Dewey's Treehouse

1a. I went to the thrift shop to drop off our large load of board games, and bought a sleeveless top and a nice-but-too-big summer skirt. ...

1. Share a winter memory from your childhood. Oh--probably the blizzard of late January 1977 , thirty-nine years ago. 2. What was...

Fabric: free from Ponytails. Thread: on hand. Package of no-roll elastic: from Wal-mart. Sewing level: very easy.

Upper left corner: a large piece of fabric in a leaf  print. It's pretty, but pale; not something I'd use for clothes. But it...

I'm fascinated by Annie Kate's review of Smart but Scattered Teens by Guare, Dawson, and Guare. Books like this say a huge amount ...

Some words of welcome from our Hodgepodge hostess:  " Welcome to another edition of the Wednesday Hodgepodge. Please only link here t...

One long-running feature of Dewey's Treehouse has been Grandpa Squirrel's Sunday newspapers. The Squirrelings' Grandpa has been...

The background (oh, the vanity of it all): In my early twenties, I shucked out some money I couldn't afford for a colour/style analysi...

I am a bit ahead with the HomeStorageSolutions decluttering calendar, which is all about kitchen cupboards right now. There are some clutter...

20 Things You Should Read (From 20 writers who challenge us to live extraordinary lives). Compiled by David Edwards, Margaret Feinberg, Ja...

As I mentioned in the Frugal Finds and Fixes post , I bought a slate blue, cotton-polyester knit sweater dress at the thrift store. It was a...

Two weeks into 2016, the weather has been a string of snowfalls followed by lots of shovelling. I don't ski or sled; my idea of enjoying...

Why two green tops? Well, there were two green pieces of knit fabric, one darker, one lighter, and I couldn't decide which I liked b...

To make: take a large tube of pink knit fabric and cut it open to make a flat piece. Spread on table. Add another cloth to cover up the wh...

See the ball of denim-blue yarn hiding behind the lilac one? It's now a Slouchy Spiral Crochet Hat. The instructions are pret...

Part One Ponytails recently decided to clean out her stuff, and she gave me a bunch of yarn and fabric--felt, knits, some other bits and...

"Because we all know that what this world needs…. …..is a few more sea shells and pink flamingos." ThistlewoodFarms.com

My GoodReads challenge for 2016 is 40  47 books, and there are 50 on this list. Most of them are books I already own, with a few to hunt d...