The orris root mentioned is the powdered root of the Iris flower. I actually have it in my spice cabinet. It smells lovely. I also used it for pomanders.
You are such an inspiration to me Hillary. I love your style. I love all the little touches you put into your home and how motivated you are each day. I’m so much enjoying your daily vlogs!
I remember when you got that book and said you wanted to pull some ideas from it. Neat to see what you’ve done. Beautiful. My daughter lives the early colonial architecture as well and decor.
I didn’t know that you were in NJ! We used to live in Howell, in Monmouth County. I really loved it there, but my husband could not abide by the garden state parkway, thus we moved to the Midwest. There were so many things that I loved about living there, the history, the parks, the gorgeous trees and many birds. But the biggest surprise was how friendly and down to earth the people were! 🤗
I love seeing all your inspiration photos! It’s funny, when you mentioned loving colonial times even as a child, I loved the WWII era growing up. It’s the style I’m most drawn to now as an adult. I never really realized that until now. ☺️ I still love your mantle and how it turned out!
I had recently watched all of your vlogmas and I can tell that your style has been so consistent and you have evolved it a lot. I really admire you. Thanks for the inspiration.
This decor style is right up my alley! I have those country Home books and keep them in my Keeping Room for reference and inspiration. You could see the Colonial/Early American decor influence in my Christmas Home Tour as well. -Rosalie🎄
I'm a UK subscriber and would love to go to New England one day.i have However been to New Jersey.In fact your Cape Cod videos were what drew me to your channel. I am loving your Vlogmas content. Your mantel looks great your hubby did a great job & the way you decorated it looks stunning.
Hi Hilary, As always I loved your video, you absolutely captured all of the elements of Christmas that you wanted to. 🎄Watching you add the cloves to the oranges reminds me of doing them at my grandparents home as a child. We also made the styrofoam balls pinned with a bunch of sequence ornaments there one year. I could be wrong but I believe that your girls have made them before too (only with glue), possibly last year about this time? 😊 My grandparents were pretty hands on and kept all of us grandkids (5 of us) busy when we visited. Can you imagine having 5 grandkids at your table with pins and sequence... they had to have either been crazy or just brave, jk 😳 we could definitely be a handful when it was all five of us at one time though. We always knew that we were very loved by them, there was never any doubt of that. ❤️😊❤️ I hope that your kids will also realize as they grow up just how loved they are.❤️ Well thank you for sharing your video with all of us. It's always nice to get a little glimpse of what your lovely family has been up to. Hope that you're all well now and that you're all having a wonderful weekend, take care and happy holidays Hilary. 😊
I had to read some comments to see if it was my imagination or not! This video has to be your best ever! I really enjoyed it! Not only did you look amazing, but just the whole thing was perfection! You are my favorite UA-camr, BTW! Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
Good morning ☕️🎄 Hilary I’m sure other subscribers would agree but thanks for vlogtober and now vlogmas! Your videos are always appreciated and we can always take something away on each one. Cleaning tips , decorating, just seeing the calmness in parenting in you that can help us take deep breaths in the day to day. 😊
I love this video so much! You should consider doing one of these "where my inspiration is from" videos once a season. You have such a great eye for detail and decor!
I grew up making the orange clove Pomanders with my mom, making swirl patterns, stars etc out of the cloves. Never knew what they were called, so thank you. Last year I had to get out my thimble to push them in because it made my fingers hurt.
"Who needs that much nutmeg?" 😁 Jon Townsend from Townsends! You should look into his channel; it's chiefly about colonial America and is very fun and interesting! I love your channel too. Thank you for this lovely video and great inspiration.
Hilary, this is so beautifully filmed and edited. I want to say it’s your best yet. My mother decorated our family home in the Colonial style, which I’ve adapted to our English cottage home.
I agree about the filming and editing. Hilary, you’re professional and poised in front of the camera and I find myself wanting to sit down to watch your vlogs versus having a blog on in the background while I’m busy with other things.
I have always been drawn to Early American decor. Even as a child, I enjoyed the decor of my Aunt’s home, who had colonial touches throughout her house. Love your channel, and your decorating style truly inspires me!
