Our Cozy Cottage is ready for a vintage Cottagecore Christmas. For that vintage Christmas look that suits our cottage so well, we have been seeking inspiration from our traditional Swedish and American roots to make our Christmas cottage embrace the holiday cottagecore atmosphere. When Christmas time approaches we are drawn more than ever to our …
A black and white Christmas movie always brings a certain joy to the holiday. They bring a sweet and sentimental feeling even if you are among family or by yourself. Here is a list of our old favorite Christmas movies from the 1930s-1950s. Clicking the movie titles will take you to our Amazon Affiliate which …
Explore our winter bucket list to make the most of this winter wonder season. Here are our 10 favorite cozy winter activities that will brighten your days and make the cold season more heartwarming than ever. We hope that this winter bucket list can inspire you to find the charm of this magical season. These …
What is the hygge lifestyle? “Hygge” is a Scandinavian lifestyle that can be described as a cozy self-care kick towards a more simple living lifestyle. What is the hygge lifestyle? If we ask visitdenmark.com they say: “Hygge is a tricky word to define, it’s a feeling, an experience, a sensation. It means creating a warm …
Happy Holidays and welcome inside our cozy cottage for tea time. Dearies! December is here and what can be cozier than tea time in a snow-covered cottage? You could experience this sensation in our 2nd collaboration with Tea Spectral (due to the amazing success of our fall tea collection)!!! We sincerely hope you enjoy this …
Hello dearies! I can’t be the only bygone gal who feels uninspired to dress up during the winter time? Well this California girl has lived through several harsh winters in Sweden and now NY and it’s taken me a lot of trial and error to find “my style” during the colder months. I’m sharing my …
Hello dearies! Do you ever feel blue during the wintertime? I’ve never been officially diagnosed with “Seasonal Affective Disorder“ but it wasn’t hard to figure out that I was severely S.A.D. that first cold dark winter I lived in Sweden. Let me back up a little big, as I’m going to open up about a …
Hello dearies! Come along with us on our trip to California for Christmas! We went to Disneyland on Christmas Day and also went to a few of our other favorite historic spots in Orange County! Hope you enjoy the storytelling about our family Christmastime! Bye For Now, -Lindsay Dianne & Jonas
“Dear Friends, Sending you many heartwarming holiday greetings to you and your home from our cottage. May you cherish every charming moment of the season. We hope this finds you well with our best wishes for a bright new year of adventures and dreams coming true.” We hope you enjoyed receiving our virtual Christmas card, …
“In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter long ago.” -In The Bleak Midwinter Poem by Christina Rossetti 1872 Merry Midwinter, dearies! It is the time of again, when the days are the …
Dear Friends, join us for a cozy tea time in the cottage chatting about our cover story with Marjorie Magazine about “The Way Charming Should Be” and ways you can live a charming life too! It’s such an honor to grace the pages of this beautiful autumn/winter publication that celebrates the best of vintage lifestyles …
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” –William Penn Dear friends, As the end of the year approaches do you also feels like the weeks go racing by as you reflect on what you’ve done during the year? Time is a funny thing, it’s a precious currency that when spent you …
