Pleasant View Schoolhouse

After Saturday's quilt binge, I sat down to start another quilt. This one was going to be all different bright and saturated colors...

Clara and I made an afternoon of piecing our quilt top. With both of us working assiduously, it's a four-to-five hour job. Th...

Daisy is currently engrossed in the Cherry Ames series. Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse. Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse. Etc.  Excellent p...

Merry Christmas 2014 (Next year I hope to also have pictures of my older daughters--somehow they were...

We hung them from the branch that hangs in the sitting room window. And we hung them from the wreaths we put in the living room w...

I picked this up at the thrift store because of the back extension that comes up and over the shoulder. However,  I don't bel...

My garland of  yesteryear  fell off its string when I picked it up out of the box. So I've been restringing the wool circles on ...

Another gorgeous sunrise, the first of the Return of the Exiles (as the Composer calls it when the adult children come home), and sever...

These are the colors of early winter around here. Warm browns, gray-browns, and long golden light.

Anyone who loves baby goats will be glad to know that over at the neighbors' house Jezebel, Ruby, and Cinnamon have all had thei...

A while ago I made a set of patchwork curtains for my lavender bedroom. Then recently I got tired of them and wanted something visually ...

Daisy decided it was time for a little more Christmas decorating around here. Fortunately we have an endless supply of cedar outside, an...

This morning the ground and the barn roof were white with frost.  I can't get enough of early morning. I wish it lasted for h...

At my house it's not quite time for a Christmas tree, but it's not too early for a Winter Tree. I set up this pine cone tree in...

I've recommended Jennifer Grant's writing on motherhood before , and I'm doing it again today.  Wholehearted Living  is wri...

She's been wanting a sailor dress for so long. I used a regular dress pattern and added a sailor collar overlay, and changed the sk...

Any shortbready cookie that needs to be pressed with the bottom of a glass can be stamped with a punch cup--and will be pretty.

I had soft gray fine-wale corduroy to make Daisy a dress, and decided to insert a front panel of honeycomb smocking, because the textur...