Hi Hilary, Thanks again, for another beautiful video. It's always a pleasure, and a learning experience, watching your videos! When you showed us the book of the colonial Christmas styles, and traditions, I was surprized, and shocked, to see that they had actually liked the dried fruit banners too! I thought that was only your creation. Well, when I commented in the video before this one, about being stuck in old-school thinking, and Christmas traditions, I'm talking about that I was raised with; the '50's-'70's decor. I was a child in the '70's, and teens and twenties in the '80's, so I never thought about colonial style at Christmas, except for how they used real lit candles on their live trees! And you'd think that I would have been up on all that, because I grew up in an old colonial farmhouse, that was literally from at least Abe Lincoln's time, or before!! There were the old square nails in our floorboards, which were all original. The house had three fireplaces, one on each floor, and the basement fireplace still had remnants of the old iron hook, that was attached to the brick part in front, where they used it for putting an iron pot, that swung in, over the fire, to heat the food!! Parts of the brick walls down in the basement were so old, that they were crumbling! We had the old original barn, with the square colonial nails too, and two ponies, on our five acres of land. This was the country, in Virginia. I got used to living in a cold house in the winter, because we didn't always use the fireplaces. And not to be creepy, but the house, and the grounds it was on, was indeed haunted!!! Many times as a child, I experienced ghosts, and supernatural phenomena. Since there was no air conditioning in the old house, it was difficult sleeping at night in the summer, with how hot and humid muggy, it was. And my bedroom was on the tip top room of the third floor, where it was the hottest most uncomforable at night. So as a child, aged 9-11 yrs.old, one night in the hot muggy summer, I thought I'd sleep downstairs on the basement floor couch, because it was cooler down there. Well, it didn't take long, before I began to feel all sorts of little teasing tappings, on my ankles, and feet, and whisperings, from voices, and it scared me so bad, that I ran all the way up two flights of stairs, back to my bedroom, on the third floor, and suffered the rest of the night, with the humid heat! Another time, when I was 13, or 14, I was coming back from the barn, having just finished feeding the ponies, and I heard some people talking behind me, and I turned around, and saw a young man, looked about in his twenties, coming towards me, from the barnyard area, and the leaves were swishing, with his every step, because this was in the fall, and all the dead leaves had fallen on the ground, and he was wearing some sort of colonial or civil war time period soldier's uniform, and I froze in fear, because I didn't know him, and I wondered what he wanted, and why he was on our property?! He was walking so very fast towards me, leaves swishing still, with his every step. All this seemed to happen in seconds. I turned around to see where he was going, because he passed by me very fast, and when I looked to see where he was going, there was nothing, and nobody there!!! The young man had completely disappeared, and was gone!!! (and the leaves had stopped swishing too). I was so frightened, I ran the 500 feet to the house, and felt safe inside, but I never told anyone, because I didn't think they'd believe me. There's more to tell, but it's way too much for this comment section! I'm sorry that I already got carried away in my true-story telling. I watched how you did the old colonial style orange decoration. And I enjoyed watching you make the molasses cookies. But I couldn't do that with fruit here, even if I wanted to, because produce in general, is expensive in San Diego, CA, and we have to scout around every week, watching the grocery store ads, to check out what deals we can get on food and produce. So for us to get our beloved oranges, we wait til their on sale, usually .99 cents a pound, or less, and I can't just use them as a decoration at that price. We need to eat them, especially for the vitamin C, and oranges help us balance our blood sugar, since my daughter and I are hypoglycemic. But I'm glad you're having fun with this "new-old" Christmas tradition. You're bringing back the old world traditions, literally! Oh, and we used to go to Colonial Williamsburg, on class trips, when I was growing up. Have you been there yet, Miss Hilary? You'd love it. Plus, Virginia is steeped in our early American history, so I know alot about colonial times. I saw alot of colonial movies growing up, lots of old houses, and for a brief period, I lived in a neighborhood called Colonial Heights. Most of my childhood was spent in Chesterfield, in a house formerly known on the maps, as Bellmont Manor. Okay, okay, enough already. ☺😃🤓
Hilary thank you for sharing the 3 channels you enjoy I can't wait to check them out. I saw the orange clove video from entertaining with Beth when her father made the 🍊 so when you gave the wonderful tip to save your thumb with the fork before pushing in the cloves I recalled it. I also love how you said Evey saw a Christmas tree imprint on your mantle as you were showing the New England decor book. Your children have your love of Christmas because they see it everywhere in your lovely home.
Hilary I so enjoyed this video. It definitely put me in the Christmas spirit. I also love your home decor because it’s just so warm cozy. Merry Christmas to you and your family and I pray God’s blessings in you in the coming year.
Love all of this! You are one vlogger that I get a lot of inspiration from 💕 I also love Jenny Steffens Hobbick and have been following her since before my time on UA-cam ☺️💕
Hilary I'm on a break at work and what a great video to watch. I think I will try making the cookies and I have 3 oranges that no one is eating I think I will make garland. I loved that book as I love old world beautiful homes too. Back in the day people were so creative with what they had, apple trees, orange trees etc. now everything is so commercialized it takes the fun out. I just love your channel.
