Beautiful Picture!!!

Favorite Book.....

This is one of my very, very favorite books that we used during High School. "Training Our Daughters to be Keepers at Home" by Ann Ward.

It covers 7 years in all!!

You would start it in about Jr. High.

It has page after page of instructions in life skills and also

much Godly wisdom!!

Just look at some of the reading list over the 7 years: Kings Daughter, Dear Princess, Hidden Art, Pursuit of Holiness, The Other Side of the Garden......and the list goes on. Amazing!!
Covers basic cooking, sewing, gardening and many other hand skills. In later years it even gets into child care and more advanced skills.
I loved it!! Check it out sometime! :)

Fun Learning......

On Fridays I have started a little class at my home. The class is Home-Making and I have three girls right now between 10 and 11. Yesterday we spent the morning making Snickerdoodles, each girl made a "log" to take home for the freezer (if it lasts that long). We put the cinnamon in the cookies instead of rolling them in it as I wanted to

show them how to freeze cookie logs. :)

For lunch they made Cheese Sauce and poured it over Noodles. So, they learned how to make stove top macaroni and cheese not from a box!!

In the afternoon we did Embroidery. They began by making samples of just four stitches for their notebooks which we will use next week on a project. They also made the cover page for their notebooks.
They will come every Friday, more fun projects ahead......

Hubby's Work.............

Look at this beautiful kitchen my husband just finished today!!

Boy could I have some fun with this... :)

He left the old cabinet boxes and they were painted white and he made

new doors and drawers!!

Very Awesome job Dear Sweet Husband!! :D

Summers End Garden Tea!!

There are so many pictures of tea it is hard to choose, but I did, this is not even all of them, but it is alot, hope you enjoy.....................

Violas as they entered the yard.......
The lovely Ladies...........

The table..........

We gathered white pitchers of different sizes and filled them with flowers of white and shades of pink, the plates also had pink flowers along the edge.



Frenchesca comes to tea!
(the cat :) this was after the ladies had left...

This cup is the same as the little plates we used.
This is their take home gift, a vase of fresh herbs from the garden!!

The grande finale....fresh, homemade peach ice cream, soooo good!

The store.............

The girls helping me serve made these "heirloom tomatoe" pincushions....CUTE!!

HA, here it is!!!

Lavender by the spoonful........
Sweet rhubarb sauce.........

My lovely servers and their sister..........

The one in the front is my daughter... :)

OK, I do not like pictures of myself....but here you go..... :/

Sun setting at the end of the day......

It was a beautiful day....my friend and I sat here at the empty table after everything was cleaned up, except the table...we just wanted to sit and savor the moment with a cup of coffee (ooops...don't tell).....

Now a tour of

Our beautiful Tea Room.......

Waste Not......

After Tea I always have alot of leftover crusts cut off the bread. Well, when it is simply buttered bread that makes very good bread pudding. However, when the bread has other things on it like a dab of chicken or basil and cream cheese, sometimes I have thrown that away.... :(

This time my friend suggested I make stuffing!! What a great idea!! I also had quite a few herbs left over from some of the sandwiches....so first step cutting the bread into cubes, and stirring up some onions, herbs and butter in a pan (I did not have celery or that would have been a must).
So, I stuffed a chicken! Well, it worked and boy was it yummy!

An Experiment......

Thought I would try the Barrel O' Muffin batter in a small loaf pan.......

Voila!! I do believe it worked!! You could ad some fun things like chocolate chips, or cranberries, how fun to make for gift giving or just for your family!!

The Wonderful Smell of Homemade Bread......

Mmmmmmm......can you smell it?? Braided Herb Bread!! Yum!

Monday nights we serve the guys at one of our homeless shelters, this week was Spaghetti, Salad, Herb Bread and Ice Cream. I made 8 loaves and it smelled so good, cannot wait to take some time to make some for us soon, as soon as I get my whole wheat flour from my food co-op and now that the weather is cooling down some. :)

Afterglow...........

The pleasant afterglow of a lovely afternoon........

Mmmmm....such a nice day for all.......
Can you believe I forgot to take my camera! So, I did get some pictures on my friends camera, but have to wait to get them from her......*sigh*

But, soon, "The Garden Tea"......my friends garden was the perfect setting and the ladies were all so lovely in their hats and dresses......cannot wait to show you. :)