handcrafted buildings

I'm obsessing over this amazing cob house in Texas today!  The New York Times just did a profile of it, and it's so much like a house I stumbled on at the Children's Garden in Ithaca, New York, when we were just on vacation there.  My  kids were playing in this terrific troll house:

A woman at the park said her neighbor was the guy who built it.  She gave me his name, and I checked out his website and I was just totally enchanted with the idea of these hand-built houses.  

Here's what the troll ho