Pleasant View Schoolhouse

"We always have our bedroom windows open at night. We think it is healthier to have fresh air while we are sleeping . . . Indeed I don...

I am having to re-think my identity--apparently I am now Someone Who Makes Stuffed Animals. This is all new to me. But seriously, who wouldn...

Here is the Chicken Mobile Home sitting in the vegetable garden. The tall, gorgeous rooster is Richard--see him guard the flock! Here is Dai...

Bella has the most beautiful head of well-groomed dreadlocks, which are looking especially fine today as she visited her new hairdresser. Cy...

In spring, Felix's fancy turns to thoughts of aviculture. Last year he successfully raised his first order of chicks, only to see his fl...

Giles and I frequently go out on our walk together. We share a fascination for the empty house that sits at the two-miles-out mark. It was j...

My afternoon walk never fails to offer its own particular beauty--doesn't matter what kind of day it is, there is always something fresh...

"Entertaining at tea is a pleasant custom widely followed in many parts of this country. Some women make a habit of inviting a few frie...

Tired of kicking aside the small pile of dirty clothes too delicate to be run in a regular load of laundry, I stitched together this bag to ...

I fell madly in love with this pattern the first time I saw it, but it took months to find an affordable copy. Isn't it charming? The sw...

I have been all about coffee cake for breakfast the last couple of weeks. Yes, it has to bake for forty minutes, but once I put it in the ov...

• A windy, windy walk under a blue sky this morning. • A tidy dry woodpile in the mudroom. • The "Adagio" from Haydn's Cello C...

Don't ask me how I missed out on the fact that there is an enormous, abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium an hour from my house. Sitting on...

Yesterday I had court in Tiny Town, which is always a treat-- a beautiful drive with the children along, barbecue for lunch if we have time,...

This is such a simple sweater design--nothing so far but stockinette stitch and increases. So why am I on my *third time* of knitting this s...

If you had questions about what constitutes a housecoat, take a look at this pattern. The long-sleeved version is a trim, closely-fitting ho...

"The "house coat" or "breakfast coat" is an outgrowth of the hostess gown. Women enjoyed the hostess gown because i...