Category Archives: Homemade is Best

A Hand in Creation

“I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green, growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think.” Anne’s House of Dream; L.M. Montgomery The late July wind is whispering through our green, lush trees – I’m […]

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Making Winter Wonderful {Work with Your Hands}

“Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul.” ~ The Ladies’ Work Table Book, 1845   The snow is gently […]

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Winter’s Rest

“Faint music rings in world and dell, The tinkling of a distant bell, Where homestead lights with friendly glow,  Glimmer across the drifted snow.” -L.M. Montgomery      The first (and second and third!) snow has fallen on Prince Edward Island.  It, as always, is absolutely magical and completely welcomed by our family, especially the […]

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Tucked in for Winter – The Provision Room {2024}

“Run down and get the cinnamon, will you, Joey?” said Polly; “it’s in the ‘Provision Room.” The “Provision Room” was a little shed that was tacked on to the main house, and reached by a short flight of rickety steps; so called, because as Polly said, “’twas a good place to keep provisions in, even […]

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The Family Vegetable Garden

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl         It’s early summer morning at our little homestead on Prince Edward Island … where will you find us? While many […]

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