
My early Christmas present to myself for 2024. I opened this early because I want to have the time to build it while I'm off from work. A little LEGO building time each day in addition to walking, cooking, movies, and reading sounds like just the thing. This set should make a nice accompaniment to set 10305: Lion Knight's Castle.

Bag 1

We begin with the carpenter/woodworker minifig and several small builds mostly for her shop, but it also includes a cart selling cheese and bread. I love the storytelling already on view with the 3-legged table (propped up by a stump) and a new table leg turning on the lathe. A stickered tile on the broken table shows plans for a chair, and then we build the exact chair.
Bag 2

The ground floor of the woodworker's shop boasts a neat blue and white awning. I especially enjoyed the mushrooms growing on the front lawn.
Bag 3

The upper floor of the woodworker's shop has a folding ladder and a crane to help transfer heavy items.
Bag 4

We build the thatched roof of the woodworker's shop and a small peasant's cart, and with this I believe the woodworker's shop is now complete.
Bag 5

The ground floor of the farm house is built in the Tudor half-timbered style. There's a hearth and a rack holding different colors of yarn. I appreciate the out-of-context chopsticks hanging from one wall.
Bag 6

The farmhouse roof gets a dark thatched treatment with an inset half-circle window.
Bag 7

The farmhouse gets a garden complete with a beehive and even a bee.

For the interior we get the weaver's loom and a stickered tapestry with a castle scene. This completes the farmhouse and it is attached to the woodworker's shop by a pair of hinges.
Bag 8

We start building the cheesemaker's shop in a tan and brown half-timbered style. The counter holds many types of cheese. I love the little white kitten.
Bag 9

We complete the walls of the cheesemaker's shop. I like the high shelf with a bit more cheese plus a random mug.
Bag 10

The cheesemaker's shop gets a thatched roof and chimney.
Bag 11

Squirrel and goat! I guess the cheesemaker makes goat cheese. This fenced garden completes the cheesemaker's shop and it is attached via hinges to the other side of the woodworker's shop.
Bag 12

A shady tree with a shady crossbow-toting Wolfpack member loitering beneath it. (The Wolfpack were a short-lived LEGO Castle bad guy sub-theme from the early 90's.)
Bag 13

The foundations for a tavern. The cobbled stone steps leading up to the entrance are especially nice.
Bag 14

The ground floor of the tavern comes together with a tapped keg. It's empty, so the barrel filed with transparent yellow tiles on the peasant's cart must be its replacement.
Bag 15

The ground floor of the tavern comes together with a tapped keg. It's empty, so the barrel filed with transparent yellow tiles on the peasant's cart must be its replacement.