Welcome to Frosty Falls - Wendy Bray, author of the Frosty Falls stories, talks us through the village she has created
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00:00Yeah, so the town square has all the pavement squares you can see that's all
00:04literally been hand-carved, took many many hours. I knew they wanted the
00:09buildings to sit up so we've got again the pavement this year that's all been
00:15built. I'm particularly proud of my green space. I've made the path, I've made this
00:22grass, started off just with painting it green and painting the pathway beige.
00:26Got a little raised seating area in the middle and then the grass is made with
00:31flocking and reindeer moss. I think the pièce de résistance in the village has
00:36got to be the ski slope. I literally made this, the rocks are made from,
00:42believe it or not, toilet paper and PVA glue. I didn't have a clue what I was
00:47doing, it was very much sort of hit and miss, but balled up toilet paper,
00:52dunked in PVA glue and kind of slopped under the wall and yeah I think the
00:59rockiest rocks you ever did see. Started with the four market stalls because I
01:04just wanted to bring an element of the Christmas village in without going mad
01:07with money and then we went to the Hamilton Arms, the B&B and the Primrose Inn
01:14park. I'm pretty sure it was the post office after that and a
01:17couple of shops. Then I had to get the houses so that the residents of
01:22Frosty Falls had somewhere to live and there's the ski slope, the North Pole
01:27around the other side. So the wind blows over Frosty Falls this way, so it blows
01:36over the North Pole going this way and it hits the top of the ski slope.
01:41Because the snow in the North Pole is magic, every now and again the wind will
01:46carry a magical flake from the North Pole over into Frosty Falls and that's
01:50where the magic happens and that's that's kind of where the imagination for
01:54all of my stories has come from, it's a magic.
02:03I've got me in the town.