When the boys walk, they don't exactly watch where they're going. Crash! Tumble! Regroup! Babble about it all. Oh, and make sure Mam...

According to the BBC, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. How many have you read? Kalianne at Bygone Beaut...

Polly, a delightful friend, and fellow period fashion admirer, had the good fortune to attend a Jane Austen festival in Louisville a week or...

A horse breed, to be specific. Today I met my first Missouri Fox Trotter horse, a sorrel horse with lots of "chrome", meaning he h...

It turns out that usually rich-looking, full and fluffy and curled antique ostrich plumes are not single bird feathers, but sewn-together co...

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...