (this is a Modern Country Style blog, after all!).</div><div><br /></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506369701922942610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopYjiVRWwi8apUbHIyslTXPJRCDJ7Sw6H67cCE_RuGXsOip0oLf32lxWeeIKIZLQN6dBFd-W__S3nDFOFS0lnl8b27V48T4-GvOgfHre6r70o24-4kiURkf0AlCW5l5rK87RYSYUShgNE/s400/15aug10+029.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506366012703306674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkdPql3UbG7qw17Iq-kms_KnPyREKYibhVMGgeW1nQvLH9MGqwl9Cog_tiMZUInHeqS24doyv0kmCIOoaEp9HUGpkN79BPzl1lcsB_uw166rwCBpQjzq2LzR9FBnyvUs00jSz9__BjUEc/s400/15aug10+024.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div><br />Each chapter (Classic Country,Modern Country, Island Country and outdoor Country) contains homes that Christina has styled using her Cabbages and Roses magic. Totally gorgeous without exception. <div></div><div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506369707373139938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6-nVc5F2zPH0DIRg6M33InMtfx4dzjd3nFcWxOXBOikfQv_TrBlYXk1uWxsj9jIx2SvpUTK9CcSKhMHB6us7J_qRFVLgAUZGqhKilRNwSoi29G6ib5pOq1T7tHl4ppM7oxtkIGpPRrVA/s400/15aug10+030.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> <div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506369721644557970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZSK7e8GmtvmCyMDGDF6p83r3ciiV2hAaHcgKP-S7JJ1Z0MRYXME80t4PahsOa4IOYaOhnfbOe0Z4Uca7TzJJMJJSY5fQ-hvzSxZ6Z-nomwBkePTfYCwSw9-WHgxIyi8Y_G09qNMcghXmb/s400/15aug10+032.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div></div><div><br />The Modern Country chapter is, of course, especially totally gorgeous but all the sections contain stunning styling that gets you into Christina's mindset: these are fabrics that can add beauty to any setting.</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Book review: At Home with Country by Christian Strutt

Yes, another post on Cabbages and Roses! I was so inspired by my own blog that I popped over to Amazon, my second home, and got all spendy !...

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