Christmas - Teacups in the Garden

1957 Changeable Red-Black Silk Taffeta Dress

The dress drew positive attention at the Christmas party, where a guest asked me about the style, my sewing, and the rest of my historical sewing.

Rhetoric Literature: Twelfth Night, Napoleon, As You Like It

Daughter: Isn’t All the world is a stage and the men are merely players? in As You Like It?
Son: I wonder if that quote inspired Napoleon to conquer Europe?

How the Renaissance inspired a Colonial Revival Christmas

During our Renaissance studies, we more fully learned how 15th century Italian artisan Luca della Robbiainfluenced Christmas at Colonial Williamsburg.

Tea and Games for Grand Illumination: Colonial Williamsburg

The more rounds he rolled the dice, the more numbers he flipped down, and his score kept lowering, winning every round…the interpreters were flabbergasted!

Christmas Grand Illumination Parties: Colonial Williamsburg

Then all exclaimed: Naaawww, we’d rather be cold in Colonial Williamsburg during Grand Illumination! There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world!