Happy Sunday everyone! It's great to be back to RUclips! If you're new to my channel, here;'s the link for my Summer Commonplace Book: www.mirandajanemills.com/summercommonplacebook For all other links and the recipes mentioned in the video, please see the video description box. Miranda x
Dear Miranda and Donna So lovely to see both and to hear all your news. You both looked so very happy and Summery. I did miss you both very much. As it is Winter here it was a great chance to replay a lot of your Vlogs. What a collection of delight it was. . I'm a rag rug maker. My Nan made them too during the Depression and the Make do and Mend aspect to home making was very strong here I make my rugs from felted woollen fabrics from Op shops [Charity Shops] My rugs are made using upholstery hessian strapping and a sewing machine. Its a method i have created myself as a rather shortcut easy option I was so impressed with your Great Grandmother and Aunts beautfnuy created rugs. Julie xx
Welcome back. We've missed you. Uncle Paul sounds intriguing. It's going on my list. The rag rugs are wonderful - both the exhibits and your family's ones. I've only ever made a 'snuffle rug' for my dog - it's strips of rags tied onto a grid to form tufts. Treats are then hidden between the tufts for the dog to snuffle out.
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to go with my parents a lot to Hutton le Hole, as we lived only about 10 miles away from the N. Yorks moors. The museum was nothing more than a couple of rooms, with some old farm machinery out the back, but they had big plans to re-create some of the old cottages. It was lovely to see it as it is now, since I've never gone back there. Lovely video altogether.
Great to see you again I have missed your videos but glad to have your newsletters to keep me going. Those rugs are wonderful! I remember my mum making rag rugs when I was small but they weren't as pretty as your grandmother's and great aunt's. The exhibition rugs are also beautiful, what a talent to create something from discarded rags. Louisa Creed's book looks fascinating. Thanks for all the book recommendations, I agree about the satisfaction of completing a set of vintage books - I remember how delighted I was when I got my final Chalet School hb! Also thanks for the lunch recipe, I'm now feeling very hungry as it's coming up to lunch time!
Loved seeing the exhibition of rag rugs. I also make rag rugs. Here in the States we call them hooked rugs. It's a wonderful peaceful hobby which has made a big comeback in the last couple decades. Interesting to see those made by your aunt and grandmother. I believe Canada is considered the real birthplace of rug hooking. Proddy rugs are another typically British version and the methods are often "married" in rugs.
I recently found your channel and love it so! My Mum was from Bristol, England, but she raised me in the U.S. After she met my Dad in the 60’s they lived for a time in Africa. There she made a rag rug that looked like a saharan desert with the sunset…so a lot of those popular oranges and browns at the time. I wish I had it now. I lost her last year, so watching your videos with your Mum gives me such warm cozies! ❤
It was a joy to see you and your mother again and your wonderful vlog! You both look radiant! Your garden is beautiful. Great design. Hope to see you soon!
I agree On Chapel Sands was fab - I particularly enjoyed it as I grew up in the area where the book was set. Thanks for the lovely vlog, makes me homesick for that part of the world 💕
❤OMG such a WONDERFUL video, a complete experience and a total delight. Coming along with you lovelies, in the car, with those wonderful views and that amazing music was an epiphany!! I find this video a work of art. Thank you Miranda and Donna for making me feel soo happy!!
It's wonderful have you back! Everything you covered looked delightful to me, but especially both of those recipes....thanks for the inspiration you bring to all of us!
I really love the relationship you both have with one another I was smiling the whole time through this vlog. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us!
Woo-hoo Miranda and Donna are back!! Glad to hear you had a good break :) When you said rag rug, I was thinking of the braided, round multicolored rugs we see often here in the US. The ones you showed remind me a bit of wool needlepoint - gorgeous 😍
Welcome back I want to thank you for sharing your love of books and art. My true purpose here is to express my gratitude for your kindness and generosity in taking your viewers along on your road trips with your Mum. I have been an Anglophile since childhood. It turns out that my ancestors served in Buckingham Palace after a cousin researched family genealogy. It’s a trace, but I’ll take it. If I ever had the chance to go to England, my preference would be to see it’s beautiful countryside. Oh, I’d visit London and do a few “touristy” things. However, I’ve always been drawn to England’s countryside because of its beauty and it’s wonderfully charming farms and houses, symbols of hard workers. I’ve watched many a program on the countryside and never had enough. Oh and the especially charming bookstores! Sigh. A bit of heaven on earth. Again, thank you so much for taking all of us along with you and your Mum. May God continue to bless you both. Gratitude from Alabama, USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Congratulations on your vintage book find! They look like such lovely books....the kind I enjoyed as a young girl. Enjoy! Another beautiful vlog....thank you for sharing with us.
