Did You Forget the Itty-Bitty House?
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We didn't forget. It kept pace with the main house, receiving the same blue for the sides, tiny multi-brick-colored dots with a stiff paintbrush to imitate variegated brick, and the part that this photo can't do justice to: the roof.
Yes, the roof is made up of the tiniest chips of real slate, flakes gathered from the shaping of the big house's roof shingles. None is larger than a 1/16th to an 1/8th of an inch. In person, that roof is something to see.
It was pretty easy to shingle it: gather the little flakes up, coat the whole roof with white glue, and gently sprinkle them on. Gather what falls off, and sprinkle again, pressing the flakes into the glue so they lay flat. For the few holes that remain, dab glue and apply a couple more chips.
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