Comments on: Southern Living Magazine Moderns-Up

By: Live.Love.Eat

Live.Love.Eat — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:31:53 +0000

I lOVE Southern Living and usually jump right to the recipes. Thanks for coming by earlier. To answer your question, the pot roast does not taste like coffee. I just think something magical happens and all the ingredients just combine nicely and enhance one another.

By: Angela@ImagineCozy

Angela@ImagineCozy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:53:45 +0000

Thank you for the insights, I think I would really like to subscribe.
-Angela

By: Mary Melber

Mary Melber — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:37:11 +0000

I live in the Northeast and have purchased some issues over the years but have recently become a subscriber after my favorite shelter magazine Cottage Living ended. I miss that magazine so much, I really enjoyed the new issue and it reminded me a little of CL. I hope they keep the changes.

By: Red in Ca.

Red in Ca. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:16:09 +0000

How funny to read that this was a re-vamp of the lovely magazine that is Southern Living…I had just finished reading my October issue a few days ago and threw it in the ‘not-a-keeper’ box with some other magazines that I’m decluttering right into the recycle bin. Over the last few years, I’ve kept some Country Living, tossed others, kept almost all my House Beautiful issues, and only thrown out maybe one Southern Living. I had no idea what was wrong with the issue, I just didn’t care for it, and felt that the writing style was too choppy.

Ah well…………….Sometimes my taste is not the same as that of others. For example, I loved Cottage Living and look what happened to that!

Like someone else already commented, I’ve often wished for just a little more home decorating in my Southern Living, but other than that, it’s a fabulous magazine; Great recipes, interesting travel, wonderful gardening and fabulous photos. They shouldn’t mess with success.

By: Zippy

Zippy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:03:55 +0000

I used to eagerly anticipate Southern Living magazine. As a matter of fact, when I was first married in the 70’s we referred to it as the Junior Service League how-to manual. Now I flip through it while standing in a check out line and then put it back. The decorating section is the first place I look and for years it has become more and more disappointing. I can remember actually driving to a SL idea house just to see it in person. The last few years I haven’t even wanted to buy the issue featuring these houses. There is a “style” of Southern decorating that the magazine has watered down into a “model home” look. In my humble opinion, if they want to appeal to a Southern audience, then they need to have a different look than the generic magazines that target anyone. I can buy these magazines if I want to see the “model home” look. Why buy Southern living and see a house that could be Anywhere, USA? What I would like to see in order of interest to me: more decorating featuring real Southern homes decorated by real Southern people. Month-by-month gardening; recipes featuring seasonal foods; travel if they must.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:59:34 +0000

Oh my, I LOVE that enlarged letter art work. I need to look into something like that.

If you haven’t already come link up at my Room a month makeover. http://theshadesofpink.blogspot.com/2009/10/room-month-monster-dominoes.html