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Hooked on Department 56 has a great article on tips for creating your halloween village . The article features tips and informative links on all of the wonderful and scary options for outfitting your decorative halloween villages, including haunted sounds, spooky lights, and flying witches. The story also features information about The 2008 Haunted Rails Engine & Coal Car, and Rickety Railroad Station, two of Department 56's Halloween village pieces created to mark the ten year anniversary of D56 Halloween. While the train itself is ceramic and non-working, you still get the feel of the haunted railroad. The also is not limited to just D56, as it also mentions Disney Villains from Hawthorne Village. An excerpt from the story: "In 1998, Department 56 introduced the first Halloween village collection. Department 56 Halloween Village features spooky castles, flying witches, skeletons, and gravediggers. Many of the buildings are lighted with fiber optic light effects, that fli...

I try to tailor my content based on the search queries being conducted which lead people to this blog. The majority of the searches from the last ten days are halloween based, so I'm going to try and focus on more halloween posts, pictures, displays, tips and I'll try and link to more halloween sales at specific shops and online stores. Here is a sampling (about 1/4) of the keyword traffic we received recently. Note the large number of "Harry Potter"-related d56 searches - seems to be big demand for a village series that doesn't even exist! "halloween light displays" "snow village halloween: black cat diner" "dept 56 mill retired" "DEPT 56 UP UP AND AWAY WITCH" "department56" "making a village ideas department 56" "dept 56 all hallows eve" "halloween houses department 56 for 2007" "DEPT 56 HALLOWEEN VILLAGE ACCESSORY SET OF 22" "dept 56 haunted mansion" department 5...