I’ve just recently started getting the Martha Stewart Living magazine. I had never actually read the magazine before, but had heard so much (maybe too much?) about it. I have seen some great ideas from her website and just expected her magazine to be chuck full of things I would want to do. I was way off! So far I have received three magazines and have yet to find something inspirational. And the article Martha writes is ridiculous. In the past two magazines she gives pointers on how to grow acres of flowers likes she does on her farm. I’m pretty sure that most the people reading her magazines will never grow a single acre of daffodils, let alone many. However, (to end on a positive note) the magazine is beautiful; the photography and design is awesome. I’m hoping that I will learn to love the magazine as much as the rest of the world seems to. I think that maybe my expectations were just a bit unrealistic.

If you want to start a magazine subscription I would whole heartedly suggest Better Homes and Gardens. There is something in every issue that I love. I completely devour each issue and then go back and read it more slowly later. It gives great interior design ideas and seems to be more on the level of “average American” rather than “east-coast yuppie.”

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