Displaying Your Collectible Houses Made Simple Displays By Number Book 7 Table Displays Part 3 By Elizabeth Dinger 2006 LoMist Publishing
Table of Displays Shelve Displays... Size...Book #...Page Farm and Church...30 x 12...1...11 Simple, But Sure, Seasonal Display...45 x 11...1...14 Off To A Fire On A Frigid Night...36 x 17...1...16 Country Farm Vignette...48 x 17...1...19 Cabinet Display A Quick, But Beautiful, Cabinet Top Display...66 x 24...2...3 Table Displays Country Church...17 x 15...3...3 Busy Barn Yard Scene...24 x 17...3...5 A Simple Country Display...30 x 20...3...7 New England Country Scene...30 x 20...3...10 City Scape...36 x 24...3...14 Down By the Old Mill Stream...48 x 18...4...3 Mixing It Up With Holiday Flair...48 x 18...4...6 Special Displays Silvery Streets (on a mirror)...16 x 9...4...11 Dining Room Center Piece...30 x 12...4...13 Larger Table Displays A Ride Through the Country...30 x 30...5...3 A Busy Morning in Gate-Leg Square...48 x 36...5...8 Circle of Churches...36 x 30...5...13 Winter At the Pond...76 x 48...6...3 Rockin Round The Christmas Tree...76 x 48...7...3 The Land of Plenty...96 x 48...8...3 2006 LoMist Publishing 2
Displaying Your Collectible Houses Made Simple Rockin Around The Christmas Tree Displayed on a full sized dining room table with dimensions about 76 x 48 2006 LoMist Publishing 3
View of display set on a large dining room table. I wanted to incorporate the idea of putting it around a small Christmas tree (three footer). I set it off center to create interest then placed my water features. You ll note that the water once again separates different districts town, country, etc. Location: (2-3, F-H) View of one town area. 2006 LoMist Publishing 4
Location: (2, G-H) Note how I placed the houses back to back and then filled with stuffing. Good way to hide those light cords. Location: (1-2, B-D) Another town area. 5
Location: (0-2 ½, B-D) Another view of the same town square. Make sure you re varying the heights of the houses for interest. All of these houses are on the same level 6
Location: (1-2, C-D) Location: (1-3, A) This is another vignette on the side of the table. The rocks in the front middle kind of separate the New England houses on the right from Dickens on the left. 7
Location: (1 ½-2 ½, A-B) Location: (2-4, A) The Sleepy Hollow Village. Because these houses are a little bit smaller, you can fit them into odd nooks in your display. Keep this in mind when you are purchasing house variety is the spice of life. 8
Location: (3-4, A-B) Location: (4 ½ - 6, B) The Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse is up on one of my homemade mountains. It is a long first step. 9
Location: (5-6, B-D) I really jammed houses into this area. It reminds me of small towns in New England with the houses thrown willy-nilly. Location: (6, D-F) The Dickens farmhouse area. 10
Location: (6, C-E) I hope you are seeing how you can blend houses from different collections into your display. You don t always have to have separate displays to achieve a cohesive effect and you can certainly cross over in your collecting. Location: (4-5, G-H) 11
Location: (4 5 ½, G) Location: (3 3 ½, F-H) This is the opposite side of the table from the Sleepy Hollow. You can see the water feature which starts from the mill. 12
Location: (3-4, F-G) Close up of the water feature and my invaluable rocks and slate I should have bought stock in Reynolds wrap and wax paper. I reused mine in the different displays that I put up this year but normally don t save it year to year. Just remember to crumble it and then semi smooth for more rippling effect. 13
Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses I hope you found many new ideas in this Displaying Your Collectible Houses Displays By Number e-book. If not, you can still learn more. I have written another e-book which is full of tips, ideas and know-how. It covers a lot of the details of things not explained in this ebook because its focus is to explain how to do things, why you want to do things and lists many other a sundry ideas for making memorable and stunning displays. The best way to introduce you to this ebook is to read the Introduction re-printed below: In writing this e-book, I really wanted to encourage new collectors who are facing the challenge of that first major display. Yet at the same time, I also wanted to give lots of tips that an old hand might be able to use. When listing the tips, I basically went down the steps that I take when I put my houses up every year. I ve been collecting and displaying for about 15 years now. I still remember that first major display though, wondering what on earth I was getting myself into. Hopefully, this e-book will help. At the end I include some miscellaneous tips about buying, storing, taking pictures, etc. I also include a list of things you might find helpful to have on hand when you start your display. Also, it might sound like I am speaking to just women collectors here. That s just my funny sense of humor. I know a lot of men are just as crazy as I am about collecting these houses. Just substitute wife when you read husband. It was a friend s display that first got me hooked on collecting Department 56. My first purchase was the Sleepy Hollow Church I was just going to collect churches. HA! That didn t last long. Now I collect mostly Dickens Village and New England Village. I must confess to having a Christmas in the City Toy Store that I couldn t resist and I won a Marie s Doll House one year. My husband won t let me collect anything else. If you would like more information or want some free tips for making displays, please visit www.dept56tips.com 2006 LoMist Publishing 14