Sampler Issue now FREE!

Hi-ho, Dawn-Marie and Cathy here! 

 If you haven't read 365 Being yet, here's your chance to do so for FREE, and please (Please? Please? Please? Yes, okay, we're begging for this tiny thing which would be a HUGE help to us in getting our magazine known and grown) email a link to this blog to everyone you think might like this free issue of 365 Being, or everyone who knows someone else who might like it (which is just about everyone you know).  

Who wouldn't want to receive a free, fun, no-ads magazine?  Okay, so here's the deal...

About this time last year, we got this crazy idea to create a bookazine (an advertising-free magazine on book quality paper, meant to be kept or shared), and by autumn, we were in print (and PDF).  We're celebrating our year of insanity with a fabulous freebie:

Our Sampler Issue

in PDF format 

is now completely FREE!  

It's a smaller issue than our usual, but it's filled with the same full color ideas (and we do mean FULL color) for living a  hands-on, heart felt, perfectly imperfect life.  Also, like all of our issues, it's free of annoying advertising!  All content, all real, all fun!  And it's all yours!

You can download it for yourself, send it to friends, zap it off to pen-pals...  

 click: 365being.com

Give us a try, and if you enjoy it, we would love to have you as a subscriber!  You can subscribe in PDF, but print subscribers get a gorgeous coffee table book (so dubbed by several of our readers) and fun little freebies tucked in with every issue.  Readers who have seen and loved it first in PDF, and then in print, say it's so surprisingly, deliciously more amazing in print.  Okay, that's not the exact thing they said, but all combined, that's the gist of it.  Oh, and every issue has a different look than the one before!

We choose a loose theme for each issue, and for our Summer issue (coming out in June), the theme is "For the Love of Books". Polymer clay artist, and author of oodles of books on fun with clay, Maureen Carlson, is our featured artist.  (She's shown above, dressed in her story telling garb, holding our Sampler Issue.)  Our Artgirl, Faith, tested a project from one of Maureen's books, and we'll show you how to make it, too.  You can also read about big, old, beautiful libraries, and the new tiny libraries popping up in front yards across the country.  Need to feed the book club (which we might inspire you to start with Barb Gates Schaben's story)?  How about a recipe for potato salad with no mayo?  

Friends taste-tested this last week, and the ooh's and yum's assured us it was a print-worthy dish.  It tastes as fresh as it looks!  We have created several more recipes that feature the fresh herbs of summer, along with a few gardening tips, book reviews and recommendations...oh, there's so much more in the summer issue, but you get the idea: 

It's a whole buncha fresh, fabulous stuff in a beautiful book, for you to enjoy on your porch swing, hammock, patio or poolside.  

Subscribe now, so you don't miss it!

(or just download the free sample issue, to see if we're your cup of tea)

click here: 365being.com

Be sure you don't miss a single issue!  You can subscribe in PDF, but again, print subscribers not only get a beautiful book to keep or share, they get extra little goodies tucked into each issue...  Greeting cards, book marks, paper dolls, art supplies...whatever we think might catch your fancy!  We're that kind of fun.

The winter issue had a love dove for subscribers to cut out and color, or to use as a pattern to make a whole flock from all kinds of papers.

So, we hope you have a great summer, and that if our style meshes with yours, you will include 365 Being on your summer reading list.  And again, being a small, no-ads publication,  we don't have a mega-corporation's advertising budget, so we would really truly and deeply appreciate it if you would share this link through email or facebook (just click the icon under this post!) with anyone and everyone who would not be bothered by receiving it.  You just never know who would be delighted by a free sample of our charming version of a lifestyle magazine.  

Heartfelt hugs and Smiles,

Dawn-Marie and Cathy

365 Being

Perfect Parfait recipe is in the Spring issue.

Rubies and Rust

Wedding season is  upon us, and  Rubies and Rust Wedding Barn is gearing up for another great summer!  This romantic location, in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, is the perfect spot to hold a wedding and reception.  Cindy Faus has transformed a turn-of-the century farm into a charming location where country charm meets artsy chic.  Not only can Cindy offer this fabulous location for weddings; she can also officiate the ceremony!

It's charming on the outside.  It's charming times ten (thousand?) on the inside!  (pssst...there are chandeliers)

The Spring issue of 365 Being features the story of how this barn business was born and then, lucky us, when we asked a bride if we could share her pictures, we found out she happens to be a writer.  Thus, we get to share not only Kirsten Wood's gorgeous wedding photos but the story behind the vintage design of her Rubies & Rust wedding.

The adorable Kirsten Wood in the creamery at Rubies & Rust Wedding Barn. 

With no advertising beyond the contact information for the people and places we feature, like Rubies & Rust, our bookazine is fully loaded with gorgeous content and inspiring ideas.  It's really important to us that it be a great value for the money, but if it suits you better, you can get the spring issue in PDF format for less than the price of a fast-food lunch.  We've been told it's way more luscious in print, but even in PDF, it's a better lunch than a rubber burger and fizzy sugar-water!  Oh, and Kirsten has promised to write more for us in future issues, so if you love her style, you just might want to subscribe!  Click on over:  365being.com.