

LA Fabric Shopping Tips
Tips: Make a list of upcoming projects or speciality things you won’t be able to find at home or online. I used my Notes app to list projects and material references I could quickly look at while shopping. Bring cash and a card. Some places charge for using card or have minimums. And if you’re … More

Summer Dresses for Your Favorite Austen Novel
We all admired the fine lines of Pemberley’s grounds, so why not let other people’s fine eyes wander your fine lines in this romantic romp of a dress.

Book Review: Emma (Manga Classics)
I think this is actually great for getting people into Jane Austen, but not good for people who are boring ass “purists.”

Book Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
If you can’t get enough Clone Wars, or you just really dig the tradition of Star Wars anthologies, this is gonna be a must-read for you.

Lattice Smocking Tutorial
First thing to know about smocking is that it will eat up your fabric, and it reduces your fabric length by 50%.



Book Review: Rational Creatures
I urge you to fall for this collection of Austenesque works (and not off the cobb like Louisa).

Making a Star Wars Resort Wear Look
When life gives you Star Wars towels, you make a Star Wars resort look.

Book Review: Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
I appreciate the immense research and detail put into this, but I do not feel every chapter was convincing.

Budget Regency Menswear
Dearest Bookhos, This week, I let Mr. Bookhoarding take the stage to talk about budget Regency costume options if you’re looking for the historically masculine look. We got a lot of excitement around this topic last time we talked about it, so we hope this added resource can help folks who are trying to get … More

Book Review: Longbourn
The lack of rose-tinted glasses gives us a better understanding and appreciation of the realities around which Jane Austen herself wrote and moved in.


I watched Jane Austen movies all day and this is what happened
If you learn one thing from Sense and Sensibility it’s this that cake is greater than rakes.


Book Review: The Jane Austen Diet (spoilers: I hated it)
You wanna know the REAL advice Jane Austen would give us today? She’d tell us not to listen to men trying to tell us how to live our lives and body shame us.


Book Review: ‘Love and Friendship’
This is essentially the script of the play, but with lots of narration.

Book Review: Camp Austen
“…there are Janeites who seem to have no sense of irony about themselves, no apparent glee for mischief, no inner Lizzy Bennet.”

Movie Review: Emma.
I have a pretty high bar for Austen adaptations, and I feel like what blew me away about this take on Emma was how carefully crafted it was.


My Years With Brambly Hedge
Little mice cuddled close in cozy and cluttered room, having yummy picnics out in the fields, being jovial and wearing the cutest little clothes…

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