Get ready for the next MARY ENGELBREIT�S HOME COMPANION.
Here�s a peek at what you�ll find inside your April/May 2003 issue.
Acting on Instinct
Introducing the most personable of packrats! A Los Angeles actress gives her newly built home a vintage cottage feel with beadboard walls, antique mercantile signs, and quirky collections in the kitchen and baths.
Every Precious Inch
Can an itty-bitty garden pack a punch that�s larger than life? Visit with a Vancouver shopkeeper whose brick courtyard has been transformed into a garden of living texture, found items, and flowering color.
California Suite
A San Francisco antiques dealer casts a spell of vintage glamour in her pampered palace fit for a Hollywood starlet.
Cookbook Classics
From the original Joy of Cooking to the Williams-Sonoma website, see how finding a recipe and learning to cook has changed throughout the generations.
All this plus�
The relaxed d�cor of a Beverly Hills bungalow, magnificent Mother�s Day purses, Saturdays with the Houston Silver Lady, and vintage toy teasets in an array of sweet colors and shapes.
Okay well, please say a prayer, I'm on my way to the surgeon's for my first visit with him at the new hospital.