LOTS of gorgeous cabins...

http://cabinporn.com/

Fairytale Cottage

Oh my...check out the link, this IS magical...


http://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/house-tours/a3872/fairie-door-english-cottage/?mag=hbu&click=c1_article_articles_yr_1

Our Old Cabin

Our old cabin I've mentioned here before was featured in this article by small-house dweller and writer Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell.  Thank you, Kerri, nice job!

The photo is from a recent visit out there...fire on the deck, candle lanterns, delight...

http://communitytable.com/396035/kerrifivecoatcampbell/tiny-retreat-in-the-woods-a-real-treat-for-writerartist/

Shed of the Year Slideshow

It's always fun to see the nominees for the shed of the year competition...what great creativity and imagination!  The one above is soooo appealing to me. 

Check 'em out here:


http://www.shedblog.co.uk/2015/05/18/shed-year-2015-finalist-revealed-public-voting-opens-decide-category-winners/

Full, Juicy Spring at the Shed

GREEN.  We've had lots of rain this year...

We moved the old chairs around by the fire pit...niiiiice...

...and proceeded to enjoy it!

Morning, coffee, fire...LOVE it.

Look who is back!

Sweet Cecily

Honeysuckle

Gooseberries...

The path behind the shed...

Columbines

Lambsquarter

April at the Shed...

Sunset through the back window...

My herb tea mixture...

Old, old yellow tulips planted before my time...

We made a new seating area around the seldom-used firepit...I suspect it will see a lot more use now.

Happy!

Looks like it's in the midst of a forest rather than between two houses...

LOTS of violets...

Pepi helps me read Grandma's wildflower book

Belle at the door

They're back!

Hotei seems happy!

Sweet cecily...

Amazing build...

Well, THIS is pretty amazing...this 16 year old girl built this tiny house...for the homeless! The inspiring story is here: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/social-affairs/20150216/santa-cruz-woman-builds-tiny-house-donates-to-homeless

Brava, Kendall Ronzano!

Woodcutter's Cottage is SO COOL

http://tinyhouseswoon.com/woodcutters-cottage/

Unfortunately this is another one that I can't share images, so go take a peek, too cool!

Our Old Cabin in the Woods

This was my first effort in building...it's 14 x 16, electricity but no water, and still very close to my heart if not as close to my back door as the shed!  I did the sketch last fall...

And this is the book I got to write about that process...I was 20+ years younger then, and did about half the actual construction myself.  WOW that is hard work...

The other shed...

I don't have one of these at the Shed of Reality, it's just a few steps to my own back door and a nice warm bathroom, but I lived with an outhouse for 7 years on our farm, and we have one at our old cabin where running a water or sewer line was not an option.

We've had vandals, wildlife, falling tree limbs and more in the 20+ years since I built this little backhouse--it just recently got a new roof, and Joseph seems to have solved the wildlife problem...

Sometimes a shed needs a shed, too...

So it was fun to run across this link on the Shedworking blog!  http://www.shedworking.co.uk/search/label/Thursday%20Outhouses

One of the best school bus conversions I've seen!

http://tinyhousefor.us/tiny-house-spotlight/couple-transforms-school-bus-into-a-seriously-cozy-home/

I'd love to share an image, but they're watermarked...just check out the link!

Life at the Shed

This is my mezzuzah-like construction that hangs by the door to the shed...it reminds me I'm entering a very special place, a place to work, dream, write, paint, meditate...

Each piece means something special to me.  The top rock is from one of my heart homes in the Ozarks, Bennett Spring--it's rugged and sharp. Then, there's a crinoid I found in my creek to remind me of ancient life and prehistory and time. The silver spiral my mother in law gave me--I love spirals, and it peeps from a knothole in the wood. Then a big, rough ammonite...I have a thing about fossils...then, a crystal, a tiny sterling silver sunface, and a wee bottle with quotes that are meaningful to me. Oh, and the wood itself weathered off the edging for my old garden...wabi-sabi and nature and the sacred, all in one construction.

And recent wintry sketches...I love my bear pendant and the stone face that appears and disappears depending on the light...

Inspirations...as if I'm going to build ANYTHING else...

Built by hand, by the owner and friends, using local materials and visible constructions details and lovely wabi-sabi, a house one with nature...

http://capefalconkayak.com/japanesehouse.html






...and the top ten Tiny Houses of the year... http://tinyhouselistings.com/the-top-10-tiny-houses-of-2014/?doing_wp_cron=1420723319

I'm reasonably sure I've built my last structure...short of a greenhouse or chickenhouse!...but I can't help loving these small spaces.