Dewey's Treehouse

From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband I've tried versions of Cottage Pudding before and always found them too dry or bland--I prefer ...

I just finished reading the late Carol Bly's Beyond the Writer's Workshop . This wasn't much like any other how-to-write book ...

"Bettina" might not approve of putting ricotta cheese to use in desserts, and usually it is too expensive for us to recommend it a...

Made by Ponytails for the Apprentice's "young ladies'" party this weekend: Taste of Home's Ladybug Appetizers . (Pho...

For the next little while, we're going to hang out with my new frugal superhero: Bettina from A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband , by L...

This isn't the customizable Blinky-Blink Carrot Cake I posted about a couple of years ago. This one has no nuts, no coconut, no raisins...

We don't get brand-new books all that often. But I saw some things that might be useful in the last HH catalogue, and I had a credit not...

Aunty Dot's Incredible Adventure Atlas , by Eljay Yildirim, is Crayons' favourite geography resource right now [2013: and still is...

Specially for Ponytails: here's a link to the webpage for CBC's Best Recipes Ever , a cooking show we both like to watch. If you l...

Crystal is Crayons' 18-inch doll. We found her at a yard sale last summer. She's very pretty but needs The Apprentice to help her ...

Some finds from a Saturday yard sale... History of Ancient Rome , by Jean Defrasne, from the Myths and Legends series, the same small books ...

I've posted about this "recipe" before, but it changes every time I make it. It can be made gluten-free, dairy-free or whatev...

Ruth Beechick once complained that school readers used to push all the really interesting stories to the back of the book, and maybe you got...

Fun with chemistry and Jean-Henri Fabre: click on the PDF of Eleanor Doorly's Insect Man and read the chapter on pages 20-21. (Penelo...

Something neat we found last Saturday: the Interfact Reference Children's Atlas . And the CD-Rom still runs on our XP system, even tho...

Is it only coincidence that the two math programs we have liked best both have the initals MM? Actually, so did one we didn't like as mu...

Getting Freedom From Debt (or Cents to Get Debt-Free) has a guest post about DIY Birthday Cakes . Nothing New Nothing Wasted has some thou...

We're not sure--anyway, this looks just like the butterfly that Crayons found this morning. Folded up, it looks like a dead leaf--but ...

I found this article (and quiz) by Brian D. Rude through a comment on another blog. Can you pass the fractions test he gives his first-year...

How are we supposed to end this? We started with A Leisurely Education. Freedom from the small round of busywork, opportunity to grab hold o...