Powdered orris root is available online - it’s used as a fixative for pomanders so the fruit dries without rotting as easily. The orange pomanders really do smell great.
When i was growing up my Gram always made the pomanders with oranges and cloves . But interesting about the spices. Mnnnn bet that smells wonderful. Your arrangement looks very pretty. Your home is just gorgeous. Love watching everything you come up with. Cookies look so good. Thanks so much for sharing.
I grew up in Cape May and have always loved the old houses. As an adult I live in the Pacific Northwest. We bought a 1914 home, which is old for this area. I miss the rich history of the East coast.
I'm totally with ya sis, I live in upstate NY and I love everything about the older, colonial style. My home is a 1920s colonial style and I am just so grateful to God that I get to live here because the c is classical style of the home, the character and the spirit of the classical style just warms my heart especially around the holidays. I saw a few of these on your Instagram, I love the orange with the cloves. I'm definitely going to try that. I love your content Hillary you are so unique and gifted in your decorating style and I can totally identify. This is such an informing video, thanks so much for sharing. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for your daily vlogs. It's a happy way to start my day. You've inspired many decor changes in my home. Especially your mantel & your board and batten. About those cookies. I make the same recipe, trust me ladies you truly cannot eat just one. YUM!🎄
That book is so pretty. I love pouring over a book like that. So many ideas!!! Thank you for sharing not only the book but also the other ladies that have channels. You inspired me to make some stove top potpourri tomorrow so I can fill my house with the fragrance of the season!
I love colonial style too. I think growing up in New England was a big influence. I struggled for awhile on what was my style because I didn't see much on social media that looked like my style. But times have changed and there is room for everyone and every style. I think I need to research those books!!
Your home is always so inspirational♥️. I love making cookies.....I’m making four batches of buttermilk biscuits to put in the freeze,but you making cookies makes me want to make cookies now😋. The book you were looking at was definitely a gorgeous book to get inspiration from. God bless you and your sweet family and Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family 🎄........💞😊
I love your appreciation for New England. Especially since I’m born, raised and still reside in New England. Massachusetts to be exact. I love watching others enjoy what I was born into ❤️.
Smart tip with the fork piercing the orange. Molasses cookies are one of my favorite cookies.and thanks for the list of inspirational people you follow.
Hilary, i bought that whole series of Time Life books back in the late 80's or early 90's,,, it was like a once a month book club.. I too was inspired by the look of early colonial and carry that theme to this day around the Christmas season,.. just adore your style!
Love Nine and Sixteen! I also have years-old nutmeg that I bought from a cute spice shop where my husband and I had a “baby moon” before our first son was born- he’s going into kinder next year and I still have the nutmeg! And I only bought 3 nuts! Lol. It’s still fresh when I grate it! Did you like Felicity from the American Girl books when you were little? She was my favorite! 😂
I love Victorian decor. We live in a Victorian house built in 1895 (also here in NJ!) and I just love all of the Victorian accents that I have found over the years. It is nice to incorporate some antique furniture along with the new more practical furniture. Your house looks beautiful!
This was awesome! We got to bake and craft with you. Thank you for doing this. I love your home and your personal style. You are my favorite UA-cam channel.
The spices served more than a decorative purpose. They repelled mice and bugs. Homes weren't as tight as ours are now giving pests lots of ways to get inside.
I just was thinking of making an orange garland for the first time this year! I’m sure I saw it here first ☺️ we just moved to a much older farmhouse with a lot of charm and I think these details you mentioned would suit my new space!
Well that book is very inspiring indeed! You were/are a huge inspiration for my decorating our 1960's ranch...any home can have some old classic touches!
Hilary hi...need to share with you....I was inspired by you and decided to make dried oranges...then I put ends to boil with cinnamon and clove...my girls and grand kids were coming to help decorate the tre....they walked in and smelled the aroma....we being Greek bake "melomacarona" which are little delicacies with orange cognac cinnamon and cloves, baked and then dipped into a honey syrup...I make them at the beginning of December........anyway they walked in and thought I had baked....much to everyone's disappointed it was the pot on the stove! You. See I too was sick this passed week....anyway thanks for sharing your month...blessings to you and yours...
I love this style of video from you! Those cookies look AH-maxing! Definitely going to have to try that recipe. Your home is so cozy and warm looking. I just love it.
