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North Pole Village Display Tip#5

2Eklectik — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:03:37 +0000

North Pole Village Lights

The North Pole has the best lights in the world. But, since it’s a little difficult (actually impossible) to recreate the Aroura Borealis in your living room, you’ll need to add your own ambient lighting to give your village that quaint, picturesque feel.

Although the Department 56 North Pole Series buildings and factories are internally lit, if you want to be able to see details of your elves and other accessories, provide some additional ambient lighting. Department 56 already provides you with several options in the form of street lamps.

We like to be different, so we run a string or two of white (non-blinking) lights through out the village. These will then get covered with buffalo snow (see Tip #3) and lit up. The glow of the lights throught the buffalo snow, and shimmering off of the snow flakes (see Tip #3 also) make it seem as though the snow is glistening in the moonlight .

North Pole Village Display Tip #4

2Eklectik — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:55:12 +0000

Hot Chocolate and Smores

This is a compliment to Tip #2.

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Once you have a large enough space to display your lighted houses, don’t go overboard and stuff every available space with accessories.

Yes the gum drop path is cute and the candy cane lights are adorable, but if your village is packed with paths, people, streetlights, elves, reindeer, mini-shops, and more elves, it will be so busy you won’t notice any of it.

This is a village, not a city (that’s a different Dept 56 Series) where everyone (elves included) have something to do and somewhere to go. Try to make it as realistic as possible, this is not a shopping mall so don’t have everyone congregated in a single area. Place people near and around every building and make sure to spread them evenly through out the village.

Only when every piece has its own space, can their detail and charm be seen and admired.