Thrift at Home

What do you say when someone asks you what you want as a gift?  I'm old-fashioned and don't like wish lists and telling people, alth...

I am just back from a funeral.  In fact, I sang a Leonard Cohen song at the funeral.  And I agree with my pastor, who said some time ago tha...

Before I bought Phoebe's plain navy coat on eBay, I looked at the photos closely.  I wanted to add ribbon down the placket and at the zi...

My aunt Esther got me this handwork bag and I love it.  But the metal zipper on the pocket developed bent teeth that could not be fixed by o...

Genevieve seized the big box that her Christmas beanbag chair came in and made it into a house for Phoebe.  She did it swiftly with a box cu...

Happy New Year, everybody! I am done with cookies and meat and cheese balls.  Let's put a pot of real old-fashioned soup on the stove be...

"Rejoice, rejoice! the Savior comes, the Savior promised long. . . He comes the broken heart to bind, the bleeding soul to cure. . . an...