Pleasant View Schoolhouse

My sturdy sewing machine is home from a few weeks at the machine spa getting rehabbed, so it's been a while since I had machine-quilting...

• A green coat ("She made it the basis of her fall outfit") • A lovely green wool dress • A green crepe dress • A brown wool dress...

I said I was going to do it , and I've done it. Mostly. I think she needs a shadow panel lining the front skirt. I made life a little ha...

Every single person in my family asked me today: what smells so good in the kitchen? And I'm sure the cats were thinking it too, even if...

The Composer and I were off on an overnight bat. We calculated that it had been seven years since we had gone off alone, (alone meaning with...

Maybe I always forget drinks (I do), but at least I have a lot, a lot of plates. (And some recent good pot luck at the thrift store--witness...

Cobbler is like soup--you need a *plan* more than you need a recipe. Here's how I make the components: • 4-6 cups of fruit which I cook ...

My thrifted butterflies made the perfect autumn bunting strung on fishing line and looped across the front of a big cabinet. I love how the ...

From a vintage Simplicity pattern, whose main attraction is of course the scallops. I love how much engineering went into this pattern. The ...

Here's a beautiful new offering from Colette patterns. I have, as you may know, an ongoing fascination with housedresses, and while thi...

Daisy had a short list of must-do's at the fair. Must look at rabbits, of course. And ideally, we'd watch a pig getting a bath. Chec...

We're both amazed, Gingerbread Man and I, that he ended up at the thrift store. After all, he's a certified Master Chef. Says so in ...

"There was something rather satisfying, she found, in scrubbing the tiles of the kitchen floor. The clean, sweet-smelling wetness, whic...

Recently I've done quite a bit of sewing with linen--since Hancock's had it for half price at the end of the summer. I love it, its ...

Giles does a brisk business in senior portraiture over the summer and I was lucky to catch him for Felix over Labor Day weekend. So here...

At first I was drawn to the sweet turquoise design. But then I realized it was full of someone's recipe clippings! And many hand-copied ...

I knew the moment I saw this $1 lamb I'd buy it for the sitting room. My surface thought was that the black and white would go with the ...

Somehow I was fully grown before I realized that people gave out favors at parties. Maybe they did it behind my back, and maybe that account...

Bella keeps making dairy-free whoopie pies after we checked out a library book called Whoopie Pies (yes, I see the connection). And Giles k...