Welcome to the Treasure Hunt for the October issue of Prim Perfect magazine! I will be your guide as we tour the grid searching for FOURTEEN items offered by talented designers and store owners. To complete the Treasure Hunt challenge, you need to visit each store, find the featured item, and note its prim count. Instructions on how to find the prim count of an item can be found either on page 94 of the magazine or on our Treasure Hunt Information Page. For participating, you may win something wonderful from the Prim Perfect prize cabinet, created by one of these designers.
Today we’re traveling to see some lovely prefab cottages and homes by Liz Gealach at Thistle Homes in Avendale. The headquarters for the company can be found within a converted firehouse. You can see the fire engine still parked outside. Inside, Liz offers some cute accessories such as a box of oriental rugs, a flaming toaster, and a lamppost with a personalized sign. To celebrate spring or fall, you could purchase a box of leaves or flowers to scatter on the ground, and they come with two sitting poses. While you’re inside the shop, you absolutely have to try the working fireman’s pole and have a go at the Whack-A-Mole game!
Right now there are about 8 buildings offered, and informational signs inside the firehouse can give you the basic information about each building. If you head out the back door of the firehouse, you can rez a copy of each house in a special demo area. The featured item for the Treasure Hunt is “The Whimsical” home. The home is tintable, but it comes in a tan stucco with mossy patches on its curving slate roof. True to its name, this home has many angular lines inside the cottage and a mixture of rectangular and circular windows. The interior has knotty wooden floors throughout with walls painted a mossy green downstairs and a warm rose upstairs. A fire blazes in the fireplace and smoke rises from the chimney. Open a hatch in the upstairs to access the roof. A cast iron railing keeps you safe while you look around. Also on the roof are two skylights, allowing natural light into the second floor. All the homes also come with privacy windows and lockable doors from a control panel inside the house. So how many prims make up “The Whimsical”? That’s your challenge to find out!
To participate in the treasure hunt challenge, we ask you to find as many prim counts as you can for each of the magazine’s treasure hunt items. Email the counts to primperfect@gmail.com along with your avatar name and the answer to the tiebreaker question which can be found on page 94 of the magazine. The winner will be the person who is closest to an accurate prim count, and in the event of a tie, the tiebreaker question will be used. Your answers are due by December 1, 2008. Please remember – you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Have fun and keep watching these clues.
If you missed them, check out our earlier clues here:
October Treasure Hunt – Clue 1: Beck’s
October Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Antique Artistry
October Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: KitStar Designs
October Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: C & D Designs
Happy hunting!
Prim Perfect 