This was my first experience with Paperclay, and of course I love it as much as everyone seems to! It's pretty forgiving, and working with an old credit card and some dental probes, it was happy to oblige me.

I'm not sure I like the scale of the window blocks to the edging blocks. I was trying to simulate a little cottage I saw once, but those window and door frames were rough hewn wood, while I wanted it to be more stone to go with the gingerbread arches of the kit.

So my framing stones are small and remind me of castle construction, while the edge I did first feels of a different type. I don't entirely know what to do to fix this. If the edging stones were smaller to match the frames, the whole house could begin to look like brick.

I should mention the walls between the stones will be stuccoed.

I'm also toying with the idea of making any protruding constructions (the doorway, alcove, and kitchen extension) built entirely of stone, but I haven't sold myself on that idea yet.