I grew up in NH. In on old 1800s house.And believe me the house is haunted. Also there's an old cemetery across the street. My siblings and I use to hang out there. I am going to make the cookies for the family Christmas dinner. Tfs
My design ascetic is very similar to yours, with patriotic colors thrown in (husband recently retired from the military) so I very much enjoy watching and drawing inspiration from your vlogs. I’ll be checking out some of the links you mentioned.
You knocked it out of the park, with this video! These are the same things I treasure and enjoy. I get plenty of it here on Cape Cod. I am going to try those cookies, I love those type, also pumpkin and ginger breads, etc. I have a tiny little cookbook I picked up at the bakehouse at Sturbridge Village that has some wonderful cookie recipes, as well.
Always a pleasure Hilary. Loved this video 🙂. I remember making the orange and clove decor in 2nd grade, as a Christmas gift for our parents (that was a long time ago😁). I love the older towns in this state too.There certainly are a lot of areas in NJ that are just beautiful. Have a nice Saturday!🎄🏡🍊
Hillary, I loved this video! I hope the children are over their colds. Can not find the info you were going to give us about bloggers, etc, that inspire you. God bless.
Yum! My molasses drop cookie recipe didn’t call for spices. I added a teaspoon of pumpkin spice I had mixed, and they came out amazing. I froze them after completely cooled to have ready closer to Christmas.
Hilary, I can’t wait to check out the accounts you shared. The cookies look delicious, I remember my great Aunt making and sharing a similar cookie with us.
Love the charm of all things New England, always in style. I've dreamt of a library wall in our diningroom. Why not make a room seldom used into a multi-purpose place?
whole nutmegs will last 3 to 4 years max, but after that their flavor will change. Many times older nutmeg (even whole nutmegs) start to have a "soapy" taste that is off-putting. So I would say go ahead and toss your elderly nutmeg and start fresh! There is no reason to keep them for life. Maybe just buy a smaller portion next time!
Love my daily dose of Old World Home❣️
This is such a beautiful video! The "mood" of your whole channel is so gorgeous and inspiring.
The orris root mentioned is the powdered root of the Iris flower. I actually have it in my spice cabinet. It smells lovely. I also used it for pomanders.
All of your videos are awesome but this one was such a Christmas joy to watch! Thanks for your time and what you do to make it so fun! 🎄❄️🧣🌏🛷🧤
Thank you for the reminder that life's simple pleasures are truly the most satisfying!
AMEN ✨
You are such an inspiration to me Hillary. I love your style. I love all the little touches you put into your home and how motivated you are each day. I’m so much enjoying your daily vlogs!
My Dad's decorating style was early American! He even placed a cast iron eagle on the chimney (outside) of my childhood home. It's still there!
I remember when you got that book and said you wanted to pull some ideas from it. Neat to see what you’ve done. Beautiful. My daughter lives the early colonial architecture as well and decor.
I didn’t know that you were in NJ! We used to live in Howell, in Monmouth County. I really loved it there, but my husband could not abide by the garden state parkway, thus we moved to the Midwest. There were so many things that I loved about living there, the history, the parks, the gorgeous trees and many birds. But the biggest surprise was how friendly and down to earth the people were! 🤗
I was smiling throughout entire video lol... I just loved it😊
I love seeing all your inspiration photos! It’s funny, when you mentioned loving colonial times even as a child, I loved the WWII era growing up. It’s the style I’m most drawn to now as an adult. I never really realized that until now. ☺️ I still love your mantle and how it turned out!
Did you listen to the YHL podcast where they mentioned how your 10 year old self can be a foreshadowing of your future? I had to agree 🤗
I had recently watched all of your vlogmas and I can tell that your style has been so consistent and you have evolved it a lot. I really admire you. Thanks for the inspiration.
This decor style is right up my alley! I have those country Home books and keep them in my Keeping Room for reference and inspiration. You could see the Colonial/Early American decor influence in my Christmas Home Tour as well. -Rosalie🎄
I'm a UK subscriber and would love to go to New England one day.i have However been to New Jersey.In fact your Cape Cod videos were what drew me to your channel. I am loving your Vlogmas content. Your mantel looks great your hubby did a great job & the way you decorated it looks stunning.
