I've kind of been daydreaming all morning about ideas for downtown Pleasantville.
Last night we were playing in town square, and Greta started working on a drawing of how we want all the buildings to look when my dad builds them. Right now they're all made of cardboard except for Cristal and Suzanne's apartments, so my dad is eventually going to replace Clara's Sweet shop, the general store, Bamboo Terrace, the Post Office, and the Bank. The plan is to add an extra story on some of the buildings, such as Clara's Sweet Shop. Angelica would live on the top floor.
Then Cristal has had a brilliant idea to open her own Clothes Boutique, (since she already takes orders from people and sews them dresses) and she would sell hats and hair adornments and ballgowns and day dresses and suits for the men. She's already decided that Sonja would work there at the front desk, so that Sonja could earn enough money to go to the hair salon even more! ;)
Then the Merriman's General store would have an extra room attached to it that would be for the new Tavern, which would serve hearty soups and breads and have live entertainment.. etc.
On top of the tavern, Megan and Allison would get an apartment on top of the Tavern. (They're not living anywhere right now! :-/)
Lisa would get to live on top of Cristal's Clothes Boutique, which would be right next to the bank, so she could always keep an eye out on it!
The bank is going to look amazing when my dad has time for it. He has plans for pillars in the front, and steps leading to the door, and all this grand stuff that we saw on old buildings in Dublin when we were there last year.
*sigh*... Pleasanvtille planning is so much fun!!!!!
I don't know what my sisters and I are going to do without being able to play in Pleasantville for 5 whole weeks. We'll probably have made up so many stories by the time we get back home, since whenver we're away from the dolls for a while we start having conversations between certain characters anyway.
Okay, I've got to go teach.
See you all next week!
Love,
Willow
