Dewey's Treehouse

This is a response to The Common Room post Thrift, Parsimony and Freegan Living , which the DHM wrote after reading the NY Times review of ...

Cents to Get Debt-Free shows us how.

If you started your school year in September, the first few giddy weeks have passed. It's now October. Do you know where your homeschoo...

It's comfort food night, on a day that's gone back and forth from almost-Indian-summer to dark and gloomy: Kitchener Special , made ...

Last night I downloaded a free e-book of craft ideas, hoping to get some ideas for the holidays. Not that I was looking for Styrofoam balls ...

We've posted the link to Potage Paysanne before and also blogged about it . It's the perfect soup for a fall day after you've ...

In no particular order... 1. Covered seven crochet hooks with masking tape and foam pencil grips (which we had sitting around doing nothing...

We went to a rummage sale this morning, at one of the churches that always has good annual sales. I picked up a box with a bunch of yarn an...

I really think this might be our last, ever, ever year of Miquon. Unless I adopt triplets or homeschool my (future) grandchildren or somethi...

I've noticed several people clicking on "Snowball" lately. Yes, he's still here and still furry. But in hamster years he...

Something we did this morning: used some of the stuff I bought to make workbox "laminated" number cards and completed-work chart...

your back-to-school supplies consist of four plastic magazine holders, eight pieces of posterboard, a roll of clear sticky plastic, a set of...

All books, today. Mama Squirrel had an errand downtown and happened to be near the thrift shop, and they had lots to pick from. She sadly ...

In response to Wine Dark Sea's "Celebrating The Long Sentence" , which was a response to this post on The Slow Language Movem...

Crayons found one addition to her Beanie Boppers: a hockey-playing Hat Trick Hunter . Very cute. Mama Squirrel bought a boxful of mixed boo...

A current favourite recipe around here is Recipezaar's Pizza Roll-ups . (Originally found through Gayle at Grocery Cart Challenge .) Sam...

From King of Infinite Space , by Siobhan Roberts, about geometer H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter, 1907-2003 "....Coxeter despised, almost more ...

Found through a friend of a friend: The Sweetbriar Patch took Steph's Crockpot Yogurt instructions from A Year of SlowCooking , and d...

I'm about halfway through this book on the life and work of geometer Donald Coxeter . (Amazon reviews here.) This would be an awesome,...

I added two photos of the fruit bouquet to the post about our friend's baby shower.