If you own a Department 56 Christmas village you might have pieces of Jeff Junkins' work on your mantel or tabletop. Junkins designed nearly 200 miniature buildings for the Eden Prairie-based producer ...

The miniature Christmas village is a tradition in many families — a tiny idyllic world filled happy people, shops, and of course, snow. It’s common to see various miniature buildings for sale around ...

Roberta Morris poses Monday with a small part of her Christmas village display at the Ogden Rose Library, Ogden. The Studio 56 display, currently occupying an estimated 700 square feet of space in the ...

Every year, I catch myself wondering how miniature Christmas-themed towns became a holiday decor staple. Yes, I’m talking about Christmas villages—those little decorative villages set up during the ...

It’s not so much a miniature Christmas village as it is a yuletide metropolis. When Charlene Daniel’s brother gave her a miniature ceramic collectible toy shop building as a Christmas gift back in the ...

Tucked away on a quiet neighborhood road is a little piece of Raleigh Christmas history dating back to the 1960s. If you lived in Raleigh in those years, you might recognize the mysterious miniature ...

LAS CRUCES - Tiny houses, restaurants, ski hills, boats and lighthouses make up the Christmas village inside the Fike household, much to the delight of her family and friends. Since its "incorporation ...