Hi Hilary, As always I loved your video, you absolutely captured all of the elements of Christmas that you wanted to. 🎄Watching you add the cloves to the oranges reminds me of doing them at my grandparents home as a child. We also made the styrofoam balls pinned with a bunch of sequence ornaments there one year. I could be wrong but I believe that your girls have made them before too (only with glue), possibly last year about this time? 😊 My grandparents were pretty hands on and kept all of us grandkids (5 of us) busy when we visited. Can you imagine having 5 grandkids at your table with pins and sequence... they had to have either been crazy or just brave, jk 😳 we could definitely be a handful when it was all five of us at one time though. We always knew that we were very loved by them, there was never any doubt of that. ❤️😊❤️ I hope that your kids will also realize as they grow up just how loved they are.❤️ Well thank you for sharing your video with all of us. It's always nice to get a little glimpse of what your lovely family has been up to. Hope that you're all well now and that you're all having a wonderful weekend, take care and happy holidays Hilary. 😊
I had to read some comments to see if it was my imagination or not! This video has to be your best ever! I really enjoyed it! Not only did you look amazing, but just the whole thing was perfection! You are my favorite UA-camr, BTW! Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
Good morning ☕️🎄 Hilary I’m sure other subscribers would agree but thanks for vlogtober and now vlogmas! Your videos are always appreciated and we can always take something away on each one. Cleaning tips , decorating, just seeing the calmness in parenting in you that can help us take deep breaths in the day to day. 😊
I look forward to watching your vlogmiss every morning with a cup of coffee. Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family! 🎄
I love this video so much! You should consider doing one of these "where my inspiration is from" videos once a season. You have such a great eye for detail and decor!
I grew up making the orange clove Pomanders with my mom, making swirl patterns, stars etc out of the cloves. Never knew what they were called, so thank you. Last year I had to get out my thimble to push them in because it made my fingers hurt.
"Who needs that much nutmeg?" 😁 Jon Townsend from Townsends! You should look into his channel; it's chiefly about colonial America and is very fun and interesting! I love your channel too. Thank you for this lovely video and great inspiration.
Yes! She would live it
Hilary, this is so beautifully filmed and edited. I want to say it’s your best yet. My mother decorated our family home in the Colonial style, which I’ve adapted to our English cottage home.
I agree about the filming and editing. Hilary, you’re professional and poised in front of the camera and I find myself wanting to sit down to watch your vlogs versus having a blog on in the background while I’m busy with other things.
Something tells me you would love the art pieces of Charles Wysocki. I love his work and each time I see mine, I think of you.
I have always been drawn to Early American decor. Even as a child, I enjoyed the decor of my Aunt’s home, who had colonial touches throughout her house. Love your channel, and your decorating style truly inspires me!
I’ve been following your channel for years but this video is my favorite of all time ❤️
Ah thank you 🤗
Hi Hilary,
Thanks again, for another beautiful video. It's always a pleasure, and a learning experience, watching your videos!
When you showed us the book of the colonial Christmas styles, and traditions, I was surprized, and shocked, to see that they had actually liked the dried fruit banners too! I thought that was only your creation.
Well, when I commented in the video before this one, about being stuck in old-school thinking, and Christmas traditions, I'm talking about that I was raised with; the '50's-'70's decor.
I was a child in the '70's, and teens and twenties in the '80's, so I never thought about colonial style at Christmas, except for how they used real lit candles on their live trees!
And you'd think that I would have been up on all that, because I grew up in an old colonial farmhouse, that was literally from at least Abe Lincoln's time, or before!! There were the old square nails in our floorboards, which were all original. The house had three fireplaces, one on each floor, and the basement fireplace still had remnants of the old iron hook, that was attached to the brick part in front, where they used it for putting an iron pot, that swung in, over the fire, to heat the food!!
Parts of the brick walls down in the basement were so old, that they were crumbling!
We had the old original barn, with the square colonial nails too, and two ponies, on our five acres of land. This was the country, in Virginia.
I got used to living in a cold house in the winter, because we didn't always use the fireplaces. And not to be creepy, but the house, and the grounds it was on, was indeed haunted!!!
Many times as a child, I experienced ghosts, and supernatural phenomena.
Since there was no air conditioning in the old house, it was difficult sleeping at night in the summer, with how hot and humid muggy, it was. And my bedroom was on the tip top room of the third floor, where it was the hottest most uncomforable at night. So as a child, aged 9-11 yrs.old, one night in the hot muggy summer, I thought I'd sleep downstairs on the basement floor couch, because it was cooler down there. Well, it didn't take long, before I began to feel all sorts of little teasing tappings, on my ankles, and feet, and whisperings, from voices, and it scared me so bad, that I ran all the way up two flights of stairs, back to my bedroom, on the third floor, and suffered the rest of the night, with the humid heat!
