Pleasant View Schoolhouse

How do you know you're a good photographer? When you can make Hobbes look like he has some sort of meaning. For any new readers, my son ...

Several readers have already stumbled across my second blog, Neat and Dainty as a Flower , devoted to all things Grace Livingston Hill. I th...

" . . . as for me, I like to do as mother always did. I always have the cake-box and bread-box full of nice fresh things, and make a pi...

I'm so fortunate in my neighbor Phyllis. A multi-talented powerhouse, she has taught classical ballet, yoga, and aerobics for years, and...

Mad bird activity all day at the feeder--fat red cardinals, bossy bluejays, and an entire flock of red-winged blackbirds ascending into the ...

I just couldn't help myself, and I had the skirt of a sundress the big girls had outgrown. The fabric looks just like a 30's feedsac...

Last night I finished sewing together this knitted bear from Debbie Bliss's Simply Baby book. The sad fact is, I finished Clara's c...

"There should be an atmosphere of cheerfulness and hospitality about the simplest places in which we eat . . . Sunlight and air should ...

Everyone should have a reliable chicken soup they can turn to when kids get sick, the neighbors need food, or it snows. This easy soup is an...

Still beautifully unfolding.

A brilliant find in Tiny Town this week: the 1954 gem Everyday Foods by Harris and Lacey. My copy is missing the first couple of pages (tha...

Mrs. Callard is the winner of the hotpad giveaway! Congratulations! If you'll leave your e-mail I'll e-mail you and then delete your...

Okay, ladies, this is really simple! Just cutting, pinning, and straight-line sewing. There are probably *better* ways to sew up a hotpad, b...

For the last several years I loved using a squirt of Method Floor Cleaner in my mop bucket; I alternated between bottles of lavender and lem...

I've used this pattern before to make aprons for my big girls, but got the itch to make a tiny bright smock for Daisy on Saturday mornin...

For years I have loved a green and red vintage tablecloth. In its heyday it actually went on the table. Then it went out on yard picnics wit...

Clara sewed her sock monkey a new dress on her new sewing machine. I'd say her sock monkey looks pleased!

This morning I intended to make a big batch of cinnamon rolls to carry over to friends who are painting their new house, but the morning got...

Details of pillows from around the house . . . Last week I took two valances that were gifts from my friend Elyse and turned them into baby-...