Category Archives: Around the Home

Animal Crackers

“Animal crackers and cocoa to drink, That is the finest of suppers I think; When I’m grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon these. What do YOU choose when you’re offered a treat? When Mother says, ‘What would you like best to eat?’ Is it waffles and […]

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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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Making a Home Cozy

  “We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder In a previous blog post, I had mentioned a portrait of our […]

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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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Home Comforts

  “There’s nothing like staying home for real comfort.” -Jane Austen     The rain has not stopped for two weeks – or has it been longer? With the soggy grounds and the mud soaked boots, we have had endless cleaning at the doorways … This has been one of the wettest, dreariest Novembers in […]

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