It’s New Yeas Eve and the end, not only of a year but of a decade!
On this day, every year, I find myself thinking of all the thins that have happened to me and in the world over the year that has been. This hasn’t always been the easiest year I would say for me. [...]

Sometimes going shopping with grandmother can be a very exciting and fun (and profitable) adventure!
We went into town today in order to get some fabric for a skirt I am helping her with, and we passed this new shop that I’ve never seen before (it looked very temporary so I doubt it will be there [...]

I hope you’ve all been enjoying a wonderful Christmas! Here in Sweden we always celebrate on Christmas Eve, and not Christmas Day as most of the world does. So we had our celebration yesterday. It was a relaxed day at home. My grandmother is here and also two friends of ours. We had a delicious [...]

…I felt I just had to make a new dress!
A few days before I had my idea of the blouse I made a little while back I had another idea. This time too I was lying in my bed, it was late and I was desperately trying to go to sleep.  But then I came [...]

Today I can actually feel that Christmas is close, just around the corner. For me it hasn’t felt very Christmasy up to this point, which I am rather sorry for as I love the feeling of Christmas! But today I woke up to the most glorious weather ever! It’s freezing cold (around -18C) but oh, [...]

On the 16th of December 1775 Jane Austen was born. Had she still lived today she would have been celebrating her 234st birthday! Just think of all the books she would have had time to write!
Happy Birthday Jane!

Not too long ago I was in a bookshop, browsing through the classics section (my favourite part) when I spotted these two books on the shelf. They were new versions of Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights (from Harper Teen, I think…?) but they looked like they were supposed to be a part of the [...]

One of the first steps in starting a new sewing project is finding the right fabric for it, and my upcoming Regency dress has just reached the stage where I have done that. I mentioned before (at least I think I did) that I had a dream about making a ball gown out of pink [...]

Elizabeth over at Rapunzel’s Resource is right now doing a week with tutorials based on six different hairstyles from Miramax’s Emma. I think this is a lovely idea, and I’m glad that she is doing this, since I personally think it can be hard to come up with different Regency styles that I can use. [...]

One of my all-time absolute favourite movies is Little Women (the one from 1994)! I remember the first time I saw it, it was many years ago and my mother had rented it from the video rental store. I hardly spoke any English at the time, and even though it had subtitles I didn’t understand [...]