If I could go back in time, I would have majored in art history, too! This past week I've begun a whopper but also a treasure of a book, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings by Bernard Denvir. The color plates are gorgeous, and the writing is just wonderful. Every time I go back to it, I feel like I'm in the heart of late 19th century Paris, and what a spectacular place to be! It's wonderful to be able to travel along with you and your mom again, too. It's as if those rabbits knew they were film material. I don't think it surprises any of us that creativity runs in your family. I especially love your grandmother's rug with the cheerful, strutting birds along the border. Thank you for everything--the views of the countryside and museum, the books and beans!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Pamela! I love the sound of your art book and will look it up! Sounds like one I really would be enthralled by too so thanks so much for the recommendation. And thank you very much too for your kind and very generous support! I really appreciate it❤️📚
So lovely you are back. In the lovely break you had I’ve moved and trying to settle in a new home . I’am so happy that one of the guess room I’am making it my office/ library and I’am thrilled with all your great book recommendations . Thank you for all your great videos.😊Lovely,healthy lunch.
A wonderful video as always with fabulous music! Thank you for sharing the exhibition and also the great food with your mum. What a great life you have both made for yourselves in yorkshire with such beautiful surrounding areas x
It is lovely to see you back Miranda! I will definitely try the bean salad as I have been trying different bean recipes for cold meals this summer. It looks delicious. My grandmother used to make rag rugs. She lived in rural Alberta in the 1920’s-1980’s and early on there were no shops to purchase things other than essential farm hardware and dry goods. Everything was handmade in the long winter evenings. Sadly I do not have the rug she and I made together, but I have quilts she made from fabric scraps of the dresses she made for herself and for me. I cherish them.
That bean salad is one we make frequently. You can vary the beans which is nice too. What a pity you don’t have the rag rug, Debbie, but how wonderful to have some of her quilts!❤️💐
Miranda and Mom, thanks for taking us along on the countryside and museum trip. Both were so lovely. My fave rag rug in the exhibit was the cottage one. Here in the States, rag rugs are highly esteemed in the folk art/antique scene, too. That exhibit book looks like a good one. And, thank you for sharing the delicious looking lunch. I think I'll give it a go.
That's so lovely of you to say, Valentina! It makes me very happy to read that, and thank you so much for your very kind and generous support. It's so appreciated! ❤️💐
Hi Miranda- Uncle Paul is a fantastic read! I bought it following a bookseller recommendation and wasn’t entirely convinced but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop, I read it all in one day! It’s very creepy in parts but so good🙂
Hi Miranda and Donna - the Ryedale Folk Museum sounds fascinating. One to add to the list of places to visit in Yorkshire. Many years ago I visited a quilting exhibition in USA when I was on holiday on holiday. I still have the book on the exhibition and must turn it out to look at again. Both quilting and ragrugs seem to have been used to capture scenes and events, so are interesting stories of the past as well as fantastic pieces of craft. Thank you for the lunch recipe, I shall definitely try that. Have a lovely week.
I watched this video on my television rather than my phone, and I noticed you and your mum had the same lovely manicured fingernails in the car discussion after your visit to the folk museum. Maybe a sweet mother-daughter outing for your mum's birthday 💅 it's great to see you both ❤
My mom does Rug Hooking here in Canada! We call it that, not Rag Rugs, but she just got into it about 5 years ago. It's a popular enough craft on the east coast of Canada and the USA+ Michigan. I'll send you a photo of one of her rugs on instagram :) Very cool that you had an exhibit to visit about it :)
So pleased you are back after your summer break. Loved looking at the rag rugs. Thank you for the lunch recipes - they look delicious. I loved The bookbinder of Jericho - could not put it down. It is linked to Pip’s first novel The dictionary of lost words which was also marvellous. 💕 Jeanette
Thank you so much, Miranda and Donna. Loved your video and the glimpses of your visits in Yorkshire. And the conversation in your vehicle, especially the chat about wedding dresses and how many British women married Canadians during WWII. My uncle from Alberta, Canada, was based in England during the war and married a lovely woman name Bette. They both came back to Canada after the war. As a little girl I was always intrigued by that story in our family history. // Too funny about that lovely embroidered dress you described being part of a dog's bed before it was rescued. Wishing you both a beautiful day, @BrenfromHome
I loved the 'Uncle Paul' book. I immediately read her first book 'Hours Before Dawn'. She has a unique writing style which draws you in and scares you silly. 'The Jealous One' is also excellent. I've done a lot of rug hooking in the past but now I'm on a knitting binge.
Lovely to see you back, we would go to the Ryedale Folk Museum & Hutton Le Hole every year on a school trips & with my mum, many happy memories thank you. Lisa x❤️
Welcome back Miranda and Donna! Enjoyed the beautiful north Yorkshire scenery and trip to the museum. I love museums that give you some insight into the everyday lives of past inhabitants of an area. Both the rag rugs at the museum and the ones made by your family members are stunning and showed such creativity. The Bookbinder of Jericho sounds like an interesting read and is now added to my booklist Have a great week!!💕
(Melanie here) I found a cosy read that I think you'd like. I just read The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton. It is not a typical Edith Wharton book. (For example, it is more upbeat). It is a sweet love story. Very delightful.
