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gandydancer1950 posted:
Moonson posted:

Thank you, Gandy! Always good to hear your perspective.

One of the houses, a gift to me, in that neighborhood is of our home (tall house, white-n-gray, angular, in the middle of the back row). It was crafted by an architect upon the commission of a dear friend.

Also  present is a model I had crafted of my wife's childhood home (little girl in a red coat on the front porch, reaching for the doorknob).

The whole neighborhood is the result of pure imagination (that sound like a tune I heard somewhere.)

Happy Thanksgiving, indeed!

FrankM

Imagination....that's what it's all about. The church on my layout is a Christmas decoration in near scale that plays Silent Night! Lol!

I have a few porcelain Dept56-type churches tucked in here-n-there on the layout, too.You can spot some of them in these photos. One is tucked-in as part of a Catholic School vignette, on the other side of that stand of trees on church property.

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The others are on their own level, the 3rd Level, among an entire community dedicated to the porcelain buildings phenomenon in our hobby. IMG_0292

My wife had given all that you see here of them as a Christmas gift, decades ago, because, back in 1995 when I first stepped into this hobby, we were not aware of many people making buildings by-hand or commercially, at the time of our initial immersion into this hobby. Of course, they are all lighted, up there, by a couple strings of traditional Christmas-type colored lights, no less, inserted in them.IMG_0856IMG_0865ed

We decided when I re-did the entire layout, this last time, that a dramatic presentation of all of them was fitting, since they held a meaningful place in the creation of our layout for us , too. They are a bright, cheerful presence, aren't they.

FrankM

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