Christmas Putz Village

My very first Putz Village! I'm very happy with it. I'm so excited to finally use the little white plastic tree I got at the $1 and Up store in Escondido. And I think the gingerbread house looks great as the center piece of the village.

I actually had a very hard time forresting my village. For some reason I really thought it needed more trees and I became obsessed. But, I guess everyone else was too, because everywhere I went was mostly sold out of Christmas village trees. I got a couple from Dollar Tree and a few from the Mission-building section at Michael's. And I was just kinda OK with my sparse foliage. But a few days ago I was wandering around Big Lots and I found a 16-piece tree set for only $5!

Even without the lights on, I think the village looks much better with lots of trees!

The first house I made was the picture window house. I made it at the same time that I made the Halloween picture window house. I really like it, but I do I wish I would have listened to Howard's suggestions and started with the begginner cottage.

This is the Peach Beach Cottage from Howard's Sandy Shores Structures. I added snow and lots of glitter and made it a Christmas village house. I made a loofah tree following Papa Ted's new tree tutorial.

The Little Charmer also has a loofah tree in it's front yard. It's by far my favorite house in the village. I pretty much copied Howard's color-scheme exactly.

The beginner cottage is actually yellow with a blue roof, but all the glitter makes it hard to see the colors. The snowman and icy tree are both from Dollar Tree.

I also made the church conversion. We're not a religious household, but I do think the church is really cute. So I just made the upstairs window round like all the rest of the houses instead of a cross.

The Bay Window house is so cute! I love the way it sits centered on it's foundation so I put a tree in each corner of the front yard.