Holidays
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Christmas Village Set Up
Hoping some Nesties might have some ideas. I've wanted a Christmas Village for years and finally have a small one that came as a set. I have it set up next to the Christmas tree on the floor. The floor is carpeted and I put down some fakey foam "snow" and put the village on top of that. The buildings stay up just fine but I also have trees, lampposts, and people figurines which don't stay up too well. Any thoughts on a solution? Should I get a board and cover it with white felt instead? I don't really have a surface to put it on instead. TIA
Re: Christmas Village Set Up
When I had room to put up my Dickens Village I used to set it up on the floor as well. I had a huge collection and I used a few things to help keep things stable. First, I went to Home Depot and found a hard fiber board that I had cut to fit under the tree and I covered that in the kind of snow fabric that is often used for model train displays. This gave me a solid surface to start with. Then I bought various sizes of Styrofoam rectangles to build up the area. This allowed me to display some of the buildings behind others, and still see everything. I used the fluffy snow to even out the hard edges of the Styrofoam. I then sprinkled the whole thing lightly with the fake snow flakes.
I miss my village. I wish I had the space and time to set it up, but now it just sits in 10 large rubbermaid containers in my basement storage unit. : (
Have fun!
I have a small village with 5 or 6 houses/buildings and it is just perfect.
When I set up the christmas tree, I start with old towels on the wood floor so as not to scratch. Then 4 paint buckets, then a round piece of wood on the paint cans. I think DH cut the wood with a jigsaw.
Then the christmas tree stand centered on the wood, with the tree and white lights. Then the tree skirt is a dark royal blue tafeta fabric that goes from the tree trunk to the floor, all the way around.
Then the village goes on the tafeta, and some buildings I slip a small piece of 2x4 under the tafeta so it sets a little taller, like the church. Then I finish decorating and snowing. I hang 12 clear star ornaments from the bottom branches over the village, then 100 clear plastic angels in the tree, up to the star tree topper.
It's pretty cool.