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 …
A family fall trip to the cozy Berkshires, MA & Mystic, CT At the leaf-peeping peak of October, my family came from California to visit us in New York for our birthdays. Jonas & I knew we had to take them to a special place, the Berkshires of MA. The same place we have spent …
Come enjoy Halloween-time with us in the real town of Sleepy Hollow. “The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.” -Washington Irving 1819 Watch more Sleepy Hollow videos on our Youtube …
Victorian Beauty Recipes by guest blogger Anna Krusinski of Willow & Birch Apothecary Today we are happy to introduce you to a friend of ours. Her name is Anna Krusinski, and she runs Willow & Birch Apothecary, a most interesting place with a lot of nice beauty products for you who enjoy the victorian lifestyle, …
Hello dearies! It’s time for our cottage to get some autumn decorating going. Come enjoy our vintage fall Halloween decor. We are excited to share our 2019 fall cottage decor with you! Some things have changed since our last autumn decorating post we did. We have added a couple of new things that made the …
Dearies, will you join us for a Sweater Weather Tea-time pick-nick outside our cozy cottage. Dearies, will you join us for tea time at the cottage? We are PROUD TO PRESENT our collaboration with Tea Spectral!!! We sincerely hope you enjoy this limited edition of “Sweater Weather” our favorite fall decaf loose tea. Here’s what’s …
Get inspired with the best autumn ideas for the whole family to enjoy with this Autumn bucket list. Hello dearies! Fall is the coziest season of all. It is so many things to enjoy, for yourself or your whole family. We know how hard it can be to wrap our heads around everything that happens …
Building a vintage summer wardrobe that is sustainable for many years to come. Making fashion more mindful. Hello dearies! We are ever taking strides to make our charming life more mindful and sustainable. We’ve made some progress to be more green at the cottage: but when it comes to our wardrobe we realized that it …
Once upon a summertime in Sweden… June and strawberries are synonymous in Swedish culture. It feels like a miracle that there is such scrumptious ruby fruits growing from the earth after such a long winter and sometimes very cold springtime. Perhaps that’s why they taste that much more delightful after so much anticipation. Native Americans …
Swedish traveling in the springtime is filled with colorful gems. Like this unique farm that grows more than a million daffodils for thousands of visitors to enjoy. Fagerås is a small town where people come every year to experience a colorful spring miracle. Here grow millions of daffodils that is not only yellow but orange …
Hello dearies! Did you know that the largest privately owned house in the United States is located in the mountains of North Carolina? The Biltmore is a mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889-1895 and is still owned by the descendants of one of America’s richest families, the Vanderbilt’s. I was fortunate to …
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 …
