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Any ideas for our daughters new wendy house ??

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 18:32

Hi we have just had a gorgeous wooden wendy house built for our 3 year old daughter in our back garden. It is quite big and has an upstairs too. I just wondered if anyone has any ideas as to what to have inside it.
Also what to have outside as it as a verander. I'm going to have plant pots a wind chime and she has a peter rabbit and jemima puddleduck for the front from past times. I was wondering about firy lights for the evening?
I'd be rally greatfull for any ideas to make it fun for her. Thanks.

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 19:34

falcon- I think you'd have to arrange that with my daughter. A packet of chocolate buttons and a night garden DVD would probubly do it.

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eandh · 24/07/2008 19:35

I am obsessed with the thing, I see things and think oooo they'll like that, I have some pics if you want to see them?

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 19:37

Oh, yes please!

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eandh · 24/07/2008 19:38

hang on let me find a way to link them

snooks · 24/07/2008 19:44

flllight - ds1 and 2 friends (all aged 3-ish) were outside this afternoon playing in ds's wendy house. I had a look inside and it wasn't exactly homely. They had used their diggers to dig up the ground it stands on, filled the 'sink' with earth and the 'cooker' was piled high with old sticks and feathers and dirt and god knows what.

Hopefully my time will come with dd3

at your house mummyloveslucy, don't suppose you want to swap??!

eandh · 24/07/2008 19:48

hope this works

falcon · 24/07/2008 19:49

I'm sure I could manage two packets of buttons and a dvd in exchange for use of such a lovely wendy house.

Does she allow pets? I have 2 lizards.

iheartsunsets · 24/07/2008 19:49
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eandh · 24/07/2008 19:51

well they'd have to fight charlie (the plastic hedgehog outside!!)

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 19:54

Aww, how gorgeous! I love the curtain fabric, where did you get that?
It looks really homely, I love the flowers on the table too.

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 19:56

I'm sure she wouldn't mind a couple of lizards. Definatly no dogs though, as she is scared of them.

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eandh · 24/07/2008 20:00

fabric was in dunelim mill (sp) dd1 really wanted red and white gingham but they didnt have any and that material was in the remnant section (my mum said it was a bugger to sew as its quite thick) dad fitted it onto net curtain wire and hooks

DH is not diy orientated he spent 6 hours building the thing for my Dad to turn up tell him (nicely) that he had the wrong bits on worng sides took it apart and built the whole thing in an hour

Over the winter I asm painting the inside pale pink with white ceiling and am desperate to paint the outside cream with pink door/window frames but dh likes it wooden [grrr]

missblythe · 24/07/2008 20:01

LOVE the phone, eandh!

Mummyloveslucy, will you leave it wood, or paint it like a beach hut? My vote is for a lovely duck-egg blue, with cream windows.

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 20:11

It has been preserved in a warm wood colour and we are going to paint bits of it in forget me not blue.

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mummyloveslucy · 24/07/2008 20:18

eandh- you should go ahead and paint it whatever colour you like. What do men know about wendy houses ??

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eandh · 24/07/2008 20:18

that phone was 20p at a bootfair (I was doinf one to get rid of toys whilst dd1 went and spent some of my profits on other stuff )

eandh · 24/07/2008 20:20

I'll do the inside first I'll need either dh or my dad to help me lift it to do the sides )dad built a small patio area fo it to stand on but dd1 wants decking like we have so thats Dads next job!)

Flllight · 25/07/2008 07:22

Hey Snooks

Looks like a boy thang...

I forgot to mention the little brass bell that came with ours - it is really sweet, has a dangly bit to ring with a bit of string! That's the best bit. Also my mum found him a tiny PIR light so he could go there after dark and it turned on when he was approaching. That was lovely till he decided he needed to see how it worked and pulled the wires out.

Gosh the frustration levels I reach are undocumented. I do need one of my own!

Ds2 seems more gentle. I have a mini kitchen for him when he is bigger. The last one was completely trashed!

RealityGap · 25/07/2008 23:56

By mummyloveslucy on Thu 24-Jul-08 18:45:49
I'm not showing off, honest !!
I an very pleased with it though. I love it more than my daughter. Anyway, lovely ideas. I didn't even think of curtains, the table cloth will have to match them of corse.
We are having a wendy house warming party too. All her little friends will come.

I'm shocked and appauled that you could love a wooden wendyhouse more than your own daughter - are you some sort of monster????

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mummyloveslucy · 26/07/2008 19:46

I meant I love it more than my daughter does!!!

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mummyloveslucy · 26/07/2008 19:53

Oh and I'm not a monster either, just a crap typest.
There is nothing on this earth that I love more than my daughter.

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RealityGap · 26/07/2008 22:25

Mummyloveslucy - I was only pulling your leg I was fully aware that you wouldn't love a pile of wood more than your adorable (I'm guessing here) DD

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mummyloveslucy · 27/07/2008 19:05

Oh, that's o.k then. You can never tell on hear wether someone is joking or not.

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Littlefish · 27/07/2008 19:33

We've just bought one for dd. I spent hours making beautiful lilac gingham curtains with purple ribbon tab tops.

I love the idea of a hanging basket and some tubs outside.