The second week in my month of giveaways and I am really thrilled to be able to offer two signed copies of Nina Hartmann's beautiful book Vintage by Nina.
As you may remember, this stunning publication is being distributed in the States by my friends Trinidad and Johan at Atelier de Campagne. When they came here for lunch in June , they kindly left a copy for me as a gift, and a couple of copies for me to giveaway. Perfect!!
I have spent quite a while drooling over looking at the photos in the book, the styling is amazing, and really quite inspirational, especially to someone like me who loves brocante so much.
Nina is Swedish, but .... the book is written in Norwegian! So I'm not going to pretend that I understood the text, but it doesn't seem to matter.
So on your starting blocks, if you would like to receive a signed copy then here is what you have to do ...
I'll take a comment in any language I can understand, that is your first entry. If you would like to up your chances of winning a book then share news of the giveaway on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest and come back to tell me. A separate comment for each new entry please.
And to the very important matter of the winners of last week's giveaway, three no less!! The winners were drawn randomly at midnight yesterday, Paris time.
Nina is Swedish, but .... the book is written in Norwegian! So I'm not going to pretend that I understood the text, but it doesn't seem to matter.
So on your starting blocks, if you would like to receive a signed copy then here is what you have to do ...
Leave a comment below in perfect Norwegian ...... no that was a joke.
I'll take a comment in any language I can understand, that is your first entry. If you would like to up your chances of winning a book then share news of the giveaway on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest and come back to tell me. A separate comment for each new entry please.
And to the very important matter of the winners of last week's giveaway, three no less!! The winners were drawn randomly at midnight yesterday, Paris time.
Kate at Vintage Style Hire
Katy at Katy Noelle's Photo Journal
and Paula, also known as Mrs Sutton of Hill House Diaries
If these three lucky ladies would like to get in touch, I'll pass them over to Tracy so they can join in the fun on the Creative Home e-course
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I would soooo love a chance to win what looks like an amazing book!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this chance...Linda!
I love books about decorating so would love a chance to win your give away.
ReplyDeleteGreetings... Aurora
Would love to win <3......Amy
ReplyDeleteI would be so happy if would win one of these books!
ReplyDeleteI discovered your blog just a few days before and I love it, especially the wonderful pictures!
Hope to see much more from your "French Country Home"! :-)
I couldn´t restist to give another comment on Facebook! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful giveaway Sharon!
ReplyDeleteI would love to join in!
Fra
I'm back after sharing on Fb!
ReplyDeleteFra
Looks like a nice book. May help me with my decorating decisions as my partner and I are building a stone cottage in the country - in Australia!
ReplyDeleteI'd be drooling too! A lovely giveaway that I would be thrilled to win.
ReplyDeleteFantastic giveaway..so inspiring . I would love o win a copy of this book
ReplyDeletefantastic post and Thanks for sharing this info. It's very helpful.
ReplyDeleteGuesthouse in Jaipur
I love this style of decorating - would love to win!
ReplyDeleteGood luck everyone.
Have a lovely day,
Lizx
I would love to win a copy of this beautiful book. Please add my name to the draw.
ReplyDeleteYou asked if I would like to receive a signed copy? Well, here is my answer. Yes I do Sharon.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your day.
Wilma
OH MY GOODNESS! I was just getting excited about the Vintage by Nina, and preparing to write my comment in perfect Norwegian (lol!) when I realised that I am a winner in your last giveaway!! THANK YOU SO MUCH Sharon! This is the first giveaway that I have ever won, and I am beyond excited. Please don't enter me in this giveaway - I'm happy to spread the love - I just wanted to say thank you SO much again! I'm going now, before I gush too much. Have a great day - I know I will.
ReplyDeletePaula xxxx
This looks like such a lovely book! How wonderful to have this giveaway. Regards, Diana
ReplyDeleteAnd here I am again after posting to facebook...Thank you--a big "hello" from Nantes!
ReplyDeletebeautiful, beautiful, beautiful !
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely adore this book, love the styles, the beautiful photos....definitely a "day dreaming" book! Would love another excuse to get caught up in redesigning my home....well, at least in my imagination ;)
ReplyDeletePlease enter me into the draw for this book - would love to add it to my interiors library! x
ReplyDeleteI have been eyeing this new book...would love to have a chane to win it!! I know it will be wonderful!! Thank you for the oppurtunity!! :)
ReplyDeleteWow what a beautiful book, I'd love to win it, thanks so much for the opportunity:)
ReplyDeleteCarmel
Hi dear Sharon
ReplyDeleteLong time no visit (sorry) would love to enter your giveaway the book looks delightful
I say vintage is a universal language of it's own
Happy Wednesday xxx ciao ciao julie
Well, I'd like to enter, Sharon.