Dear Miranda! Thank you so much for your lovely vlog! I am immensely happy that you are back again!! I'm really interested in the new book of Laura Cumming. I read the Goldfinch a long time ago and was very pleased when I saw the painting in the Mauritshuis in the Hague last year. Thank you for pointing this book out. Your and your mom's trip to the museum sounded really wonderful. The lunch looked delicious! Also, your dresses were very beautiful! It is wonderful that you are back!! Have a lovely week❤️
That's so kind of you, Inga! Thank you very much indeed for your generous support - I really appreciate it! ❤️ I'm really looking forward to the new Laura Cumming book too. She's such a good writer and really knows her stuff! Hope you enjoy it if you read it as well! xxx
So nice to hear from you again! I hope you had a nice time away, even if it flew by and you still had lots of things on your plate. I love that museum, especially that store would have been fun to explore. My mom had a rag rug when I was growing up, but as I bought one just like it at the store for my home, she may have too. I'll have to ask. It was just lots of colorful fabrics in a sort of basket weave, no designs. So the ones from your family and the ones at the museum were just beautiful. I would like to check out that Bookbinders of Jericho book. Sounds very fascinating. Last week my mom and dad went with me to a lavender farm and we had such a nice time. My mom asked me how I found the place, and I told her about your video of visiting a lavender farm and how I hoped to find one near us. So thank you for that idea as well. And many thanks, always. Take care!
Lovely to see you and your Mum, Miranda and glad to hear you had such a wonderful month! What a treat to see the rag rug exhibition. My late grandmother's house had many and I remember as a child how I used to play on them with the ceramic animals collected from her tea boxes. I should ask around the family and see if anyone still has them, they were so whimsical and I would love to see them again.
Thanks so much, Stacey! So happy it brought back happy childhood memories of playing on your grandmother’s rag rugs! Fingers crossed you get to see them again! ❤️
I am with Donna in that I usually follow the recipe correctly the first time and then I go rogue and make adjustments to meet my particular mood that day! The exception is baking when I tend to be more careful with the original recipe though not 100% on that either. I do love cookbooks and reading them particularly period ones. Regarding day rugs the ones my Mom and her friends made were all from clothes no longer useful, and they were very plain and nothing like the ones made by your Grandmother which were art and would be hard to walk on. Have a lovely week-long so glad you were back to make my Sunday extra special🌹🌹one for each of you.
I am stunned to see all the designs in the rag rugs. My grandparents had them but there was no pattern - just rows of color as they worked the rags in. Amazing!
Thank you so very much, Miranda and Donna. ❤❤ This is absolutely delightful, I enjoyed every moment and will most likely watch again before too long. Sending you love and best wishes from Canada. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
I just finished reading "Uncle Paul," and OMG, it was awesome! You mentioned there was an exciting twist at the end, and you're so right. Highly recommend the book!
Those cheesy peppers are mouthwatering. So often it's the simplest recipes that are the best. Thanks for all your hard work on this lovely video. A great start to my week.
Hi Miranda, I've missed your videos. I watched your audiobook video this morning, I've got plenty of audiobooks to listen to now. Thank you for your recommendations. Started listening to Cranford on Audible today. X
@@MirandaMillsI enjoyed Cranford, never listened to it before. Got Winne the Pooh, I Capture The Castle and Cider With Rosie on Audible today so I'm looking forward to listening to those. My favourite Jane Austen novel and one of my favourite novels is Emma. I love Emma because she learns from her errors in judgement as she falls in love with Mr Knightley who loves and appreciates her. I prefer Mr Knightley to Mr Darcy because he's lovely and charming and kind. X
Your vlogs are so beautifully done! Enjoyed the book recommendations, the Yorkshire exploration, rag rugs, etc! I will be attempting the recipes tomorrow with my daughter! We've been searching for some good meatless meal recipes. I enjoy collecting old books including children's books. One of my favorite books from childhood was "Miss Suzy," by Miriam Young, which was out of print. It took me years to find it (ironically it's back in print), and I was overjoyed! I had the added pleasure of reading it to my children's 3rd grade class. It is very exciting to finally find an old book or complete a collection. Happy to have you back on RUclips. Your lovely mother as well! Looking forward to the next.🌸
Hi Miranda! So wonderful to see you back on youtube. Wow, love those rag rugs from your great grandmother and great aunt! The museum ones as well. Beautiful! Thank you for taking us along to the Ryedale folk museum and through that part of Yorkshire. Truly enjoyed it! I will try that bean salad and stuffed peppers---seemed very tasty! Wonderful video. Thank you, Miranda.
Welcome back!! Thank you for showing us the museum! We have something very similar called Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. I could have spent hours in their WWII era general store.
Aaahhhhh and that's the garden! I just commented on the video when it was first being installed, wondering if I would see an update - and here we are😊 lovely 🌹🪻🌷
Hi Miranda, You and your mom do such fun activities together. I would love to visit the Folk museum someday and Uncle Paul sounds like an intriguing read.
