At Home with Hello Kitty, a box of boxes, crowd control and a stair case.

At last my At Home with Hello Kitty collection is complete.

It felt odd doing anything with it until it was, other than actually putting the house together.

It meant that I could use it for storage whilst the collection grew, and also became a refuge for the Cabbage Patch Lil Sprouts that my BFC ink girls had given up in their big move else where (the cupboard of shame (mine not theirs)).

 

This choice resulting in...

 

  First job, to empty the house..

 

Alright you lot move it out..

 

 

The box of boxes

 

or rather, boxes of boxes and Lil Sprouts, I think they ended up in the box behind the other box.

 

Amongst the shamozzle we found Hello Kitty herself



 

The Lil' Sprouts nominated a representative, so these two will be showing you around and scale testing the items as we go.

 

hmm, excellent measuring there. We'll say Hello Kitty is about 2.5" and Lil Sprout lets say 5. (To be known as HK and LS from here, unless I forget). Here they stand on the top floor.

 

With the roof down and the girls standing at the window, already LS leads the way - she can actually see out of the window

 

 

Through the door way, HK fits with ease, and LS has no issue either.

 

 

This series offered the furniture, sometimes 1 2 3 pieces (ie a box or a bag of) per issue, along with a magazine of information, mostly about different houses from around the world, games and activities, and a sneak peek at what was to come with the next issue. With the Sixth delivery was to come the house itself (for free, sort of, you had to pay $20 for its delivery). Delivery meant 6 months after the the start, as it was delivered initially in 2 issue instalments per month, which was increased to 4 (maybe after realising it was going to take too long to do).

And the sneaky bit...

 

The stair case was the very last issue, so really I did have to wait for 65 issues, and 18 months to complete the collection to do anything with it.

 

Mostly because, smack bang in the middle of the house is a great whopping hole

 

 

But with staircase installed it is complete, and really I think if they'd given it us any earlier than the very end I would have cancelled my subscription once I had the building with stairs.  I do realise there is no staircase to the top floor, but with a great hole in the floor it would have been a rip off without a staircase.

 

So lets test those sneaky things..

 

Staircase installed, might end up having to glue this in. The upper storey banister has little sticky dots so its fine, the stair case is just sort of staying there, there is a tiny lip on the downstairs doorway to help keep it in place. Now whilst it looks like LS is travelling fine down the stairs, she is actually head butting the floor on the way down.

 

But still looks good. Her hair is helping her balance.

 

HK fits no problem, but the steps are so narrow, and she is quite heavy, she does a Jack and Jill and comes tumbling down. She is pictured here looking good, cos I've got my finger on her head.

And under the stairs, plenty of room for Harry Potter.