ReplyDeleteJust last night, Herve and I sat at the kitchen table, discussing the news that a sorta-good friend of ours who's finishing her too-long-prolonged dissertation has suddenly moved to Norway, of all unlikely places (she's American, speaks only English and French, and has never been to Europe before). I telephoned a mutual friend, who rather amusedly informed that our friend has gone there (via an "apartment-swap" from some internet site) precisely BECAUSE she doesn't know anyone, can't speak or read the language, and is a full-year behind on finishing her dissertation (it's on 17th century english literature, by the way...nothing to do with Norway). She has all the notes and other research; she just hasn't gotten around to the dull-dull-dull (trust me; I had to do this myself in my early thirties) business of WRITING the damn thing. She figures that she can't possibly be distracted in Norway. I find that incredibly amusing. Let's wish her luck....
Level Best as Ever,
David Terry
www.davidterryart.com
This would make a lovely gift for a special someone!!! :) Count me in on this lovely giveaway!!!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Jessie
Lovely giveaway! Definitely on my wish list!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win! I'm 1/4 Norwegian...maybe it will bring me luck (I'm 1/4 Irish too!).
ReplyDeleteI would be most happy to have this lovely book...BUT you could produce a FABULOUS book yourself..Adore your loot shoots
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ReplyDeleteOh, I´d really love to win this beautiful book!
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Germany,
Karin
Greetings from Minneapolis! Oh, wouldn't I love that book? Please put my name in the hat! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSo exciting to find books of this quality... You know there going to be good when u feel excited down to your toes... Sign me up please.....Lisa
ReplyDeleteOh my!!! I wish so much to win....pleeeeeease pick me!!!
ReplyDeleteBecause I'm nice, good luck to all!!
I would love to win this awesome book! I love your blog and enjoy reading and following your post!
ReplyDeleteNancy
Decorating at the moment and would love all the inspiration in the world! I love looks that are clean, simple, organic and bien sur CHIC! (pick me, pick me) if you do than I will post picks of how I transformed my place!
ReplyDeleteLove your newsletters and am always pinning off your blog. Beautiful and inspiring photos and stories - thank you! Would love an opportunity to try my luck at winning the book, Vintage by Nina -- thank you! pm, minneapolis
ReplyDeleteJust pinned the book cover on my pinterset page (pamela ann meier):
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaway on www.myfrenchcountryhome.blogspot.com. Easy to register by just posting a comment. Beautiful and inspiring blog! "The second week in my month of giveaways and I am really thrilled to be able to offer two signed copies of Nina Hartmann's beautiful book Vintage by Nina."
Out it goes to almost 800 followers all over the world! :)
I would really love an opportunity to win this Beautiful interior book. I am a constant visitor to your wonderful blog along with several other thousand devotees, but here's hoping...Sharon :)
ReplyDeleteLove your blog from this little town of Tomball in Texas, just beautiful! Winning the book would be an added bonus to enjoying your posts!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the chance, B
I would love to drool over this book!! Thanks for the opportunity!
ReplyDelete~Kris
www.CricketAcresStudio.blogspot.com
www.BarnLoft.blogspot.com
PS-my daughter is Nina too!
I would LOVE this book as I have drooled over things on her website for a long long time. Please enter me, thankyou.
ReplyDeleteI have just tweeted this on twitter too.
ReplyDeleteWhat an honor it would be to win this beautiful book, I'm a visual learner and I would cherish it! Thanks for counting me in.
ReplyDeleteLove Trino and all his wonderful 'shares'! Would also love to have this book! :)
ReplyDeleteMy son in law is of Norwegian decent...doe's that count? (I am being silly.)
ReplyDeleteI would be so honored and lucky if my name is drawn. Thank you, Sharon, Trini and Johan!
~Lynne
w/L.
I love decorating books and this one looks fabulous! I would love to win! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteem9499 at gmail dot com
What a wonderful looking book! I would love to own it. Thanks you for the enjoyment I receive from your blog.
ReplyDeletewhat a great opportunity to win this book, I've been lusting after it since I heard about it. thanks so much, I read you every day, and love coming to visit in your part of the world!
ReplyDeleteaaaah, it seems a delightful decorating book, what a great givaway!
