"My favorite project, I think, would probably be one of the Victorian Mansions. I built the house up and put a fence around it and really had fun with the landscaping - brick walkways as well as brick retaining walls!" said Lori.

"I think that all of them have been favorites while they were in progress! I get very passionate about each one when my Muse is working overtime. And each one has a special place in my heart, but the one that means the most to me is Wise Ways Emporium, a tribute to my Great-Grandmother. In fact, I had a doll custom made in her likeness to be the proprietress of the shop. Wise Ways was always destined to be in a Brimbles Mercantile but they were unavailable when I started the project so the shop resided in a front opening house for about a year until the laser cut Brimbles was released.

"It was only two months after it was released that Sarah Ann moved in! Not only was the shop a lot of fun to build, but the landscaping came together as it only can when something is meant to be. There's even a brass cage that is home for my Great Grandfather who was a bit of a philanderer in real life. In this incarnation, he has the shape of a frog which seems very appropriate," said Deb.

Do you have the story of a great house from your past,
present or even a dream of your future that is begging
to be created? Pull up your computer and take a trip,
the CDHM Galleries are waiting.