have basic UI and a click event handler that only changes button colors so far.  Functions to print Thing Properties to DOM are almost finished.  need to add some styles. Next is to create a function that maintains a list of things, and add a mechanism for user to create a new Thing and add it to the list.
starting work on ThingModel
Added a lot.  We now have a model that stores list of Things as an object.  I separated the js into 4 files to keep stuff better organized (and got rid of closure function.  will deal with that later.) Finished makeAnyThing function on the ThingModel object.  made DOM functions into methods of a View object.  Laid out basic form fields and will now commence to get them working.