how can i buy a cottage? i really want to live on a cottage soon, if i'm stable enough. though i don't know where to start. can y'all tell me where to start? thank you!
Watched Pride and Prejudice (2005) yesterday, been drinking all the tea, reading by the light of my window, etc., so yeah, you could say at this point I am literally injecting spring into my veins
I used to read books a lot when I was younger but after years of school, I slowly got disinterested from reading. Ever since I got to Desi's channel, I've totally fallen in love with reading again!! These reccomendations are literally perfect ✨
I don’t know if these strictly fit in with the cottagecore aesthetic but here are a few more recommendations that remind me of cottagecore: -the first boxcar children book -little women (book and movies) -pollyanna movie with hayley mills -little house on prairie series -fairies by brian froud -samantha’s cookbook from the american girl doll company -the borrowers -madeline books -entangled life (book about fungi) -most of emily winfield martin’s artwork and books
I know how we all think Desi is so sweet and her videos are beautiful but I want to say that during this tough time (quarantine and lockdown), these videos are my only source of happiness and joy! The best channel to escape from depression and anxiety. Thank you so much for sharing your magic with us ✨🌿🌸👒💛
I can’t tell you how much I wanted to live at Redwall growing up. (To be honest, even as an adult I would still drop everything to live there). Those books shaped my childhood.
For the French readers, here are a few of the titles that I could find were translated 😀 Anne la maison aux pignons verts Les souris des 4 saisons Journal champêtre de Édith Holden Les 2 princesses de Bamarre Le vent dans les saules Heidi Loin de la foule déchaînée Le château de Cassandra Le jardin secret
Perhaps the ultimate endearing talented American artist, author, gardener, mother extraordinaire Tasha Tudor. She truly lived an amazing life. There are some great documentaries out of her life and great RUclipss. Her sketches and photographs of her and her children living their simple life says it all.
you'd love cranford, its a bbc show set in the english countryside in the early 1840s in the village of cranford in cheshire, the story is about the town's single and widowed middleclass female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and place great store in propriety and maintaining an appearance of gentility. it's really lovely and so cottagecore
My all time favourite tv show is Pushing Daisies and I would say it definitely has some good cottagecore elements to it, as well as some magic and quirky vibes! But the colour palate is bright and pastels. The main character is a pie maker with the magic ability to bring people back from the dead for 60 seconds, then touches them again and they stay dead forever. He partners with a PI to bring murder victims back from the dead to find out who killed them and then they seek justice (and collect the financial reward). Everything is going according to plan until one of the murder victims is his childhood crush and he has to decide if he’s going to keep her alive for longer than 60 seconds (never being able to touch her again or she’ll die permanently) and risking the life of a nearby person who would die in her place. His childhood crush is everything cottagecore, her dresses and aesthetic, her personality! She loves reading and gardening, she’s a beekeeper, she has a lot of hobbies and is a super kind soul!! If you haven’t seen it, I highly, highly recommend it!! There are only 2 short seasons, with about 13 episodes in each one!
If you want animated cottagecore, Once upon a aforest was my childhood intro to this aesthetic💕💕🥺The story is told woth cute talking animals.and igs so warm and emotional.
Omg I LOVE that movie! 😭 I’ve never heard someone bring it up referenced cottagecore but it was my favorite movie growing up so I wonder if that’s why I love this aesthetic too!
@@theemilyanomaly Yeah now that I remember,most movies with that theme are the oldies that were in cassettes that my family got from blockbuster. Fernully was my favorite to watch in the mornings, so peaceful and gull of nature. Good to know someone elde remembers those movies.
I always found Maleficent to be cottagecore. Its so beautiful and both Aurora and Maleficent are so fitting. I think the first movie actually shows how pain can affect a woman but she can come back to herself with proper healing. Healing the soul seems more cottagecore than anything else to me. I went for a long process of it and refound all those bits of myself. It takes great bravery to trust again.
Can I nominate Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, especially his ones about witches? Equal Rites, the Witch series and the Tiffany Aching series are all PURE cottagecore. Equal Rites reminds me of growing up in the Scottish highlands and is my go to comfort book.
Some more cottagecore books recommended by this librarian that are excellent for pondering and might make you teary: Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull Princess, Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill (graphic novel) The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Castle Waiting by Linda Medley (graphic novel) Patricia Polacco's picture books short stories of Eudora Welty Sarah Orne Jewett's short story A White Heron Barbara Cooney's picture books The Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook by Virginia Ellison Also one tv show: Ronja the Robber's Daughter
My husband (who is a total metal head) can quote Wind in the Willows verbatim 😂 he loves that one and I LOVE the secret garden! I read the cover off of that one when I was little 😻
I recommend Ancient Magus Bride. It has beautiful landscapes, and very beautiful story. Starts sad, but it's a journey about healing. She gave herself to be a slave, because she didn't want to live anymore, then this magician buys her and save her, he starts to show how life can be amazing.
i read that Mandy book by Julie Andrews when i was younger! Never heard anyone else talk about it, but i STILL think about it to this day! the beautiful imagery of flowers & simple living still sits w me🧺🕯🌸🌾
Same! I have a hardcover version that I have treasured for years but no one has ever known what I’m talking about! I love going back through it as a comfort read ☺️
I was looking for another comment about Mandy, I love that book too! It was one of my favorites. I still wish I could fix up a cute tiny cottage like that 🌻✨
@@sarahpauline4904 Yes, the TV series of Emily of New Moon is excellent! I've never met another person IRL who knew of it. The actress who played Aunt Laura was the college dorm governess at the tail end of Anne with an E. I was excited to see her in something new, but then came the cancellation.... Ugh. 😞
@@sarahpauline4904 Indeed. Emily of New Moon suffered basically the same fate 20 years earlier, with the series getting an abrupt conclusion when there was clearly so much more story to tell. 😞 It's sad when real-life production problems prevent a brilliant show from growing and getting the proper send-off it deserves.
