Pleasant View Schoolhouse

I've had Joanna Copestick's The Family Home on my inspiration shelf for several years and pull it out every few months to drool ove...

I'm proud to have figured this one out, after many years of mediocre pot roasts. Secret #1: Ditch the Crock-Pot. I know, I know, the con...

Cleaning the refrigerator is one of those chores that I find hard to fit in to my regular schedule during the week. But today was a rainy Sa...

. . . and have reconnected me to the internet (thank you Giles). Sigh. Everyone had a great time skiing and I've seen a few minutes of v...

I never liked dusting because I never felt like I was making anything actually cleaner, until I met the Microfiber Dusting Cloth. These thin...

It's true--the house is quiet. The big kids are off on a trip, outfitted with long underwear and neck gaiters: tomorrow morning they hit...

The house smelled delicious this morning as I powered my way through a two-hour baking session which resulted in these delights: •eight loav...

Here Daisy sports her newly created "Best in Show" dress, made from the Sense and Sensibility's Girls' Regency Dress Patte...

If I ever notice that it's been a while since we've been sick, that's usually a sign that someone's coming down with somethi...

"Our homes are the center of our lives, and we should allow time and resources to mke the most of them that we can, and to care for the...

"Modern housekeeping, despite its bad press, is among the most thoroughly pleasant, significant, and least alienated forms of work that...

"...What a traditional woman did that made her home warm and alive was not dusting and laundry...Her real secret was that she identifie...

Actually, Daisy did most of the work.

This morning I pulled out all my big pots and pans and got down to business, cooking food for the Composer and the big kids to take along on...

I must cop to having a theme room in my house--the Strawberry Bathroom. I realize that a room like this skates perilously close to being Co...

Giles and Felix have been hard at work building a coop for hens they plan to buy. They are cleverly managing with nothing but found material...

I have never had any *nice* wood floors to take care of, as my wood floors are more along the lines of bare pine planks, painted pine planks...

I love this cool shade of lavendar, and as you can see, have used it in the master bedroom. There are few corners of my house as monasticall...

The Composer is not a man who spends a lot of time cooking, but once in a blue moon he makes crepes for us. That's such a man thing to m...

The kids don't watch any tv (the Composer and I watch only ER), and we hardly get any reception anyway, but this past year we have been ...