Hi Serena! After a year I look at your video with nostalgia and it's still charming to me how you portrayed a Victorian Christmas. I love it and thank you so much for the inspiration. Jana from the Czech Republic P.S....Merry christmas🎄💕

I have made Christmas crackers but didnt know how to make them snap,mine were cross stitched to keep as ornaments and you dont pull them apart,but you do put things inside

Really great video. I've never made a pomander but I'm going to this year

Interesting stuff, never heard of fashion plates before, thanks!

America has a different species of mistletoe. The leaves are thicker and round rather than elongated. Where I live in Florida the stuff is so prevalent it can destroy the host trees, but most people don't try to control it; I don't think it would even be possible. I am 56 years old and have never seen any American mistletoe with seed pods on it, so I don't know how it can spread the way it does.

Isn't plum simply an Old English term for any small fruit?

Historian Ruth Goodman claims that sugar plums are simply plums rolled in sugar and dried out in an oven. They were made at the end of the day to make use of a wood/coal oven's left over heat. I didn't buy her explanation since it sounded too much like prunes.

@21:53 Also called an ant colony where I live in Florida.

@10:30 in my house that would have been called Pekingnese bait. I had one for 17 years; one Christmas she broke a limb in my artificial tree going after candy. Another year she pulled the entire tree down. I had to attach the tree to a hook in the ceiling and eventually gave up on putting candy on the thing.

For the walnuts, try inserting a butter knife in the seam between the shells. You'll stand a much better chance of getting the things open with the shells intact.

You really need to do closeups when you are demonstrating crafts or anything that you are doing with your fingers

Well done, I enjoyed it and music was just right

How do the pins not poke you? Also, MORE OF THIS!!! ❤❤❤

I made pomanders about forty years ago and they are still going strong. The orange has shrunk away to almost nothing. I was more generous with the cloves and now they are tightly joined together and still have a clove scent. All this in the humid Queensland climate.

Bring them back in style. I really like your skirt with the matching tie 😊

beautiful calming video!! thank you so much:) i have an elegant wash basin/ stand in my room and ive been wondering how i could use it the way people did back in the day! this was very helpful:)

If you soak the walnuts, they crack along the seam much more easily. I can't remember how long we soaked them for our crafts, maybe two hours?

I loved listening to you read! You have such a smoothing voice!❤

hey sorry do you know how to fix if it has a hole? or some velved has been rasped?

Girl they were nasty period 💯💯💯💯

I've seen that floppy silk on etsy for such a low price it just can't be silk. Real silk velvet is considerably expensive for the amount of material needed.

Congratulations on your books and videos - they are really great. There is so much to take in that I find the music really distracting. Maybe it's just my age!

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Amazing to think about what it was like for someone to put all that together 100 years ago

I still use Pears soap ❤

This is so cool and interesting! Makes you think about how everyone before us were also just people living their lives; they had hobbies and interests etc! 🩷🩷🩷

It seems to me that such a lifestyle is now possible too. Servants have been replaced by technical devices that simplify and speed up household processes. The washing machine does the laundry, the electric kettle heats the water quickly, the water heaters heat the water for water treatments. So it is possible to take care of yourself now, the main thing is to find time and plan it wisely

I would cry if I found this at an antique store or estate sale, absolutely lovely

Cooooool

Can’t wait for more

Queen Victoria didn't invent it, but she was instrumental in making it popular.

They are when you're now shaped like a football.

Hi! I’m curious as to who invented the white wedding dress. I can’t find any good sources. 😅

Preach, sister! Yes!

I like to imagine that ghosts in the future will all look really stylish because of how fashion has evolved. Old tried-and-true victorian ghosts finally fizzle out, and in come the hipster ghosts with puffer jackets and hoodies

That is incredibly well said; thank you for this video!

I’m so glad that you showed that the back of your corset was not completely closed. Helps to dispel the “tight lacing”

I LOVE ❤❤❤ HISTORY AND CHRISTMAS 🎄 THANK YOU SO MUCH

BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤

I went to basic school at 1976 (and further on) in Austria, we learned how to knit, to crochet, some embroidery stitches, but nothing about sewing, nothing about patterns. Some month ago I talked with a young girl (15 years old), and she did not know how to crochet at all. So sad everything.

I never wrote a fashion diary such as Barbra Johnson, but now that I sew perhaps I should. I worked at a thrift store so acquiring new garments is affordable and easy. Before I started sewing. I owned 134 dresses and skirts combined. I have since reedonated all of those and I now own twenty two dresses or skirts, two coats, and a few blouses.

Thank you 😊

I wouldn’t mind a hair work piece with my kids’ hair ❤

I’m doing research for an author friend who’s writing a story set in the late Victorian era, 1895ish for now but that’s subject to change, and the main character is pregnant so this has been a big help!

Excited to watch these new videos as they come out! Such an interesting topic, thank you for putting a spotlight on the invisible hands behind these gowns!

Very nice video! From what I understand sugar plums were comfits, like Jordan almonds. But I’ve seen a similar “chopped dried fruit balls rolled in sugar” recipe before on TV. I wonder if you got your recipe from the same source?

So THAT'S what a humbug is!!!! I always wondered. I just assumed it was a phrase used like, "pfff. Screw that." Lol

I love this!!! It was so calming to watch and you look like one of my fave Disney Princesses come to life: Belle!! ❤❤❤

Wow, they should hire you to narrate audiobooks.

Lily library? Like Eli Lily? I'm a Hoosier born, raised, and still living and I've never heard of that. 🤔