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We are a Canadian homesquirreling family. Dad, known as Mr. Fixit, has lined the nest with old copies of Popular Mechanics. Mama Squirrel enjoys reading, scrounging, and raising the squirrelings: The Apprentice, Ponytails, and Dollygirl (formerly called Crayons). And there's Uncle Dewey, who is made of polyester and imagination and has lived in our treehouse for years. Climb up, you're welcome!

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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Free for Kindle right now

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Selling on Etsy: Turning Your Hobby Into a Profitable Business by Megan Kutchman

Use Silk Scarves to Make Tube Tops, Camisoles and Party Tops (Dye Fabric - Sew Silk) by Fiona Gribbon

Wir feiern Ostern (German Edition) by Cornelia H.E. Kiaupa  (ideas for celebrating the Resurrection)

To add to your Hal Torrance collection:

Activities for the Senior Mind: Keeping Your Brain Exercised and Sharp by Hal Torrance

Camel Crochet Basic Instruction Book by Naka Pillman

Posted by Mama Squirrel at 10:32 am
Labels: Crafts, crocheting, e-books, Easter, freebies, Frugality, German language, Kindle, making stuff, sewing

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  • The Apprentice

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"I suppose one must make one's peace with cacophony."--Dr. Fugue (the piano teacher) on Arthur

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"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: / I do forswear them." ~~Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost


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Mama Squirrel's Reading List 2013 (R means rereading, § means done)

  • The Herb of Grace, by Elizabeth Goudge §
  • The Divine Comedy: III. Paradise, translated by Sayers and Reynolds
  • Over My Dead Body, by Rex Stout §
  • Champagne for One, by Rex Stout §
  • The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • Through a Glass Darkly, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • The Fields of Noon, by Sheila Burnford
  • No Little People, by Francis Schaeffer
  • Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr
  • "An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit," by George Meredith (free online)
  • MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book, by John Rember
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford
  • How to Read a Poem (and fall in love with poetry), by Edward Hirsch
  • When I Whistle, by Shusako Endo §
  • The Wormling #1: The Book of the King, by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry §
  • "Training of the Imagination," by James Rhoades (free online) §
  • Towards a Philosophy of Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • School Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, by Barbara Reynolds §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, by David Coomes §
  • The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner (R) §
  • Euthyphro, by Plato §
  • Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton §
  • Greybeards at Play, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • The Trees of Pride, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • St. Peter's Fair, by Ellis Peters §
  • Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart, by Ellis Peters §
  • The Skeleton in the Clock, by Carter Dickson §
  • The Chinese Nail Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • The Chinese Lake Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • Till Death Do Us Purl, by Anne Canadeo §
  • Heaven Preserve Us: A Home Crafting Mystery, by Cricket McRae §

On the Treehouse fridge

"To try to teach literature by starting with the applied use of words, or 'effective communication', as it's often called, then gradually work into literature through the more documentary forms of prose fiction and finally into poetry, seems to me a futile procedure. If literature is to be properly taught, we have to start at its centre, which is poetry, then work outwards to literary prose, then outwards from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life."--Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."--G.K. Chesterton

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  • Stump The Bookseller
  • The Why Homeschool blog - owners of the Carnival of Homeschooling

Carnivals We've Hosted

  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Perspectives Edition
  • Festival of Frugality #386: Promises, Promises
  • Festival of Frugality #371: True Confessions Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #364: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  • Festival of Frugality #355: What, We Worry? Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #334: Floatin' Down the River
  • Festival of Frugality #330: Before You Take Out a Lion
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: It's About Time
  • Festival of Frugality #309: Don't Be a Cash Potato
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #304: Rollerskating in a Buffalo Herd
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #280: Ten and Counting
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #253: Singing a Happy Song
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #226: Wrinkly Superhero
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Stuff CMers Like
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #194: Creatures and Critters
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #162: Identity Crisis Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #130: Homesick Campers' Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #101: Snowed-In Edition
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival #4
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #85: School Stuff Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #70: The Yes No Yes Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition

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