Publishing

• February 13, 2014

  How to Make Dorset Buttons

  Feb 20, 2014 webinar —            Register Online. I’m happy to announce my upcoming webinar: How to Make Dorset Buttons. Join me on February 20, 2014 at 1pm EST.   These special buttons have a fascinating history. For three hundred years, intricately patterned buttons were produced in Dorset, England. Most often,…

• December 9, 2013

  The Secret Language of Mittens

  During the nineteenth century, Norway, like much of the world, was rapidly changing. In 1814, Norway declared its independence (officially dissolving the union with Sweden in 1905). By the 1830s, Norwegians were migrating to North America by the thousands in search of new opportunities. Many of these immigrants took small cultural mementos, like mittens, with…