Thrift at Home

 I save sheets that have a stain somewhere, a rip, or whose partners were worn to shreds. I use sheets in sets, pretty much, so the orphan s...

I found this recipe in The New York Times a couple years ago and it has been in regular rotation ever since because 1. It is delicious. 2. ...

Last winter when I was sorting fabric, I realized I had lots of small, pretty pieces, approximately 1-2 yards. More than I would ever need t...

 Living in close quarters through a pandemic changes how we think about our houses, doesn't it? I always liked the open floor plan of ou...

We got an interesting bag of hand-me-downs for dress-up from another family when Genevieve and Ben were small. I pulled out a little appliqu...

Last weekend, I was talking to a blogger friend who has also drifted into silence on his blog, and we agreed that we missed writing and then...

Here I am, now a homeschooler! Thanks, COVID. I mean that both sarcastically and sincerely. I am homeschooling Phoebe and she is a dear litt...