Pleasant View Schoolhouse

New Year's Eve Party at the Schoolhouse! I just counted fifteen (I think) teenagers here to eat, play games, tease each other, burn a bo...

On the little table by the kitchen door: The filofax is deceptive: this week is free and easy. We're working puzzles, inviting friends o...

Big bags of lemons at the grocery store today for $1 a bag. Clara and I squeezed at least thirty and made a double batch of lemon curd, and ...

While not the Thaiest of Thai, this simple dish is easy, inexpensive, and feeds a tableful of people. Very popular with big kids. •Schoolhou...

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with...

"She sifted powdered sugar over the great platter of beautifully brown crisp doughnuts . . . she cleaned the fine old family silver, an...

Doing my enormous grocery shop this morning I stopped to chat with my friendly florist and thank her for last week's lilies (marked to h...

A length of mossy green corduroy at the thrift store . . . bias binding made from a vintage dress . . . My favorite Big Pocket vintage smock...

Using up a large piece of flannel from my stash: simple half-circle skirts for my big girls. Such soft fabric I *should* have let them hang ...

I never pass by these at the thrift store because: look! They do all my bathroom countertop storage. Makeup, cotton swabs, toothbrush and to...

So I haven't bought any new fabric in months and have been living out of my stash. This has been such a source of inspiration! All those...

We woke to a coating of ice. Today's morning of baking was cozier than usual, with a gray and brown world frozen outside my kitchen wind...

I like the house to look dressed for Christmas, but I don't like a lot of extra things strewn around. Too busy for my eye, too crowded t...

My friend Carol turns forty this week, and we got up a surprise party for her tonight. She was *indeed* surprised, which makes all of us fee...

I'm so pleased with the little tote bags I just made and put in my shop ! They developed out of project "difficulties"--namely...

Chicken-noodle soup with an addition that takes it up a notch--a roughly chopped bunch of Swiss chard stirred in at the end.

I tossed my kitchen curtains during the big Kitchen Repaint this summer and *still* haven't made new. I love the increased light without...

I dearly love chocolate Advent calendars (shades of my childhood when my uncle was stationed in Germany and sent them to us--to all of us--t...

The kids and I were ready for a tree already! this morning, but the Composer thought he would spend Monday working. So Giles tricked Daisy a...