A Year of Puttery Treats

by Alison May

Welcome to A Year of Puttery Treats. One gorgeous, life-enhancing little something to do for each of the 365 days in the year.
Housekeeping you see, can be terribly dull. A monotonous round of chasing dirt and moving objects that we should seek to enhance with the kind of decorative little to-do’s that gladden the heart and help to bring both order and authenticity in to our homes.

While the treats vary from the pretty to the silly, the fragrant and the celebratory, they are each designed to remind us that keeping house is about more than getting busy with a vacuum and a duster and should instead be about enhancing the lives of those that live in our homes. In reflecting the soul of the Mistress of the house and marking the lives of those she shares it with, puttery treats are quite the most lovely way to ritualise life within our own four walls and more than that to celebrate the art of homemaking and bring joy to domesticity.

In a Year of Puttery treats you will find seasonal tasks and little to-dos for annual holidays and national celebrations. You will discover ways to journal your days and create a living museum of family life. You will find tiny pampering treats and scrubby housekeeping tips, and in the midst of it all, right there in the heart of your home you will find yourself…

Genres: Nonfiction

295 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2016

About the author

Alison May has been the Vintage Housekeeper in residence at BrocanteHome.Net for the past eight years, regaling her audience with all the up's and downs of life, love and vintage housekeeping in a teeny tiny 150 year old Lancashire terraced cottage...

Her second book "Life, Love and Vintage Housekeeping" is now available...

Reviews

[Relyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like Alison May and the way she encourages you to take care of your home and love it unabashedly.

[Libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't say I read this all the way through, but I've read enough to get a good picture, and I'm sure I'll go back to it now and then. May takes a day-by-day approach to housekeeping and her "puttery treats" include tips for housekeeping, decorating, seasonal chores, and self-care. I liked many of the recipes and directions, along with some of the fun ideas, and I may browse through her December treats as I'm planning for Advent before I put this on the shelf for now.

[MRS. MC MOSS · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average

Some lovely ideas, but book is full of typos & some repetition of ideas, which became very irritating after a while.

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

I find this relaxing, cozy reading before bed

[Ashley Wells · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just could not get into this book. Tried and tried. But going to go areas and abandon it.

[Laura Tiffany]

It was okay, but nowhere near Simple Abundance