Another time, when I was 13, or 14, I was coming back from the barn, having just finished feeding the ponies, and I heard some people talking behind me, and I turned around, and saw a young man, looked about in his twenties, coming towards me, from the barnyard area, and the leaves were swishing, with his every step, because this was in the fall, and all the dead leaves had fallen on the ground, and he was wearing some sort of colonial or civil war time period soldier's uniform, and I froze in fear, because I didn't know him, and I wondered what he wanted, and why he was on our property?!
He was walking so very fast towards me, leaves swishing still, with his every step. All this seemed to happen in seconds. I turned around to see where he was going, because he passed by me very fast, and when I looked to see where he was going, there was nothing, and nobody there!!! The young man had completely disappeared, and was gone!!! (and the leaves had stopped swishing too).
I was so frightened, I ran the 500 feet to the house, and felt safe inside, but I never told anyone, because I didn't think they'd believe me.
There's more to tell, but it's way too much for this comment section! I'm sorry that I already got carried away in my true-story telling.
I watched how you did the old colonial style orange decoration. And I enjoyed watching you make the molasses cookies.
But I couldn't do that with fruit here, even if I wanted to, because produce in general, is expensive in San Diego, CA, and we have to scout around every week, watching the grocery store ads, to check out what deals we can get on food and produce. So for us to get our beloved oranges, we wait til their on sale, usually .99 cents a pound, or less, and I can't just use them as a decoration at that price. We need to eat them, especially for the vitamin C, and oranges help us balance our blood sugar, since my daughter and I are hypoglycemic.
But I'm glad you're having fun with this "new-old" Christmas tradition. You're bringing back the old world traditions, literally! Oh, and we used to go to Colonial Williamsburg, on class trips, when I was growing up. Have you been there yet, Miss Hilary? You'd love it. Plus, Virginia is steeped in our early American history, so I know alot about colonial times. I saw alot of colonial movies growing up, lots of old houses, and for a brief period, I lived in a neighborhood called Colonial Heights. Most of my childhood was spent in Chesterfield, in a house formerly known on the maps, as Bellmont Manor.
Okay, okay, enough already. ☺😃🤓
Thanks for the tip of piercing the orange with the fork ! Im also drying the oranges for a garland ! Have a good weekend !
Hilary thank you for sharing the 3 channels you enjoy I can't wait to check them out. I saw the orange clove video from entertaining with Beth when her father made the 🍊 so when you gave the wonderful tip to save your thumb with the fork before pushing in the cloves I recalled it. I also love how you said Evey saw a Christmas tree imprint on your mantle as you were showing the New England decor book. Your children have your love of Christmas because they see it everywhere in your lovely home.
Hilary I so enjoyed this video. It definitely put me in the Christmas spirit. I also love your home decor because it’s just so warm cozy. Merry Christmas to you and your family and I pray God’s blessings in you in the coming year.
I made orange pomander rolled in cinnamon and tied with red ribbon 30 years ago with my kids. They lasted for years and years. Love your channel.
Thank you! I almost added ribbons to mine, still might ❤️
Love all of this! You are one vlogger that I get a lot of inspiration from 💕 I also love Jenny Steffens Hobbick and have been following her since before my time on UA-cam ☺️💕
Hilary I'm on a break at work and what a great video to watch. I think I will try making the cookies and I have 3 oranges that no one is eating I think I will make garland. I loved that book as I love old world beautiful homes too. Back in the day people were so creative with what they had, apple trees, orange trees etc. now everything is so commercialized it takes the fun out. I just love your channel.
Powdered orris root is available online - it’s used as a fixative for pomanders so the fruit dries without rotting as easily. The orange pomanders really do smell great.
And YOU inspire me, and I’m sure many others! Love New England style! xx laura
When i was growing up my Gram always made the pomanders with oranges and cloves . But interesting about the spices. Mnnnn bet that smells wonderful. Your arrangement looks very pretty. Your home is just gorgeous. Love watching everything you come up with. Cookies look so good. Thanks so much for sharing.
I grew up in Cape May and have always loved the old houses. As an adult I live in the Pacific Northwest. We bought a 1914 home, which is old for this area. I miss the rich history of the East coast.
I'm totally with ya sis, I live in upstate NY and I love everything about the older, colonial style. My home is a 1920s colonial style and I am just so grateful to God that I get to live here because the c is classical style of the home, the character and the spirit of the classical style just warms my heart especially around the holidays. I saw a few of these on your Instagram, I love the orange with the cloves. I'm definitely going to try that. I love your content Hillary you are so unique and gifted in your decorating style and I can totally identify. This is such an informing video, thanks so much for sharing. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for your daily vlogs. It's a happy way to start my day. You've inspired many decor changes in my home. Especially your mantel & your board and batten.
