Seventeen magazine

 I discovered Seventeen magazine, and bought my very first issue (the very fat August 1979 'back to school' issue) for a whopping $2.50 (a fortnight's pocket money) back in December 1979 at the age of 13 and a half.

The fact I remember all this shows what an impact that purchase had on me (although had I not bought it, and cemented my love of magazines, I would have saved rather a lot of money since then!)

So it was pretty much a done deal that today's post would include a Seventeen magazine in some way. Originally I thought I might update my childhood bedroom to my early teens, but when I found a stash of very vintage covers, plans changed.

I narrowed the many choices down to a set of six, in red white and blue and with a theme of stripes, and then the rest of the scene came together quickly.

A rummage through the scrapbooking paper stash unearthed a piece of stripy paper I thought would work as a feature wall.

I added a Lundby sofa (last spotted back in 2018), a dead-stock perspex hall table (last used as a sneeze guard in Buzzbar Cafe) as a desk, and a desk chair from the 2016 NZAME convention (dodgy covering artfully disguised by a handknitted lace shawl!) 

Flowers in a jug from the local tip shop, and a stripy 'tissue box' bead complete the desk, which is set up for a bit of writing, both analogue and digital.