A year or so ago, I began searching for tea room cookbooks online in anticipation of this year's special Saturday focus. I was surprised...

Last call for Penny Burkeen, winner of the giveaway of "The Collected Tabletop" announced Monday. If any of you happen to know Pen...

When I was a little girl, I loved to visit Six Flags Over Georgia. I enjoyed the log ride, the Dahlonega mine train, the music shows at the ...

Recently I bought a batch of vintage recipe booklets for a project I'm working on, and one of them was this "Learn to Bake" bo...

Yesterday I showed an old postcard of the Auld Brig O'Doon in Ayr, Scotland. This is the bridge mentioned in Robert Burns' famous ep...

Vintage ephemera is one of my favorite things to shop for online, mainly because old postcards and other paper goods are easy to find, rathe...

Penny Burkeen! Penny, if you'll send me your snail mail address via the e-mail button at right, I'll pass it along to Kathryn so she...

Antique malls have carried those vintage blue Ball Mason jars for most of my collecting life, and I've used them as flower vases and for...

Every now and then I want a decadent, ultra rich chocolate dessert, and this Toll House Pie recipe very much appealed to me when I came acro...

As Joan Rivers so famously says, "Can we talk?" Because we tea lovers are some of the reading-est gals I know, I thought I'd t...

Hope everyone has a very safe and happy Fourth of July!

Has the Target store in your town been renovated lately? Mine has, and now I can't find anything! That means I find myself zooming up an...

One reason I took an instant liking to Kathryn Crisp Greeley's "The Collected Tabletop" is that it was clear she is a kindred...

I am super excited today to have a very special visitor here on the blog, the fascinating Kathryn Crisp Greeley! Kathryn is an interior desi...

A cold sandwich is my go-to lunch choice in the summertime, and this week I decided to try a new spread from a unique tea room cookbook I fo...