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Spring Village

By Mona Campisano
Hermosa Beach, CA

"This is my spring village. The houses are all for the Department 56 Snow Village. I used moss and different grass ground covers to bring out the green yards and to hide the snow on the roofs. Also used gravel and other types of camouflage to hide snow on roofs. I put planter boxes (handpainted) with tulips and pansies on the windows, the Bed & Breakfast, the Italian Villa, and the Farm House. I put plants and flowers in the yards and by houses everywhere. I have a vegetable garden planted in front of Resita's Cantina. Trees are mostly from Allied Trains, plus I used dried plants."

"Thanks for making your tools available. It certainly makes the quality of workmanship a lot better than when I had to do everything with regular knives and exacto knives!"