I'm so happy to see you. Happy you had a great June, but I did miss you both. Great vlog. It was so wonderful that you filmed the trip to the museum. So beautiful. Fun to see the rabbits(hares) in the hills of purple (which I assume was heather?) 😊. The rag rugs were amazing. And your great grandmothers were so beautiful. Wow. And I also enjoyed watching you make your delicious lunch. This is a silly little random fact but I have that very same collander which I use almost daily. 😂 Its a small world after all. Thank you for sharing . Look forward to seeing you next week. My very best to you both. 👍🤗💕💕
Thank you very much, Diane! So glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the rabbits were nestling in the heather - the moors are already turning purple! Hope you have a lovely week ahead! 💜
Hello Miranda and Donna. It was so nice to see you back. As usual, a wonderful vlog with a couple very interesting reading recommendations. Your bean salad looks delicious and solved one of my menu issues for this week. By the way, I was having my coffee from the same Emma Bridgewater Dog Rose mug this morning. Thank you for a lovely start to my week.🌸
Hi Miranda! So good to have you back! Until I pressed play on the video I didn't realise how much i had missed you! Such a lovely vlog. I'm a bit envious of your Emma Bridgewater mugs collection *.* ('a bit' being an understatement). Have a great week and good luck with the webcam ;) Love to Donna too! xx
So happy you’re back🌻 , and the video’s lovely. You sound really busy. Good luck with the new projects. Loved the Folk museum - made a note of it, and the exhibition. I had no idea what they were called in English só learnt something new. Unfortunately I don’t make them, but there are some parts of Brazil where they make a lot of them. The ones your relative made are gorgeous. Say hi to Donna - she looks lovely, and thank you for all the inspiration.By the way, you have lovely mugs. Have a great week.
So good to see you and your dear mother! I really missed your vlog… what a lovely tour of the Folk Museum, such an interesting visit ! Gorgeous rag rugs , thank you for sharing images of this surprisingly beautiful form of art. I truly adored all the glimpses of Yorkshire landscape, a breath of fresh air for me …we are experiencing torrid sweltering weather in Italy at the moment😅
Miranda what a beautiful video! I loved the hares in the....was that heather? Congratulations on completing your collection! It is wonderful to have you back on RUclips! You and Donna were missed!🌼
What a fun trip for you and your mother to the folk museum. It was lovely! The book recommendations were good as usual, and the bean salad looks so yummy. Thank you for the recipe. 🙂
Happy Sunday everyone! It's great to be back to RUclips! If you're new to my channel, here;'s the link for my Summer Commonplace Book: www.mirandajanemills.com/summercommonplacebook
For all other links and the recipes mentioned in the video, please see the video description box. Miranda x
Hi Miranda, I've missed you xx
Lovely visiting with you and your mom.❤
Dear Miranda and Donna
So lovely to see both and to hear all your news. You both looked so very happy and Summery. I did miss you both very much. As it is Winter here it was a great chance to replay a lot of your Vlogs. What a collection of delight it was. . I'm a rag rug maker. My Nan made them too during the Depression and the Make do and Mend aspect to home making was very strong here I make my rugs from felted woollen fabrics from Op shops [Charity Shops] My rugs are made using upholstery hessian strapping and a sewing machine. Its a method i have created myself as a rather shortcut easy option I was so impressed with your Great Grandmother and Aunts beautfnuy created rugs. Julie xx
Thanks so much, Julie! Very impressed you’ve made your own technique in your rug making!👏❤️
Your lovely newsletter tided me over in your absence but I missed you so much that I’m subtitling this video “The Miranda Mills Comeback Tour.” 😀
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Hi, Miranda Mills Thanks Much!+
Welcome back. We've missed you. Uncle Paul sounds intriguing. It's going on my list. The rag rugs are wonderful - both the exhibits and your family's ones. I've only ever made a 'snuffle rug' for my dog - it's strips of rags tied onto a grid to form tufts. Treats are then hidden between the tufts for the dog to snuffle out.
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to go with my parents a lot to Hutton le Hole, as we lived only about 10 miles away from the N. Yorks moors. The museum was nothing more than a couple of rooms, with some old farm machinery out the back, but they had big plans to re-create some of the old cottages. It was lovely to see it as it is now, since I've never gone back there. Lovely video altogether.
That’s so interesting! They’ve certainly done a wonderful job! So pleased the video gave you a glimpse of it now ❤️
Great to see you again I have missed your videos but glad to have your newsletters to keep me going. Those rugs are wonderful! I remember my mum making rag rugs when I was small but they weren't as pretty as your grandmother's and great aunt's. The exhibition rugs are also beautiful, what a talent to create something from discarded rags. Louisa Creed's book looks fascinating.
Thanks for all the book recommendations, I agree about the satisfaction of completing a set of vintage books - I remember how delighted I was when I got my final Chalet School hb! Also thanks for the lunch recipe, I'm now feeling very hungry as it's coming up to lunch time!
It's lovely to know I'm not the only one ❤️
Loved seeing the exhibition of rag rugs. I also make rag rugs. Here in the States we call them hooked rugs. It's a wonderful peaceful hobby which has made a big comeback in the last couple decades. Interesting to see those made by your aunt and grandmother. I believe Canada is considered the real birthplace of rug hooking. Proddy rugs are another typically British version and the methods are often "married" in rugs.
