The Secret Dreamworld of a Jane Austen Fan

I just wanted to post a couple of great links. First one to Social Customs During the Regency Era
The other one is to the

Yes that is right, the answer to my little guessing-game is a bonnet.
I wanted to make another bonnet, but I didn’t have anything to make it out of, or so I thought… I searched through the house to see if I could find anything that could possibly work, and I did.

I found this old place [...]

Or maybe I should say some gorgeous gowns instead, that might be more appropriate. I have just been spending some time browsing through the online collection of historical garments found on this Danish website Tidens Tøj.
They have so many pretty items on there! Apparently this collection is a part of the National [...]

I wrote about Lark Rise to Candleford before, this summer when we had just finished watching season one of this series. We all loved it, and for a long time I have impatiently been waiting for the opportunity to see season two. And finally that opportunity came!

I was delighted when I found out that this [...]

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. [...]

Ir would appear that not all of my creativity is dead at least. Because I’ve just started another project! From the title you have probably already guessed what it is…
Yes, I’m going to try my hand not at parasol making, but at a parasol makeover. You see, yesterday I was for some reason [...]

As my dear sister came back home from London this morning, bringing the camera with her, so I am now able to post some pictures of my newest creation.
So, I made the chemise first. Worked on that for a couple of days and am absolutley thrilled with the way it turned out!

This is really a [...]

Have you ever found yourself doing something and afterwards realized that was actually rather strange? I am sure we all have. I did yesterday, after a long day away from home I decided to relax a little and do some reading. So I picked up the sewing instructions for the

Alright, so yesterday was a pretty slow day for me. Slow in the sense that I had absolutley no creativity or energy for doing anything really. Or I should say, for wanting to do anything.
In the evening however, I was going upstairs to look for something in my fabric stash, and I sort of got [...]