A la fin de votre vidéo je me rend compte que mes maxillaires sont un peu douloureuses. J’ai trouvé pourquoi 😃 je souris du début à la fin 😂 . Vous êtes un personnage dans les ouvrages de Tasha Tudor 🤩 j’adore tout ce que vous faites et surtout qui vous êtes. Gardez toujours la petite fille en vous. Je suis une très vieille mamie, la petite fille en moi était déjà très vieille à sa naissance 😎 depuis mes 70 ans j’essaie de rendre la petite fille en moi plus enfantine. Merci 🙏🏻 pour votre merveilleuse présence.💐🧚♀️🧸🕊🕊🕊
Gene Stratton Porters books are total cottage core! Freckles, Girl of the Limber Lost, the Harvester, etc! Her details about nature and the care she takes to describe the surroundings is stunning.
I would love to see a day in your life Anne of Green Gables themed. Where you make meals based on the aesthetic, and watch the show. I believe you did a Lord of the Rings once a while back, and loved it so much!! Thank you for another awesome video!!
I grew up with brambly hedge and I love it so much! My Mum would read it to us at bedtime, and every Christmas we'd watch the 1996 TV series. I remember being so scared of the weasel! My mum even knitted us little figures of each character and we used to act out the stories. To this day if the wind makes a whistling noise at a family gathering one of us will shout "it's the weasel!"
I grew up with those books too!! My sister and I used to pretend we were in the stories, especially the Secret Staircase. I’m so glad to see people talking about them 💕
I don’t know if you have watched any of these, they are some of my faves to re read and watch over and over: wives and daughters, (Elizabeth Gaskell) , Under the greenwood tree (Thomas Hardy) Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell) Middlemarch (George Elliot) lark rise to candleford and candleford green (Flora Thompson) North and South ( Elizabeth Gaskell) also I love The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy). I could go on ... 🥰
For cottage core books I would also recommend Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. it's all about this girl who decides to forego traditional school and make herself her own education by experiencing life and learning things from nature. also, the pixie hollow books are super cute middle grade cottagecore / fairycore reads that I loved as a kid!!
The Animals of Farthing Wood (or 'Les Animaux du Bois de Quat'sous' for those who watched it in French like me) is an animated series from the 90s that definitely fits the cottagecore aesthetic. Also, the Moomins!
I love that you included Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in your extended list in the description. It is my favourite movie and I rarely come across someone who has seen it! Pretty much anything I would have added was on your extended list, but the one that I would mention is the early reader book Abel’s Island. It was a childhood favourite and it absolutely gives me cottagecore vibes.
NANNY MCPHEE, & i cannot stress this enough, is undoubtedly the most underrated spring/summer cottagecore film set in the Victorian era of England. ITS SO MAGICAL & the color themes make every single frame an absolute cinematic masterpiece.
Some more books that you might like a lot are the Betsy Tacy books (I think there are 10 or 12 in the series.) Also the British author D.E. Stevenson wrote dozens of books, mainly set in the country or small villages in England. She wrote a lot in the period between the wars. The Miss Read books are similar, I think, though I'm not as familiar with them.
We’ve been looking for a house and I always pointed out cottage looking homes and how I’ve always loved the idea. Upon randomly stumbling upon your channel, I didn’t know cottage core existed. I’ve loved this idea since I was a kid and my husband never understood. Your channel is so informative and I’m happy I’m not insane and cottage core is a thing. Thank you :)
I really recommend the Little Women series on Amazon Prime! The fashion and the lifestyle portrayed are so cute, and I personally like it much more than the 2019 movie.
I think you would love Only Yesterday! It’s a ghibli film about a woman who goes to the country side for the summer and looks back on her childhood. The tale of princess kaguya is another beautiful ghibli film with amazing art and scenery. Whisper of the heart takes place in the city but has cottagecore vibes. Wolf children is not a ghibli but very beautiful scenery and a great story!
I love the fact that there are many more people LOVING nature, for a few years I was frolicking alone about the season transition and reading books with those vibes etc... But know we have a WHOLE FANDOM...
I'm 40 and have been into cottagecore since before it had a name lol, so I'm beyond thrilled to see what I love being made into an entire genre/aesthetic and how many others love it as much as I do 💜
For movies, I have to recommend Tinker Bell movies (especially Tinker Bell; Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure; and Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, but there are more). They should be available on Disney Plus. And for books, I have to recommend Gail Carson Levine's A Fairy Dust trilogy (Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg; Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand; and Fairies and the Quest for Never Land). They are out of print, but I think audiobooks should be available on Audible. 🌻🌻🌻
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry, Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Beatrix Potter: A Journal, all Barbara Cooney's books for kids but especially those illustrated by Tasha Tudor, The Penderwicks, Golden Books by Margaret Wise Brown and by Eloise Wilkin, the "bears" books by Michael Hague, Gjo Fujikawa's books, any book illustrated by Thomas Locker
If you liked Snow white and the red hair you'll also probably like Ancient Magus bride :) The animation itself is very pretty but it combines magic and cottage vibes.
