Our little village is a very windy place, and in winter it’s a very cold windy place, in summer it’s hot & windy, see how we distinguish the seasons? Our back garden has fantastic near-magical clothes-drying powers due to the wind and is great for running around in but LP’s playhouse hasn’t got much use recently as it is colddddd in there, brrrr…
So today during no-nap-time, myself & Littlepixie decided to bring her much neglected playhouse in from the garden and make it into an indoor hut for her. Cue a lot of water, washing down the whole house, removing countless slumbering spiders, and eventually disassembling half of the house in order to get it through the door. It was an early birthday present from my mum & dad, and LP kept telling me “Uh, grandad made that, you shouldn’t take it apart”!
It’s too big for under the stairs, so we have made a wee spot for it in the kitchen where her play kitchen and market live. She promptly moved the play kitchen and tea trolley (an old wooden vegetable rack!) into the house and stuck her head out the window to say” Uh, how do you know a princess lives here?”.
LP has decided that princesses live in houses with flags (we have a lot of local football fans around, there are always various team flags in gardens) so thus instructed, I scurried to my recently tidied fabric box, got the good old pinking shears, some ribbon and my stapler and made cute little pennants for the sides of the house. Then we scavenged around and found a couple of rugs, some cushions, a scarf draped over the top and many, many sticky hooks to hang up all her accoutrements and we were done! We put the market at the side window so we can play market shop too 
I present to you… Arabia! (LP is currently an Arabian princess, it will more than likely have a new name tomorrow, I don’t decide these things )
My mum had the fab idea of changing the decor with the seasons, can you imagine how splendid it’ll look when the winter fairies pay a visit?!
Gosh, I’m exhausted now, hopefully LP will nap tomorrow
Oh yes, and with regard to my previous post, I’m fairly sure that the dictionary definition of “declutter” is not “the act of moving a perfectly functional garden playhouse into your kitchen to fill up even more space”. I am so bad at decluttering
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This is adorable! MUCH prettier than my house, and I actually live in Saudi Arabia. Your daughter is so lucky to have such a creative and fun loving mom!
Oh, what a beautiful playhouse! And I’m so with LP on the flags. I’ve been wanting to make these for our dining room and courtyard for ages! I’ve cut out the triangles and they’re lying in a bag waiting for the next stage…
I love reading about the sweet things LP says. She must be such a joy to be with! I don’t understand mothers whose reason for returning to paid employment is that they’d be ‘bored, stuck at home with the kids all day’. I found that I could be exhausted, mentally frazzled and irritated, but never bored! (Also amused, fascinated and thrilled… And I wouldn’t have missed all those cuddles for anything…)
I love this house – you’re the best Mama in the world!
it is perfect”