by LoriBenton | Mar 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
I had a fun discussion with some girlfriends earlier this week about movie soundtracks, and our favorite movies. No surprise that mine are almost all historicals, complete with sweeping soundtracks, lots of fiddle music, often with a Celtic strain. It’s the...
by LoriBenton | Mar 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Instead of having to track down various websites or book resources that give lists of what this or that item was worth in the late 18th century when I find myself needing to insert such historical tidbits into a scene, I’m proposing to start my own list here on...
by LoriBenton | Mar 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve had a crash course on stays this week, between my friend Carla Gade’s posts on Dressing a Colonial Lady, and the blog and emails of the Colonial Lady herself, Mary Spencer. If you’d like to tell between stays and corsets, check out Mary’s...
by LoriBenton | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I seem to need pretty high stakes to make a lifestyle changing resolution and stick to it. Take exercise for instance. I want to feel good and look my best, but that wasn’t enough to get me exercising regularly in my twenties. Then I had cancer at 30, which was...
by LoriBenton | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not long ago I was talking to a friend about finding a single word to define where you are in life, or that describes what you feel the Lord is working out in your soul, or expresses a goal you have for yourself for this (still relatively new) year. She shared hers...