About those cookies. I make the same recipe, trust me ladies you truly cannot eat just one. YUM!🎄
Hillary beautiful as always!! Thank you for the list of other Bloggers/Vloggers!! God Bless.
That book is so pretty. I love pouring over a book like that. So many ideas!!! Thank you for sharing not only the book but also the other ladies that have channels. You inspired me to make some stove top potpourri tomorrow so I can fill my house with the fragrance of the season!
You always have such wonderful ideas and your home is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.💗
Wonderful video Hillary 😊 I just love your old world New England style. And the Christmas inspiration & crafts... 💕💕💕
I love colonial style too. I think growing up in New England was a big influence. I struggled for awhile on what was my style because I didn't see much on social media that looked like my style. But times have changed and there is room for everyone and every style. I think I need to research those books!!
Your home is always so inspirational♥️. I love making cookies.....I’m making four batches of buttermilk biscuits to put in the freeze,but you making cookies makes me want to make cookies now😋. The book you were looking at was definitely a gorgeous book to get inspiration from. God bless you and your sweet family and Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family 🎄........💞😊
I think this is my favorite video you have done! Beautiful!
I love your appreciation for New England. Especially since I’m born, raised and still reside in New England. Massachusetts to be exact. I love watching others enjoy what I was born into ❤️.
This got me in the Christmas Spirit, Hilary! Loved it x
Yay! I’m really feeling it this year 🤗
Smart tip with the fork piercing the orange. Molasses cookies are one of my favorite cookies.and thanks for the list of inspirational people you follow.
Love cooking and crafting with you. I'm not gifted in either area lol so helps to see first hand
Hilary, i bought that whole series of Time Life books back in the late 80's or early 90's,,, it was like a once a month book club.. I too was inspired by the look of early colonial and carry that theme to this day around the Christmas season,.. just adore your style!
Loved this so much Hilary! Thank you ! That book is gorgeous ! I would be keeping it on display all winter! 🤗. Love your channel so much!
Love Nine and Sixteen! I also have years-old nutmeg that I bought from a cute spice shop where my husband and I had a “baby moon” before our first son was born- he’s going into kinder next year and I still have the nutmeg! And I only bought 3 nuts! Lol. It’s still fresh when I grate it!
Did you like Felicity from the American Girl books when you were little? She was my favorite! 😂
Hah that’s hilarious, the everlasting spice. Ya know, I never read any of the American girl books
I love Victorian decor. We live in a Victorian house built in 1895 (also here in NJ!) and I just love all of the Victorian accents that I have found over the years. It is nice to incorporate some antique furniture along with the new more practical furniture. Your house looks beautiful!
This was awesome! We got to bake and craft with you. Thank you for doing this. I love your home and your personal style. You are my favorite UA-cam channel.
The spices served more than a decorative purpose. They repelled mice and bugs. Homes weren't as tight as ours are now giving pests lots of ways to get inside.
I just love your daily videos! They warm my soul. God bless.
I just was thinking of making an orange garland for the first time this year! I’m sure I saw it here first ☺️ we just moved to a much older farmhouse with a lot of charm and I think these details you mentioned would suit my new space!
Well that book is very inspiring indeed! You were/are a huge inspiration for my decorating our 1960's ranch...any home can have some old classic touches!
I love this! As someone who lives in New Hampshire I really love this look. You would love Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH!
I’ve been to Portsmouth! What is Strawberry Banks?
Your home is just as gorgeous as all the ones you pull inspiration from💕🎄
You should try potato candy. Super easy and a very old recipe. Great gift as well.
Hilary hi...need to share with you....I was inspired by you and decided to make dried oranges...then I put ends to boil with cinnamon and clove...my girls and grand kids were coming to help decorate the tre....they walked in and smelled the aroma....we being Greek bake "melomacarona" which are little delicacies with orange cognac cinnamon and cloves, baked and then dipped into a honey syrup...I make them at the beginning of December........anyway they walked in and thought I had baked....much to everyone's disappointed it was the pot on the stove! You. See I too was sick this passed week....anyway thanks for sharing your month...blessings to you and yours...
Orris root is a fixative which will make the smell last. I would've added it. It is also used in pot pourri.
I didn't have it, but I am sure it helps. I've always just done the cloves by themselves and they smell great.
I love this style of video from you! Those cookies look AH-maxing! Definitely going to have to try that recipe. Your home is so cozy and warm looking. I just love it.
