Please make yourself comfortable, relax with a cup of tea and a home made cake and share the joys of my vintage kitchen. There is always a warm welcome on the Home Front!
The Virgin Mary at Home
This Blog is dedicated to Mary, Mater Admirabilis
Autumn at Home
The Domestic Church
St. Zita ~ Patron Saint of Homemakers
St. Frances of Rome
“It is most laudible in a married woman to be devout, but she must never forget that she is a housewife and sometimes must leave God at the altar to find him in housekeeping.” ~ St. Frances of Rome
Aug 15, 2010 @ 05:11:11
Dear Autumn, I found your lovely blog while searching for images of St Frances of Rome. Looking at Google images, I was also drawn to your vintage pics which I love very much and thought I must see this blog with holy pictures and kitchenalia ! I am delighted to have found a sister Bennie oblate as well in finding you. Reading through your posts has been a great encouragement to me. It seems we have a lot in common and I am inspired by your creative merging of the holy callings of homemaker and monastic. May our dear Lord continue to greatly bless and use you for His glory!
Pax …Trish
Aug 15, 2010 @ 13:40:41
A warm welcome to you, Trish.
Is it tea or coffee? Oh and please take a slice of home-made cake
Thanks for visiting, I love meeting new readers
A xx
Aug 16, 2010 @ 03:29:55
Thank you for the kind welcome Autumn. I’m definately a tea girl ! Any type will do – drinking green tea right at this moment
And I’d love some of your cake to go with it – but they all look so delicious I can’t decide which one I want lol ! Blessings…
Trish
Oct 01, 2010 @ 15:17:12
This is great stuff – and greetings from Ayrshire! I was searching for info on St Therese and found your lovely, welcoming place, where it is obviously OK to be proud to be a homemaker/mother/wife. As someone who converted in 1993 to Catholicism, then due to lack of support from her family (whome she really loves!) fell by the wayside, then it will be here where I stop for a rest while I struggle with regaining my faith. I love Therese’s Little Way and I intend to find out more about St Zita.
I am a keen home cook and also a musician and manic knitter and love soft furnishings and also, believe it or not, antique linen. Being Irish, I have beautiful stuff handed down in the family.
Oct 01, 2010 @ 15:23:19
Hello and welcome, Colleen, it’s lovely to have you visit
I shall pray for you as you take this journey of faith, that you will rediscover the beauty of our Church again, and that God will enfold you in His love and care. God bless you.
I haven’t kept up with this blog much lately as I have been unwell, but intend to make more of an effort soon!
Blessings to you,
Autumn xx
Apr 07, 2011 @ 13:19:58
Autumn, I am back; prayers answerd, but not in the way we often expect. I found a spiritual home in the Scottish Episcopal Church in Ardrossan, Ayrshire last November. Went to a morning eucharist out of curiosity, mentioned I was formerly a church organist and choirmistress; guess what – they had sore need of someone like me. Faith regained, musically and spritually active and how! I live my faith through music – always have. I live my faith through my home and wonderful family – always have. Musician, wife, mother, cook, knitter, seamstress (patchwork quilt in the making) and dweller on the Rosary. Took early reitrement from school – now housework is no longer rushed, but still resisted!