If anyone hasn't seen this BBC series, I would like to recommend it to you. The setting is Victorian London circa 1895. Eleanor Bramwe...

I'm off today to celebrate the birthday of my first grandchild. I remember being so excited when she was born. They lived 12 hours awa...

Sharing Ode to My Flattening Iron with you has gotten me to thinking about my 7 favorite household appliances. Number one has to be the blo...

Your ceramic plates, copper objects of beauty to me. More expansive by far is my love for thee. Than the simple curling iron which languishe...

In a recent post, Pat at Mille Fiori Favoriti stated that she dreams a lot and rarely experiences a nightmare. I, on the other hand, hav...

"Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown Do you ever get the feeling that the ...

"Ahoy there, Matey! After a voyage filled with pillaging and plundering, The Jaded Jewel--a pirate ship captained by Redbeard, an old...

Hello, my name is Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, but you might know me better as Marie Antoinette. This is my birth...

"I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, ...