My "pet" spider

This is just an ordinary European garden spider, but it's almost like a pet... she (I think - she's quite large and the females are bigger) has been living in my back entry for a few months now. She's been there long enough to have shed her carapace at least once. She's so used to us that she doesn't hide, even when we get very close. Most mornings she'll meticulously take apart her web and rebuild it and once a week or so it seems like she takes a break. She'll take apart her web and disappear into a crack in the window trim for a whole day. Emerging the next evening to remake her web once again.