I really enjoyed working with this one. I kept it pretty simple. The hardest part was to cut the arches out with the jig saw. I found the molding for the top and sides of the arches at Michaels and glued them on, then painted them. I wanted the floor to look marble or granite and so used different colors mixed together. So it was a very simple design but does the job. I had seen where someone had made a tiny crochet basket for their doves. My husband made this cute little dove cage with wire. He really gets into the detail. It makes it so much fun sharing and doing these projects with someone. I made the doves along with the four figures out of Sculpy clay from Walmart. I had done the same with the Baby Jesus but it got so dirty from the children's loving hands that someone replaced it with this plastic one from the Autom catalog. I've painted it and it looks like the other figures now. So much nicer and the perfect size and fit.
Noami Sogan, another catechist made this beautiful temple. Would you believe that she got her pillar columns at the cake section in Joannes! We use her temple in our atrium because it is deinitely the nicest I've ever seen.
