Village Details

The village for Christmas 2012 made it into 2013. You've seen the overview on my previous blog. I'll begin this one with close-up pictures, the pictures I took while waiting to celebrate Christmas with my petite fils.

 When Ursula came to visit, she rearranged the village people and animals. All of the cats ended up at the stable. (They must have walked over the bridge.)

I couldn't resist this stream with the beaver building his dam just as they do in my real pond...

Many years ago I decorated the evergreen tree for a Christmas dollhouse, but when the dollhouse was lost, the tree became a part of the village...and of course the bazaar is held at the church...

That's an awfully fancy chicken coop behind the house, but feeding a small flock of chickens is becoming more and more common so the lady feeding her chickens was added for this Christmas.

No one ever gets hit with that snowball! Someday I may find a pile of snowballs to put in the red wagon...

 A mother and children are peeking into the toy shop window while a touch of romance is in a bouquet...

 That's a horse-drawn sleigh in the background...behind the sledding kids...

And there's the choir on the organ...complete with walnut shell mouse. Fortunately, we have had several ermine decide that our yard is a great place to live. Their white fur with the black tip at the end of their tails is beautiful and they are so lithe they are fascinating to watch. We think they have been eating our mice because this is the first year we haven't had to kill mice in the house walls. (I have no objection to walnut shell mice.)