Cardboard, gesso, paint, glitter and loofah, mostly.

So... basically made out of the same materials as the full-size postwar houses, then. ;^)

I need to pick out which of the Lionel trains to keep out for Christmas. I've actually made it my new mission to sort and repack them all (but not back into the stinky trunk they came out of last Christmas season), since it's just not cool to have half the shelf and counter space in the garage occupied by dusty gear that I'm apparently not going to get around to fixing for *yet another year*. I'm thinking the picks (as will be case for the next few years) will have to be restricted to "sturdy and expendable". Last Christmas we were able to keep the trains out of a crawling-joey's reach, but this year I see trouble afoot (literally). My wife's been wanting to start a Village of her own to go with the trains, but... the rampaging toddler thing comes into play there as well. Probably not for a few more years.

That reminds me... In the garage last week I found a box of weird Christmas bulbs, including some of those bubbling-candle ones. I wonder if they work...

Yay, the season is approaching fast, ain't it?