Building a Better Birdhouse

I built a birdhouse once. It was a spectacular cottage version, complete with a stone pebble chimney and popsicle-stick white picket fence. I had so much fun making it. Ideas came fast and furious for new, bigger and better birdhouses. I only made the one. I've got a small room downstairs that is full of all the things you could possibly need to paint, quilt, sew, crochet, and knit. I've only knit one scarf for my husband. It is narrow at one end and as big as a baby blanket at the other. I've made one baby quilt, one full-sized quilt,... one daughter and one son. I've got one dog, and, best of all, I've got one great husband who puts up with all the things that I think I've got to; like run, take violin lessons, blog, etc., etc., etc.,...