I loved Mandy! I’ve reread that sweet tale so many times. “The Little White Horse” is a book that comes to mind, I remember it being enchanting and cozy. It was one I read over and over as a teen.💛 Now I need to reread them both☺️
also Only Yesterday by Ghibli, is one of my fav, especially love that they used Bulgarian traditional music (where I come from) at the scenes on the farm field, picking flowers.
Yay! Just in time!!! I'm falling back in love with this because of you! I really loved this asthestic since the 90s (even though it wasn't called that). Very thankful to you for reminding me of myself that I left for too long due to the hustle and bustle of life. Thanks for the amazing uplifting content and all the hard work!!
This first half of this video was just me frantically searching through Overdrive, thank you. I will now make tea and go watch Miss Potter 📚💕 Update: my soul is full, my heart is broken, and a stray cat is chasing bugs in my backyard
I had NO idea Cottagecore was a thing before this video!! Village School by Miss Read is another great book to add to the list. Also set in the English countryside, it’s the definition of slow-paced yet interesting rural life with plenty of beautiful natural descriptions that make you feel like you’re a part of the characters’ lazy afternoon daydreaming through the schoolhouse window. Thank you for this awesome video! I feel like I’ve found another kindred spirit 😉
I think Violet Evergarden is the best anime cottagecore ever It’s about a young female ex-soldier finding out what love means by helping other people write their letters to their loved ones with a type writer, travelling from one place to another The aesthetic is so gorgeous and the animation is breathtaking, the story is so heartbreaking that it can make you cry like a baby I highly recommend Violet Evergarden, it’s a tv show that also has a movie (bawled my eyes there)
Great recommendations! I must add Poldark to the list of TV shows. (I haven't read the book, so I can't speak to that). The show has so many beautiful scenes of the countryside. There's bread baking, having tea, harvesting wheat, picking flowers, etc. It's beautiful, romantic, and overall a lovely show.
Yes! 2005 Pride and Prejudice is spooo beautiful! I love it. Watched it a million times! Also really loved A Beautiful Fantastic. I need to watch Emma yet...I keep forgetting about it. Now I gotta do it! Love your videos :)
Love love Cottage core, after the minimalism craze, sterile environment it is a breath of fresh air to naturally move into cottage core. Yes, Bohemian and cottage core, my favorite aesthetics.... Thank you
If you like “When Marnie was There” I recommend “Where the Crawdads Sing”. The main characters are similar in a way with their social anxiety, living out in the marsh, and finding refuge in the little things of life. It’s a beautiful tear-jerker and feels cottage-core to me.
Tuck Everlasting! I had forgotten this movie, but they filmed parts of it near me, and my mom was jogging in the woods and accidentally ran through one of the scenes they were shooting. XD It was super cool - she took me and my friends (we were young) to check out the outdoor set after they were done but before they pulled everything down.
Desi, I genuinely think you'd love a movie called Wolf Children. It is a story about how a mother marries what I can only call a werewolf, and has (surprise surprise) wolf children. After a tragedy, the mother and her children must move to the countryside in the mountains in an old, decrepit house. It shows the life of her children growing up and drifting apart as a family. It's tragic, beautiful, and bittersweet and I cannot recommend it more to you❤️
This was the most delightful video ever! So inspirational! I would add "When calls the heart" in the tv show list, it's such a adorable story about simple life in Northwest Canada :)
Thank you for all those recommendations! Some I had not heard of before. If you aren't familiar with Susan Branch you may want to check her books out.😊 she has many cookbooks that are seasonal and handwritten on every page with her artwork included and favorite quotes throughout. She also has three books about her life that are so charming as well. Everything about her is cottagecore!
A beautiful TV series: 'The Durrells' about a British family that moves to the island of Corfu where they take up residence in a rustic two story cottage. And for beautiful gingerbread houses, "Practical Magic' (I never get tired of that fantastic movie, interiors and exteriors, even the small town and the clothes!) By the way, I live cottage core too and have a channel showing how to make furnishings look more in the cottage style, gingerbread, rust, etc.
So many beautiful ideas! I would add the kid’s show Little Bear, a bunch of episodes are free on RUclips 🤎 so nostalgic and cozy with a lot of cottagecore activities like picking berries, gardening, baking, and being in the forest
I recommend watching the anime Violet Evergarden and the two movies by the same name afterwards. It’s my favorite and there are some trigger warnings. It will definitely put you in your feels. It’s cottage core mixed with academia and mixed with war. 1000000000% recommend!!!!!! You can watch it all on Netflix or you can read the manga.
Thank you for these lovely lists! I’d like to add a book: the little white horse. It is about a little girl who moves to her cousin’s manor and uncovers secrets of her family. It is very fairytale-like and has absolutely beautiful descriptions of nature and amazing illustrations! It has also been turned into a movie called the secret of moonacre. Also an anime I am absolutely in love with called the ancient magus bride. It’s about a girl who gave up on life who was bought by a monstrous-looking man who wants to teach her magic. Amazing animation and the storyline is really heartwarming. Plus the soundtrack is so calming and beautiful
A surprisingly cottagecore movie is Sleeping with the Enemy. Julia Robert's character moves from a sterile beach house to an old victorian in a small town. She wears lots of dresses and bakes apple pies from apples in the backyard. The movie itself is formulaic, but I just love watching her uncover the antique furniture and reinvents herself :-)
for book recs: flower fables by louisa may alcott is about a bunch of fairies sharing their adventures of the day!!! very fairycore and cottagecore :))
Books: little house on the prairie, Black beauty, the penderwicks series, wildwood chronicles Movie: ballet shoes (2007), ever after (1998), steel magnolias (1989) TV show: Anne of green gables (with megan fellows - 1985 mini series)
Please Desi, don't EVER underestimate the positive effect you are having on people's lives!!