ReplyDeletefriedenlinde # gmail .com
This looks like a beautiful book! Would love to add it to my library.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures in this book look amazing! I would love to win a copy to have as my own :)
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this signed book! I would share or possibly give it to a friend that is all about "vintage white" everything! Plus, it would be a great addition to my coffee table for our guests to enjoy at my cottage inn!
ReplyDeleteVintage by Nina looks like one of those books that you want to look through over and over! I would love to dive into those beautiful scenes. Here's hoping it comes my way. Thank you so very much for the giveaways and sharing your french country home!
ReplyDeleteI have been lusting after one of these books ever since I saw them. I would love the chance to win one! Please add me to your giveaway. I hope I will be one of the lucky winners who will also be "drooling" over this book!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for including me. :)
Meant "so please count me in.." and I did the FB thing! Now fingers crossed.
ReplyDeletePlease please count me in with a chance of winning this lovely giveaway. I love your blog, it is always the first I read. diolch yn fawr x
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon,
ReplyDeleteOh how I have been wanting this book so badly!!!
Please enter me in your generous giveaway!!
Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Hope you have a lovely day!
Sincerely,
Melinda
What a great giveaway! A fabulous book filled with pages of inspiration!
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon, I just posted your giveaway on my Facebook page.
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Sincerely,
Melinda
Just posted to my facebook page!
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI just tweeted your giveaway @
https://twitter.com/AlabasterRose.
Sincerely,
Melinda
Sharon,
ReplyDeleteOh that would be so wonderful, the book looks gorgeous! Inspiration galore!
Nancy
http://wildoakdesigns.blogspot.com
Just posted your giveaway on my Pinterest page:
ReplyDeletehttp://pinterest.com/alabasterrose/
Sincerely,
Melinda
Thanks for the chance. Luv your Blog! If I win please send my copy to my friend who lives in Marsielle, as I live in California. Kind Regards, Deborah S.
ReplyDeleteThe pics are beautiful, I would love to win!
ReplyDeleteThank you for doing such lovely giveaways. The book looks beautiful in any language.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win and read about Nina's home with antique and vintage finds. I can't read Norwegian but will definitely enjoy looking at the pictures.
ReplyDeleteJust tweeted your giveaway https://twitter.com/thestyleandtrav.
ReplyDeleteOh, that book is drool worthy! Thank you for the chance.
ReplyDeleteThis book looks beautiful! I'll get all kinds of ideas and dreams out of it. Plus it will look great on the coffee table and in bed with me so that I can look at the pictures and have beautiful dreams!
ReplyDeleteBecause of beautiful pictures I would like to win. And by the way, norwegian is quite near swedish language so I might understand something...
ReplyDeleteBoogie W from Boogie Woogie Design
lovely book, who needs to understand the words?
ReplyDeleteHi there!! Sure!!!!!! I really would like to have a change of winning one of the 2 Vintages by Nina books!!! I would be thrilled!!! I have shared this "promo"on FACEBOOK, And I am sure lots of my FB friends will share it from me!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for offering us this unique opportunity!!!
Love, Ina, The Netherlands
Hi there!! Sure!!!!!! I really would like to have a change of winning one of the 2 Vintages by Nina books!!! I would be thrilled!!! I have shared this "promo"on FACEBOOK, And I am sure lots of my FB friends will share it from me!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for offering us this unique opportunity!!!
Love, Ina, The Netherlands
Oh I so want this book fabulous giveaway~Cheers Kim
ReplyDeleteYour area is so beautiful. It is my dream to someday be able to visit France and Italy. wenda scott, maggieandme52@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYes please put my name in for a chance to win this book! ~Karen
ReplyDeletePinned :)
ReplyDelete~Karen
Facebooked!
ReplyDelete~Karen
Thanks for the oppertunity to win this wonderful book - Vielen Dank ~ Rose
ReplyDeleteFacebook-Entry - Thanks again for your give-away - would love to be the proud owner of your book ~ Rose
ReplyDeleteThe only Norwegian I know is uff-da and it really doesn't apply here. But... I would love to receive a copy of this lovely looking book.
ReplyDeleteLooks beautiful! Count me in.
ReplyDeletePlease count me in, the book looks so inviting!
ReplyDeleteSo appreciative of the opportunity to win your giveaway. Count me in.
ReplyDeleteVintage by Nina, oh yes, please. Thank you for sharing with a couple of lucky followers.
