Miss Abigail's Hope Chest

Hi everyone. This has been an extra hard two weeks! I've been scouring closets and making a huge mess. I've been trying to gather u...

When money is plenty this is a man's world. When money is scarce it is a woman's world. When all else seems to have failed, the ...

Cloth napkins are one of life's little luxuries, like a pretty placemat or a tablecloth on a bare table. I want Miss Abigail to have...

I am thinking about hope today. Preparation and hope go hand in hand. Whatever the outcome of this COVID-19 virus situation, there is...

I've known for some years that crafting helps me emotionally. I don't think I've ever mentioned on this blog that I'...

Maybe you've heard people say "I love my house!" Did you ever wonder why? Our society places great value on decorating...

Anyone who thinks about a hope chest as much as I do necessarily thinks about the concept of hope. Hope is a feeling that something desi...

In a recent post I mentioned that I have a hope chest planning book. I am a list maker. I sometimes don't follow the list because I...

Will there be items in her hope chest that Miss Abigail will never use? Probably. I have a large and loving family. There were six aun...

I had not heard of this minor holiday before this year. It causes me to think about all the ways art and creativity have blessed my life...

 by Clementine Pattern Co.  A week or so ago I read a lovely post entitiled Cultivating the Fruits of the Spirit: Love at Raising Homemake...

Eggs! You stumble around and over them at Easter time. My little family will color them tomorrow and I miss the times our older boys hid col...

I am so frustrated that memories seem to leak out of my brain faster than I can make them!  I was astonished recently by a lost memory that...

This thought really helped me today and I'm very, very grateful to this sweet blogger who posted the reminder some time ago. I've...

“There is no time to wait ... only time to prepare.” I read this anonymous quote and think it applies perfectly to thoughts of a hope ches...

I am intrigued by the term “fancywork.” Throughout history, and certainly since the cottage industry replaced the European guilds of ...

Preparing a hope chest is all about skill. It is learning to be skillful at those things that will make a comfortable home. In our pre...

Once you fall in love with the idea of making a home, you find infinite pleasure in making it suitable, comfortable and even beautiful...

A longing for home is one of the deepest, most fundamental desires of the human soul. For as long as humans have sought shelter, we have al...

This is a younger Abigail on Christmas morning with an extra special hope chest gift from her brother. In the coming years, I know absolut...