They say that if you don’t like the weather in East Tennessee, just wait ten minutes. One never knows for certain when it’s going to rain, how long it’ll last, or what the temperature will be like! You just can’t figure it out!

Colonial Costume

Hello folks! Happy Independence Day! I thought I share with you what I’ve been doing in my spare time (besides picking blackberries;-)) I call it an “everyday colonial dress”. It wasn’t at all planned on my sewing schedule. It wasn’t even extensively labeled and packed with appropriate trims and notions, like my other future projects. [...]

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day everybody! It seems so weird having a 4th of July go by without having our trademark pool party… Congratulations Jordan & Melissa Niedgal! We so wish that we could be there!

Blackberries and Visitors – my first post in a long time!

It’s blackberry season in Tennessee, and much to our family’s delight, we’ve discovered that our property (and the adjoining ones for sale) is scattered with many thickets of wild blackberry bushes! Before now, I had never gone blackberry picking in my life. In New York the fruit season consisted of strawberries in June (only the [...]

And We Have a Winner…

And the winner of the reclaiming the culture giveaway is: EliasBoudinotismyfriend! It appears that for the 2nd time in a row, this lady (who apparently wishes to remain anonymous), has won a contest here on TheWilli.com! As a prize, she gets to choose any one of the Reclaiming the Culture DVDs from Vision Forum. Thank [...]