The Playhouse Elves

Four year ago

I dreamed about a playhouse.

A PLAYHOUSE?

MyHero thought I had gone 'round the bend.

Maybe I had...but it was

a great bend to go 'round.

I promised my dear

brother-in-law, Steve, that

I would bake him

cinammon rolls every day

if he would build me a playhouse.

I pictured a 5x6 playhouse about

5' tall.

My picture was equivalant to

a 4x6.

Steve's picture was more like

an 8x10!

Steve-Oh (as I like to call him),

MamasBoy & TheBrawny Man

worked together and

brought the dream to fruition.

We have the

MacDaddy of all playhouses..

'deed we do!

It has an upper loft that will

hold a twin sized mattress

when the kids are older

and can sleep up there.

Right now..it is just

a special little place

for girls to hang out.
We owned a window, siding

& door business.

The leaded glass windows

were salesmen's samples

that are used for all

the side windows.

The front door is an old

garage entry door..

cut down to size.

The big front window

was one we recycled when

we rehabbed a house.

My son found the

Lulu Avenue sign

at a 2nd hand store.

We call our granddaughter

LULU..

even though that's not her real name!

So here she is..

when she was first finished..These two little girls

were her first "owners",

Lulu and Ria.

I made Lulu's dress to

"match" Ria's dress.And then, of course,

along came

SweetCheeks..

Who has declared..

Thiss iss MY OHWN PLHAYHOUSE~

Alas, but summer is short here.

We close the playhouse for the

Season...

and Winter sets in.I look toward the playhouse after

dark..

It is snowing.

I can hardly see

through the snow.

Are those lights out there?I step softly off the back stoop

into the new fallen snow

and take a few steps

towards the little house.

The ELVES have

been here!

I am so excited I can hardly

hold my camera steady..

resulting in a slightly blurry picture...Closer.....Closer...And then I am upon it..

the lights are lit..

and the fence has...

WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Those crazy elves

FORGOT to put the garland

ON THE FENCE!

There's gonna be some

coal in a stocking somewhere.Not only that..

The Elves did NOT do a

very good job..

on hanging the

Mary Emmerling

Santa Claus flag..

It appears to have

blown away!>O

But there she is..

in all her glory..

waiting for the children to come

and see the magic

that the elves have wrought.And, even though you can't see it..

there is a lovely little

chandelier in the front

window

behind the tree.

Hurry, hurry,

Lulu, Ria & SweetCheeks...

Bring BabyE..

Come, come..

see what the

Elves have done!

I'll be turning handstands

til you get here!