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Today only, Hoffman Media is offering the complete collection of <em>Victoria</em> magazine on DVD (including the fabulous photography of Toshi Otsuki and the wonderful editorial staff headed by Nancy Lindemeyer) for 40% off the regular price. It is normally $99.99, but today they are offering it for $59.99. So, if you want to have access to every issue (through 2012), then don’t delay! Click the image to visit the Hoffman Media Store.
Zuni writes:
I’m so happy to have found your blog with the information about Hoffman Media’s offering of Victoria magazine. I still remember the day I found the very first one—at the most unlikely, unromantic of places: a UDF convenience store! I’d walked in with my then-young sons, and I still remember that the cover was captivating. It had a huge white flower, perhaps a peony. From that point forward, it was true love. I gave gift subscriptions to my grandmother, and we would peruse it “together” by phone…”did you see page___?” or “isn’t that the most beautiful tablecloth on page ___?” It was a wonderful pastime for us that we shared until she passed away.
I had, and treasured, every issue, until moving day from the “big house” to downsize, and in the last hours of moving out I decided to let most of them go…a decision I’ve regretted for eight years now. Some, that were in other areas of the house, managed to make the move, so I especially treasured those, until an incident with water in our basement damaged them. Sad day.
Happy day: When Victoria was published again!
Visit Zuni’s blog, Chickadee Home Nest, here. Her latest post “Dad’s Old Suitcase” is just wonderful!
Thank you, Zuni, for sharing your Victoria story with us.
Pre-Order Today! DVD will ship November 1, 2013.This is an amazing opportunity for those who may not still have all their Victorias or would just love to have the whole collection in digital and searchable format. It is expensive, but not as expensive as trying to replace every hard copy.
Discover 20 years of timeless treasures from Victoria magazine.
Find all your blissful favorites on two easy-to-use DVDs.
✥ 278 issues in all, including out-of-print issues
✥ More than 5,000 searchable articles
✥ Hundreds of easily accessible recipes
✥ Beautiful photography by Toshi Otsuki
Robust search capabilities let you...
✥ Find a specific article
✥ Search for favorite recipes, décor, and gardens
✥ Browse by issue or search all issues
"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them -- peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; at any rate let them be your acquaintances." - Winston Churchill
Thank you, Mr. Churchill, for this glorious quote. This is precisely how I feel about my Victorias. I can scarcely go a day without at least looking at one, putting one on my bedside table so it is easily within reach should I have a moment to pick it up.
There is something deeply reassuring about just knowing they are all there whenever I get ready to read or even just look at one... and, for me, that is often. There are days that are so busy and technical-information-laden that the mere sight of the beautiful cover of one of my Victorias causes my blood pressure to settle and my nerves to calm. If you think it odd to make such a statement about a "mere" magazine, then you have obviously not had the pleasure of her company.
Sometimes I feel as L.M. Montgomery so aptly describes in this scene from Anne of Green Gables:
"Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. She had been reading, but her book had slipped to the floor, and now she was dreaming, with a smile on her parted lips. Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland -- adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like that of real life."
