Starlight and Saucepans

Ask Me Anything Answers (Part 1): In Which I Show Off My Most Ostentatious Dress & Sing Bertie Wooster’s Praises

What ho, what ho! A couple of weeks ago I started collecting questions for Ask Me Anything post, and here I am to start answering them. I've decided to break my answers into a couple posts so as not to…

By Lizzie Hexam November 4, 2025Miscellaneous6 Comments

Miscellaneous

Drifting Leaves: Autumn Tag Challenge

The lovely Autumn of Shades of Art has tagged me for an autumn tag challenge! Autumn is my favorite season, and blog tags are always enjoyable, so this is doubly welcome. I do have another (very fun-looking) tag that I…

By Lizzie Hexam October 24, 2025Miscellaneous11 Comments

Miscellaneous

Ask Me Anything

In case the title of this post didn't tip my hand, here is where I shall be gathering questions for an Ask Me Anything post! Any questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a comment on this…

By Lizzie Hexam October 18, 2025Miscellaneous11 Comments

illustration of cute critter with a birthday cake

Miscellaneous

Three Year Blogiversary

Like Uncle Benjamin, I must say an original thing: how time flies! Would you have imagined that my humble little corner of the Internet is celebrating its three year blogiversary today? Though in a way, it almost feels like longer…

By Lizzie Hexam October 14, 2025Miscellaneous19 Comments

Miscellaneous

Sunshine Blogger Award #5

Miss K of Today with Miss K has very kindly tagged me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! (I know I just did a tag for my last post, but I've gotten behind on tags and am trying to catch up…

By Lizzie Hexam October 9, 2025Miscellaneous5 Comments

Oldies Music Vintage-ness

The Music Tag

The Hopeful Pen at With Joy for the Work has very kindly tagged me for the Music Tag! I love tags and I love music, so this is a perfect combination. Here are the rules: Write ten songs that come…

By Lizzie Hexam October 1, 2025Oldies Music, Vintage-ness22 Comments

Bookishness Homemaking

Inklings // August 2025 (Eight Cousins)

The prompt for August's Inklings link-up (check out Heidi's post here for the rules to link up!) is a breadmaking scene in book or film. For some reason I had an extraordinarily hard time thinking of breadmaking scenes, and the…

By Lizzie Hexam September 24, 2025Bookishness, Homemaking11 Comments

Period Dramas

Bleak House (2005) Review

I should start this review off with a confession. Although I didn't love every single thing about the 2005 Bleak House, and although it drove me to say more than once (though not often) that stinging indictment "that's not how…

By Lizzie Hexam September 15, 2025Period Dramas17 Comments

Vintage-ness

Would You Rather: Classic Movie Edition

Our moral for today is that it pays to waste time snooping around in other people's blog archives, because I found an immensely fun-looking tag from a classic movie blog party which Cordy at Any Merry Little Thought hosted...um, just…

By Lizzie Hexam September 1, 2025Vintage-ness21 Comments

Period Dramas Vintage-ness

Inklings // July 2025 (The Court Jester)

The prompt for July's Inklings (check out Heidi's post here for details on linking up!) is a sword dueling scene in book or film. There are plenty of thrilling, intense sword-dueling scenes I could choose, but the first scene that…

By Lizzie Hexam August 25, 2025Period Dramas, Vintage-ness9 Comments