A Sparkling Vintage Life

Students: Is Your School Etiquette Up to Snuff?

For most students, the school year is well underway. Here’s hoping your experience measures up to the standards set by Eleanor Boykin in This Way Please (1940): “In schools all over the country, students have formed etiquette or good-form clubs.”...

Fall cleaning the way Grandma used to do it

Most homemakers are familiar with spring cleaning, but what about fall cleaning? I think fall is a great time to do a thorough cleaning. In our rural northern climate, the house has been open all summer, and fresh breezes blowing through open windows and doors carry...