I recently found your channel and love it so! My Mum was from Bristol, England, but she raised me in the U.S. After she met my Dad in the 60’s they lived for a time in Africa. There she made a rag rug that looked like a saharan desert with the sunset…so a lot of those popular oranges and browns at the time. I wish I had it now. I lost her last year, so watching your videos with your Mum gives me such warm cozies! ❤
So happy the videos invoke warm memories for you ❤️
It was a joy to see you and your mother again and your wonderful vlog! You both look radiant! Your garden is beautiful. Great design. Hope to see you soon!
Thank you so much!
I agree On Chapel Sands was fab - I particularly enjoyed it as I grew up in the area where the book was set. Thanks for the lovely vlog, makes me homesick for that part of the world 💕
❤OMG such a WONDERFUL video, a complete experience and a total delight. Coming along with you lovelies, in the car, with those wonderful views and that amazing music was an epiphany!! I find this video a work of art. Thank you Miranda and Donna for making me feel soo happy!!
That's lovely to hear, Cristina! ❤️xxx
tfs your current books 📚 glad you've completed your collection of Penny books . . another yummy 😋 recipe
have a wonderful Sunday take care ❤️🙋♀️💐🥰🦋🌻🌷
It's wonderful have you back! Everything you covered looked delightful to me, but especially both of those recipes....thanks for the inspiration you bring to all of us!
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy them if you try them yourself! ❤️
I really love the relationship you both have with one another I was smiling the whole time through this vlog. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us!
So happy you enjoyed it! And thank you for your kind words! ❤️
Woo-hoo Miranda and Donna are back!! Glad to hear you had a good break :)
When you said rag rug, I was thinking of the braided, round multicolored rugs we see often here in the US. The ones you showed remind me a bit of wool needlepoint - gorgeous 😍
Miranda, the wall paper in the bedroom is absolutely gorgeous! And we can admire it so much in this video!
My daughter Daisy and I visited the museum many years ago and also found it enchanting.
Welcome back Miranda.. you were missed..It is Joy and special treat to view your sharings.
Welcome back
I want to thank you for sharing your love of books and art.
My true purpose here is to express my gratitude for your kindness and generosity in taking your viewers along on your road trips with your Mum.
I have been an Anglophile since childhood. It turns out that my ancestors served in Buckingham Palace after a cousin researched family genealogy. It’s a trace, but I’ll take it.
If I ever had the chance to go to England, my preference would be to see it’s beautiful countryside.
Oh, I’d visit London and do a few “touristy” things.
However, I’ve always been drawn to England’s countryside because of its beauty and it’s wonderfully charming farms and houses, symbols of hard workers.
I’ve watched many a program on the countryside and never had enough.
Oh and the especially charming bookstores! Sigh. A bit of heaven on earth.
Again, thank you so much for taking all of us along with you and your Mum.
May God continue to bless you both.
Gratitude from Alabama, USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoy my videos ❤️
Miranda is back ☺️
Aw thanks so much for your kind support - it means a lot! ❤️
Congratulations on your vintage book find! They look like such lovely books....the kind I enjoyed as a young girl. Enjoy! Another beautiful vlog....thank you for sharing with us.
If I could go back in time, I would have majored in art history, too! This past week I've begun a whopper but also a treasure of a book, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings by Bernard Denvir. The color plates are gorgeous, and the writing is just wonderful. Every time I go back to it, I feel like I'm in the heart of late 19th century Paris, and what a spectacular place to be! It's wonderful to be able to travel along with you and your mom again, too. It's as if those rabbits knew they were film material. I don't think it surprises any of us that creativity runs in your family. I especially love your grandmother's rug with the cheerful, strutting birds along the border. Thank you for everything--the views of the countryside and museum, the books and beans!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Pamela! I love the sound of your art book and will look it up! Sounds like one I really would be enthralled by too so thanks so much for the recommendation. And thank you very much too for your kind and very generous support! I really appreciate it❤️📚
Your Grandmothers rag rugs are amazing!!
So lovely you are back. In the lovely break you had I’ve moved and trying to settle in a new home . I’am so happy that one of the guess room I’am making it my office/ library and I’am thrilled with all your great book recommendations . Thank you for all your great videos.😊Lovely,healthy lunch.
Welcome to your new home! Enjoy your office/ library! It's lovely to have a room for your books ❤️
A wonderful video as always with fabulous music! Thank you for sharing the exhibition and also the great food with your mum. What a great life you have both made for yourselves in yorkshire with such beautiful surrounding areas x
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
So nice to see a Sunday video again. They’re always a bright spot in the week.
Beautiful! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
It is lovely to see you back Miranda! I will definitely try the bean salad as I have been trying different bean recipes for cold meals this summer. It looks delicious.
My grandmother used to make rag rugs. She lived in rural Alberta in the 1920’s-1980’s and early on there were no shops to purchase things other than essential farm hardware and dry goods. Everything was handmade in the long winter evenings. Sadly I do not have the rug she and I made together, but I have quilts she made from fabric scraps of the dresses she made for herself and for me. I cherish them.
That bean salad is one we make frequently. You can vary the beans which is nice too. What a pity you don’t have the rag rug, Debbie, but how wonderful to have some of her quilts!❤️💐
So happy to see you again. Lovely catch-up. Thank you.
