Pleasant View Schoolhouse

Giles thinks I need to start getting some new photographic angles, and he demonstrated what he meant by standing on the kitchen counter...

Daisy and I are taking some of our Friday afternoons for little excursions. Today we went up to my in-laws' cabin. It was just us, w...

Here's a little progress report on my current jersey embellishment. As you see, I am going to town with beads, having finished t...

I finally tackled my baskets of pears. I'm drying several sheets right now (you can hear the dehydrator, right? I sure can). I ...

 I'll probably slow down after this, but I finally got the light behind him. And I can't get over the fact that here in ...

Sunday morning when I went down to the milk stall with Mabel's feed, she (most uncharacterically) wasn't waiting for me with an acc...

For whatever reason, I have been excruciatingly slow to embrace gluten-free baking. Maybe because the gluten-free goods from the store h...

Walking up the driveway today I discovered a pear tree that I had no idea was growing just ten feet into the woods. Daisy and I went it ...

These four-o'clocks have grown into a huge hedge along the edge of the bistro. They hide the metal border and make it look like it...

"The vocation of all human beings, it seems, consists in this: to stand at the interface between God and his creation, bringing ...

Felix is home for the weekend, and will be going back to a houseful of hungry college friends, so I made cake, cake, and cake. Mocha cak...

This crib quilt is pieced from three by six inch blocks in very cool turquoises, pale blues, and pale greens--and some strips of dark v...

That's right. They're going to the county fair. As first-timer pickle competitors, we didn't realize they needed a ring ...

Bella left yesterday for a semester working at an orphanage overseas. She'll be back for the holidays and then return to spend the ...

This is my current quilting-and-listening-to-my-Bible spot. This activity usually happens after lunch. If I am very lucky, a raccoon or...

This is the Colette pattern "Oolong" which I've made up in jersey before. It's a lightweight cotton-bamboo which is go...

Sometime in the days before I began sewing (2004) I studied Janet Bolton's books over and over. Those little shapes. That fabric ...