Thrifting your way to a comfortable home environment that’s all your own. Over the years, I’ve spent most of my time at home raising littles. While life happens, you consciously and subconsciously are cultivating a home environment they’ll remember the rest of their lives. I can think of certain elements in my own upbringing that…
When we began planning our Carriage House, I kept a large stack of tangible inspiration close to me. I called it my emotional support book stack. They were design books I had collected that now lived in a cozy pile near my bedside table. Dog-eared pages, tattered book covers and so much hope of what…
(affiliate disclosure) Many years ago, as I was enjoying The Victorian Farm, a documentary you must watch if you enjoy historical homemaking or farming, Ruth Goodman shared a fascinating tidbit about laundry bluing. She was demonstrating “wash day” from a “wash room”. She had a large vessel of water steaming in the background and was…