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Love cottagecore lifestyle my channel talk about flds lifestyle ddlg and abdl lifestyle also mental health talk personality disorder my self
I live in an Irish cottage & can confirm, cottagecore life is great 👍🌿🌻
sounds like an actual dream🌿🌻🕊
wait! what? u should do some videos. Sounds like a dream. send ur tiktok link, if u have it, i would like to follow u
I would love to live in Ireland 🥺
how can i buy a cottage? i really want to live on a cottage soon, if i'm stable enough. though i don't know where to start. can y'all tell me where to start? thank you!
Lucky for me I live in England looking to switch over there when I’m 18 with a huge doggo family
Watched Pride and Prejudice (2005) yesterday, been drinking all the tea, reading by the light of my window, etc., so yeah, you could say at this point I am literally injecting spring into my veins
These comments are full of great recommendations 😭 I want to stay in this side of RUclips for ever.
I used to read books a lot when I was younger but after years of school, I slowly got disinterested from reading. Ever since I got to Desi's channel, I've totally fallen in love with reading again!! These reccomendations are literally perfect ✨
Right! This comment section is full of such lovely people, y'all are all so kind and helpful 💛
I don’t know if these strictly fit in with the cottagecore aesthetic but here are a few more recommendations that remind me of cottagecore:
-the first boxcar children book
-little women (book and movies)
-pollyanna movie with hayley mills
-little house on prairie series
-fairies by brian froud
-samantha’s cookbook from the american girl doll company
-the borrowers
-madeline books
-entangled life (book about fungi)
-most of emily winfield martin’s artwork and books
The Secret Life of Arriety is actually based on the borrowers
You read my mind with the first boxcar children book! I was just about to comment it before I saw that you already had!
Yess to little house on the prairie, Pollyanna and little women 😍
Little house on the prairie is such an og!!
I love little house on the Prarie!
I AM GOING TO SCREAM -
*YOU* are my aesthetic!!!!!!!!!! _YOUR LIFE_ is GOALLLLSSSS
You’re so sweet! Thank you! But trust me, my daily life is not this aesthetic 😄
@@DarlingDesi Aw I know I just appreciate how much EFFORT goes into these beautiful videos!!! Thanks so much my eyes are _blessed_ 😇🙏🏻
I know how we all think Desi is so sweet and her videos are beautiful but I want to say that during this tough time (quarantine and lockdown), these videos are my only source of happiness and joy! The best channel to escape from depression and anxiety. Thank you so much for sharing your magic with us ✨🌿🌸👒💛
Mee too!!!I recently found out her chanel and she has helped me so much with relaxing and forget my problems during this pandemic!
I feel the same way little Sparrow!
I love how uplifting they are 🌸
@@gandolfimaurizio652 her enthusiasm is the best.
i feel the exact same way!
THE REDWALL BOOKS !!! They're so wonderful. A blend of Brambly Hedge and the Hobbit. so so good.
I JUST WAS ON AMAZON LAST NIGHT ORDERING THE SERIES!!!! 🤣❤ Love them! Brings me back to the 5th grade lol.
I can’t tell you how much I wanted to live at Redwall growing up. (To be honest, even as an adult I would still drop everything to live there). Those books shaped my childhood.
YES!!! They are all amazing, and completely underrated!
@@LostInThought4ever same!
I've only watched the TV-"Kids"-Series but it was good
For the French readers, here are a few of the titles that I could find were translated 😀
Anne la maison aux pignons verts
Les souris des 4 saisons
Journal champêtre de Édith Holden
Les 2 princesses de Bamarre
Le vent dans les saules
Heidi
Loin de la foule déchaînée
Le château de Cassandra
Le jardin secret
Merci tu es géniale 🙏💋❤️
merci, I’m learning to speak French and this helps a lot 🙏🏽🥰💕
My pleasure 😊👍 bonnes lectures !
C’est super gentil merci beaucoup !!! si tu as d’autres titres je suis partante :)
Perhaps the ultimate endearing talented American artist, author, gardener, mother extraordinaire Tasha Tudor. She truly lived an amazing life. There are some great documentaries out of her life and great RUclipss. Her sketches and photographs of her and her children living their simple life says it all.
Yes, that is exactly who I was going to add!!!
Check out all of her children's books she wrote & illustrated! There are books about her life as well!
I absolutely adore her!!! 💜💜💜
you'd love cranford, its a bbc show set in the english countryside in the early 1840s in the village of cranford in cheshire, the story is about the town's single and widowed middleclass female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and place great store in propriety and maintaining an appearance of gentility. it's really lovely and so cottagecore
Hiii Janae
@@MadhuBaisaGhoomar hiii, do ik you?
@@janaenoelle3149 No, I'm from INDIA.☺☺☺
@@MadhuBaisaGhoomar ok :) so why you acting like you know me
Totally agree with you Janae!
