Pleasant View Schoolhouse

Miss Pointy Elbows reinforcing the thin places in the sleeves of her cashmere sweater--so easy with a felting needle and some matching rovin...

What's for summer? Roll your cuffs and prepare for a summer of comfortable class and free-wheeling luxury: these men don't wear soc...

Currently I'm obsessed with Southern cooking. If dinner doesn't seem Southern enough, I'll just put it in an iron skillet, and i...

A bright day at the schoolhouse: the first of our new living room lights are up and running! This pair is hanging over the dining table, and...

My fantastic meal-planning book* gives a menu for every single breakfast, lunch, and dinner of the year. Let's take a look at March 26: ...

Next up, this gored skirt for Clara from Alabama Studio Style . The skirt is made from the same pattern as the dress, you just cut it off in...

It is a good time of year when the smell of lilacs comes through the window where you are mixing up biscuits.

I like to buy my garden seeds at the feed store. At the feed store they sell what country people know will grow. And what will taste good. N...

III. The Changemaker Be the change you want to see in the world. Felix makes it count in his four-pocket vest in Soft Federal Reserve. Vest:...

This week Giles and Felix present the season's thrifted up-to-the-minute ensembles. It looks like we'll be seeing plenty of vests an...

I took the tank dress from Alabama Studio Style , added some sleeves from a sheath-style pattern, and raised the neckline by about an inch. ...

*Everyone* home for a few days, grandparents, pounds of homemade pasta, huge pot of meatballs in sauce . . . two mixed berry cobblers, piano...

Something made this salmon of Bella's the best ever--she just brushed the fillets with equal parts tamari sauce and rice wine vinegar, a...

Frederick uses some chair-back time to get everything nicely arranged.

Apparently he wasn't *just* assisting on shoots for National Geographic, O Magazine, Popular Mechanics, ad infinitum. He also laid carpe...

. . . late last night. He's taking off his city hat and building me a garden fence before he goes back to school.

Finished! But they're not as big as they should be, so I'm pondering ways to make them bigger without piecing any more. Maybe new fa...

"He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed." Psalm 107:29

Daisy and I have been enjoying Beverly Cleary's Socks this week. So much. She has hunted up her stuffed tabby toy and reads the funny p...

Windy, chilly, rainy--we've lit the wood stove again, just when I thought we'd had our last fire. But the forsythia is in bloom!