Thursday, April 30, 2026

Home Living — Ideas, (With Video)

Victoria Magazine

April 1989

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We are enduring the times as best we can! (ala Jane Austen)

Thank you to those who urge me to continue blogging and vlogging!!

A lady from church gave me this beautiful crochet bouquet and I want to show how it is made:

I use the excellent theme Coloring books for drawing ideas, home inspiration and what early home educators called “ delight learning.” The ones you see here are from Dover Publications.

The line drawings from Simple Pleasures and Cozy Corners coloring books show art and beauty in small things in daily life that are sometimes not noticed:

In the video I read from this Eric Sloane book about courtesy, which is a Biblical term meaning “ care and concern for others.”

I showed a picture of my great grandparents of Vera, Texas.

(Dates and names to be added soon)

This is the picture on the wall in my video. I referred to it when I was discussing poses and art. It is a print on canvas , and the artist is Barbara Mock. I’m sorry— I don’t know the title of the painting.

It was no doubt inspired by this Victorian painting called “Reading by the Window-1880, by Charles James Lewis (London. England 1830-1892)

Please enjoy your home while you listen, and comment if you can.

Lydia Ruth

For those of you who have asked about the subject of difficult people I have gleaned a few bits of knowledge from Jefferson Fisher that were helpful. There is also someone who approaches this from a Biblical viewpoint, a lady named Kris Reece. Check out their video lists and see what you can glean.

Monday, April 06, 2026

Living the Best Life From Home (with video)

Greetings precious home dwellers and those who strive to be.

Before you hear the homemaker's edifying talk on the video at the end of the page, here are a few images from The Manse:

Of course you all have seen my personal Pemberley reflection. Each year when the rain season gives me a lake, I get a humorous delight in taking this picture.

(Above: the real Pemberley from the 1995 movie "Pride and Prejudice")

Today in the video I shared these new coloring books which I use for art ideas,

and showed you the sketch for the newsletter I made for someone:

I spoke of a letter Jane had written to Cassandra, thanking her for the invitation to visit, but explaining. "...You see, I never go out," which seems very appealing to me sometimes.

In the Eric Sloane history book I read about the reasons our great grandparents attended worship being much different than today. They attended because they were grateful and they enjoying the discipling (teaching) . Even if they could not read well, they wanted to hear the Word being taught.

Today's scene from my front porch:

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

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Home Living — Ideas, (With Video)

Monday, April 06, 2026

Living the Best Life From Home (with video)