My all time favourite tv show is Pushing Daisies and I would say it definitely has some good cottagecore elements to it, as well as some magic and quirky vibes! But the colour palate is bright and pastels. The main character is a pie maker with the magic ability to bring people back from the dead for 60 seconds, then touches them again and they stay dead forever. He partners with a PI to bring murder victims back from the dead to find out who killed them and then they seek justice (and collect the financial reward). Everything is going according to plan until one of the murder victims is his childhood crush and he has to decide if he’s going to keep her alive for longer than 60 seconds (never being able to touch her again or she’ll die permanently) and risking the life of a nearby person who would die in her place. His childhood crush is everything cottagecore, her dresses and aesthetic, her personality! She loves reading and gardening, she’s a beekeeper, she has a lot of hobbies and is a super kind soul!! If you haven’t seen it, I highly, highly recommend it!! There are only 2 short seasons, with about 13 episodes in each one!
I love Lee pace acting in that series, he’s so darling🥰🥰
Also...not sure if it counts but the movie Leap Year with Amy Adams is mostly set in the Irish countryside and always makes me feel cozy
Love that movie :)
LOVE that movie!
If you want animated cottagecore, Once upon a aforest was my childhood intro to this aesthetic💕💕🥺The story is told woth cute talking animals.and igs so warm and emotional.
Omg I LOVE that movie! 😭 I’ve never heard someone bring it up referenced cottagecore but it was my favorite movie growing up so I wonder if that’s why I love this aesthetic too!
@@theemilyanomaly Yeah now that I remember,most movies with that theme are the oldies that were in cassettes that my family got from blockbuster. Fernully was my favorite to watch in the mornings, so peaceful and gull of nature. Good to know someone elde remembers those movies.
I always found Maleficent to be cottagecore. Its so beautiful and both Aurora and Maleficent are so fitting. I think the first movie actually shows how pain can affect a woman but she can come back to herself with proper healing. Healing the soul seems more cottagecore than anything else to me. I went for a long process of it and refound all those bits of myself. It takes great bravery to trust again.
Can I nominate Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, especially his ones about witches? Equal Rites, the Witch series and the Tiffany Aching series are all PURE cottagecore. Equal Rites reminds me of growing up in the Scottish highlands and is my go to comfort book.
Shepherd's Crown and I shall wear midnight are what comes to my mind instantly!
WinterSmith ❤️
Great suggestion, Terry Pratchett was brilliant!
Yes! While watching the video I was thinking the Tiffany Aching books would be perfect!
Lark Rise to Candleford is a beautiful show! I rarely heard it talked about, but it's a gem!
Yes, a gem. I've watched the series twice.
Agreed! It's absolutely wonderful!
My favorite new show 😍
I loved that series!!!!
Do you know where I can watch it? I remember looking for it on the internet years ago and couldn't find it :(
Some more cottagecore books recommended by this librarian that are excellent for pondering and might make you teary:
Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull
Princess, Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill (graphic novel)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley (graphic novel)
Patricia Polacco's picture books
short stories of Eudora Welty
Sarah Orne Jewett's short story A White Heron
Barbara Cooney's picture books
The Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook by Virginia Ellison
Also one tv show: Ronja the Robber's Daughter
Hiii Victoria
The Snow Child is so underrated and absolutely stunning! One of my favourite books for sure
My husband (who is a total metal head) can quote Wind in the Willows verbatim 😂 he loves that one and I LOVE the secret garden! I read the cover off of that one when I was little 😻
I recommend Ancient Magus Bride. It has beautiful landscapes, and very beautiful story. Starts sad, but it's a journey about healing. She gave herself to be a slave, because she didn't want to live anymore, then this magician buys her and save her, he starts to show how life can be amazing.
I was just about to comment the same! It is such a beautiful and heartwarming story!
Violet Evergarden. It’s a beautiful and sad story about a mail courier and the landscapes are so beautiful
i read that Mandy book by Julie Andrews when i was younger! Never heard anyone else talk about it, but i STILL think about it to this day! the beautiful imagery of flowers & simple living still sits w me🧺🕯🌸🌾
Same! I have a hardcover version that I have treasured for years but no one has ever known what I’m talking about! I love going back through it as a comfort read ☺️
I was looking for another comment about Mandy, I love that book too! It was one of my favorites. I still wish I could fix up a cute tiny cottage like that 🌻✨
The book The Railway Children by E. Nesbit and the 2 adaptations fit Cottagecore so well. I think you’ll love it if you haven’t read it already!
If you haven't yet read them, I highly recommend LM Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series. It's another one to re-read every year or so.
and tv series!
@@sarahpauline4904 Yes, the TV series of Emily of New Moon is excellent! I've never met another person IRL who knew of it.
The actress who played Aunt Laura was the college dorm governess at the tail end of Anne with an E. I was excited to see her in something new, but then came the cancellation.... Ugh. 😞
@@GMJ7 She is in a lot of canadian shows. I really like her as an actress. I hated that Anne with an e was cancelled. It was such a sweet show.
@@sarahpauline4904 Indeed. Emily of New Moon suffered basically the same fate 20 years earlier, with the series getting an abrupt conclusion when there was clearly so much more story to tell. 😞 It's sad when real-life production problems prevent a brilliant show from growing and getting the proper send-off it deserves.
