Pleasant View Schoolhouse

 I live on planet Cloth Napkin and we never, ever use paper napkins at my house (I do use them on picnics) and here on planet Cloth Napk...

Here are a couple of Big Four patterns I've been working with lately, with cotton jersey. I love the Alabama Chanin patterns but wanted...

Today I started a week of good hard spring cleaning. I've divided the house into five parts and here I go: sitting room, dining r...

I've long wanted a rolling tea cart because they are just sort of awesome. I found this one for very cheap, with wood-look metal she...

This is what happens when you crochet a rug from leftover bits of orange and red t-shirts. Requires tinted goggles.

Outside the bedroom window.

I don't even know where he came from, but he's been living in the toy room for several years, the biggest thing of hi...

First the State Department announced that Americans should stay out of Cusco until at least the end of the month. No biggie, unless  yo...

I seriously haven't gotten this out in years, everything was covered in dust bunnies under Daisy's bed. But yesterday I realize...

 Boy these were glowing this afternoon as we headed out of the house. Our good friend celebrated his 50th birthday by hiking fifty mile...

 . . . in a completely different colorway. You can see that between yesterday's rug and today's I've used pretty much all t...

Daisy and I are a rug-making TEAM! I cut the strips, she connects them, I crochet, and she tells me what color to do next (from her lit...

I've put a crewelwork pillow in my  etsy shop ; go ahead and look because you know you love embroidered scenes of duck hunting.

Daisy with the first big bouquet of the season. Daffodils!

Here is some excellent reading aloud--the  Freddy the Pig  series. We have multi-generational enjoyment going on here, with grandparents...

I've been doing plenty of sewing with jersey lately and the scrap boxes are overflowing. In between projects now I'm cutting th...

He's leaving this weekend for a semester in (darkest) Peru. He'll be staying in Cusco, the city in the mountains that's clo...

 I stumbled on the band Page CXVI, looking for a recording of "Be Still, My Soul", and have been enjoying their re-worked hy...

Thank you, pink geranium, for blooming next to the kitchen sink.

Last spring Daisy started taking piano lessons--and it was a disaster. The teacher was a terrible choice for her (though she had come h...