I found myself contemplating life lessons. To consider what we could do, in our modern daily life, to better emulate the positive aspects ...

I may have shared this article with you before, but I couldn’t find the images and so have scanned them again. The clever use of small spa...

       By the 1950’s, soup and stock were readily available in many forms; cans, bouillon cubes, even frozen. Here is a lovely little recip...

Today I am presenting for your Sunday enjoyment a wonderful little British comedy from 1950 entitled, “What the Butler Saw”. It was directe...

Today I thought we could talk about keeping drippings and fats. The lovely leftover from cooking meats is in fact kitchen gold and is a gre...

Today we find ourselves in 1957. We see what gay colors and styles we could be wearing as ladies or little girls this year from this 1957 A...

“The American Housewife, who has a more important occupation? Wife, Mother, Laundress, councilor,maid, chef, purchasing agent, all of these...

Having of late decided to jaunt back to my lovely 1950’s and put down some roots again, I thought it might be fun to share the frivolity of ...

You may have noticed the date up top. And strictly speaking this post is not about 1940 specifically. But as I included the film “Our Town”...

I had a post I had been working on for a few days ready to go on Friday when we lost power. As some of you may know here on the East Coast, ...