Pleasant View Schoolhouse

Daisy made this embroidered tea towel for Giles' new apartment. We used a transfer and a purchased tea towel (I was more impressed by ...

Speaking of beautiful music, let me share a gift with you. The Composer pointed me to this album this week: Josh Garrels Love and War an...

Giles is home for a few days after wrapping up his summer job and squeaking out of Newark hours before the hurricane. He'll head back ...

This nothing little twisty tree from the thrift store holds all my thrift store pins, and my fancy watch, and my sparkly whatnots . . . .

I'm adding lantana to my short list of garden ornamentals that can withstand heat, drought, pests, and DEER. No, they aren't hardy...

From Vintage Knits by Sarah Dallas. I lowered the neckline about an inch and a half, and made 3/4 sleeves. Dad gum, this sweater is short...

My mother is here for a few days for a little sewing festival--we designed a simple dress pattern for her to use again and again, and we...

Green planters from the thrift store, and then the ferns come from my outside plants. I dig up the babies emerging around the perimeter of...

A small selection of dresses in my etsy shop ; stay tuned for more.

About five seconds after she saw this , Daisy asked for her own lounge dress. Of course. I have to say, she looks like an angel floating...

"Five good children are an immense luxury, and to deny one's self other luxuries in order to raise them is not self-denial at all, ...

Most of the bits and pieces are put back into Clara's upstairs, under-the-eaves little room. Baubles hanging from one of those th...

This road is so much easier to go down the second time around. Is it the fact that he's already been living in a dorm for two years? T...

Clara whipped these out as a baby gift for Bella's voice teacher, who just had her first, a tiny girl. I've never made booties, bu...

I get the news I need on the weather report; I can gather all the news I need on the weather report. Hey, I've got nothing t...

This is the cake of my first months of marriage--the one I took to potlucks and cooked for dinner parties. Clara made it for us this weeke...

Now just the baseboards are left to do, and the painting will be finished. White linen curtains are made and hung . . . . it's dre...

"So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like t...

Start with the simplest, small tote shape--two rectangles sewn together, lined (tote tutorials are everywhere on the internet). Don't bo...

I'm sure this will be the first of *many* wedding details pictured in the next few weeks as we prepare for a Wedding at the Schoolhous...