I made this many years ago, for Taraz. Took 8 hours. I remember my Dad making an old fashioned general store for me, when I was in the 7th grade, a classroom project similar to this one. The roof came off, and inside the general store were bags of grain, cans of food, a scale, and many pioneer miniatures I'd collected.
I also made a little cabin for Laurel, out of a shoe box, when she was 7. For three years she lived with her father in Illinois, I lived in Montana. She came for a week's visit each year, and when she went back, on the airplane one year, she carried the little box, with a lid. She traveled all by herself, a direct flight. You cannot love a child from a distance. It requires proximity, and this was all I could send along with her, to remember me. Imagine, one week out of the entire year, to be with her Mother. I would never agree to that arrangement now that I know the toll it takes.
