Step One: Gather your materials: • Corrugated cardboard box • Box cutter • Utility knife • Scissors • Ruler • Pencil or pen • White paint and paintbrush • Mini white LED Christmas lights Prepare ...

This holiday season, many people have renewed the age-old custom of building and displaying miniature Victorian-style holiday villages in their homes. Young and old alike participate in the design of ...

There has been a revival of traditional holiday decorating, particularly the custom of building and displaying miniature, Victorian-style holiday villages based on the old German markets of Thuringia.

Whether in card-board, wood or porcelain, little villages – with houses, shops, miniature figures and snowy fir trees – have long been part of many families' holiday decorating tradition. They're also ...