Pleasant View Schoolhouse

I wish I had known about this book last winter while caring for my grandmother. As the subtitle says, it is full of No-Nonsense Advice on C...

In a south-facing window, a row of milk glass planters hosting the charming succulents known as hens and chickens. Slow, slow, slow to grow-...

All business, yes? At least it is sewn up in a very fine wool suiting remnant, with longer sleeves. The wool is perfect because it has a tin...

I love this thrifted sweater set on her, and I love that she tied an ivory satin ribbon for a sash!

In odd moments here and there I've been winding my half-used embroidery skeins onto pieces of cardstock. It's strangely satisfying, ...

Before Giles left he did a white-on-white shoot with Daisy: she wore a white blouse and flopped around on my white bedspread. Here's a g...

Bright sweaters from the thrift store for me and the girls. I stick to natural fibers--mostly silk and wool, since cotton tends to show some...

Today Clara embarked on a long-awaited project. At last she's gotten a chance to play in the pit orchestra for a Gilbert and Sullivan op...

This was my world this morning. Sepia daisies in sepia milk glass, in sepia light.

Consider the smugness! She knows her mascara will never run. I sewed Mrs. Humpty Dumpty, and her husband, from my marvelous vintage McCall...

The day has come when Bella can simply announce that she's going in the kitchen to do some baking, and come out later with a platter of ...

Off with the rumpled doily and the half-burned candles. The lemons look better out here than in the fridge and they need to be squeezed late...

Felix reads the good parts to us and we all howl with delight and longing. I can't bring myself to read the whole book because I'm ...

It was only recently that I started checking the thrift store's collection of purses to see what pieces I could pick up there--turns out...

Well, it feels like I'm cheating on Giles, but I've moved my sewing machine into his bedroom for the winter. My sewing room through ...

At last, a garment she claims she'll wear! Actually, she'll wear anything I make her as long as it's made out of diaphanous fabr...

Homemade French bread is endlessly delicious and takes any meal up a notch. And in spite of what I've read to the contrary, it freezes ...

Funny how these photos look just like last year's--except everyone's a little bigger. Daisy was just as excited this time about her ...

We hit Giles up for a portrait session before he left. It was freezing cold the last day of the year, but we tried to look balmy! Wow, how t...

We've loved having Giles home for an extended break between quarters, but he leaves in the morning, as he heads back to the land of Blac...