Hope everybody is enjoying their Memorial Day weekend!

Aside from having a birthday party for my daughter who turned 4 yesterday, I began work on a repro of the 10th Ave Angel house. This house is extra special to me because it is the closest of all the MIJ houses that looks like the one I grew up in. Because of the rarity of the original I am making one that I'll probably give to my Dad and Brother. I can't wait to share it with them, as I'm so thrilled to own one.

I altered the house I'm building from the original I own to match the one that is in the movie. If you look at the second story, the movie house has 4 windows and 3 portholes. The left side of the movie house has a few more windows than mine too.
My original is missing a tree, and a fence post that I will be replacing along the way with this new build.

Hoping to shoot it with it's first coat of primer tonight.

Brian...another great project!...you're just what the hobby needs...young builders with time on their side...now if you hurry you can build every HOM on Ted's site...I see that I'm not the only one who works in front of the computer

Howard...

WONDERFUL!

GREAT! When you're done, I just MIGHT add the photo back to that page on the Papa Ted's archive.

I have never heard of that movie until today. Now I will need to seek it out so I can see what the movie house looks like! I can't wait to see the finished house!

Lee, Antoinette's husband John took a couple of screen captures from the movie. Antoinette sent them to Papa Ted and he published them here:

http://cardboardchristmas.com/papateds/putz3.html

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement!

Howard it would be great to do all the houses of the month! I may do the whole "fair set" for fun! I own one other house from that group.
I love working in front of the computer! I do all my templates on the computer, it is really easy to size stuff and if something happens to my pattern I can print a new one.

Paul, thats cool! If you want good pics of my original, that one might be neat to put up because of the small variations in the windows.

Maria, Thanks!, and I just ordered some of those little red Pips from the link you gave out a while back, can't wait to get them for my trees!

Lee, I haven't seen the movie either, we have a neat video store here in Portland, and I keep forgetting to check to see if they have it. I love the screen grabs on Ted's site, and of course Antoinette's house is amazing, I have pictures of it up in the background while I was working on the second story windows for my new one.

Here are some more pics, a couple in primer and I did a little coco work today too.

Looks really, really good!

Good Evening!

Got the 10th Ave house all finished up!! My pips came in today, and I was able to finish the trees. Here are the pics.
-Brian

One more pic..