Updated September 9, 2011 The Web is chock full of sources for period fashion plates and period photos. Folks on Elizabeth Stewart Clar...

Polly desires her Beatrix skirt to have a tall flounce. Skirts of this era often were flounced, although as 1909 turned into 1910 and then t...

I am making two Beatrix skirts (a Sense and Sensibility pattern) as gifts for friends for a  picnic at the end of May. While the original pa...

Last year I stood under our crabapple tree, weeks before it bloomed, wearing maternity clothing. This spring, what gift laughs under our tre...

Ithaca! "Forest City", they called it back then. Where Rome had seven hills, "Ithaca makes her boast of seven streams, concer...

Canada's McCord Museum has two games about women's fashion that test your ability to recognize fashion silhouettes. One of them is t...

...not me, the boys. I only wish I had a nice fresh old-fashioned doughnut to wave, and then nibble! Anyhow, back to our story. Last Thursda...

A month or two ago, when winter still gripped us hard, for solace I browsed a favorite antique shop that sometimes carries vintage and antiq...

This evening sometime after 5:00 p.m. Inkspot, our wonderful, happy-spirited kitty passed away. She had been our dancing cat with the lighte...

What happened to Noah's toy when it wandered away...the episode left him scratching his head. Watch!

Noah kept grabbing at the bowl of cereal while I was trying to get spoonfuls of it to feed to him. This happened week after week, until last...

My goodness, I started this skirt November 30th, but finally it's wearable. Am quite happy with it...the drape is lovely and it's fu...

Last evening marks the second time the boys had fun with a pan of warm water. I set it out, plopped one boy on each side, and let them have ...

Today, for what we think is one of the first times, Christopher pulled himself up to a kneeling position using the crib rail. He was so prou...

Sometime last fall I was lucky enough to purchase a vintage wrapper. From its shape and construction, I estimate to be anywhere from the 189...