ReplyDeleteSmiles,
Carol
jcdas@msn.com
I would love a copy of this book. Thank you for an opportunity to win it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a winner....maybe, could, would, please, why not, please........count me in, I just love the look of the book, what's inside ??
ReplyDeleteWe are in the process of moving into our very first home and this book could give me so much inspiration! Everything looks so pretty.
ReplyDeleteSharon,
ReplyDeleteBeauty is beauty in any language. What an enticing book, count me in.
Karen
Dear Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI've just seen that you've had NINETY grasping, greedy, appallingly avaricious, presupposed claims upon this book.
May I take a brief moment to tell you why THIS HOUSEHOLD should win the prize?....
Quite frankly, it has been ten years since The Accident. Little Herve's legs have never quite healed, yet he IS able to hobble around on his tiny crutches...for a very little while, if only in the mornings. He so loves it when I take him in his little wheelchair out to the southside of the house, where he can sit in the warming sunshine for a while (never more than twenty minutes, or his dreadful cough begins again). He often asks me, when we are not reading the bible together (until being outside grows too cold for his tiny, frail bones, and we have to retreat into our small, but clean, cottage), to tell him of the latest "My French Country Home" posting. He recently saw your picture of the birds in the field, and he (in his tiny voice) declared "When I go to Heaven, which will be very soon, I wish to go as those little birds do on 'My French Country home'!".
Isn't that heartbreaking, Sharon?
I can't tell you how often Little Herve has said to me, in his failing-but-brave little voice "Oh!...someday, if I become well and grow up to become a man?...I want to go and see this Normandy!".
Knowing The Truth, I cannot do anything more than to smile gently, fold the coverlet gently around his shrunken limbs, and murmur "someday we will...someday, we WILL..."
Please, PLEASE....do not deny a tiny crippled boy his last, grasping hope of happiness on this earth....FOREVER. He has made a wish; You can grant it.
Just yesterday, as I carried him into my tiny-little widow's cottage and laid him down on the tiny-little bench which (poor as we are) tiny-little Herve sleeps upon (the dying coals from our very meager (sp?) fireplace to keep his poor, tiny bones a BIT warmer), he said "I hope Madame de la Sharon gives me the book"....and then, pausing to cough a bit, he added "But if I got it?...I would give it to another poor, sick child for Christmas...just to make THAT CHILD happier". I told him that was a beautiful thought, tucked him into his meagre little-tiny cot, and went off to my corner to cry a bit.
I hope this has so sufficiently broken your heart that you will give US the danged book. We WANT it.
yours in Dickensian Faith, as ever,
David Terry
www.davidterryart.com
P.S. (for new readers).... actually, Herve is a 6'2", 40 year old, French, quite healthy epidemiologist. Fortunately for me, he doesn't have the time to read blogs....or I might find myself in some trouble.
ReplyDelete---dct
Maybe this will be my lucky time to win. Thanks for the chance.
ReplyDeleteI love a good picture book in any language. Count me in.
ReplyDeleteI would love a copy of that book. Thanks for the chance.
ReplyDeleteI shared it on facebook.
ReplyDeletewould love to win a copy of this fabulous book! CHeers!
ReplyDeletemy friends on my facebook page are wanting this beautiful book as well. I shared, but now, if they win, they will have to share with me! Fun, Fun, Fun!
ReplyDeleteNow I've pinned it, facebooked it, commented on your blog. Thanks for introducing us to Vintage by Nina!
ReplyDeleteOh, please count me in. I'd truly like a copy of this book. Thank you! ~ sarah
ReplyDeleteI would so love a copy of this book! Every time I see pictures of this book I get chills! Keeping my fingers crossed :)
ReplyDeleteI posted a link to this on my facebook page... http://www.facebook.com/foundrentals :)
ReplyDeleteOh, and I tweeted about it too- @foundvintage :)
ReplyDeleteCan you tell I really want it!
Oh Sharon it wiould be wonderful to win such a fabulous prize.
ReplyDeleteHello Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI don't think language matters - style translates so well! I would dearly love to win such a beautiful book.
Karen NZ
Have had my eye on this amazingly gorgeous book for a little while now and would LOVE to win my very own copy! I'm blowing a kiss onto the computer screen for extra good luck :)
ReplyDeleteI have shared on Facebook Sharon! I would so love to win this book, like a child I do not mind what language, I would love the pictures which would tell me the story I want! thank you for this opportunity, your blog is the best thing to come out of the internet for me (seriously!)
