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Welcome to Cardboard Christmas! Your ticket to Christmas past! Putting little villages up around the nativity or Christmas tree is a centuries-old tradition. In the late 1800s, cardboard candy boxes shaped like little houses found their way to many of these Christmas villages. Then, when electric Christmas lights became affordable, the candy boxes were replaced by sets of little houses with holes in the back to accommodate the new light bulbs.

Was formed to help your family to have a joyful and meaningful Christmas, even if your life is going in thirty different directions. Each year we have added or improved resources, so keep checking back. The Bible Story of Christmas.

Are big, weather-resistant model trains that you can run outside. Since many new Garden Trains became available in the 1980s, the hobby called Garden Railroading. We at Family Garden Trains.

In fact, many village fans think that setting up a Halloween village display is a good way to get a jump on the holiday season. Manufacturers are meeting the need with collectible villages and trains, but just as exciting, we have a growing collection of free, downloadable Halloween building and accessory projects to start or expand your Halloween village display.

Effective June 2015, I will no longer be accepting orders for building houses. I will only be building for my personal enjoyment. I do plan on keeping this web site up as a source of information, photos, how-to-articles and links to related sites. My Picassa web photo album. Which I will update periodically, will remain available for viewing. I will be an active member of the Cardboard Christmas Forum.

Electric lighting for Christmas trees first became widely available to the public in the early 1900s. Those early products were experiments both in electrical engineering and in marketing approaches. Unfortunately, when George became critically ill, there was no one left to keep the site going or even to keep reregistering the domain names.