Thursday, August 29, 2024

Pre-Sunrise

Hello Everyone,

I like this layer of mist across the land .

I haven’t forgotten you all!! I hope to be here in the near future.

Lydia

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Still Here

Hello Ladies,

All is well here at The Manse. I have a very busy life this month

but I plan to resume video visiting with you soon

Harvest left us this scene. It is like waking up to a city when the hay is blocked and stacked into structures.

I baked some brioche bread for visitors.

Queen Anne’s Lace wildflower is thick here along roads and paths.

This is a natural sunset. Sunrise had been vibrant too.

I am trying to keep quiet to save my voice for you and I’m taking a lot of notes for the next video talk.

Sunday, August 04, 2024

Dressing for Home

Greetings Dear Readers and Listeners,

A colorful scene here, at sunrise, above.

The dress(for home) is sewn with cotton fabric,

...worn with an apron that matches one of the green colors of the print,

...and later with a green denim jacket for going out:

All is well at The Manse and I hope all is well in your dwelling, and that you have great plans for its' improvement.

I am not bored taking pictures of the Manse living room window from the outside with the view mirrored in it:

The wheat is being taken off:

Views from The Manse today.

I read the last chapter of the book, "The Lost Art of Dress" and incorporated a bit of grammar and few other things.

Please enjoy your responsibilities, or rest, while you listen today:

Explore Pinterest:

How to Create a Homemaking Routine

Where to Start as a New Homemaker

The Art of Simple Homemaking

How to Dress for Homemaking

Morning Routines

Homemaking is More Than Housework

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.

Home

"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