Miranda and Mom, thanks for taking us along on the countryside and museum trip. Both were so lovely. My fave rag rug in the exhibit was the cottage one. Here in the States, rag rugs are highly esteemed in the folk art/antique scene, too. That exhibit book looks like a good one. And, thank you for sharing the delicious looking lunch. I think I'll give it a go.
Hope you enjoy the recipes too if you do ❤️
@@MirandaMills yes, ty!!!
Hello Miranda,you both are looking lovely. Thank you for taking us along to such beautiful, historical places.❤
Lovely video as always! As beautiful as one of your great grandmother's rag rugs, you are a very creative lady too, just another medium.
Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed the video!❤️
Great to have a vlog from you again today. Loved seeing what you have both been up to.
So glad you enjoyed it ❤️
❤loved your vlog Miranda and seeing your mum as well .
Hello Miranda!! You have no idea how much I appreciate all the effort you put into making such lovely videos!!! All the best!! 🥰🇨🇦
Thank you so much!❤️
Thanks for all you share. It inspires me.
That's so lovely of you to say, Valentina! It makes me very happy to read that, and thank you so much for your very kind and generous support. It's so appreciated! ❤️💐
Thank You for this lovely vlog ! ❤ I'm a huge James Herriot fan and would love to see more of Yorkshire.
Thanks!
Thank you very much for your kind support! It means a lot to me! ❤️💐
Your videos fill my heart with glee. All things beautiful, Yorkshire looks sooo interesting. Thank you😊
Hi Miranda- Uncle Paul is a fantastic read! I bought it following a bookseller recommendation and wasn’t entirely convinced but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop, I read it all in one day! It’s very creepy in parts but so good🙂
Lovely to see you back Miranda hope you enjoyed your well earned break and thank you as always for the book recommendations and inspiration ❤
Hi Miranda and Donna - the Ryedale Folk Museum sounds fascinating. One to add to the list of places to visit in Yorkshire. Many years ago I visited a quilting exhibition in USA when I was on holiday on holiday. I still have the book on the exhibition and must turn it out to look at again. Both quilting and ragrugs seem to have been used to capture scenes and events, so are interesting stories of the past as well as fantastic pieces of craft. Thank you for the lunch recipe, I shall definitely try that. Have a lovely week.
Thank you, you too! ❤️
Classic Miranda. You do what you do so well. An absolute joy to watch, as always 🌻
Again a very nice vlog, notes were taken, the list was made, thank you ❤📚🙏🩵
Thank you for the lovely Summer Commonplace book! So nice to see you and your mom in another adventure through Yorkshire. 🌻🌻
So happy you’re enjoying it! And thank you so much for your kind support. It is very appreciated! 💐📚❤️
I watched this video on my television rather than my phone, and I noticed you and your mum had the same lovely manicured fingernails in the car discussion after your visit to the folk museum. Maybe a sweet mother-daughter outing for your mum's birthday 💅 it's great to see you both ❤
My mom does Rug Hooking here in Canada! We call it that, not Rag Rugs, but she just got into it about 5 years ago. It's a popular enough craft on the east coast of Canada and the USA+ Michigan. I'll send you a photo of one of her rugs on instagram :) Very cool that you had an exhibit to visit about it :)
Love these vlogs, I find them so relaxing and soothing, like a cozy visit with friends. Glad to see your summer is going well!
Thank you for your kind words!
So pleased you are back after your summer break. Loved looking at the rag rugs. Thank you for the lunch recipes - they look delicious. I loved The bookbinder of Jericho - could not put it down. It is linked to Pip’s first novel The dictionary of lost words which was also marvellous. 💕 Jeanette
How wonderful to see you and Donna! A belated Happy Birthday, Donna!
Yay, you're back! Glad you had a good June. That lunch looked delicious. Also, the Folk Museum was fascinating!
Thank you! It was a really fascinating museum!
WELCOME BACK ❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Miranda and Donna. Loved your video and the glimpses of your visits in Yorkshire. And the conversation in your vehicle, especially the chat about wedding dresses and how many British women married Canadians during WWII. My uncle from Alberta, Canada, was based in England during the war and married a lovely woman name Bette. They both came back to Canada after the war. As a little girl I was always intrigued by that story in our family history. // Too funny about that lovely embroidered dress you described being part of a dog's bed before it was rescued.
Wishing you both a beautiful day,
@BrenfromHome
Thanks so much for your very kind words, Brenda! ❤️
Wow those rugs are insane. So artistic.
I loved the 'Uncle Paul' book. I immediately read her first book 'Hours Before Dawn'. She has a unique writing style which draws you in and scares you silly. 'The Jealous One' is also excellent. I've done a lot of rug hooking in the past but now I'm on a knitting binge.
Lovely to see you back, we would go to the Ryedale Folk Museum & Hutton Le Hole every year on a school trips & with my mum, many happy memories thank you. Lisa x❤️
So happy to see you back! Your videos are always so calming and I always learn something! Thank you.
You are so welcome! ❤️
That lunch looks delicious.