ReplyDeleteRegards, Carol
sorry Sharon, I did not mean to be anonymous, I just had trouble posting comment as I was not sure about URL
ReplyDeleteregards
paisleycazza@hotmail.com (Carol)
This is a beautiful giveaway Sharon!!!
ReplyDeleteplease count me in, I'd love to win
Irene
I would love to win the book, written in Swedish or not! I too would drool over the photos. Fingers and toes crossed!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely book!
ReplyDeleteWe'd love to be entered into the give-away, and rest assured we'll be promoting it on Twitter!
Just tweeted about your give-away! @ViveTrianon
ReplyDeleteReally hope we're in with a chance!
Oh my goodness such wonderful comments have been left already, and especially after reading the blog from David Terry!!! That was so funny, I felt compelled to add my rather humble comments - Sharon your facebook pages and blog are inspirations to keep the dream alive of one day making it over to France...The images you have shared from your own personal experiances of brocante hunting, family life, village and family life are just wonderful. Since I have been reading your pages, I have spent a small fortune on lovely cream French china, shabby chic books and other wonderful items that scream 'France here I come'. So a chance to add to my French booty another wonderful book, to gaze fondly at the pictures and dream - would be fab.....cordialement Julia
ReplyDeleteSweet! I'd love a copy in any language...
ReplyDeleteHello! I pinned Nina's book in my Pinterest account!
ReplyDeleteI also published to FB via Jenny Depa-Karl (aka Sheepy Hollow)!
ReplyDeleteWonderful giveaway - count me in :)
ReplyDeletesally.puckett@yahoo.com
P.S. (2....the next morning): Just to clarify, "Mme. de la Sharon"?.....
ReplyDeleteOne of the running jokes in this half-French household is derived from a woman (I should send her a thank-you note if I knew where she was these days) I used to know. She was a terribly pleasant and well-intentioned Tennessean who'd somehow gotten the idea that prefacing anything (mostly nouns, surnames, and place- names) even vaguely French with "de la" made it even MORE "fancy" and "elegant".
She owned a small restaurant which regularly featured "French dishes". Predictably enough, you would be asked, by your patently Southern (and obviously struggling for elegance)waitress, if you would like your prime-rib "with some au jus on it?" (and I quote). Similarly, item descriptions would inform clients that the recipe was "a classic from de la Paris" or was "topped with de la Chantilly whipped cream".
Herve (and me, for that matter) is chronically delighted by Bad or just-plain-weird French.
He was particularly delighted when, on a visit to the small Tennessee town where I was raised, I showed him the semi-stripper bar on the edge of town, where I and some friends used to go back in our rowdy twenties when we were on college-breaks. The mosquitoe-encrusted, neon sign reads "Too La Fay!". Twenty or so years ago, I once asked the very chipper lady-bartender what the name "meant". She happily told me "Oh..."Too La Fay!"....that's French for 'Everybody DOES it!'...get it???"
Herve loves that anecdote.
Amusedly as ever,
david Terry
www.davidterryart.com
I would be thrilled to win!
ReplyDeleteLiver Fantastique! I would love to win this! I love all things French! Merci!
ReplyDeleteJust today I discovered your blog and I love it. A wonderful giveaway, bless your heart!
ReplyDeleteYou are so gracious to offer the giveaways... would love to receive this beautiful book. I also posted it to Pinterest.
ReplyDeleteHello to all and crangrats to the recent winners! I too am 1/4 Norwegian, collect decorating books and my husband and I have talked about moving to France so many times perhaps someday we'll make a dream come true. I would love to win a book however, if it doesn't happen I'll be happy for the winners. Good luck to us all!
ReplyDeleteThe book looks beautiful...in any language. And I'm desperate for some more decorating inspiration.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be fun to win such a treasure. Count me in.
ReplyDeleteOne of these days, 'all' the kids will be on their own again and finally my country home can become mine again. Til then, I dream here. Thanks
BlessYourHeart
Thank you for the beauty you share with those of us who may dream of a life in France, but are not yet living it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, too, for the opportunity to win the beautiful book that I have been hoping to own!
Patti
Thank you for the give-a-way. I can not wait to have this book in my library. Pictures are a language in themselves-no translation needed.
ReplyDeletexo, Lissy Parker
Looks like a book that should be in my personal library. What a great opportunity to own it with this drawing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity
Kristin
Just posted the give-a-away on my Facebook page-entry number two.
