Pleasant View Schoolhouse

Bella's dreadlocks have an amazing dimensionality: they take up so much space and they stay almost anywhere you put them. Though she usu...

The owlmaker (me!) has surrounded herself with felted sweaters, roving, embroidery floss, and the Sibley's Guide. Mother Barn Owl was a ...

At least once a week Bella's digging through the linens and the china (hmm . . . which of the seven sets shall I pull out today?) and th...

Happily dressed in tablecloths from head to toe! Skirt was made a while ago, blouse is new. I used a thrifted tablecloth that seems to be a ...

Beat 2 eggs until light. Blend in 1 c. sugar and 1 c. cream . Mix in 3 3/4 c. flour 1 T. baking powder and 1 t. salt . Chill for an hou...

Bella found a vintage recipe for "cream cookies" and topped them with pink buttercream and strawberry slices. The blue plate was m...

"'A child won't notice' is a very bad and untrue phrase to admit into your mind. A child will be affected by originality, ...

We sent a box of these lemony cookies off to Giles this week. To a regular sugar cookie recipe I added the zest of a lemon. After the cookie...

Beautiful green wool sweater for Bella, vintage sewing booklet for me. Bouquet of mayapple leaves from the woods provided by Clara.

Of all the marvelous ways the children have grown and changed this year, by far the most exciting development has been to watch Bella findin...

Is it not a good feeling when the ironing pile is vanquished?

Lots of yellow gingham goodies in the shop tonight, and an entire big girl's wardrobe of play dresses!

The Composer and I are slowly getting used to the idea that Felix will be going away to school in the fall. We're lucky enough to have a...

One last recent baking project from Bella . . . these exceedingly almondy macaroons called ricciarelli. Meringues tossed with almond flour a...

"And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. He ...

Daisy has new purple shoes, and she is ready for Easter. (photos by the Composer)

The undauntable Bella created a Boston cream pie--two vanilla sponge cake layers, a pastry cream filling, and a chocolate ganache to pour ov...

The apple tree is flowering abundantly this spring. So beautiful against the sky morning, noon, and evening! This little-known shrub is kerr...

Felix has moved to ink drawings in his bird journal (pencil is so last year). I came across his open notebook--chipping sparrow on the left,...