Day 340
My mother when she was a child had a doll house that only came out to play during Christmas. This doll house even came with a Christmas tree with electric lights.
I guess I am doing something similar, setting up my Christmas Village. Placing its citizens in situations around town.
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| Snowy City Sidewalk |
My village has a pub, school house, train station, toy store, shops, post office, fire station,a wishing well to make a wish, a park with a gazebo just to name a few! There is even a Santa waiting for children to come to visit him!
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| City Sidewalk at Christmas time |
When Christmas is over, everything will be put safely away until next year when the citizens of Peddeville in Thow county will be happy to see each other again!
I used my cell phone to take these photos and I added the snow with an app on my phone for that Christmas Winter effect!
Thank you for taking a peek!
Until tomorrow
Jewels
"Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it ~ you don't feel it, you know it, you believe it."
Christmas villages are rooted in the elaborate Christmas traditions of the Moravian church, a small group of Germanic Protestants who fled to America in the 1700s to escape religious persecution in what is now the Czech Republic. The Moravians expand the German tradition of building miniature villages around the nativity screen, eventually gaining popularity in America in the 19th century. Although there are times when I get a little “Grinchy” and ask “why do we set up these sweet scenes of perfection?” I am gently reminded that it captures our imagination and there is a suspicion that this is what our life should be like. It is like we are home sick for as home we have not seen. And there I sit in the semi dark watching this perfect Village come to life with its lights and wandering people.
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