Starlight and Saucepans

picture of fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof and What Makes a Good Movie Musical

In my humble opinion, it's very hard to make a good movie musical. Musicals and movies are two wonderful ways of telling stories, but I would consider them to be pretty nearly diametrically opposed means of storytelling. Musicals are inherently…

By Lizzie Hexam February 13, 2025Period Dramas19 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

We Love Musicals Week Tag

We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette's Soliloquy! I'm hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag. 1. …

By Lizzie Hexam February 10, 2025Miscellaneous, Period Dramas10 Comments

Bookishness

Inklings // January 2025

Happy February, my peeps! To celebrate the start of a new month, let's post an Inklings...from last month. The Inklings link-up for January (check out Heidi's post here for rules to link up!) is a scene at sunrise. I've been…

By Lizzie Hexam February 1, 2025Bookishness14 Comments

Bookishness Miscellaneous

“There was now a glittering wall of icicles, as if the side of the dam had been covered all over with flowers and wreaths and festoons of the purest sugar.”

Last autumn I made a post with seasonal moodboards and aesthetics for various stories, and I thought it might be rather fun to continue the series and do a winter moodboards post as well. (I presented these as period drama…

By Lizzie Hexam January 24, 2025Bookishness, Miscellaneous18 Comments

Homemaking Vintage-ness

I Lived Like a 1950s Housewife for a Day

There is a schedule floating around on the Internet that is supposedly that of the average 1950s housewife. (I'm not sure where it came from...I expect that it's probably more the ideal schedule a housewife would aim to follow than…

By Lizzie Hexam January 15, 2025Homemaking, Vintage-ness20 Comments

Period Dramas Spiritual Life Vintage-ness

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-ness4 Comments

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 Life20 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