Starlight and Saucepans

2024 Year in Review: Movies

I hope you're been having a marvelous 2025! Here I am to make it even better by blabbing about movies to you. You're welcome. This seems to have been The Year of the Animated Movie for me, since towards the…

By Lizzie Hexam January 4, 2025Period Dramas, Spiritual Life, Vintage-ness1 Comment

Bookishness Spiritual Life

2024 Year in Review: Books

First things first: Merry Christmas! I hope you are having a sixth day of Christmas which is just as lovely and joyful as the first. Last year I did a review post of all the new books I had read…

By Lizzie Hexam December 30, 2024Bookishness, Spiritual Life12 Comments

Period Dramas

Inklings // December 2024 (Christmas Edition!)

A very merry and wondrous Christmas Day to all of you! This seems like a highly appropriate time to share my post for the Inklings link-up (see the rules to link up here!), as the December prompt is (fittingly) a…

By Lizzie Hexam December 25, 2024Period Dramas8 Comments

Miscellaneous Spiritual Life

The Holiday 20 Questions Tag

Hello! I just stole a tag, and it looks like a fun one! I found The Holiday 20 Questions Tag over at Faith, Fiction, and Fairytales, and the original post is here at Hannah's Happy Thoughts, so go check out…

By Lizzie Hexam December 20, 2024Miscellaneous, Spiritual Life8 Comments

Spiritual Life

My 10 Favorite Advent Hymns

What ho, readers all! I apologize profusely for abandoning the blogosphere for so long; end-of-semester papers paired with some less-than-stellar time management will do that sort of thing sometimes. It's been so long since I last posted that we are…

By Lizzie Hexam December 12, 2024Spiritual Life8 Comments

Bookishness

Beautiful People: Katinka

I haven't done a writing-themed post since...let me see...okay, about mid-August, and I haven't put up a Beautiful People questionnaire since June, so I think it's about time for another one. (You can find all the original questionnaires here!) Today's…

By Lizzie Hexam November 16, 2024Bookishness9 Comments

Bookishness

Inklings // October 2024

I'm a little on the late-ish side, but here I am for the October Inklings link-up! The prompt for this month (check out the rules for linking up here) is a scene by a lake in book or film. I've…

By Lizzie Hexam November 11, 2024Bookishness4 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

Period Drama Match It Game Answers

(If you still would like to play this period drama match it game, by the way, it's not too late! Just hop back over to this post and play it now before you check out the answers in this post.)…

By Lizzie Hexam November 7, 2024Miscellaneous, Period Dramas2 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

Period Drama Match It Game

Here is the long anticipated, long awaited, breathtakingly wondrous period drama screencap and quote match-it game I mentioned last week. I'm so excited to try this out with you! Firstly, the rules. To play, leave a comment matching as many…

By Lizzie Hexam October 24, 2024Miscellaneous, Period Dramas22 Comments

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Miscellaneous

Two Year Blogiversary (and an important question for readers)

Starlight and Saucepans has been gracing us with its presence for longer than you might think (certainly longer than I would have thought) - start the applause, because today is my two year blogiversary! (I shan't ramble for long, but…

By Lizzie Hexam October 14, 2024Miscellaneous12 Comments