Since you're well aware that I like buying pictures of houses and creating houses you shouldn't be surprised that I would venture into creating miniature 3d house models.
So, what do I mean by that? Well, if you've been a crafter for awhile and have ventured into any craft store before the holidays you must have seen displays for everything you might need to create a miniature Christmas house village.
Some of the house supplies were created out of paper, some cardboard, some chipboard, some plastic, some wood and some ceramic. You could create the houses using a kit or buy them already finished and add other decorations like trees, figurines, miniature Christmas decorations, etc. The end result for all of this was creating a pretty little village scene to be displayed at the Christmas holiday season.
Several years ago I decided to make some chipboard gingerbread houses of my own for table decorations and wrote about them in a Linda's Blog post entitled: New Mixed Media Christmas Decorations - Adorable Gingerbread Houses.
I also make some gingerbread ornaments that I could hang on my skinny Christmas tree and wrote about them in a Linda's Blog post entitled: My New Miniature Mixed Media Gingerbread House Christmas Ornaments.
I loved making them and after doing so I decided to see if there were other chipboard house kits I could buy not just for the holiday season but for all year. So, I went searching online and found a lot of information on house villages.
It seems that house villages have been around since the late Victorian era, which certainly piqued my interest, and were very popular from the 1920's through the 1950's or so.
I found out that they were called "putz" houses and they had originated from the German word "putzen" which means to clean or polish.