An absolute joy!!❤
Welcome back Miranda and Donna! Enjoyed the beautiful north Yorkshire scenery and trip to the museum. I love museums that give you some insight into the everyday lives of past inhabitants of an area. Both the rag rugs at the museum and the ones made by your family members are stunning and showed such creativity. The Bookbinder of Jericho sounds like an interesting read and is now added to my booklist Have a great week!!💕
Thanks so much, Nancy for your lovely comment! Wishing you a great week too! ❤️
So good to see another of your blogs! Thank you! Always so uplifting 🥰
Thanks dear Miranda , I love your blog !
My spirits always lift on tuning in to you❤
Thanks so much for your kind support! I really appreciate it and am so happy you enjoy the videos! ❤️🌹
What a lovely exhibition. Thank you for taking us with you.
This was interesting, I like the look of those peppers. Nice demonstration of the museum. Thankyou
(Melanie here) I found a cosy read that I think you'd like. I just read The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton. It is not a typical Edith Wharton book. (For example, it is more upbeat). It is a sweet love story. Very delightful.
Alleluia you’re back! Omg I have the same Tupperware strainer. It dates from the late seventies. Must be your mum’s!
Dear Miranda! Thank you so much for your lovely vlog! I am immensely happy that you are back again!! I'm really interested in the new book of Laura Cumming. I read the Goldfinch a long time ago and was very pleased when I saw the painting in the Mauritshuis in the Hague last year. Thank you for pointing this book out. Your and your mom's trip to the museum sounded really wonderful. The lunch looked delicious! Also, your dresses were very beautiful! It is wonderful that you are back!! Have a lovely week❤️
That's so kind of you, Inga! Thank you very much indeed for your generous support - I really appreciate it! ❤️ I'm really looking forward to the new Laura Cumming book too. She's such a good writer and really knows her stuff! Hope you enjoy it if you read it as well! xxx
Hello Miranda, it is wonderful to see you again! The video was brilliant as always! Have a wonderful week. Best wishes, Jason
Thanks so much ,and you too, Jason!
So nice to hear from you again! I hope you had a nice time away, even if it flew by and you still had lots of things on your plate. I love that museum, especially that store would have been fun to explore. My mom had a rag rug when I was growing up, but as I bought one just like it at the store for my home, she may have too. I'll have to ask. It was just lots of colorful fabrics in a sort of basket weave, no designs. So the ones from your family and the ones at the museum were just beautiful. I would like to check out that Bookbinders of Jericho book. Sounds very fascinating. Last week my mom and dad went with me to a lavender farm and we had such a nice time. My mom asked me how I found the place, and I told her about your video of visiting a lavender farm and how I hoped to find one near us. So thank you for that idea as well. And many thanks, always. Take care!
Thank you, Emily! So glad you enjoyed my video, and how lovely that an old one inspired you to go to a lavender farm! Glad you had such a good time 😊💜
Lovely to see you and your Mum, Miranda and glad to hear you had such a wonderful month!
What a treat to see the rag rug exhibition. My late grandmother's house had many and I remember as a child how I used to play on them with the ceramic animals collected from her tea boxes. I should ask around the family and see if anyone still has them, they were so whimsical and I would love to see them again.
Thanks so much, Stacey! So happy it brought back happy childhood memories of playing on your grandmother’s rag rugs! Fingers crossed you get to see them again! ❤️
I am with Donna in that I usually follow the recipe correctly the first time and then I go rogue and make adjustments to meet my particular mood that day! The exception is baking when I tend to be more careful with the original recipe though not 100% on that either. I do love cookbooks and reading them particularly period ones.
Regarding day rugs the ones my Mom and her friends made were all from clothes no longer useful, and they were very plain and nothing like the ones made by your Grandmother which were art and would be hard to walk on.
Have a lovely week-long so glad you were back to make my Sunday extra special🌹🌹one for each of you.
I am stunned to see all the designs in the rag rugs. My grandparents had them but there was no pattern - just rows of color as they worked the rags in. Amazing!
So lovely to see you 😊
Thank you so very much, Miranda and Donna. ❤❤ This is absolutely delightful, I enjoyed every moment and will most likely watch again before too long. Sending you love and best wishes from Canada. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
So glad! Thank you 😊
Lovely video , I really enjoy your book reviews and the little trip around yorkshire ( i'm in Dorset) and so nice to see your Mum
I just finished reading "Uncle Paul," and OMG, it was awesome! You mentioned there was an exciting twist at the end, and you're so right. Highly recommend the book!
It was such a good read! So glad you enjoyed it too!
Those cheesy peppers are mouthwatering. So often it's the simplest recipes that are the best. Thanks for all your hard work on this lovely video. A great start to my week.
My pleasure 😊
Thanks
Thank you so much for your kind support! I really appreciate it ❤️
Hi Miranda, I've missed your videos. I watched your audiobook video this morning, I've got plenty of audiobooks to listen to now. Thank you for your recommendations. Started listening to Cranford on Audible today. X
Thanks so much, Kate! I love Cranford❤️📚
@@MirandaMillsI enjoyed Cranford, never listened to it before. Got Winne the Pooh, I Capture The Castle and Cider With Rosie on Audible today so I'm looking forward to listening to those. My favourite Jane Austen novel and one of my favourite novels is Emma. I love Emma because she learns from her errors in judgement as she falls in love with Mr Knightley who loves and appreciates her. I prefer Mr Knightley to Mr Darcy because he's lovely and charming and kind. X
That museum looks amazing. In a beautiful area too. Thank you for sharing your outing with us. ❤😊
Your vlogs are so beautifully done! Enjoyed the book recommendations, the Yorkshire exploration, rag rugs, etc! I will be attempting the recipes tomorrow with my daughter! We've been searching for some good meatless meal recipes.
