Pleasant View Schoolhouse

This was a festive variation on our usual coffee cake : after the batter went in the pan I spread the thin slices of a Granny Smith apple wi...

I picked this book up in Colorado and enjoyed peeking at it all the way home. In fact, I was itching to get into the *gigantic shopping bag...

One last set of pictures from the trip, then back to the usual round of quotidian joys. Daisy in a dress my mother made several years ago fo...

Certainly Daisy's high point of our trip was the party in the stable that served as a rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding (aft...

What worked: • Cherries, strawberries, and grapes for car snacks, packed in a rigid plastic container. • Thrifted pillowcases for everyone t...

We're in the middle of a week of festivities before a weekend wedding. Some pictures from the Indian dinner party-- where Daisy's f...

Stretching our legs outside of Taos. Mountain air!

Happy to have found a use for some thrifted bits--crocheted blooms and green curly ribbon . . .

When we originally made our vacation plans we thought we would set out today, as soon as Felix got home from Boy Scout camp, and make for Ca...

"Cornelia awoke with a great zeal for work upon her. She had dreamed a living room that would lift the whole house out of the sordid ne...

This pattern, vintage McCall's 8895, is my obsession. I'm not quite sure why it has taken over my mind, although it does contain ins...

Just enough strawberry tablecloth left for one medium-sized project: a child's smock from a vintage pattern.

The crew of gardeners has come and gone (they will be back briefly tomorrow to fix a stone wall), and my garden is a wonder to me. But in a ...

"They reached a lovely grove at sundown and stopped by the way to have supper. Graham got down and made George help him get out the big...

We packed in a lot today. The morning was spent at the lake where, as usual, we found our favorite swimming and picnicking spot empty. No on...

Boy did I have fun with this one! It's as gorgeous as a little cupcake!

Nothing makes the kitchen smell better than coffee cake, gentle and cinnamonny. This morning's breakfast was a variation on our favorit...