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Decorating a Victorian Buffet Table.
Like true aesthete, attentive to the details aimed to create the beauty even in the smallest and negligible area of their everyday life as they were, our Victorians were real artists in decorating...
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A Day with Qeen Marie Antoinette.
Even though it was lived between comforts and luxury, sometimes excessively, have you ever wondered how contrived and complex a day of a woman who was sitting on a throne in the XVIIIth and XIXth...
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For a Victorian Christmas ~ Make Your Own Victorian Wreath.
It's useless to say, dear friends and readers, that we ought to our Victorians the Christmas as we know it and how we celebrate it today that's why, to prepare us to welcome it in the best and most...
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For a Victorian Christmas ~ Make Your Own Victorian Ivy Ribbons.
Probably the most Victorian Christmas decoration for 'dressing up' with love and warmth environs were ribbons made of ivy leaves - often, alas, we see them in plastic in our supermarkets - but there's...
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For a Victorian Christmas ~ Make Your Own Victorian Tree Ornaments.
Symbol of Christmas par excellence, since Prince Albert gave it as a gift to his beloved Victoria for Christmas 1848, thus introducing it to England where it wasn't known yet, the Christmas Tree was...
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For a Victorian Christmas ~ Dress Your Own Victorian Christmas Tree.
The Christmas Tree by Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862 - 1925)In the last post of ~ My little old world ~ we watched together, in the video that accompanies us from the beginning of the month teaching us...
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For a Victorian Christmas ~ Make Your Own Victorian Mistletoe Ball.
It is precisely during the Victorian Age that spreads in England the tradition to exchange a kiss underneath the mistletoe at midnight of Christmas Eve, even if this custom draws its origins from the...
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December 24th 1888, the last Christmas Empress Elisabeth of Austria spent...
Dad spoke so laconically tonight that I could almost have grieved, I did not know he just pretended he did not care so much. Mom was sad. Rudolph now watched her, now me and was very friendly. The...
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Sheltered for the Winter.
Sweet life! how lovely to be here And feel the soft sea-laden breeze Strike my flushed face, the spruce's fair Free limbs to see, the lesser trees' Bare hands to touch, the sparrow's cheep To heed, and...
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HISTORY OF FASHION ~ CIVIL WAR FASHION ~ Patterns to sew or knitt Winter Caps...
We can just imagine how long and how cold those Winters were, of that cold that freez the heart and the soul, for the thought given by having some loved ones to the front to fight... brothers, against...
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A tale of two sisters, Queen Victoria's granddaughters.
... This is the story of two sisters, so similar as to seem almost twins,as well as so similar their tragic fate was ...I want to tell you today the story of two enchanting girls, two fairytale...
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Regency desserts recipes for your tea with Jane Austen.
“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.” Jane Austen ~ Mansfield ParkPrecious in the Regency period because still much sought-after, rare, and imported with parsimony from the colonies because...
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This engine was a monster to Dickens, but it saved countless lives of Londoners.
"What a monster! Imagine an enormous see-saw, with a steam engine at one end, and a pump at the other…" The GRAND JUNCTION 90 INCH ENGINEWhen in April 1850 Charles Dickens fund himself visiting the...
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Napoleon's obsession for coffee.
“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move… smiles arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.”Honoré de Balzac...
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♚ NOBLE MANSIONS AND CROWNS ♚ Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl and Hallwyl...
With what I am about to tell you, I'm bring you today in Sweden, the Sweden of the XIXth century and exactly in Stockholm, where in 1859, or at the height of the Victorian age, at the age of 20, Anna...
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The Gratitude Train and its hand-made Dolls telling us the History of Fashion.
It was the year 1948: the whole Western Europe, thanks to the aid provided by the Marsahall Plan, better known in the States as the "European Recovery Program", but still under reconstruction after...
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Jonathan Reed, the man who lived in a tomb - Story of a neverending Love.
Old Print Article - Jonathan Reed Stricken In Tomb Where He Lived, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1905)We read on the New York Times Obituary from March 24th, 1905, that a certain Jonathan Reed, about 70 years...
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ll figlio americano di Rodolfo d'Asburgo. Daniela Lasagnini.
Sono stata lontana da voi e dal mio Blog tre anni circa e non è stato facile rinunciare a tutta l'entusiasmo e la gioia che mi ha sempre donata, ma, sono onesta, non riuscivo a trovare tempo per ogni...
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The charming ‘Dresden Figurines’.
The production of the Meissen porcelain, the first European hard-paste porcelain, also known as Dresden porcelain, dates back to 1708, thanks to the collaboration of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus...
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The Art of Reading in the Victorian Age.
Giuseppe Bezzuoli (Firenze, 1784-1855) RITRATTO DI UFFICIALE DI CAVALLERIA BRITANNICA E DI SUA MOGLIE (dettaglio)Victorian women were real passionate readers. The increased literacy rate fromschooling,...
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