@@GMJ7 so true!
The little white horse is one of my favorite “cottagecore” books!
Yes, and Linnets and Valerians (also by Elizabeth Goudge) is enchantingly cottagecore as well!
They made the book into a movie - The Secret of Moonacre, which is very cottagecore.
I love how they're already nine comments on a 23 minute video posted 6 minutes ago 💓
We all adore her! It's a true testament that she offers important value to her viewers.
Hii Heidi
A la fin de votre vidéo je me rend compte que mes maxillaires sont un peu douloureuses. J’ai trouvé pourquoi 😃 je souris du début à la fin 😂 . Vous êtes un personnage dans les ouvrages de Tasha Tudor 🤩 j’adore tout ce que vous faites et surtout qui vous êtes. Gardez toujours la petite fille en vous. Je suis une très vieille mamie, la petite fille en moi était déjà très vieille à sa naissance 😎 depuis mes 70 ans j’essaie de rendre la petite fille en moi plus enfantine. Merci 🙏🏻 pour votre merveilleuse présence.💐🧚♀️🧸🕊🕊🕊
North and South (book and the movie) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Gene Stratton Porters books are total cottage core! Freckles, Girl of the Limber Lost, the Harvester, etc! Her details about nature and the care she takes to describe the surroundings is stunning.
I would love to see a day in your life Anne of Green Gables themed. Where you make meals based on the aesthetic, and watch the show. I believe you did a Lord of the Rings once a while back, and loved it so much!! Thank you for another awesome video!!
I grew up with brambly hedge and I love it so much! My Mum would read it to us at bedtime, and every Christmas we'd watch the 1996 TV series. I remember being so scared of the weasel! My mum even knitted us little figures of each character and we used to act out the stories. To this day if the wind makes a whistling noise at a family gathering one of us will shout "it's the weasel!"
What lovely memories! 💞
I grew up with those books too!! My sister and I used to pretend we were in the stories, especially the Secret Staircase. I’m so glad to see people talking about them 💕
I don’t know if you have watched any of these, they are some of my faves to re read and watch over and over: wives and daughters, (Elizabeth Gaskell) , Under the greenwood tree (Thomas Hardy) Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell) Middlemarch (George Elliot) lark rise to candleford and candleford green (Flora Thompson) North and South ( Elizabeth Gaskell) also I love The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy). I could go on ... 🥰
For cottage core books I would also recommend Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. it's all about this girl who decides to forego traditional school and make herself her own education by experiencing life and learning things from nature.
also, the pixie hollow books are super cute middle grade cottagecore / fairycore reads that I loved as a kid!!
The Animals of Farthing Wood (or 'Les Animaux du Bois de Quat'sous' for those who watched it in French like me) is an animated series from the 90s that definitely fits the cottagecore aesthetic. Also, the Moomins!
I love that you included Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in your extended list in the description. It is my favourite movie and I rarely come across someone who has seen it!
Pretty much anything I would have added was on your extended list, but the one that I would mention is the early reader book Abel’s Island. It was a childhood favourite and it absolutely gives me cottagecore vibes.
NANNY MCPHEE, & i cannot stress this enough, is undoubtedly the most underrated spring/summer cottagecore film set in the Victorian era of England. ITS SO MAGICAL & the color themes make every single frame an absolute cinematic masterpiece.
This is the wholesome community I've needed 🥺🧡
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Some more books that you might like a lot are the Betsy Tacy books (I think there are 10 or 12 in the series.) Also the British author D.E. Stevenson wrote dozens of books, mainly set in the country or small villages in England. She wrote a lot in the period between the wars. The Miss Read books are similar, I think, though I'm not as familiar with them.
Thanks so much!
For movies, I've got a lot of recommendations
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Finally someone who recommends Larkrise to Candleford!🌳It is my favourite series and it’s so underrated and hardly get any recognition!🧺💐
Just by hearing the intro melody, I wanna run away from my bustling city and go somewhere like Europe. Your whole video is so magical and aesthetic!
We’ve been looking for a house and I always pointed out cottage looking homes and how I’ve always loved the idea. Upon randomly stumbling upon your channel, I didn’t know cottage core existed. I’ve loved this idea since I was a kid and my husband never understood.
Your channel is so informative and I’m happy I’m not insane and cottage core is a thing. Thank you :)
Hiii Dani
I saw Miss Potter! I absolutely loved it! My family & I watched it on my birthday!
Isn’t it just so charming and lovely? 💗🤍 absolutely beautiful! Oh and happy belated birthday! ☺️
@@DarlingDesi Yes it is! Thank you for the birthday wishes!
When Calls the Heart too! I love that show is definitely has cottage core vibes!
I really recommend the Little Women series on Amazon Prime! The fashion and the lifestyle portrayed are so cute, and I personally like it much more than the 2019 movie.
I just started watching Anne with an E (late to the party,I know),and when I saw Anne I immediately thought that she reminds me of you so much!
Oh, I really think you would love „the paradise“ on Netflix! It is about the first „supermarket“ in history and it is so lovely
That sounds amazing!! Thank you so much for the recommendation 😃🙏🏻
Yes, really good show! More historical drama than Cottagecore, but really engaging and beautiful nevertheless.
Loved it too
Agreed!! Definitely a show you can keep watching over and over again! The soundtrack is amazing!
