The Structures:
Ellee's and Will's houses are in the front of the first picture - we built them with a sugar paste so they could eat the whole thing when it was over. But the paste was difficult to work with and caused quite a bit of stress trying to make it work easily...so Abby and I reverted to hot glue for our houses - it's just cleaner. I opted to build a split-level home, also known as a tri-level, which gained popularity in the home design business in the 1980s. It's a little plain right now, but it will be a really charming home in just a few more pictures. Abby built a mansion, which is cool, too, I suppose.
Okay, onward.
Our Design Tools:
And the completed home:
And the Details:
Picture Top Left: the Orange Sour Patch Kid is the dad trying to put up the Christmas lights around the house - he's hanging on for dear life. Which is why you shouldn't try and hang lights without a ladder or supervision. Or in the dark, since Picture Right necessitates it being nighttime.
Picture Right: the Doorstep Scene (oo la la). And the yellow dots in the windows are candles.
Picture Bottom Left: a Snowman. I wanted to make him look like a normal snowman, bigger at the bottom and smaller at the top. But it looks something like a snowclown, with its big nose. Whatever.
And the Rest of the Town:
Ellee's Shack.
Will's Frat House.
It was a pretty impressive neighborhood. To say the least.
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