Pleasant View Schoolhouse

My mother gave me these life-sized bird decorations. I love the soft colors for the dining table, but I love even more that Frederick think...

Soft blues and whites out my window this week. And on my sewing table! My log cabin quilt for a baby is here in my etsy shop.

Next up in my tour of Southern Cakes is lemoncheese. No, I had not heard of it either. It must belong to a very specific region of the South...

I'm calling these utility cloths, but you could assign them to any job--dry dishes, mop up spills, cover the rising dough, keep the bisc...

Still beautiful ten days after Valentine's . . . .

Our truly mild winter has got me sewing things for spring already. Daisy loves this new Vintage Simplicity 1291. It has a gently-gathered bo...

I've been thinking about cake ladies . You know them? The ladies in your town who supply their special cakes whenever there's a fune...

"The story of Southern cooking is, in many ways, a story of resourcefulness, using what is affordable and readily available to create d...

Daisy sent another edition of the Animal News to the printer this weekend after the neighbors' goat Ruby had three babies on Friday and ...

Three little bags in turquoise and red in my etsy shop tonight. Have a look! Back on Monday--I'm taking my mother for her Christmas tri...

Bella and Daisy made tiny sugar cookies for our day-late Valentine's.

Sewn from four identical panels of jersey, stenciled with a single large rose motif, appliqued with black jersey shapes, and frosted with bl...

In the process of domesticating our "feral" cat. He sure does purr a lot, and do a lot of lap-sitting, for a boy who was raised by...

Clara suspected this was coming, having outscored Felix last year . I think she takes some satisfaction in that. Her studying may be motivat...

This Colette pattern is designed for a woven fabric, to be cut and sewn on the bias. But put on the straight grain on a knit fabric, it is a...

•Chocolate-Hazelnut Ice Cream• In a 300 degree oven, toast 1 cup hazelnuts on a cookie sheet, for about ten minutes, stirring once or twice...

Circle skirts have curved hems that can be awkward to turn up. One way to deal with the curve is to hem with bias strips cut from the same f...

Fitzwilliam is successfully neutered. Very impressed by the vet doing this on my dining room floor *without* using glasses. I guess he is a ...

Slow beauty blooming: after so many steps I finally get some paint on the fabric, and it's worth the trouble. This is so beautiful to me...

I bought the book Tartine Bread by Chad Robertson and eyed it sideways for months. I wanted to bake that loaf on the cover, but first had t...