This week the twins have tasted ocean water, eaten sand, splashed in waves big and small, played with their older cousin, and have been held...

We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this pleasant late-spring interlude: a segment on two unusual chess pies. If you live belo...

At this stage of the Edwardian lingerie dress creation process, I am constructing the bodice. As a reminder, for a base pattern I am using J...

As part of the Ladies' Historical Tea Society Edwardian Picnic preparations, I am in the middle of constructing a circa 1909 white linen...

On May 31, our two boys had their first birthday. Grandparents and cousins visited and we all, every one of us, had homemade white cake and ...

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...