{all work and no play... yet}

This is the house that Justin built.

Perhaps you remember it as the giant pile of wood that I showed you in September? (Inspired by a little playhouse we saw while on holiday in Denmark) Well, that's almost exactly what it still was until last weekend. Almost all this -- walls, studs, screws, paint -- in three days. I keep having to pop out into the garden and touch it, just to make sure it's really, really real.

There's still plenty more to do -- several more coats of paint on the inside, and a whole roof to go -- and then the proper fun can begin. Curtains! Pictures! Little window boxes full of bright little flowers! Oh, and Tilly will probably enjoy it a bit, too.

Our final deadline is the 29th of June -- Tilly's second birthday, when hopefully a little crowd of friends will help her warm her new home with apple-juice toasts and a little summer picnic!

{meanwhile, in texas...}

Leave a man alone for a week, and the house becomes a building site. Here are a few photos from Justin of the forest he has just cut down.

Without a certain someone running around chewing on wires, it seems all the drills and saws and other woodworky things that I don't know the names of have come out to play.

It has been a little rainy this week -- perhaps this is the beginning of our very own Slagle Ark? (Bella has a spot -- one more dog allowed!)