We finally put away our holiday decorations in late February, but we were missing the ambiance from the lighted Christmas village that was on the mantel. So I decided to come up with a year-round lighted display for the space.
The design source was this svg set from Creative Fabrica. I had to do quite a bit of editing, as the figures were clearly autotraced and had about a billion nodes. Also, the cacti and bushes were initially just painted on the sides of the buildings, but I pulled them off and made standalone versions of them to fill in the space. The parts were all cut from Baltic birch which I had painted with blocks of color. I made wooden triangles to glue on the backs of everything, then down to 1/4” boards to stand everything up. The window holes have vellum cardstock glued behind, and there are fairy lights arranged behind them. We are very pleased at how the project turned out.
