Christmas Village

Hey OP how is your village scence coming on ?

The picture in your original post is just heaven. I have a few pieces that I have picked up over the years most of them are the brand Premier which I got in woodies they were plug in ones with bulbs inside them. They are beautiful but were expensive. I was a little disappointed with the few I purchased last year they were battery operated and only had tiny little lights here and there on the outside I think it's much nicer when the whole house lights up from the inside I should have known really as they were too cheap to be electric.

I think it's harder to find that type now but Good luck and post some pics please would love to see how you get on

Broken Strings wrote: »

I got 6 houses in Heatons for 8 euro each and larger ones in Homestore and More for 19.99 each. Constucting mine this weekend We have about 16 Houses so it should be decent sized

Are the ones out of Heatons the type that light up from the inside ? Are they battery or plug ? Sorry for the load of questions I am on a quest to add to my collection this year and just finding it harder to find the type I want. The ones I got from Woodies where Christmas scenes all by themselves with churches houses etc in one ornament but they are just too expensive so would love a few cheaper ones to add in

Emcm wrote: »

Are the ones out of Heatons the type that light up from the inside ? Are they battery or plug ? Sorry for the load of questions I am on a quest to add to my collection this year and just finding it harder to find the type I want. The ones I got from Woodies where Christmas scenes all by themselves with churches houses etc in one ornament but they are just too expensive so would love a few cheaper ones to add in

They are all battery operated with LEDs around the outside but to be honest it would be so much effort to change the batteries that I am putting a set of LED lights around the bottom of the houses and concealing the wire by covering the whole thing in wadding and poking the bulbs through

This is my effort

My original plan was to put all the houses on a flat piece of Aeroboard and poke the lights up through which is what my mam always does. Unfortunately as soon as I got the aeroboard home I realised that it was too thick to poke the lights through.

What I did instead was Put all the houses on the Aeroboard, use extra aeroboard blocks from the boxes that the original houses came in to stage some higher than others to give the illusion of hills.

Then I put one set of 180 LED lights all around the houses, but it looked bad because it was a dark green wire on a white piece of aeroboard. So I got wadding and cut it into smaller sections. I covered the board and the blocks in the wadding and poked the lights through so the wire was concealed, and then just sprinkled a bag of iridescent snow from Homestore and more over the wadding when I was done.

Arranged the houses and extra bits and Voila. Took me an hour to put the whole thing together.

Wow a lot of effort but so worth it looks amazing

I'm loving the Christmas village pictures and I"m really jealous of those of you with great collections!

I am trying to build up my collection of Christmassy bits. This year my "village" is set in an alternate universe, with all manner of creatures populating it!

Hi again OP,

I hope your Christmas village worked out well last year.

The pictures that some people posted on here looked brilliant of their own villages.

I was in a shop called 'Michael's' arts & crafts store here the other day and saw this class Lemax village they had constructed in the shop. I was mesmerized by the thing, the misses was shopping for supplies as she is making a fall & Christmas wreath from scratch, but I didn't move from the display that they had built. It was class ! I should of taken a picture of it.

I just found the Lemax things on their website and see that they are currently reducing the prices it seems. They don't have much of it but they made the whole scene in the shop look brilliant in fairness. All the Wal-Mart's here are fully kitted out with the Christmas stuff now. They have Lemax aswell.

Boards.ie wont let me post the url link for some reason. Just google Michaels and then type in 'Christmas lemax' in the search bar on the top right.

This is the effort from the soon to be father in law

I add one new house or building each year. Mostly home-made!

Great business idea.

Reading through this thread and suddenly can't wait for woodies to stock their Christmas decorations! The Christmas village is a lovely idea and unfortunately is the one thing I keep saying i want to do and always get side tracked! You all have me motivated now to get off my butt and do it this year!

are you serious wrote: »

1-2 days before christmas day all the stock goes to 50-70% off

Every year I keep promising to go in and get some but by time I get in all the good stuff is gone ! Not this will camp out if I have too! Thanks

are you serious wrote: »

I started mine last year, this year I will add 3-4 more houses to it and I have to get some figures for it too!

Awh! Sounds lovely ! Well make sure to leave some in the shop- ill be looking for a few! I think they look lovely. Actually the local bakers here has a massive window display of a fab village scene with fake snow little motorised ski slopes! All the kids just stop and stare at it for ages