Thursday, December 28, 2023

Making Home Pleasant (Food, Manners, Poetry, Education)

Hello lovely ladies at home (and those who want to be).

The video is at the end of this page.

Today I "broadcast" from my sewing room. These sessions are designed to listen while you get a few things done at home.

I wore this butterfly cotton print dress, which I sewed many years ago from this pattern, Simplicity 9198:

Below is a picture from an old book I have. I was looking at it with some of you in mind, who are on your own much of the time. I spoke about it not being necessary to have company in order to create something like this.

These are the books I read snatches from. I am enjoying my latest acquisition "Jane Austen's Table" which was published a few years ago.

I do so appreciate you coming to listen. It motivates me to continue to publish. Originally these were intended for my descendants, but I decided to share it with you all.

2 comments:

Janine said...: You look like you just stepped out of the original Victoria magazine! You look so pretty and I love your backdrop. I just bought 2 different Color Me Beautiful books at our favorite used bookstore. Apparently their color scheme wasn't detailed enough....it worked for some people but not others, and now instead of 4 seasons there are 12 categories, but I still enjoyed the books. I'm still a winter. Two years ago I dyed my hair lighter in the summer and it looked terrible! Now I'm going darker and I can instantly see the difference. Same with my clothes colors. I learned that muted blue looks terrible on me! I had to let go of several clothes that color. I enjoyed this talk! The only problem with not watching your videos all the way to the end on YT is that YT is no longer recommending you...you recorded this 7 days ago! But I hit the like button. I liked the synopsis about the difference between the OT and NT as well.; 1:09 PM
Holly King said...: "Making my home pleasant" is a wonder to read about. Thank you for all your wonderful efforts ideas and for making them available for us to hear.; 7:48 AM

The Little Chap Who Follows Me!

A careful man I want to be;
A little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray
For fear he'll go the self same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes,
Whate'er he sees me do, he tries.
Like me he says he's going to be;
The little chap who follows me.

He thinks that I'm so very fine,
Believes in every word of mine.
The base in me he must not see;
The little chap who follows me.

I must remember as I go
Through summer's sun and winter's snow,
I'm building for the years to be;
The little chap who follows me.

Author: Unknown

Welcome

" So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home."

This is a Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 teaching blog, where you will find some ideas for creating the kind of home life that gives you a sense of well-being, creativity and accomplishment. It will help you understand the reasons for being the Biblical keepers of the home, as opposed to the world's answer of being career women outside of the home.

I really hope to help restore the culture of the home, which is a never-changing precept of the Bible: marriage, home and family. Young women especially need to know there is something else of greater importance than college and career, and that they play a vital role in making a stable family. In order to have strong marriages, respectful children, and good churches, women need to return to the home. My blog is based on the precept of First Timothy 5, verse 14:

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully..."

These articles are designed to give the homemaker ideas for doing an excellent job in the home and for enjoying the role of homemaker and guide of the house. Marriage, the family and home life is splintered. Women must be allowed to return to the home.

The Queen's Ire

England's Queen Victoria wrote in 1870, "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."-- Queen Victoria, 1870.

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"Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…" ~Tasha Tudor

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris

For Ladies and Home, and Those Who Want to Be

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Making Home Pleasant (Food, Manners, Poetry, Education)

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