And here's my 2018 Family Room tree and putz village---a.k.a. MARIAVILLE
In the when life gives you lemons department.....I divide my light strings in two when I light the large village under my tree--this way if one string fails, I only have to re-do half the houses I have out--this year for some reason, I decided to play it "safe" and used three strings--sure enough--boom--but I only had to do one-third of the houses again---a blessing I guess....in a fair world, a light strand wouldn't have failed at all---haha--so everything is back to normal--there will be CLOSE-UP pictures tomorrow.
Of all the trees and villages I put up every year in assorted rooms, this one always takes the longest and is always the most ambitious, multi-level and stretches the width of the room. The train this year is only for show—I’m working on a layout that is taking forever---some of the best houses made by artisan Karl Fey and Howard Lamey are here.
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