Creative minds again please

Subject: Creative minds again please Tue 01 May 2007, 2:44 pm

OK...may I ask once more for the use of your creative minds!You gave me alot of ideas for the kitchen,,Id like to get ideas on a playhouse/tree house from you all.We have access of free lumber right now,,,not real sure how much but what ever is free is less than what we have to go purchase!

Anyway we plan on using the corner of the backyard as a tree house type playhouse for grandkids...its only gonna be maybe 4-6 feet in the air on stilts/post..it can have 2 levels if needed...But,,what I need from you all are some great ideas for it,,or things to add to it for the kids.The ages are 2 to 8(soon to be 9)

Maybe a lookout tower,,or a cabin,,or has anyone built before ,,what did you do to yours...thanks so so much for the ideas! idea

Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Tue 01 May 2007, 5:03 pm

I have never made anything like that so I am no help,but I just wanted to tell you Donna that you are one cool Granny!!! queen

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Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Tue 01 May 2007, 7:07 pm

OOO,,lol thanks GentleRain! Smile

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Well, our play house is tall and skinny...insdide we cut out a door and built a ladder to go up and out the door to a balcony that wraps around to the front and connects to a slide. It has a door and a window in the front and a diamond shaped window in the side...we put bark mulch all around... Smile

Hope this helps!

Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Tue 01 May 2007, 8:59 pm

I love the slide addition kim, that'd be so fun!

Donna, I've no experience of treehouses unfortunately but what a wonderful idea for your grandkids.
It'd be so great for kids to spend creative time away from t.v. and computer games etc...
A 'treasure-chest' with card-games, board-games, crayons and sketchpads, and most importantly...torches...would be good...maybe include a picnic rug or sleeping bags to sit on?
I read about someone using a bucket/pail attached to a rope for lifting smaller items up and down. A bell attached to a rope might be good too.
Someone even included a mailbox!!!
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Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Wed 02 May 2007, 1:56 pm

These are great ideas,,love the balcony and the bucket on a rope idea too!

Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Thu 03 May 2007, 10:44 pm

A chest with dress up clothes, hats, pirate and gypsy garb, princess dresses, wigs and scarfs.
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Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Fri 04 May 2007, 1:01 am

we only had boys in ours they had a rope swing ladder ... lots of boys stuff ... now our grands have a plastic play house ...
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WE have a mailbox and we also put a big tube in the plahouse with and openeing in the front bottom and then another opening in the top back...they talk to each other like a telephone...LOL...
I think I may do the bucket idea...ours also has a play kitchen in it and their own gardens are in the front "lawn" of their playhouse Smile

What fun to be a kid!!!

Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Fri 04 May 2007, 2:00 pm

Thats so true Kim,,I just love when my grandkids play games like the old days instead of videos, tv ,computer games.So much fun with them going on little hikes around the block looking for bugs and worms!LOL

Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Fri 04 May 2007, 4:25 pm

my DH built a swing bridge for them betwwen to trees .. they have a slide rope swings..our kids are out siders from about May until November .. they already got the big boys to put up the tents and the got the jet skis , and boats out we are waiting for Summer ..
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I'm just stuck on that you were a grandmother at 36, Donna!!! Shocked

what age were you when you became a mother??? scratch

I just turned 43, and I have a 24 year old & a 21 year old, so...I COULD be a grandmother, but whoooo! You're only 45! I would absolutely, positively LLLOOOOVVVEEEE to be a grandmother!!! Very Happy

By the way, The mailbox idea for the treehouse is WONDERFUL!!!! I love you

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Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Sun 06 May 2007, 9:24 pm

Thanks Cheapy,,LOL,,I feel like a grandma!! with all the aches and moaning I do after wworking LOL
I became a mom at 19,,young but I wanted to get married to high school sweetheart and become a mom more than anything.
But sadly divorced him 15 yrs later and I have remarried my new hubby almost 6 years ago,,,I got it right this time!LOL

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Oh, Donna! I hear ya!! I had my first child at 18, and like I said, he is 24...been going with the sweetest girl for 6 years now, and still won't commit to marriage! Crying or Very sad

She will be 24 this mionth & she REALLY wants to have her children before age 30, but with no ring on her finger from "Mr. Stubborn"~ Rolling Eyes

~she is quite the confused, sad upset, anxious, frustrated, little girlfriend. Crying or Very sad

(and I'm quite the confused, sad upset, anxious, frustrated, little mother! Crying or Very sad

).
He has told her that he wants her to be his wife (both in conversation, and in a love letter)...someday. But I'm just afraid that with time ticking away, she may not wait for him. I know he would like to have some money put away for the situation, but he doesn't appear to be saving(focusing) for it either, so I don't know how he thinks it will happen! Rolling Eyes

without a little effort, ya know?
Argggg....I don't know. I think I'm almost as upset about it as she is. I know he's "only" 24, and that's not like pushing-30, but still....
Thanks for listening to me vent~ Wink

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Subject: Re: Creative minds again please Mon 07 May 2007, 10:13 am

you ladies are so brave I got my boys at the old age of 25 my first born was born aat 27 ...and I was scared to death .... when Mike was born I was 42 and now I am grandma ... it good very good
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