
Evening mail by IFHP97, on Flickr
I told my young daughters that we could set up a Holiday Village diorama in our living room on the day after (US) Thanksgiving 2009. On Thanksgiving night I pulled out some of my 1:43 scale Fords to see how they would look with these ceramic Holiday Village buildings. I took a few pictures and was favorably impressed; I had no idea what this would lead to.

Christmas carolers or lost Christmas shoppers? by IFHP97, on Flickr
On the evening of “Black Friday” I rearranged the Holiday Village to display as make room for as many scale cars as possible in parking lot formation. I had some perverse pleasure in recasting these Dickinsonian Christmas carolers figurines as holiday shoppers looking for their car.

Holiday Village 3 by IFHP97, on Flickr

Black Friday at the Christmas Village Shopping Mall by IFHP97, on Flickr

Minichamps by IFHP97, on Flickr

Holiday Village Pull Action6 by IFHP97, on Flickr

Holiday Village 6 by IFHP97, on Flickr

Holiday Village 8 by IFHP97, on Flickr