Dewey's Treehouse

[updated because I forgot to squash the bread] A long time ago (when the Apprentice was a preschooler), I took some training to be a Communi...

One of the common themes you hear around homeschoolers is that so many lessons can be taught through real life. One that irritates me is ...

Make It Do has always been one of my favourite topics. Except that the phrase Make It Do sounds a bit grim, like Grin and Bear It. I prefe...

People have been virtually ringing the Treehouse doorbell here all day, thanks to Meredith's mention of this post . We got several comme...

[Update: I added some further comments on this here .] Use it up, wear it out... There's some debate there about what "wear it out...

We're already making a good head start on next year's school books; recently I managed to get the next two levels of Making Math Mea...

The best book I've read so far this year isn't on my Bookstack Challenge List, but it was on the shelf, so I guess it counts. I'...

I used to keep a scrapbook-cookbook with cartoons pasted in among the recipes. One of my favourites showed a lady baking something in her k...

Today's the day! It's also the day that would have been Edna Staebler's 101st birthday. In honour of that, and to celebrate th...

I started a post about some new things I wanted to use this term, things we already had that I wanted to start using or make better use of....

The mom-fashion blog Space Between My Peers (I posted about it a few weeks ago) has moved to a new domain here . Check out the new Month of...

Attention all Neopets users: join the firtree20 Signature Contest! What am I contesting? Siggy pets! Example: ~()*> Mouse () () * * ...

The conference workshop I'm going to be doing in March is about using thrift shop finds and other free and inexpensive materials as home...

I signed up nonchalantly for the Book Stack Reading Challenge , but I haven't finished even one of the books on the list. Parts of seve...

[Followup posts on this topic are Bring on the Marching Band (Use It Up,) Wear It Out , a postscript to Wear It Out , Make It Do , and Do W...

(This post is part of the Day that Really Schmecks blog round-up, in honour of the late author Edna Staebler and the reprinting of her fir...

That's the one-year anniversary edition ! Congratulations! And Binary Dollar hosts the New Year's Festival of Frugality.

Including a COOL t-shirt.

I'm not making a list of resolutions, but I do have a list of projects, big and small, that need attention. Some of them are fun, some ...

...when all your plastic containers are suddenly empty. ...when all the Scotch tape (what's left of it) is suddenly back in the tape and...