What are the exact steps to setting a table? Here's How To Do Stunning Table Setting For Your Party! I'm including:

• How To Steps
• Vintage Tips
• Secret to Success

From a favorite vintage book on my bookshelf, Etiquette by Emily Post (269), enjoy adding a little fine living to your party or family table! 

Your family will feel loved with these special touches!  Mine does.

"Mom, don't you ever find a cozy little corner just to read?" said my daughter, looking up from her book. The baby was down for her nap and I was busy catching up with homekeeping. A cozy little corner.  That's just what I need.

Since then, I started, what I call, Mom Time.  I choose three books per term (12 weeks) to enjoy in my cozy little corner. Karen Andreola, in her book, Mother Curlture, encourages us ...

Our family has been using an all natural herbs as soon as we feel sick with a virus (sore throat, stomach bug, etc.) with the same, consistent results:

• symptoms leave within a few minutes 

I discovered this product when I was teaching 4th grade.  You know how the bugs pass around schools?  Well, I was feeling miserable with severe stomach pain, but I was determined to not miss anymore school.

For daily lessons in beauty & charm inspired by vintage wisdom, I hope you will join us (moms and daughters alike) for this year's Charm School.

You can learn more and be sure to enroll here.  Limited seating. Use code CHARM10 to receive 10% off tuition.

In the complete guide to a surplus budget, you will ...

• decrease debt
• increase savings
• have surplus each month
• ​automate your budget

for lasting success and more security for your family. So, grab your free action plan and let's get started.  I will be doing this right along with you. 

Here's what to do:

1. Print & Post to Fridge
2. Grocery Shop (list below)
3. Save $ with Best Price (list below)
4. Get Recipe Cards

Be sure to share where you found a Better Best Price in the comments.

The Charming Homekeeper knows that being a good hostess is, actually, rather quite simple . . . when you have a no-fail plan to follow.  Here it is . . . with a time table and sample menu!

The Daily Cleaning Checklist Free Printable is a Homekeeping Calendar that gives you 4 daily tasks to do each day and takes 1 hour. Each little task makes a big difference:

• Make Bed (5-15 minutes)
• Clean Counters & Dishes (15 m.)
• Clean Floors (15 minutes)
• Tidy & Trash (15 minutes)

You don't have to clean all day for a neat & tidy home! Here's how it works  in 3 simple steps.

The one hour homekeeping calendar will have your home neat & tidy in just 4 easy steps!   

A few years ago, I asked myself, Why was my husband and family so content?  What was I doing differently?  Then it hit me!
(I'll share about this a little later!) 

But, for now, I want to encourage you, because a well-kept home brings a kind of joy and stability to our families that is very much needed in today's world. Recently, I went on vacation and observed a lot of disconnected families.  So sad, but so easy to change!

The January Homekeeping Calendar is here and includes our built-in routines!  Now, you can easily access our calendar anytime on our new page, Freebies, under the menu bar, "Learn & Discuss."
Here's what to do:

1. Print it here & post to your fridge.
2. See how it works.
3. Do 5 things a day (about 1 hour).

Enjoy your neat & tidy home. This is what I use and it works! Now, let me give you a tip and share my January Goals.

The Charming Homekeeper knows how to write invitations with proper etiquette for all occasions:

• formal invitations
• informal invitations
• special occasion invitations

I am sharing this from a vintage source.  So, let's learn together.  

We are off to a great start with Term I of our homeschool year. I am especially enjoying our new Bible Course and our Autumn Nature Walks!  (Before I jump in with the Term I Recap, you should know that our homeschool ages are 1, 15, and 17 with a Classical Mason method.) Our Program of Study includes:

• Program I: Christian Studies
• Program II: Enrichment Studies
• Program III: Grade-Level Studies

 ​I've included Book Lists as a help! 

What is "The Children's Hour"?  It is really a family hour, when father, mother, and children (of all ages) sit down together in the evening for a special reading of:

• the Bible
• a devotional book
• a classic (occasionally)

Our family has been doing this for the past year or more, and I want to share with you how it has been a blessing. 

This week, I want to share with you a Dress for All Occasions Chart (1),  from one of my vintage books. We'll look at just one column today:

• Street or Shopping Clothes

I often look to 1950 standards in dress, as they knew a thing or two about good taste, and I teach many of the rules of proportion in Charm School.

In Homeschool 101 Part II, we'll talk about Teaching History using a gentle classical method. You'll learn about:

• combining subjects for a family together study
• choosing a living book for history
• a simple teaching method that anyone can do
  

Let's get started!

Do you have a special Mom Time to rejuvinate? Enrichment Study Term I,  includes a Mom Time Reading List for nurturing the mother's soul. I chose:

• ​1 Book of Scripture
• 1 Book of Fiction 
• 1 Book of Non-fiction

I want to share and invite you to a little Mom Time for yourself this term.​

Dear Homeschool Mom,
  You're invited to join me for Enrichments Term I. Every child deserves Enrichments–Art, Music, Literature, and much more – yet, I find it difficult to “fit-in”. So, this year, I’m doing three new things:

• Enrichment Hour
• 4-Day Weekly Schedule
• Bible is included

Here is what's inside the handbook.

The Charming Homekeeper will love the beauty of letter writing with:

• a stationary set
• a correspondance plan
• a letter writing guide