So I've decided that our summer project will be to build the little Ladybird her own treehouse.  I mean, really?  How fantastic is it to have a TREEHOUSE?????  Maybe I love this idea so much because I never had a yard big enough for something so amazing... and maybe it's because I know that she will, in all likelihood, be living in a big city after this year.  Well, for whatever reason, I know the end result will be amazing!!

In my quest for inspiration, I found some great links.  My favorite is on WEBURBANIST (click on the title link for full article!)  Oh, and, umm... I don't thin mine will look quite like those pictured here, but hey- you have to dream big!

10 Amazing Tree Houses from Around the World: Sustainable, Unique and Creative Designs

It’s one thing to chain oneself to a tree in order to save it, but quite another to live in one! In order to save 400+ year old trees, a group of activists has been doing just that on impromptu suspended platforms that currently constitute the tallest “tree house” in the world (top images above). One clever designer has developed a series of conceptual strategies shown in the above images to take this approach to the next level. With just 13% of these old-growth trees left, these new structures would link from tree to tree providing habitats but also protecting the natural environment.

The 4Treehouse by Lukasz Kos floats like a “Japanese lantern on stilts” and is situated to accommodate four existing trees on the site. As with the best tree house designs, this project successfully worked around the existing natural site conditions. The three-story house itself rents suspended from these four primary site trees.