I was born and raised in New England, aka Connecticut, I miss it. I now live in Florida. I love watching you decorate your home! Lovely 🌸💜👍
The Orrisroot is used as a preservative to keep the oranges from molding. Awesome video!
I grew up in NH. In on old 1800s house.And believe me the house is haunted. Also there's an old cemetery across the street. My siblings and I use to hang out there. I am going to make the cookies for the family Christmas dinner. Tfs
My design ascetic is very similar to yours, with patriotic colors thrown in (husband recently retired from the military) so I very much enjoy watching and drawing inspiration from your vlogs. I’ll be checking out some of the links you mentioned.
definitely going to make those cookies! yum!!!
You knocked it out of the park, with this video! These are the same things I treasure and enjoy. I get plenty of it here on Cape Cod. I am going to try those cookies, I love those type, also pumpkin and ginger breads, etc. I have a tiny little cookbook I picked up at the bakehouse at Sturbridge Village that has some wonderful cookie recipes, as well.
Your nutmegs in the jar was so funny. :) I love the inspiration today.
I made the ginger molasses cookies today and they are wonderful.
Love your vlogs. I look forward everyday to seeing you and your beautiful family. God Bless you all and Merry Christmas.
Mmmm I love a good chewy ginger cookie! Loved this video Hilary. My style is so eclectic but I looooove an old home :)
Always a pleasure Hilary. Loved this video 🙂. I remember making the orange and clove decor in 2nd grade, as a Christmas gift for our parents (that was a long time ago😁). I love the older towns in this state too.There certainly are a lot of areas in NJ that are just beautiful. Have a nice Saturday!🎄🏡🍊
Hillary, I loved this video! I hope the children are over their colds. Can not find the info you were going to give us about bloggers, etc, that inspire you. God bless.
Thank you! It's in the description box (little arrow pointing down)
I enjoyed this so much!!!
🤗 Thank you Hilary!
YOUR channel is one of my very favorites. 💗
Absolutely loved this video! Thank you
Yum! My molasses drop cookie recipe didn’t call for spices. I added a teaspoon of pumpkin spice I had mixed, and they came out amazing. I froze them after completely cooled to have ready closer to Christmas.
Love this!
love your videos..so refreshing and real
Love the cookie recipe and your home is Beautiful Merry Christmas to you and your family as well 😊⛄🎁❄️🦌🎅🎄💖
I love all these old time ideas. Gingerbread, yes! I'm going to make these. You better pick up some nutmeg before you run out! Lol
I'm from Budapest, Hungary, once I traveled through NJ, it's really beautiful.
Love it! and I do watch Jon Townsend..Thank you
I love your style!
I made the Andes mint cookies you talk about! Love them!!
So good right!
Best part is, my husband doesn’t greatly care for them so they’re mostly for me 😆 I also make the kinds he likes
Hilary, I can’t wait to check out the accounts you shared. The cookies look delicious, I remember my great Aunt making and sharing a similar cookie with us.
Thank you for sharing......I love your videos.... Greetings from Germany.🎅🎄🎁
Love the charm of all things New England, always in style. I've dreamt of a library wall in our diningroom. Why not make a room seldom used into a multi-purpose place?
I so agree. We plan to make one in our living room 🤗
@@OldWorldHome Great idea. Can't wait to see you and Dan tackle that DIY.
Love the New England style! ❤️
New subscriber sent from Rachel at Sweet and Simple home. Love your channel and I’m going to add these yummy cookies to my Christmas baking. 🎄
I believe Oris Root is used as a type of fixative for the spices. I think it’s fairly easy to find but probably unnecessary.
whole nutmegs will last 3 to 4 years max, but after that their flavor will change. Many times older nutmeg (even whole nutmegs) start to have a "soapy" taste that is off-putting. So I would say go ahead and toss your elderly nutmeg and start fresh! There is no reason to keep them for life. Maybe just buy a smaller portion next time!
I grew up in New Jersey. Have you visited Batsto? I remember going there many times as a child and love it!
i guess Im kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good site to stream new movies online?
@Sergio Ivan try Flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Abram Harley yup, been using Flixzone for since april myself :)
@Abram Harley Thank you, I went there and it seems like a nice service :) Appreciate it!
@Sergio Ivan You are welcome :)
Just purchased your Country Christmas book from thriftbooks.com ($4). Can’t wait to receive it!
Oh my gosh I did not know you lived in New Jersey!! I live in Massachusetts - in old Deerfield - Hilary you would love it!!
Such a wonderful video. ❤️ thank you!