...My cup runneth over. 23rd psalm ...Our cup runneth over... May your Thanksgiving run over with thankfulness too.

Here is a fascinating, four-part video tutorial on creating a very pretty Edwardian hairstyle. It's not a Gibson-girl pompadour, but mor...

If you're interested in period photographs, do spend some time with the daguerrotypes and photographs of families, couples, houses, mili...

In the last post I showed a shirtwaist I made with sleeves patterned after the giant leg 'o mutton sleeves popular circa 1894-1896. The...

This year, our boys and I dressed in black and white for Hallowe'en. The twins were Ladybug's kittens, and sported black and white k...

At 5:05 p.m. or so, it snowed. Very wet snow, or perhaps sleet. It's October 27. Hmmm. Photo: a snowflake, in New Mexico, not Kentucky. ...

Hallowe'en is almost here, it appears. Did some fiend nip a statue (with aid of a backhoe) from a cemetery and move it to this hall? Loo...

It's that time of year: black walnuts are littering the Kentucky Bluegrass. The last few trips out to my in-laws, I've passed patche...

Fashions come in living color, usually...except when black is popular, which, once again, it is this year. Further, color in our clothes has...

It was the last week in August, a puffy-cloud afternoon, out at Mamaw and Papaw's. Once out in back, the boys trotted with us down to th...

The Bustle: Essential Underpinning for a Dolly Varden Ensemble Having Dolly Varden dresses on the brain , I decided to make a Dolly Varde...