Heather Moll's Blog 
Excessively Diverted 

It’s rare to get “real” mail, something handwritten that arrives in the mailbox. Texts social media have replaced it, but I think there’s...

I can reattach a button near enough to the right place so it gets into a buttonhole. I only got as far as cross-stitch bookmarks as a...

How many of you have a "special interest"? A hobby, a collection, a sport, a "thing" that you're really in to? It's no surprise that Jane...

While Jane Austen’s brother Frank was eager to skate, it seems that the women in his

My son is ten and his baby teeth were slow to come in… and they’re slow to fall out. He’s only had a few fall out on their own, even...

Some think that Jane Austen was a culturally and politically myopic person because her novels are seemingly oblivious to those larger...

In the Georgian era, female accomplishments were indispensable assets on the marriage market. Like Miss Bingley describes, the ability to...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m a tea drinker. Some might unfairly say tea snob, but I do like my tea, which is kept in...

I love dishes. I would use the good china and crystal every night. My favorite is a small Edwardian tea set that belonged to my maternal