Snow, snow, snow, SNOW!

 We woke up to snow today and it's beautiful! It's breath taking no matter how many times you've seen it! Unfortunately I didn't take this picture... isn't it pretty though? All this snow puts me in the mood to eat this:

Watch this:

 

Wear this:

And make this: 

Just click on links to be taken to the source. The Fair Isle cowl is only $12! Can you believe it? Have a pretty day!

♥Genevieve

Quoth she..

In our house, this is what is said every 100 seconds or so.
If you haven't seen Little Women starring June Allison you should. It's so good. ...GOOD.
♥ Aimee

An Afternoon Dress

I just did a post on Miss Emaline's Circle of Fashionable Friends about an 1860's dress I made for my China doll (to see the finished project click here) and This young lady was kind enough to ask to see more pictures of the one I made for myself! So I scavenged around and found these. They are not very good but they'll do the job! It is an 1860's afternoon dress made of cotton calico. For the bodice I used this pattern and cut the neckline different and for the sleeves I used this pattern. I'm sorry to say that my dress is not ironed in ANY of these pictures. For shame!Here is the dress with a cotton blouse underneath for morning and day time.
I trimmed it with white piping (everyone is always telling me that they didn't do contrasting piping in the 1860's... All I can say is, "Were. You. There?") and also with a pretty cotton lace. There are covered buttons fastening it down the front.
The skirt is 4 panels around to fit over a hoop, with a gathered ruffle sewn on near the hem, hand gathered into a waistband and sewn on to the bodice. This picture shows the truest color of the ruffle but still doesn't quite do it justice.

There is a growth tuck just above the ruffle because I made it too long and then did not have time to make it look like it was supposed to be there before the event we were going to. phew! And as is most often the case with me... it is still there looking weird to this day.
So there you have it! The best part of this dress is how much fun it is to wear! The ruffle makes the skirt have a great weight and it moves really beautifully! I wish I had some better pictures but alas... ah me... and all that. =]
Have a lovely day!
Marguerite

Vote for The Three Spinsters!

Two of our Little Women posts (Little Women photo shoot and For the beauty of the earth...) are finalists in the Little Women of 2010 Literary Challenge! We are so honored!

If you like you may go here [click on Picture] to see all the finalists and vote for your favorites!Thank you Rebecca for hosting the event! We've had such fun!
Thank you to everyone who already voted and have yet to vote. =]
Have a lovely day!
xo Margie

"For the beauty of the earth..."

Christopher Columbus!

I was so thrilled when I heard about Miss Rebecca's Little Women blogging event! As it happens... Little Women in our house is pretty much an everyday event so I didn't have to go far for something to blog about. =]

I live in a log house in the country with my loving 'Marmee' and my two (still single) sisters. (But I think you already know that.)
Here is our home which we like to call "Orchard House".
And we do have a small orchard too. =]
We live our lives very like the March's in a lot of ways. We garden, sew, quote Dickens ALL the time, cook, put on "wild theatricals" and love everything that is simple, pure and good.
I believe the number one most played cd in our house is this -
Here is a picture of the last dress I sewed (by hand) for my civil war reproduction china doll.
"This is an afternoon dress." =]
"Butter! Oh, isn't butter divinity!?"

Marmee always makes our house so warm and homey!

But Hannah certainly is right when she says, "housekeeping ain't no joke." ha ha!I thought I'd post some pictures of our daily chores so you wouldn't think it all just happened magically.

I forgot to get pictures of the feeding of the chickens etc. Oh well... I'm convinced that if the March's would've had chickens, they might have complained about them a little. ;}

I think we could all use in our everyday lives a little bit of Marmee....

a little bit of Meg...

a little bit of Jo...

a little bit of Beth...

a little bit of Amy...

and a little bit of Hannah too!

The most important part of our lives is serving our Heavenly Father who always helps us through life's "sloughs of despond" and gives us so much to be thankful for!"Lord of all to thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise..."

[If you'd like to see other bloggers additions to this event click on picture]
Thanks for reading my post! May you all have a fun and memorable week!
xo - Marguerite

Little Women - photo shoot

Gathering hops for wreath making.

Daydreaming...

Practicing wild theatricals. "I'm Hugo. Ah-HA!"

"Josephine March! You walked all the way from Walden Pond, in only these bloomers?""An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps..."
"Evangeline and I will make you some Ginger tea."
"Housekeeping ain't no joke."
"Don't, Jo; it's so boyish!"

"Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!'"
Here is a photo shoot we did for the Little Women event. I hope you've enjoyed it! Thank you Rebecca, for putting it on! :D
Love, Meg and Amy
(click on pic to visit the event)