Patience is a virtue?

I’m not feeling very virtuous. My house has not arrived yet, and I am so ready to start. I have set up a work area upstairs and have got all the supplies I probably need, with more on the way in the post. I have collected:

• balsa wood strips for siding

• balsa wood bits and pieces for anything else I come up with

• icy pole sticks

• glues of various consistencies

• egg cartons (luckily we had a barbecue to end the year at school and I asked for them – we don’t eat a lot of eggs) for bricks – I am going to attempt to add a chimney

• emery boards

• craft knives

• scissors

• paint

• paintbrushes

• cardboard containers

• boxes with plastic sheeting in case I need windows

You see, I took my Brown Owl very seriously and am PREPARED. Now I just need the house!