One of the biggest laments I hear over at everything croton is that people simply don't have the space for a Christmas village--in the last few years I've seen people do all sorts of wonderful things with cardboard pre-fab cupcake holder stands to maximize what little space they have--and Oriental Trading has five pages of very interesting options http://www.orientaltrading.com/api/sear ... ake+holder

Some clever ideas there, Maria, thanks for posting.