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...