It's written by the same scriptwriter as the Larkrise series and based on a novel called The Ladies paradise by Zola
I think you would love Only Yesterday! It’s a ghibli film about a woman who goes to the country side for the summer and looks back on her childhood. The tale of princess kaguya is another beautiful ghibli film with amazing art and scenery. Whisper of the heart takes place in the city but has cottagecore vibes. Wolf children is not a ghibli but very beautiful scenery and a great story!
I love the fact that there are many more people LOVING nature, for a few years I was frolicking alone about the season transition and reading books with those vibes etc... But know we have a WHOLE FANDOM...
I love that we are finding our tribe 😍
I'm 40 and have been into cottagecore since before it had a name lol, so I'm beyond thrilled to see what I love being made into an entire genre/aesthetic and how many others love it as much as I do 💜
For movies, I have to recommend Tinker Bell movies (especially Tinker Bell; Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure; and Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, but there are more). They should be available on Disney Plus. And for books, I have to recommend Gail Carson Levine's A Fairy Dust trilogy (Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg; Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand; and Fairies and the Quest for Never Land). They are out of print, but I think audiobooks should be available on Audible. 🌻🌻🌻
tinkerbell movies are perfect
am i going to put my chemistry homework aside to watch this video? YES & i’d do it again without a doubt 🧡🧡
Can’t wait to watch some of these films!
Road to avonlea is a good cottagecore series but I haven’t been able to find a place to watch it since I was a child
My public library has the dvds. Not sure of the state of yours, worth checking.
@@rowanwax sadly I live the uk and can’t find it anywhere 😭
Sullivan entertainments sells it as they are the creators. Its amazing.
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry, Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Beatrix Potter: A Journal, all Barbara Cooney's books for kids but especially those illustrated by Tasha Tudor, The Penderwicks, Golden Books by Margaret Wise Brown and by Eloise Wilkin, the "bears" books by Michael Hague, Gjo Fujikawa's books, any book illustrated by Thomas Locker
If you liked Snow white and the red hair you'll also probably like Ancient Magus bride :)
The animation itself is very pretty but it combines magic and cottage vibes.
oh mandy is so cottagecore you will love it
I cannot recommend Snow White with the Red Hair enough. Such a sweet story with a beautiful aesthetic. Forever praying for a season 3 🙏
Omg finally someone who loves lark rise to candleford as well! It's my absolute favourite show, I think it's so underrated❤
Also, recommend the show Rosemary & Thyme. it's so beautiful and with murder mystery through in.
I *love* spindle's end! Every time I see a Robin McKinley title that someone else knows about, my soul gets a little more life!
I loved Mandy! I’ve reread that sweet tale so many times.
“The Little White Horse” is a book that comes to mind, I remember it being enchanting and cozy. It was one I read over and over as a teen.💛
Now I need to reread them both☺️
I know I'll think of a ton more later, but I really think the movie The Secret of Roan Inish needs to be added to this list! Such a beautiful movie!
I will transform myself into a fairy/elf woodland being one day, living in a timber medieval cottage in the forest
Wait for me!
also Only Yesterday by Ghibli, is one of my fav, especially love that they used Bulgarian traditional music (where I come from) at the scenes on the farm field, picking flowers.
I hope you’ll see someday, the french covers of Anne of Green Gables ! I really like them, especially the second book 😍
Yay! Just in time!!! I'm falling back in love with this because of you! I really loved this asthestic since the 90s (even though it wasn't called that). Very thankful to you for reminding me of myself that I left for too long due to the hustle and bustle of life. Thanks for the amazing uplifting content and all the hard work!!
Yes! Good luck on your journey.
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This first half of this video was just me frantically searching through Overdrive, thank you. I will now make tea and go watch Miss Potter 📚💕
Update: my soul is full, my heart is broken, and a stray cat is chasing bugs in my backyard
if you want to see a cat chasing bugs go to Simon's cat on youtube
Enjoy the Movie!!
I was hoping to hear that Beatrix Potter's books had made the list.
I really love Over the Garden Wall, which is more dark cottagecore/goblincore and Adventures in Moomin Valley
Juliette marrilier writes amazing fairytale retellings that are very nature focused
I had NO idea Cottagecore was a thing before this video!! Village School by Miss Read is another great book to add to the list. Also set in the English countryside, it’s the definition of slow-paced yet interesting rural life with plenty of beautiful natural descriptions that make you feel like you’re a part of the characters’ lazy afternoon daydreaming through the schoolhouse window. Thank you for this awesome video! I feel like I’ve found another kindred spirit 😉
Now I'm all set for spring! Your videos never fail to help me to destress and feel like the world is beautiful again. Thank you. ❤🌹
I think Violet Evergarden is the best anime cottagecore ever
It’s about a young female ex-soldier finding out what love means by helping other people write their letters to their loved ones with a type writer, travelling from one place to another
The aesthetic is so gorgeous and the animation is breathtaking, the story is so heartbreaking that it can make you cry like a baby
I highly recommend Violet Evergarden, it’s a tv show that also has a movie (bawled my eyes there)
One of my favorite movies is The secret of Roan Inish! Full of cottage core feels 💞
It’s one of mine too!!
You would most certainly adore 'The Ordinary Princess' by M.M. Kaye.
So many books and movies to add to my list!! I would include Enola Holmes as a cottagecore movie, its so aesthetic!
The Two Princesses of Bamarre!!! No one ever recognizes that one, but it's definitely one of my childhood faaaavorites!
