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Easy Rose Hip Jam – No Need To Remove The Seeds!
This delicious rose hip jam is so easy to make! And what’s best: You don’t have to remove the seeds and hairs! >>> PIN THIS RECIPE <<< Rose hip jam recipes usually say to cut each...
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Sew It Cook It Craft It – Link Party #34
Welcome to the Sew It Cook It Craft It Link Party! I’m excited what you’ll be sharing today! Last Week On Sew Historically DIY Eco-Friendly Snow Pine Cones With Salt And Wheatpaste Easy Rose Hip Jam...
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Sparkling Blue Cookies Colored With Red Cabbage
These sparkling blue sugar cookies are naturally colored with homemade natural blue food coloring! >>> CLICK TO PIN THE RECIPE <<< Ingredients: gingerbread, shortbread or sugar...
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Victorian Christmas Decorations
Christmas decoration of entrance hall (The Book Of The Home, 1900) ‘Many housewives object to Christmas decorations, fearing that the furniture and paper may become scratched and spoiled. The...
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Candied Orange Slices
Candied orange slices are chewy and sweet and so orangey! They’re chrunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Candied orange slices are easy to make at home. They look great as cake decoration...
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Old-Fashioned Christmas Wreath From Scratch
‘Hang a wreath at your threshold on Christmas In token of Love, Life and Beauty, For like the bound circle of evergreen foliage, They have neither end nor beginning. And weave in bright berries and...
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Old-Fashioned Christmas Games & Christmas Carols
The sleigh ride, 1860 ‘Christmas is usually kept as a family festival, and old-fashioned games in which young and old can join are the most appropriate. In fact, a too-elaborate entertainment is out of...
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Snow Covered Mason Jar Oil Lamp With Salt & Wheatpaste
Make beautiful snow covered candle jars with things you already have in your kitchen! >>> PIN THIS POST <<< These jars look like they are covered with freshly fallen snow. You can...
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Sew It Cook It Craft It – Link Party #35
Welcome to the 35th Sew It Cook It Craft It Link Party! I’m excited what you’ll be sharing today! Just two weeks and it’s Christmas! I’m still busy crafting and cooking for my Christmas countdown 2017...
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Victorian Store-Bought Christmas Presents
The heart of the shopping district a few days before Christmas, 1903 ‘It was the afternoon of Christmas eve. The weather was delightfully mild for the season, and the sky was without a cloud. The...
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Knitted Wreath From An Old Sweater
Make a cozy knitted wreath this Christmas! All you need is an old sweater or scarf and a wreath base. I’ve always admired those knitted wreath on pinterest and everywhere. But I don’t like to knit and...
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Victorian Christmas Gifts For The Home
Christmas tree, 1907 ‘The shops are showing a marvelous array of gifts that cost small fortune and there are many of us who have to pass them by, regarding them as the fleshpots of Egypt. That is no...
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Medieval Nürnberger Lebkuchen Recipe
Lebkuchen have been made in Nuremberg since medieval times. This recipe for Nürnberger Lebkuchen (Nuremberg Lebkuchen) is from 1553! Isn’t that awesome? >>> CLICK TO PIN THIS RECIPE...
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Victorian & Edwardian Christmas Gifts – Part 1
Sleighing in New York, 1855 ‘Christmas is coming. […] Such a capering and hiding; stitching, knitting, clipping, cutting, and pasting; red paper and blue paper; spangles of gold and silver; purses,...
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Sew It Cook It Craft It – Link Party #36
Merry Christmas and welcome to the Sew It Cook It Craft It Link Party! You shared so many interesting crafts and recipes last week that there are more features today than usual! I’m excited what...
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The Victorian Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree, Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1850 The ‘door was thrown open leading into the great exhibition-room. Here was a magnificent Christmas-tree hung all over with colored wax tapers; here were...
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Victorian & Edwardian Christmas Gifts – Part 2
New York, winter scene in Broadway, 1857 ‘In many cases no gift could be so useful as an apron, or nightgown, or petticoat neatly made, with loving thoughts stitched into the long seams and difficult...
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DIY Icicle Candle Holders – Winter Luminaries With Snowy Pinecones
Aren’t these icicle winter luminaries beautiful? They look great as christmas table decoration, on the window sill or as modern Advent wreath. The snow frosted candle holders are easy and quick to...
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DIY Wood Bead ‘Cranberry’ Wreath Ornament
In today’s tutorial – the second to last project of my Advent Calendar 2017 – I’ll show you how to make a pretty, non-wilting faux cranberry wreath with wood beads. It’s an easy and quick last minute...
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Naturally Red & Green Christmas Cookies (No Food Coloring Added)
These festive red and green Christmas shortbread cookies are naturally colored with beets and pistachios. The pistachio- and beet-colored cookies are the last project of my Advent Calendar 2017. Merry...
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