This year we focused on adding Santas workshop and more elves. We had three already but we added a couple from Bronners which were by far the most expensive things in the display. They don’t even call the elves but they call them sprites. Anyhow they look good in the display.

We also went to a store called Kaufmanns and bought some of the Dicken Village houses from them. This is making our little Christmas village look a little more respectable as we know some collectors do this for decades.

We found a Marley and Scrooge house in the Dickens village and bought the characters including the three ghosts from the story. This is my favorite of the village houses even though it probably is the least Christmas looking of the bunch, it would be more appropriate for a haunted village but I don’t think those exist…yet.