I enjoy collecting old books including children's books. One of my favorite books from childhood was "Miss Suzy," by Miriam Young, which was out of print. It took me years to find it (ironically it's back in print), and I was overjoyed! I had the added pleasure of reading it to my children's 3rd grade class. It is very exciting to finally find an old book or complete a collection.
Happy to have you back on RUclips. Your lovely mother as well! Looking forward to the next.🌸
Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy the recipes too! ❤️
Hi Miranda! So wonderful to see you back on youtube. Wow, love those rag rugs from your great grandmother and great aunt! The museum ones as well. Beautiful! Thank you for taking us along to the Ryedale folk museum and through that part of Yorkshire. Truly enjoyed it! I will try that bean salad and stuffed peppers---seemed very tasty! Wonderful video. Thank you, Miranda.
Thank you so much! ❤️
So lovely to have a vlog from you again!
Thanks so much, Milena!
Glad to see you back! Nice sunday for you too.
Thank you!
Welcome back!! Thank you for showing us the museum! We have something very similar called Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. I could have spent hours in their WWII era general store.
Aaahhhhh and that's the garden! I just commented on the video when it was first being installed, wondering if I would see an update - and here we are😊 lovely 🌹🪻🌷
Hi Miranda, You and your mom do such fun activities together. I would love to visit the Folk museum someday and Uncle Paul sounds like an intriguing read.
Thanks so much, Jackie! ❤️
I'm so happy to see you. Happy you had a great June, but I did miss you both. Great vlog. It was so wonderful that you filmed the trip to the museum. So beautiful. Fun to see the rabbits(hares) in the hills of purple (which I assume was heather?) 😊. The rag rugs were amazing. And your great grandmothers were so beautiful. Wow. And I also enjoyed watching you make your delicious lunch. This is a silly little random fact but I have that very same collander which I use almost daily. 😂 Its a small world after all. Thank you for sharing . Look forward to seeing you next week. My very best to you both. 👍🤗💕💕
Thank you very much, Diane! So glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the rabbits were nestling in the heather - the moors are already turning purple! Hope you have a lovely week ahead! 💜
So happy to see a new video from the channel on a Sunday 👏🏽
Thank you!
Hello Miranda and Donna. It was so nice to see you back. As usual, a wonderful vlog with a couple very interesting reading recommendations. Your bean salad looks delicious and solved one of my menu issues for this week. By the way, I was having my coffee from the same Emma Bridgewater Dog Rose mug this morning. Thank you for a lovely start to my week.🌸
Thank you Glenda! So glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you have fun trying the bean salad this week! xxx
So happy to see you back! This is a lovely video - I loved every segment! Have a wonderful week, and looking forward to seeing you again next Sunday!
Thank you! You too! ❤️
Hi Miranda! So good to have you back! Until I pressed play on the video I didn't realise how much i had missed you! Such a lovely vlog. I'm a bit envious of your Emma Bridgewater mugs collection *.* ('a bit' being an understatement). Have a great week and good luck with the webcam ;) Love to Donna too! xx
Great to see you back Miranda 😍
So happy you’re back🌻 , and the video’s lovely. You sound really busy. Good luck with the new projects. Loved the Folk museum - made a note of it, and the exhibition. I had no idea what they were called in English só learnt something new. Unfortunately I don’t make them, but there are some parts of Brazil where they make a lot of them. The ones your relative made are gorgeous. Say hi to Donna - she looks lovely, and thank you for all the inspiration.By the way, you have lovely mugs. Have a great week.
Thanks so very much for the lovely comment, Valentina! Yes, the Emma Bridgewater mugs make us smile every day. Wishing you a great week too ❤️
So good to see you and your dear mother! I really missed your vlog… what a lovely tour of the Folk Museum, such an interesting visit ! Gorgeous rag rugs , thank you for sharing images of this surprisingly beautiful form of art. I truly adored all the glimpses of Yorkshire landscape, a breath of fresh air for me …we are experiencing torrid sweltering weather in Italy at the moment😅
Thank you so much for your kind words, Laura! Glad the vlog sent a cool, refreshing breeze all the way to Italy! ❤️😂☁️
Definitely going to try that bean salad!
It’s a real staple here! Hope you like it too! ❤️🥗
Miranda what a beautiful video! I loved the hares in the....was that heather? Congratulations on completing your collection! It is wonderful to have you back on RUclips! You and Donna were missed!🌼
Yes it was! Thank you! 💜
@@MirandaMills Beautiful!
What a fun trip for you and your mother to the folk museum. It was lovely! The book recommendations were good as usual, and the bean salad looks so yummy. Thank you for the recipe. 🙂
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!