Pleasant View Schoolhouse

It's not winter yet, but the pantry's ready for the cold half of the year with some extra things on hand for power outages, frozen r...

Once I get the box of scraps out it's easy to keep going and going. I made three of these, and two more in a brown and rose colorway. Ho...

At last that front tooth fell out.

This weekend I asked my neighbor Phyllis for the loan of a couple of goats. She was glad to off-load two of her neutered teenage males for a...

I'd never heard of Emilie Loring until I stumbled on someone's collection at the thrift store. For so cheap, I thought that even if...

Continuing my bungalow apron experiments: this one was a great success. So very comfortable, and though I say it myself, it's cute! This...

I had enough to cream yarn to make a small blanket, nine tows of ten squares. I couldn't resist though, I've bought some additional ...

Clara went shopping this afternoon. She bought sixty-six bright yellow dishes at the thrift store, a new hat, a skein of yarn, and a cup of ...

Some of my last scraps of post-ripple-blanket yarn made up into a round cushion cover. I had the worst time crocheting a simple circle! This...

Thrift store sweater over a jersey dress, handmade jersey scarf*, hand-knitted beret. *Even if you can't sew at all, a quarter yard of j...

75 is a big birthday, and we celebrated with the Composer's father this weekend. Five years ago we went this route , but on this occasio...

Sometimes, Frederick just spends a cozy half hour sitting in his grit cup.

I believe this fantastic housedress pattern lives up to my bungalow apron ideals, although it dates from the 1940s and not the 1920s. But lo...

Amazing buttons. From the thirties, I think? Because recommended for *smocks and pajamas*. They were in a box of vintage sewing goodies from...

A selection of photos from the day (I still can't believe we pulled this off!)-- The bride's cake table--a friend baked the cake, al...

A newly sewn late 1940s dress in cotton twill. Leftover roses courtesy of the wedding.

That's right: we ladies of the wedding crew (that's me and my mother and my friend Maureen) made more than fifty-two bouquets. Fifty...

"True hospitality is sharing your life . . . with those outside the family circle. False hospitality is trying to re-vamp your life wit...

My sweet friend Monica is adopting and I want to support her. I don't have a lot of finished items sitting around waiting to hop into my...

No sewing, no fussing, and you can throw it away when it gets gross: a man's shirt from the thrift store, tied on backwards.