Tell him YES, he IS famous. I am putting some of his Village pix in our Inspiration album for people to enjoy for many years to come. I just need to get my butt in gear and finish loading some Xmas photos to our albums. I'm so far behind its ridiculous. Sorry about that. Its been so long ago, but I once saw a Village set-up idea that blew me away. I think it was in the Sat. home section of our paper years ago. The lady had an area in her home that was sort like an alcove, or maybe a giant coat closet. Her village was set up with 3 or 4 multi-tiers, tho it didn't look like just "houses on shelves" at all. It was really set up as a town and had one or two trains. But she had some kind of bi-fold doors, and when not displayed, she just closed the doors and no one knew there was a huge Village behind them!! I loved it. hugs, Karen

We have had at one time, as many as 9 indoor cats. Mostly, they haven't bothered with the villages. I have only lost a couple of pieces, and only one perpetrator: Buster. He got into everything. But Finnigan is a little devil. We've had him indoors now for about 5 years. Squirt bottles and rattling empty soda cans filled with pennies works great if you happen to be there at the time. But I work fulltime and am out of the house 11-12 hours a day, 5 days a week. I came home one day to find the snow blanket shredded. Amazingly no damage to the houses or people, but he managed to find the one spot that wasn't heavily "populated" and he shredded it to bits. Plus I also worry that he might chew on the stuff and I don't want to deal with a potential intestinal obstruction. So the snow and the blanket had to go. I don't really miss them all that much. Here are a couple of photos of my North Pole village back in the snow days. I use animals instead of the elves for this village. It goes under the candy tree I display in the family room. PS...you can tell I don't worry too much about size and proportion. I just like to use some of my other Christmas collectibles in this particular village! This post was edited by tally on Fri, Dec 19, 14 at 11:35

I love your Walmart :) The parking lot is such a great detail. Aren't villages fun? I can't do a big display like yours, but a few houses are still fun and really put me in the Christmas spirit. Very nice job!

I just posted the link to the video from my laptop; for some reason I can’t imbed them when posting from my iphone. Why don’t you watch the video and see the finished product in better detail than a screenshot, Arcy… before you pass a snap judgement on something you haven’t actually seen?