Nativity Sets

[Merry Christmas Darling]

I have too many Christmas decorations, so a couple of years ago I gave away my Jim Shore nativity set. Well, I just bought a tabletop nativity shadow box. It has a little light inside and is battery operated.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%202015/Christmas%20Nativity%20Tabletop%20Shadow%20Box_zps ggyquqin.jpg (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/DiademRose/media/Christmas%202015/Christmas%20Nativity%20Tabletop%20Shadow%20Box_zps ggyquqin.jpg.html)

[wstaple]

That's beautiful, Merry! Very nice!

[ornamentmaven]

Love it Merry!

[Eric Brown]

Its so Lovely! Lights decoration is my favorite thing in Christmas..

[JollyElfDC]

I love it!
I have too many Christmas decorations too. If I put everything out it looks like a store. Now I just rotate things from year to year.

[Merry Christmas Darling]

I love it!
I have too many Christmas decorations too. If I put everything out it looks like a store. Now I just rotate things from year to year.

I was rotating, but I have to stop doing that! My basement will burst! :D

[Mistletoe]

I was rotating, but I have to stop doing that! My basement will burst! :D


My problem is that I can't get rid of the decorations from our childhood- they have so many happy memories attached to them!

I like your shadow box. Sometimes I like the simpler things, they help me appreciate things more.

I don't know if this topic came up before, but, do you prefer Jim Shore or Thomas Kinkade? Or do you like them equally?

[Merry Christmas Darling]

My problem is that I can't get rid of the decorations from our childhood- they have so many happy memories attached to them!

I don't have anything from childhood and my mother didn't keep them either until my sister and I made some in 1964. Now she thinks those are lost.


I like your shadow box.

Thanks.


Sometimes I like the simpler things, they help me appreciate things more.

I don't know if this topic came up before, but, do you prefer Jim Shore or Thomas Kinkade? Or do you like them equally?

I gave away my Jim Shore Nativity set, but I saved some of my other Jim Shore items. I've only bought Thomas Kinkade jigsaw puzzles and I still have them. My nativity sets include about four pieces of Hummel figures, and multiple wood sets made or designed in Germany, plus a gorgeous wood set made by Sevi (a famous Italian toymaker). I think I like the Hummel figures most.

I don't have photos of every set.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%20Nativity/o31CC5DD2.jpg (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/DiademRose/media/Christmas%20Nativity/o31CC5DD2.jpg.html)
(I now have Joseph and a little angel.)

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%20Nativity%20Sets/Christmas%202007%20059_zps4xfblyfx.jpg (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/DiademRose/media/Christmas%20Nativity%20Sets/Christmas%202007%20059_zps4xfblyfx.jpg.html)
This set was designed in Germany, but made in Taiwan. I purchased it in January 1981; I didn't have the funds in December 1980. Photo taken 2007.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%20Nativity%20Sets/Christmas%202010%20275_zps875l8zna.jpg (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/DiademRose/media/Christmas%20Nativity%20Sets/Christmas%202010%20275_zps875l8zna.jpg.html)
This is the set I gave away. Photo taken 2010.

[Merry Christmas Darling]

Oh, yeah, the Sevi set:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%202015/Sevi%20large%20wooden%20nativity%20set_zpsq6rjz3wh .jpg (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/DiademRose/media/Christmas%202015/Sevi%20large%20wooden%20nativity%20set_zpsq6rjz3wh .jpg.html)

I have another set in the basement, but I can't remember the brand. And I have a miniature German wood set for my American Girl dolls.

[Merry Christmas Darling]

Thank you to everyone who responded to this thread. If you have a nativity set, please post a photo to this thread.

[ornamentmaven]

Very lovely nativity sets Merry. I will look and see if I have photos of either of my sets

[ChristmasFanatic]

Beautiful sets, Merry. I have a few Nativity sets as well as an outdoor set of Nativity blow molds.

[Merry Christmas Darling]

Beautiful sets, Merry. I have a few Nativity sets as well as an outdoor set of Nativity blow molds.

If I had a heavy or anchored wooden stable, I'd want blow molds. I love them.