“Rachel Maksy is a woman out of a time machine.

“The soft curls in her hair take inspiration from the 1950s; her wardrobe is a mix of corsets, homemade vests, tea-length skirts and vintage shoes; and she does all of the crafting projects that rocketed her to internet stardom in a small, 1800s-era shed in her back yard.

“With more than a million subscribers on YouTube and almost half that on Instagram, the Kingston native is more reserved than you’d expect from a woman whose weekly videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people and whose talents recently caught the eye of Amazon Studios. Maksy was one of 50 online influencers from around the country recently chosen by the studio to create sponsored content promoting a series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which premiered Thursday.”

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