![]() ![]() With snow-covered streets, brightly lit homes and trees, and moving children playing around the tree in the town center while Christmas music plays. And when the holidays are over, shop our special. Holiday Traditions - courtesy of TodaysMama and Ga. A holiday scene from days gone by, this brightly light musical village is a delightful Christmas display. Get inspired by DIY holiday craft ideas and wrap those precious gifts with our seasonal ribbons and trim.Straight No Chaser - 12 Days of Christmas.On the top shelf, we have a residential neighborhood, with four homes, a small road, and some trees. In this post, I have shown how I set up the foundation of the display on each shelf, using styrofoam sheets. We don't light the buildings any longer, because I have not figured out a way to hide the cords nicely without drilling holes in the bookshelf. We currently display our village in a bookshelf that was hand-crafted for us by my dad. Maybe one day I'll start a different village collection - I'll never say never - but I don't see it happening any time soon. As crude and primitive as they are, our village pieces are still our favorites. ![]() But we've added none of these factory-made village pieces to our scene. There are all sorts of accessories that can be purchased to fill out the scene, and all sorts of styles and architectures. Of course, now there are many beautiful collectible villages available, and many of them are quite affordable considering inflation since 1989. Every year since then, we have displayed the Christmas village as part of our home's decorations. I think the second or third year, we added a box full of villagers, so that our village would have little people in it. In the three years after that, we added more kits, until we had all of the buildings that were offered, and actually, the kits were no longer being sold. ![]() In the Christmas of 1989, our Christmas Village was officially incorporated! We spent our evenings in November carefully (but not very skillfully!) painting our kits. Each kit cost us $9.99, and contained two buildings, a set of acrylic paints, and a wiring kit for lighting up the village. We splurged and purchased four plaster kits from the craft store. So we looked for something to do together to build our home. Our first Christmas after graduating from college, we had just recently moved far away from our family to take our first "real" jobs. We were young, had very little, but we had each other, and we had our evenings free. ![]()
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