1.01.2012

welcome to Fernweh

After over two months of fraught emails, drafting designs and panic--it's here. A website, run by six teenaged girls, which hopes to be more than just another teen magazine.

For years, I've been searching for a good magazine. One look in my room, and my search is evident! There are magazines everywhere but nothing for teenagers suited me, and although I loved what was written for twenty-somethings, I still wanted something that I could whole-heartedly relate to as a fourteen year old. Perhaps I was being picky, but the words and images that I fill my brain with are so important to me. I wanted to read magazines that meant something to me and that I could relate to and that felt like talking to your best friend.


And when I got bored of waiting for my perfect magazine to turn up, I emailed some lovely friends and we made it instead. I was itching to pour my creativity into a new project that would combine all the words I loved so dearly with the images we're passionate about. All of us, we want to make something that shares the ideas that we have, the places we've visited, and the life that we want to create for ourselves.

It's in the name really, isn't it? Fernweh. Pronounced fairn-vay, this German word translates into English as 'farsickness'. But like all good German words, it's a bit more than that. To us, it's wanting to go new places, and it's finding the joy in your hometown, and it's learning about what came before.

Fernweh is the stirring in your soul when you spin a globe and it's the longing to go somewhere new. It's dreaming that you can put together a magazine and it's the tangible product of your work. Fernweh is magic.
{Abbey's photo!}
Everyone working on Fernweh is immensely talented. Hannah, Carlotta, Katie, Kendall, and Abbey--they're all such creative, friendly, inspired people. Hannah put together our blog design; it's gorgeous! Abbey came up with the name & we're using her photo everywhere too. It's our profile picture everywhere, it's just above this paragraph, and we've plastered our manifesto across it too. And everyone has put together stunning material that we'll be sharing with you daily throughout January--recipes, an article on the colour yellow, poetry, travel dreams, and so many photographs.

I think I speak for us all, too, when I say thank you to you. Our blog readers, who have put up with us talking about some secret project which we won't tell you about, who have supported us in our own individual projects, and who, I hope, will love Fernweh as much as we do.

Welcome to Fernweh.

Stay a while, why don't you?

xx
Libby

35 comments:

  1. i want to live here. gorgeous. beautiful project, i adore it, and i can't wait to see what you have in the future. you guys are so creative. i'm jealous. :))
    -jocee <3

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  2. this is so amazing!
    i had an accidental sneak peek and the design looks 10x better than it already did, which was saying something.
    i'm excited :)

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  3. I'm officially jealous. But oh so excited to see what you guys do with this! :)
    As always, lovely design Hannah!

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  4. What a neat project! Can't wait to see what all you guys come up with!

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  5. p.s. Love, love, love the name! It sounds very exotic.

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  6. this is so, so very beautiful. the whole thing just looks like you guys, and I LOVE the idea and the hopes you have for this project! so excited.
    xo

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  7. awkward moment when theres already a website just like this one.............................................http://hellogiggles.com/

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  8. Mmmm can't wait to see the adventures! Lovely lovely idea from some very lovely talented ladies.

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  9. My goodness am I ever excited! Can't wait to see the results of all this talent! :)

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  10. Very nice, I am so excited about this! Love the blog design and name as well, would you be open to some sort of even swap for blog design? Email me at:

    janelleybean1@gmail.com

    Janelle

    P.S I would love to do something to help this website magazine whether its a makeup tutorial or photographs I am at your service :)

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  11. Really, really, really excited about this! It sounds perfect! :)

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  12. So, I'm really extremely looking forward to this. From what I can tell, everything looks like it's going to be nothing but lovely. :)

    love from
    an excited reader + willing helper.

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  13. I'm so impressed with you girls! So talented.

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  14. This was an awesome idea and I can't wait to see more!

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  15. so cool!!! i'm in love with the site design. go hannah!

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  16. I can't wait!! I'm so excited!!! I love all of your blogs, and I can't wait to read a blog that you all put together....

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  17. This is so exciting, the site looks absolutely lovely. Thanks for putting an email subscription box, as I hardly ever log on to my blogger account and check my subscriptions anymore.
    Can't wait for the next post! <3

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  18. oh you guys are so awesome, it makes me jealous. but not really, cause i get to know you! it's awesome!

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  19. This is so cool! I can't wait to see posts!
    The design is so lovely... Good luck to y'all :-)

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  20. This sounds like the perfect magazine for me. I'm already anticipating your next post!

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  21. Can't wait for the next post!

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  22. Fernweh sounds amazing! What a beautiful project. I can't wait to see the posts y'all put up!

    Blessings,
    Elizabeth Rose

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  23. This is amazing!!! I simply cannot wait!

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  24. This is crazy exciting.

    The end.

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  25. I am so excited! This is great!

    Paper Bird

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  26. I am so excited at what you six girls will be doing in the future!
    Well done, talented blogging girls : )

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  27. Awesome idea.
    I love Abbey's photo- it is so gorgeous.

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  28. So fabulous! I shared it on my blog (http://ivegotjoylikeafountain.blogspot.com/2012/01/fernweh.html) I can't wait to see more posts!

    abbie-xoxox

    p.s. i must have said "fernweh" like, fifty times today. i'm in love with the word. :)

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  29. This sounds lovely! I'm so excited! (:

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  30. Good luck on your blogging and magazine journey, I'm sure it'll be quite an adventure and success! The blog looks simple yet gorgeous, and this is exactly the type of "magazine" I would be interested in as a teen.

    I'll keep checking back for more posts!

    (<3 the title)

    ~ Cheryl Wang

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  31. What else can I say, ladies? This is absolutely brilliant! I love everything about this blog/webzine! The name is just lovely. Fernweh.

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  32. i am a follower of each of your individual projects, and now a follower of this, as well. this is such an inspiring project, lovely ones. i am so proud of each and every one of you, and i cannot wait to see where this ends up.

    blessings, dearhearts. <3

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  33. This is so amazing. I am so happy you all are doing this! You are all my favorite bloggers and you're all so talented and this is just so beautiful. I can't even imagine how many hours you have spent brainstorming and transforming your idea to a real thing, but I am so glad you did! May Fernweh be very successful and all you want it to be!

    P.S I'm glad I know what the real pronunciation is, I always said fern-way!

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  34. Still the greatest thing ever. (:

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