My awesome parents!

I might be a little biased but I think I have the best parents in the world!! Surely you remember the Repurposed TV Cabinet that Mum & Dad turned into a Play Kitchen for my little girl (If you haven't seen it you just have to click HERE to check it out)... well they have been at it again!
My sister, Carley, turned 30 just the other day. After her surprise party I planned HERE Carley and her hubby took a weeks holiday kid free as a special birthday treat so my gorgeous parents babysat Carley's 3 kids. This mini holiday had been booked in for some time and with a whole week of being around Mum & Dad decided they would build Carley's kids a cubby house while they were babysitting.

In the early stages of designing the cubby house mum decided it would be a 'Shop' so we have been collecting old food containers to stock the shelves


Dad made a 'checkout' bench inside the cubby & Mum found a wooden toy cash register & mini trolley on ebay for a bargain


They even had a shop sign made to hang above the door way


I made some oilcloth bunting to match the signage colours to hang around the front of the roof


And Dad made a pretend petrol bowser with a real petrol nozzle he found (I think the petrol bowser is my nephews favorite bit!


There is hours, days, weeks, months - YEARS of fun to be had in this new cubby!!.... I have put in an order for one at our house now :)

Wishlist Wednesday - Cubby Houses!

I love the wide world of 'Blog Land' - you never know where you'll end up and what you'll be reading next. Two blogs I follow have inspired me to write this post, Carley of Vanilla Pixie started a few weeks back Wishlist Wednesday on her blog. Carley states "There will be no hard & fast rules about what makes my list. Maybe the items will be divine, odd, personal, who knows..." so I figured I'd join in which is when I popped into another blog I follow, Chunky Chooky. Where Cath has just posted about cubby houses.... I adore cubby houses, tree houses, forts, caves etc etc and can't agree with Cath more when she says "I think children need there own little space to play"
I just can't wait until my little family and I buy a house some time this year and we can get serious about the perfect cubby! I'd love to find an original Gypsy Wagon to park in a special corner of our backyard, I can see hours of imagination games happening already.... until then I can dream... and share my finds with my first Wishist Wednesday.


Little Red Card Table Playhouse - what a great way to have a cubby house inside your house... all you need is a card table!


Children's Tepee / Wigwam / Tipee



Cottage bunkbed doll house and playhouse


For playing with inside the cubby house... The Breakfast Special