Thrift at Home

I began this quilt three years ago when my Aunt Nancy decided to give me a bag of patches and a mostly-completed quilt top.  It was fabric f...

I mentioned that I was trying these coffee cakes back in the blizzard , but I have no notes and only one photo to show for it.  The day b...

I made a few things for the baby and children's areas at our church, and I challenged myself to use only my small scraps. First I made...

It's been a year since our baby girl was born.  Our last child's first birthday - that made my heart ache a little bit, but we did h...

What do you do with the bar of soap that washes itself down to a sliver?  My dad has always mashed it down onto a new bar of soap.  If the s...

Antimacassars are surprisingly useful and not very much talked about.  The name comes from macassar oil that was widely used on hair in the ...

The principle here is simple and relates to other areas of life:  keep something out of sight for a little while and it becomes new and exci...