Jeanne d'Arc Living Magazine - ISSUE 10 (2015) Fall - Charm and Decay

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– Charm and Decay

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Renew your madonna figures.

Use your things in new ways.

Cook a delicious hunt menu.

Make beautiful flower arrangements with sweet chestnuts.

• Prayer beads – for a great many things.

• Throw a magical Halloween party.

This month's homes: – – – – –

Remote cabin in Sweden Love for brocante An aesthetic delight Atelier de Campagne Tremendously French

T h ru t he t ree s come s aut umn wit h he r se renade.

Melodie s t he sweet e st mu sic eve r played.

A ut umn ki sse s we knew a re beaut iful souveni r s.

A s I pau se t o recall t he leave s seem t o fall like t ea r s.

Silve r st a r s we re clinging t o an aut umn sky.

Love wa s ou r s unt il O ct obe r wande red by.

Let t he yea r s come and go, I'll st ill feel t he glow t hat t ime cannot fade When I hea r t hat lovely aut umn se renade.

By John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

Dear Reader Creative Time Things sure are happening at a rapid pace outside right now.

Fall is here and it won't be long before winter sets in around these latitudes. Some find it sad and, granted, some days are a bit too windy and rainy for our taste but there's something beautiful and really cozy about this time of year as well.

We feel the urge to head inside and cozy up with candles, warm blankets and family time and to plan out our creative DIY projects for the upcoming winter season – for which we hope that this magazine will provide inspiration. We've got wonderful, creative fall homes, delicious fall foods and plenty of ideas for indoor pastimes, easy ones as well as more advanced projects.

One article that we particularly enjoyed working on was the one about painting madonna figures. It happens from time to time that a special sense of serenity presents itself when we're settled in working on a creative project and experimenting.

We'll chat about which colors might go together to create the look that we're going for, try our way a bit, repaint and start over. We help each other out, offering each our own competencies. One person is especially good at combining colors, someone else has a special knack for patinating and yet another person is the expert at painting natural-looking faces. It's a really nice feeling when everything finally seems to form a synthesis and we achieve a result that we all feel is better than if we'd been working on our own. So we encourage you to share your hobbies and interests with others – either family or friends who share the same interests or sign up for a class or join groups online if you don't already know someone. Take inspiration from each other and help each other – it's one of the great joys in life.

Have fun!

All the best,

Lonnie & Vivian

magazine No. 10 · 2015

Published by Jeanne d’Arc Living

Lonnie Würtz Jensen

Cover photo: Anneke Gambon.

Vivian Christensen

Chief Editors: Vivian Christensen · Email: vivian@jeannedarcliving.dk Lonnie Würtz Jensen · Email: jeannedarc@jeannedarcliving.dk Editorial Office:: Jeanne d’Arc Living ApS Houmarksvej 92, Kondrup · 8920 Randers NV · Denmark · Tel: +45 36932010 Email: jeannedarc@jeannedarcliving.dk · www.jeannedarcliving.dk · www.jdlblog.dk Graphics & Layout: Flower Arrangers: Photos & Styling: Food, Text & Styling: Proofreading: Handyman: Advertising Director:

Rikke Daugaard Thiel

Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Helle Routhe Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Dorthe Hviid Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Dorte Palsgaard Vivian Christensen, Rikke Vinter, Dorthe Hviid, Rikke Daugaard Thiel Vera Jensen Ole Sørensen Email: annonce@jeannedarcliving.dk

Dorte Palsgaard Translation into Swedish, English, Dutch, German, Finnish & French: www.wordtoword.dk Translation into Norwegian: Linda Rønsholm.

Rikke Vinter

Dorthe Hviid

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CONTENTS Page

4. Love for Brocante

Page 14. Sweet Chestnut Page 18. Beautiful Decay Page 30. New Life for your Madonna Figures Page 35. Vintage Paint Page 36. Remote Cabin in Sweden Page 46. The Column Page 48. Atelier de Campagne Page 56. Prayer Beads – for a great many things Page 60. An Aesthetic Delight Page 80. Create the Style Page 82. Delicious Hunt Menu Page 90. Tremendously French Page 116. New life for Wonderful, Old Things Page 122. Magical Halloween Party Page 132. JDL Living Page 134. Dorte's Top 10 Finds

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Photos & text: Anneke Gambon. Editing: Vivian.

Love for Brocante

As a young girl, Gerda spend many school vacations with her mother, who worked in a castle. You might think that a school girl would be bored in a place like that with the company of only dusty, old

Ideas:

Pull the couch out from the wall to make room for a piece of

things but that wasn't the case for Gerda. She loved every single day

furniture behind it. This opens up more options for making displays

of it. She would wander around for hours imagining the days back

and creates a cozier space than if all the furniture is placed along the

when and the rise and fall of days gone by. To her it was amazing.

wall. Here Gerda has put together a beautiful and elegant still life

So her interest in beautiful, old antiques goes all the way back to her

with a large, old, French church candlestick, a pair of old, patinated,

childhood and her passion has never faded, rather the reverse. Gerda

French mirrors flanked by the adorable porcelain lady-in-waiting

is still very passionate about beautiful, old items, preferable of the

with a skirt made from pure silk and lovely, little silk flowers. You

somewhat grandiose variety – lavish yet simple. Pretty, old dress

can always find room for old dress forms. Gerda decorates them

forms, beautiful mirrors and wonderful candlesticks are essential to

with various antique flowers wreaths, corsets and angel wings,

the decor at Gerda's house. She's always coming up with new ideas

which adds a bit of life and humor to the decor.

so for the most part she's always working on a couple of projects.

Designing and decorating has become a lifestyle. Gerda mostly looks for original items, and in her decorating she tries to get back to the warm and cozy atmosphere that she recalls from the castle.

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Love for Brocante

Gerda most often decorates with tone-on-tone colors. She loves the

The beautiful decoration on the throw pillow is a very special

harmony that's achieved when the colors go together really well

detail. It's also one of the things that makes authentic, old items

and don't stick out from one another. Gerda usually works with the

more interesting than new things. Newer items rarely have the same

more neutral colors such as brown, beige and cream.

wealth of details. The beautiful, old antiques bear evidence of a time with room for more embellishment. You should always keep an eye

Ideas:

out for these exquisite, old textiles as they can really enhance your

lavish and palatial furniture with pieces of rustic and very simple

As a wall decoration, several different pairs of vintage angel wings

peasant furniture. This creates a very personal style. She often tries

are hung side by side. Their colors and shapes are quite rare, almost

to do the same with her vintage accessories. Lavish candle holders

like butterfly wings. If you feel up to it, you could try to make your

create a beautiful interplay with a lovely, little child's portrait placed

own replicas out of thick wire, nylon stockings and lace.

decor.

In several places around the house Gerda has combined the somewhat

for display on a small farmhouse stool. Old paintings and portraits bring a slightly palatial atmosphere into the decor but the frames are frequently a bit over the top. You'll achieve a more contemporary simplicity by removing the frames.

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