This is a wonderful book full of ideas to incorporate into your families day-to-day living to help make some wonderful memorable traditions of your own.The Victorians knew how to keep it simple yet meaningful. This is a great read for anyone interested in creating some meaningful traditions for their own family.

This books is filled with seasonal ideas for family togetherness. The ideas are sweet, some are based on Victorian traditions, some are based on more recent ideas. Her seasonal living traditions are worth looking at, and some are even worth doing ;)

Old-fashioned and sweet with some good ideas for incorporating nice traditions into your family's life for each month of the year.

Notes:
catholic holidays/saints days are the majority of celebrations
too many 'schoolish' crafty or just plain unrealistic ideas
October chapter celebrates ONLY halloween
fairy talk throughout

I LOVE this book. It is full of old family traditions and how to bring joy back through them. It is an easy read that goes by month. I recommend it for everyone that wants to create happy family memories.

Amazing!!' Amazing. Authentic and romantic, I basically am now using it as a springboard manual for building our home social life

Simple Abundance,Sarah Ban Breathnach

Great ideas through out the year to make family traditions. The traditions in the book are interesting and very Victorian, in a refreshing way. Break away from modern day traditions and adopt some that are full of "comfort and joy". Great Victorian illustrations.

For some reason, the title does not directly match what I read/listened to. The title I read was Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy, which displays on one page, but Sarah Ban Breathnach's Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Art of Domestic Bliss (Audiobook) displays on my read shelf.

I read this a long time ago, but I do clearly remember that it was back before Martha Stewart was as huge as she became, before reality TV, HGTV and all the popular design and home-focused stuff we have today.

I found this book to be so very charming and inspiring. It paints a picture of an ideal Victorian family lifestyle. It is obvious that in reality no one could possibly be as perfect as Mrs. Sharp but that's alright. As long as one uses this book for inspiration, and not as a rule book of expectations to live up to, it is very rewarding. It encourages families to mark the changing seasons and holidays with simple customs, lots of crafts, outdoor play, picnics and tea times. I borrowed this from the library and I am surely going to borrow it again!

My step mother gave me this book when I got married and as someone who has always felt the power of positive tradtions I fell immediately in love with it. It's beautiful, for one thing; it's practical for another. She has lots of ideas so that you can test out which ones work for your family. She inclues the history of the traditions and holidays, which adds dimension and meaning to celebrating them. This book is pro family togetherness, joy, meaningful time together and love. I highly recommend it!

Unlike picture-perfect Instagram content, Mrs. Sharp's Traditions is a realistic look at family life, and offers ideas for creating family traditions at home. Usually books like this are full of professionally photographed, perfectly staged moments in the author's household. This one uses exclusively Victorian imagery; the introduction in this reissue is also enlightening regarding its down-to-earth nature, even for the pre-social media days. The design of the book is very hodge-podge (thus accurate to its era) but it is cozy.

Recipes, ideas for everything from celebrating May Day to "crisscross days," and more. Refreshingly mundane.