ReplyDeletexo, Lissy Parker
Just pinned it on Pinterest1
ReplyDeletexo, Lissy Parker
I also Tweed on my Twitter page-so happy!
ReplyDeletexo, Lissy
Hello Sharon
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wonderful book and it would look fabulous on my coffee table.
Thanks
Helen xx
Vær så snill (please in Norwegian)
ReplyDeleteMr. Terry is officially A SCREAM. He had me going there for a second...
ReplyDeleteI like your sense of humor, too...that first instruction of yours to leave a comment in Norwegian. Ha. I have never been to Scandinavia. Our high school had an exchange student from Finland who still emails us on our school-reunion website; he's a great guy, so smart, handsome family and he's done some incredible things in his life so far. Another schoolmate married a Norwegian gentleman who works in broadcast television and they have an adopted child from South America. One of my parents' best friends was a tall, quiet-spoken man from Sweden who was a engineer, did wood carvings as a hobby and who later made intricate desk clocks (similar to cuckoo-style, Bavarian clocks) when he was nearly blind. I have a former neighbor whose husband is a popular educator/professor at a local city college who is from Denmark; charming, ever-so-slightly-accented-English-speaking scholar. I'm afraid that's all I've got. Kari Kim in the comments will probably win the book; she's discovered how to say "please" in Norwegian! Maybe she IS Norwegian!! The book looks engrossing, in any language, and I'd love to win a copy to gaze at and learn from the eye-feast of photos.
May I say again how pleasing it is to pull up your blog every day and see the calming and restful and LOVELY photo of your dog and horses on the front lawn of your gorgeous French country home! Ahhh, s'wonderful!
I would love to win...the book looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI just Tweeted about the giveaway (@fabulousfinds)
ReplyDeleteLove this giveaway! Thank you for the giveaway! Good luck to everyone who has entered this giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI have seen this book at the local bookstore. It's beautiful and inspiring! Good luck to all!
ReplyDeletePattywells@shaw.ca
Sharon Thank you so much for the opportunity to win this wonderful book! I have heard so many great things about Vintage by Nina!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
2012 Artists Series
would love to win a copy of Vintage by Nina - i love vintage and Swedish looks. That delicious book will look right at home on my pale green check ottoman. Thanks for a stunning blog with sumptuous pictures!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a lovely book to have on hand. Thanks for the opportunity and for your lovely blog.
ReplyDeleteThe book looks so lovely, who needs to understand the words when the pictures speak for themselves?!
ReplyDeleteI think the book would add so much to my collection of French/European styling books. It looks so dreamy especially since I live in HOT HOT Las Vegas!
ReplyDeleteto "Vicki"...
ReplyDeleteOh....regarding Scandanavian, high school exchange-students?....
One of my favorite anecdotes comes from a college friend of mine who's from West Plains, Missouri (a VERY small town in the boot-heel of the state...about two hours from Memphis).
An "exchange student" from Sweden came to West Plains (of all NON-places) for his junior year, and he and my-friend later corresponded regularly for years. All my friend knew was that "Magnus" was from Sweden, played the violin very well (insofar as anyone in West Plains could discern), was handsome, and well-spoken.
I heard about my friend's Swedish friend/pen-pal all throughout college...whenever a letter arrived. We DID know that he did very well at the violin and eventually became first violinist for the national orchestra....at age 30 or so.
Several years after we all graduated from college (which would be about 7 years after my best friend had gone to high-school with Magnus in West Plains), Magnus invited my friend to visit. My friend went.
As he tells the story?...it was the middle of winter (which is REALLY winter in Stockholm), and he landed (utterly jetlagged) in Stockholm. Oddly enough.. a chauffeured car met him...and he fell asleep on the way to where-ever. Let me emphasize that he THOUGHT of Magnus as someone to whom he'd been remarkably kind and charitable. Magnus was a poor, lonely foreigner, you know?...
All my friend recalls is being bumped awake as the car went over some sort of bridge....and he realized they were going over a DRAWBRIDGE....and then there was a castle....and it turns out that the friend to whom he'd been condescending (not horribly...just out of ignorance)lived in a danged CASTLE.....belonging to his mother's family. The incredibly charming and sophisticated mother turns out to be a countess. The father turns out to be (and this was in the late 80's) the International CEO of ITT....or ATT...one of those mega-1980's-corporations.
In any case, they were aristocratic (courtesy of the mother) and wildly rich (courtesy of the father) as all get-out. They were also very pleasant and welcoming and very grateful for my friend's having provided their son such a delightful, RURAL, truly "AMEERICAN!" experience in Missouri, 8 years previously.
