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| Village Display 101 Southern Regional Gathering |
"Now that you have all these beautiful little houses, what can you do with them?"
Award winning village display artist, Leigh Gieringer, has been designing store, home, and personal village displays since the late 1980's. She has conducted display seminars and workshops at village Gatherings across the country and is a feature writer for Village D-Lights.
Author of the Village Display Tips and Village Display Tapes, Leigh provides hundreds of display ideas and techniques to enhance any display.
Whether you have just begun to collect porcelain lighted houses or you have been collecting for many years, Village Display Tips will provide hundreds of ideas, tips and techniques to incorporate into your displays. Some of the topics include are: finding room to display, creating small vignettes, techniques for building exquisite elaborate displays, time saving quick & easy display ideas, creative ways to hide cords and adapters, keeping and organizing inventory, storage, and photographing your displays.
Village Display Tips: Volume II provides ideas for incorporating the newer pieces. Topics include developing village layouts around focal points to produce a strong village design, adding multiple trains and other animation, seasonal and non-snow displays, incorporating backgrounds, and more! Village Display Tips Volumes I and II are valuable assets for making your Christmas or year 'round displays truly special!
Although featuring Halloween buildings, Halloween 101 shows how to develop any display using Styrofoam and a hot wire. Techniques include laying out a village, creating elevations, providing ground covers, hiding the cords, and accessorizing the display. It is intended to get the creative juices flowing and thinking outside the box. Halloween 101 is available in DVD and VHS format.
Village Vignettes features seasonal themes, however the techniques used throughout the tape can be applied to any village: large or small - or any season: spring, summer, autumn or winter. The format of this video is a 48” round board, divided into four quadrants...one for each season. Each has it’s own background. Learn to carve the landscape, add a stream, develop an oceanfront, create paths, bridges or decks, or hide the white bases. These are only a few of the topics shown and discussed on the Village Vignettes video. It’s filled with numerous ideas to keep a display up throughout the year, to switch them for a new look, or to be included in a large winter display. Village Vignettes is available on DVD.
Creating Large Village Displays features two separate North Pole Villages. Each includes approximately 100 buildings and hundreds of accessories. It is intended to assist collectors in organizing and creating large village settings. One display has been created using Styrofoam and glass blocks. The other - a more permanent display - is constructed out of wood. Each showcases various building materials, unique building placement and various techniques to make a dynamic and striking village. Lighting effects, animation, conserving space, and detailing are only some of the topics covered. Although this video features the North Pole, many of the ideas and techniques used can also be applied to other villages. Just add your favorite buildings! Creating Large Displays is available on DVD.