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Scattered D56 thoughts on a sunday morning

* A good question was posted on the Yahoo! Group yesterday - how do you prevent your cats from playing with your village ("playing" is a much more positive word than "destroying"!)? Other than encasing your display in glass, I am not sure. I related to this post as our youngest cat Reggie likes to roam our displays as if he is Godzilla, occasionally nibbling on a tree and once when he was hungry we think he bit Santa.

* Speaking of Godzilla, I was wondering if Dept 56 or any other company built buildings for other countries? Are there Japanese villages? Norway villages? This too would be interesting to find out.

* I'm very pleased with the reach of this blog as it's only a month or so old and we have 23 email subscribers (you can sign up to the right -------->) and are averaging about that much in visits to the blog each day from unique visitors. Even more impressive are the searches from Google that are coming in:
"d56 survey"
"department 56 stardust drive in"
"new department setup"
"create christmas village landscapes"
"thomas kinkade yankee stadium"
"fall homes for department 56"
"landscaping ideas for dept 56"
"Sears Christmas Story Village"
"craigslist christmas story 56"
"old mill pond ct"
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  1. monique polJuly 15, 2007 at 10:23 AM

    There is an European manufacturer (since 2006) who makes villages from other countries: Luville.
    For instance France (ville de de Reidy), Germany/Austria (Schneewald), and from this year on Molendam (Dutch).
    You can have a look here http://www.luville.com/ it is in English. The figurines are so detailed. I like them most of all branches I know.

    Moon from Holland

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