My friend still grimaces a bit when he tells how, on the third night of his one-week stay, they went back into Stockholm (where the family owns a grand 18th century townhouse for stop-overs) for Magnus's debut performance with the National Orchestra.
And, yes....the extremely gracious mother asked my friend if he'd brought a tuxedo. He said he hadn't....didn't, in fact, own one whatsoever. A tailor came to the castle (it really IS a castle...I've found it on google), measured him...and he had a tuxedo for the night of the debut.
Weird, but true......so never underestimate Scandanavian high-school exchange students....
Level Best as Ever, (and I am not making a BIT of this up)
David terry
www.davidterryart.com
Yes please! Ja takk (in norwegian)
ReplyDeleteThis is perfect inspiration :)
Love from Tove
www.martilie.com
Tmjau@hotmail.com
Every day a joy to visit your beautiful part of the world....and then to discover that this beautiful book is a giveaway!!! I would love the opportunity to win!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sharon.
I would love to win --- am I too late?! I don't speak or write a lick of Norwegian, so thankful that was not a necessity; but wish I did!
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoy checking your blogs and pins!
Nicole Moore
Most of the time, I can never make the "reply" button work to add my two cents to any of the great comments here, Sharon, but if I can say back...to the witty Mr. Terry: You are SO making up that Scandinavian story about castles and tuxedos. (Just kidding. But it's wild. I always wonder what kind of impression we make on our visitors from foreign lands. I sometimes worry that we're a bit too casual, or informal; a generalization, of course, and not to "put down" us Americans, but are we unsophisticated? My fellows would probably say, "speak for yourself, Vicki!")
ReplyDeleteAs to your wealthy Swede...conversely, one of my best friends from high school was herself an exchange student to Indonesia and, upon arrival, was given her own guest cottage, with a full-time maid, for the duration of her stay. This was an everyday, average kind of small-town girl who was a latchkey kid I'd accompany home after school, where I'd watch her make family dinner in their small rental home because her mom and dad were busy working-parents. Talk about culture shock for her, when she found herself on the other side of the world, in these out-of-this-world, luxurious surroundings!
Sharon, as I'm writing this (and thanks for allowing the aside to your post today!), I am your 148th commenter; LOTS of activity on your blog (congrats!). I've had a nice time visiting today, reading all of the fun comments!
I always enjoy the beauty and inspiration found on your blog. I would love to be entered in your fabulous giveaway. My contact info is bwrawling at gmail.com.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Beth
Oooo..what a delightful book. Love to read your blog...real eye-candy!
ReplyDelete_Maria D.
Hello Sharon - I have quietly followed your blog each early morning as a lovely way to start another day in a big world (sometimes nice sometimes not). So thank you for hosting the book give away. My concern here is Little Herve. Does Mr Terry (master at painting- in more ways than one) not understand that giving that lovely, heavy book to Little Herve could make his miserable life more painful!! Setting such a wonderful HEAVY book on that poor childs lap could do more harm than good. So Sharon - please see beyond this ploy (Little Herve really wants an IPad) and give that book to me (my lap is ample and empty!). Sorry Herve - this book is MINE. Got to run and serve my 38 pounds of my homemade lutfisk to my 24 Swedish exchange students....Choose me Sharon La Femme Scrouge
ReplyDeleteThis is the funniest blog out there in cyberspace today. It's the Battle of the Book, or the Battle of the Norwegians...no, wait, it's the Battle of David and Sara. Sharon and Nina, look what you started!
DeleteCount me in....just looking at the blog is almost satisfying enough. Somebody is going to very happy when they win....I just hope it's me!
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI also posted this giveaway on my Facebook too. I've got my fingers, toes, eyes and everything that can be crossed on this one:)
Hi Sharon I think a little bit of Swedish/Norwegian style is needed here in Corsica.At least a good look at the pictures when I am sat under the chestnut trees in the hot afternoons.
ReplyDelete1.JA!! Den boka har jeg ønsket meg lenge! Og siden jeg ER norsk så kan jeg jo lese den uten problemer...Hilsen Monica ;-)
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2. YES!! I have wanted that book for a long time! And as I AM norwegian, I can read it with no problems...Regards Monica ;-)
mo-skog(at)online(dot)no
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ReplyDeleteOkay, back again (2 days later)...with some caveats:
ReplyDelete(1) I'll be honest; I don't really want the book. Having come of age during the dog-in-the-manger Reagan adminstrations, however, I'm just overwhelmed with irritation at the thought of anyone else's having it.