It’s so good! I only just barely read it. To me it didn’t even matter that it’s a middle grade book. I enjoyed it so much! ☺️💗
Great recommendations! I must add Poldark to the list of TV shows. (I haven't read the book, so I can't speak to that). The show has so many beautiful scenes of the countryside. There's bread baking, having tea, harvesting wheat, picking flowers, etc. It's beautiful, romantic, and overall a lovely show.
Especially the harvesting of wheat!
@@alisonmidd The audio books are free too!
Just watched “The Beautiful Fantastic“ tonight. It was SO good! I had not ever heard of it and was very impressed. Highly recommend.
Yes! 2005 Pride and Prejudice is spooo beautiful! I love it. Watched it a million times!
Also really loved A Beautiful Fantastic.
I need to watch Emma yet...I keep forgetting about it. Now I gotta do it!
Love your videos :)
Love love Cottage core, after the minimalism craze, sterile environment it is a breath of fresh air to naturally move into cottage core. Yes, Bohemian and cottage core, my favorite aesthetics.... Thank you
She said “frolicking”. I’m here for it 🤌🏽💕☺️
I love your channel so much! only issue....
you make me want to abandon everything and move to a little cottage in the english countryside :')
I don't see the issue here 🤗😉
Mine is that she makes me want to buy all the book. ALL THE BOOKS.
Mine is that Lizzy’s not the eldest...awk
Oh my god, such a detailed list, I don't even know what to pick to begin with! I adore this aesthetic 💟🧚♀️
Aww thanks Laura!! They’re all so good, you can’t really go wrong! ☺️
I would also recommend the secret garden! It feels so magical to me
If you like “When Marnie was There” I recommend “Where the Crawdads Sing”. The main characters are similar in a way with their social anxiety, living out in the marsh, and finding refuge in the little things of life. It’s a beautiful tear-jerker and feels cottage-core to me.
Have you seen "Maquia: When the promised flower blooms"? It's such a treasure!
Tuck Everlasting! I had forgotten this movie, but they filmed parts of it near me, and my mom was jogging in the woods and accidentally ran through one of the scenes they were shooting. XD It was super cool - she took me and my friends (we were young) to check out the outdoor set after they were done but before they pulled everything down.
Desi, I genuinely think you'd love a movie called Wolf Children. It is a story about how a mother marries what I can only call a werewolf, and has (surprise surprise) wolf children. After a tragedy, the mother and her children must move to the countryside in the mountains in an old, decrepit house. It shows the life of her children growing up and drifting apart as a family. It's tragic, beautiful, and bittersweet and I cannot recommend it more to you❤️
The Secret World of Arrietty sounds like it's inspired by The Borrowers! Such a cute book; you'd love it!
This was the most delightful video ever! So inspirational! I would add "When calls the heart" in the tv show list, it's such a adorable story about simple life in Northwest Canada :)
Thank you for all those recommendations! Some I had not heard of before. If you aren't familiar with Susan Branch you may want to check her books out.😊 she has many cookbooks that are seasonal and handwritten on every page with her artwork included and favorite quotes throughout. She also has three books about her life that are so charming as well. Everything about her is cottagecore!
Agree!!
A beautiful TV series: 'The Durrells' about a British family that moves to the island of Corfu where they take up residence in a rustic two story cottage. And for beautiful gingerbread houses, "Practical Magic' (I never get tired of that fantastic movie, interiors and exteriors, even the small town and the clothes!) By the way, I live cottage core too and have a channel showing how to make furnishings look more in the cottage style, gingerbread, rust, etc.
So many beautiful ideas! I would add the kid’s show Little Bear, a bunch of episodes are free on RUclips 🤎 so nostalgic and cozy with a lot of cottagecore activities like picking berries, gardening, baking, and being in the forest
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I recommend watching the anime Violet Evergarden and the two movies by the same name afterwards. It’s my favorite and there are some trigger warnings. It will definitely put you in your feels. It’s cottage core mixed with academia and mixed with war. 1000000000% recommend!!!!!! You can watch it all on Netflix or you can read the manga.
Thank you for these lovely lists! I’d like to add a book: the little white horse. It is about a little girl who moves to her cousin’s manor and uncovers secrets of her family. It is very fairytale-like and has absolutely beautiful descriptions of nature and amazing illustrations! It has also been turned into a movie called the secret of moonacre. Also an anime I am absolutely in love with called the ancient magus bride. It’s about a girl who gave up on life who was bought by a monstrous-looking man who wants to teach her magic. Amazing animation and the storyline is really heartwarming. Plus the soundtrack is so calming and beautiful
A surprisingly cottagecore movie is Sleeping with the Enemy. Julia Robert's character moves from a sterile beach house to an old victorian in a small town. She wears lots of dresses and bakes apple pies from apples in the backyard. The movie itself is formulaic, but I just love watching her uncover the antique furniture and reinvents herself :-)
for book recs: flower fables by louisa may alcott is about a bunch of fairies sharing their adventures of the day!!! very fairycore and cottagecore :))
I adore your Channel !!! Your video’s always bring so much joy to my day ❤️
Books: little house on the prairie, Black beauty, the penderwicks series, wildwood chronicles
Movie: ballet shoes (2007), ever after (1998), steel magnolias (1989)
TV show: Anne of green gables (with megan fellows - 1985 mini series)
I LOVE "I Capture the Castle." Very underappreciated classic.