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Who else is in the holiday spirit?!

Days of Christmas past... In our younger days we use to build a Dicken's Village under our tree and beyond as the village grew. These pics are from the last few years we put the village up in it's entirety. It took years to accumulate a village this size. Many were Christmas gifts and some were splurges that we bought ourselves. Hubby did the hard work: the layout, trains, tunnel, lighting, placement of the buildings all crawling under the tree to do it. Then I join in placing the trees, fences, people and finishing touches of fallen snow, etc. It was a lot of fun but not doable for us any longer (at least not under the tree and not to this big of a scale). We could take over our dining room table, but then someone else will have to host Christmas dinner as I only have one table!

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JudyNY said:
Days of Christmas past... In our younger days we use to build a Dicken's Village under our tree and beyond as the village grew. These pics are from the last few years we put the village up in it's entirety. It took years to accumulate a village this size. Many were Christmas gifts and some were splurges that we bought ourselves. Hubby did the hard work: the layout, trains, tunnel, lighting, placement of the buildings all crawling under the tree to do it. Then I join in placing the trees, fences, people and finishing touches of fallen snow, etc. It was a lot of fun but not doable for us any longer (at least not under the tree and not to this big of a scale). We could take over our dining room table, but then someone else will have to host Christmas dinner as I only have one table!
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My mom had a Christmas village she used to put up. It took her weeks to set it up. I wish I had a picture to share with you. It was very elaborate. She collected for years. Your village brought back a lot of memories.
 
The local dr/hospital messed all the pre surgery tests up but then St. Louis Barnes repeated all the tests he got locally in October. Then St Louis Barnes REPAIRED his valve 10 days before my surgery. The deal is that they are talking REPLACING it now. But first we need a cardiologist that is not local. He has never met the “local heart Dr.” He has only seen the nurse practitioner.

Today I got the last purchased present wrapped, but I still need to think of something for my son who custom requests his gifts. Then something for his current lady companion. I am told she is not his girlfriend.

I also worked on replacing elastic in swimsuit bottom (think I need to replace the elastic in bottom edge of swimsuit top too) and in a skirt. It is very tight fit on the elastic in both so it doesn’t move well. My thumbnail is so tender that I put it away for the night. I broke one safety pin in the skirt while threading the elastic. Good news is that I had two safety pins pulling the elastic. I can do this. I have one more skirt that needs new elastic I might wait a week or two before tackling that one. Crazy way to have clothes. Time to go play and have some fun.
 
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Kathi_S said:
My mom had a Christmas village she used to put up. It took her weeks to set it up. I wish I had a picture to share with you. It was very elaborate. She collected for years. Your village brought back a lot of memories.
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Oh I wish you had a picture too, would have loved to see it. My dad use to do villages under the tree back in the 50s only the houses were a sturdy type of cardboard, now they are back in style I have noticed!
 
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