(2) Herve recently asked me, as I sat with a copy of the foo-foo, lavishly illustrated, coffe-table book "The French Country House", "Why did you bother taking a Ph.D. in literature if you were going to spend the rest of your life looking at pretty picture-books?". I told him that I considered myself to be in recovery from a twelve-year text-overdose. I wasn't joking.
(3) I think that this watch-me-juggle-2-languages-with-the-greatest-of-ease "Monica" has just blown everyone else's competitive boat out of the water.
(4) I should admit that I've already won two give-away contests. The first got me a box of really fine, French mustard. The other got me (and this is hilarious, I think...and I kid you not): a thirteen foot windsurfer (I haven't even been in a canoe for over 20 years, and I hate the beach) and a Year's Supply of Doritoes snack chips (this involved a pile of "vouchers" which I could redeem in the junk-food aisle of any second-rate, American quick-mart). I should stress that I won the windsurfer and artery-cloggers by being able to call into a radio station and immediately recite ALL the lyrics to a syrupy, 1970's song by The Carpenters. Perhaps I shouldn't admit that in public, but there it is....
So, I've already had more than my fair share of little victories, prizes, & ego-boosts.
Resignedly yours as ever,
David Terry
www.davidterryart.com
Oh my! Would love to win this book! Thank you for hosting!
ReplyDeleteI would love a chance to win this book!
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Marla L.
Oh how I would love, love, love a copy of Nina's book on my coffee table here. Thank you for the chance!
ReplyDelete~Tracie
Fantastic giveaway. I love these pieces.
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Hello!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a copy of this lovely book! Count me in :)
Please count me in for the lovely giveaway. Maureen (mb99999@yahoo.com)
ReplyDeleteOh my! I have a lot of antiques, but need to add some vintage accents that pull it together. This looks like just the inspiration I need.
ReplyDeleteOh what great opportunity!! Thanks Sharon!!i' m not very lucky normally but.. I hope!! And may be..;-)
ReplyDeleteStefy
What can I say... I love your blog as we just purchased and live in an 1860 (very old by Canadian standards) rectory in Ontario Canada. I'm going to try your blackberry sorbet this weekend... we must have similar crops and weather zone. I am half Norwegian and have always loved the Gustavian/French country style and this book looks like it has it all. Thanks for all Sharon!
ReplyDeleteI've become an admirer of yours through Atelier de Campagne on Facebook. Thank you for all the beautiful and inspiring photos you've been posting - they really brighten my day! Needless to say, I'd love to be entered in the drawing, please.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this book! My great-grandmother was Norwegian and I am a total Francophile, so this beautiful book is right up my alley:)
ReplyDeleteSuch a gorgeous book!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the opportunity to win a copy.
Love Nina's Book! Following your blog, would love to enter.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donna xxx
Pinned on Pinterest. Thank you again!! {Donna}
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Shared on my page, Belle West... TY!!
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Twittered... lol :)
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Shared on FB as well... thank you again and again! xox
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I love decorating books of any kind. I don't understand Norwegian, but you know what they say... "a picture is worth a thousand words". So, I guess with any good decorating book, it matters not what the language is (lol!).
ReplyDeleteForgot to leave my info: jkg4121@att.net
ReplyDeleteWith google translate I sure could do hilarious Norwegian or Swedish or both :)
ReplyDeleteI'm on the waiting list for this book with Atelier de Campagne, but if I could win it will be double happiness for me.
Hello and thank you for the chance to win this wonderful book.
ReplyDeleteJennifer at the goat dairy.
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Absolutely STUNNING!!!
ReplyDeleteI just posted this to my facebook too : )
ReplyDeletewhat a gorgeous book, would love to win one. Found your blog from A-de-C, now a follower! thanks for the giveway!
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Please enter me in your drawing to win this lovely book. My 83-year-old Mother is coming to vist in September and she speaks Norwegian. I love decorating and vintage style. I live in Oregon in a "new" cottage-style house (less than 900 s.f.) and want my home to reflect my love for antiques and those time-worn treasures. thank you :)
ReplyDeletePatty
ciao!!! partecipo eccome!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI love nina!!!
ReplyDeleteOhhhhhhh. Beautiful looking book. I'd love to win a copy.
ReplyDeleteHi, am I to late for the book? I love brocante and vintage, Lovely greetings from Antwerp Belgium Heidi
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