Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: family

  • There once was a cowgirl…

    They say that all girls love horses, and I think that for my girl, that is especially true. She’s always loved playing with little toy horses and coloring them in her color books, and seeing them put to pasture as we drive down country roads. Yesterday we got to see the real live animals when…

  • Yorkshire

    A few days ago I treated myself to a month’s subscription to Ancestry.com and their world records. Intent trying to unravel my own family mystery, I found myself pleasantly surprised to get lost in my husband’s family tree, which reaches quite far back into Yorkshire, England. Seems fitting that a girl named Heather would fall…

  • Edwardian Era, Okie Style

    All this Downton Abbey talk has got me thinking about the fashions of the day, and how it was interpreted all over the world, not just upper class England. In the nineteen teens, my great-great grandmother seems to have been quite the little clothes horse herself, although she had never seen a grand manor house.…