If you’re smart, you saw yesterday’s post on how to make pie as a hint of what was to come today. If you’re dumb, you didn’t see yesterday’s post as a hint of what was to come today.  And you wear mittens all year long. Probably. Indeed, yesterday’s post featuring one of the many [...]

It’s time to announce the winner of the $250 worth of Rough Linen!  Did you win? I dunno!  Well, actually I do. I do know who won. But I’m not going to tell you this very instant because I’m doing what they call “building suspense”. So how’d your day go?  I spent the entire day [...]

The very first time I made jam, I found myself in a bit of a … pickle.  In hot water.  Frankly, I found myself in a bit of a jam. I was 18 or 20 years old and had gone out to pick all the strawberries for my first batch of jam.  So on a [...]

I cannot find my fireplace tools.  The ones I  hid, because they were so ugly I wanted to make sure Style at Home didn’t shoot them?  I lost them.  Gone.  Poof.  I’m not all that broken up about it, what with them being … ugly.  But I’d better find some by October.  That’s the start [...]