Four Winds Cottage on Prince Edward Island is a charming abode that sits right next to the Montgomery Inn at Ingleside in Park Corner, Prince Edward Island. Four Winds Cottage on Prince Edward Island Yesterday, I shared the beautiful Montgomery Inn at Ingleside in this post. Four Winds Cottage was originally the tool shed on this historic 4-acre property. The structure was originally built in the 1870s by Senator Donald Montgomery, grandfather to the beloved Canadian ... View the Post
Montgomery Inn on Prince Edward Island
The Montgomery Inn on Prince Edward Island is an absolute gem with it's spectacular views of the countryside. This charming home once belonged to Senator Donald Montgomery, the paternal grandfather of L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables and several other books. It is the only historically significant home on the island where you can stay and look out the windows and see the Lake of Shining Waters~ a name given to Campbell's Pond by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This post is the first ... View the Post
Rocky Ridge Farm
Hello sweet friends, today I am taking you on a tour of Rocky Ridge Farm, Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Ozark home located in Mansfield, MO. Rocky Ridge Farm Laura, Almanzo and Rose Wilder left DeSmet, South Dakota and moved to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894. They purchased a forty-acre farm with a one-room log cabin near a spring and ravine. (Laura shown in the ravine in 1900.) In the spring of 1895 they built a room onto the cabin. The following year they rolled the room, on logs, to ... View the Post
Wilder Days
Every year the quiet town of Mansfield, Missouri transforms into a flurry of activity to celebrate Wilder Days. This annual celebration occurs the last weekend in September and honors the life and legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved Little House series of books. Wilder Days The Wilder Days festival is held in the downtown Mansfield square as well as at the historic Laura Ingalls Wilder Home & Museum (Rocky Ridge Farm and the Rock house), where the author ... View the Post
Little House on the Prairie Learn To Sew Patterns
Hello friends, today is truly a dream come true. For the past two years I have been working on a line of Little House on the Prairie® Learn To Sew patterns and step by step sewing tutorial videos. Over the years I have met so many wonderful people at various Little House and Laura Ingalls Wilder events. Many people, of all ages, asked if I could teach them how to sew. This series of patterns, instructional booklets and step by step YouTube video tutorials is designed to do just that! The ... View the Post
Diana Barry’s Pink Picnic Dress
In 1985 I fell in love with an Edwardian ensemble featured in Kevin Sullivan's Anne of Green Gables. It was to my 16 year old heart too poetically beautiful for words. For forty one years I have loved Diana Barry's Pink Picnic Dress. Laura's House of Dreams After recently rewatching Anne of Green Gables the love for Diana Barry's dress was rekindled in my heart. Tomorrow I will mark my 58th trip around the sun. So I decided that I wanted to make this dress and I didn't ... View the Post
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 46
- Next Page »