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Cody Foster Christmas Houses: A Guide to the Putz-Style Collection
Long before plastic villages and plug-in towns, families set out little glittered cardboard houses under the Christmas tree. They were called putz houses, and they have come back in a big way, partly

Oct 19th 2026

Our 12 Favorite Cody Foster Ornaments for 2026
Every autumn a delivery of Cody Foster arrives at the shop, and the unpacking takes twice as long as it should because everyone stops to pass pieces around. There is always one that makes the whole

Oct 13th 2026

Cody Foster Food Ornaments: Gifts for the Foodie on Your List
Every autumn a delivery of Cody Foster arrives at the shop, and the unpacking takes twice as long as it should because everyone stops to pass pieces around. There is always one that makes the whol

Oct 6th 2026

Department 56 Snow Village Halloween: A Collector's Buying Guide
Department 56 is where most serious Halloween village collections begin, and it is also where most people get stuck for a year or two before working out how the range is organised. The confusion i

Oct 6th 2026

Lemax Spooky Town 2026: What to Buy First
Spooky Town is the Halloween village line that moves. Rides that actually turn, laboratories with working parts, buildings that make noise at you. It is not subtle and it is not trying to be. That

Sep 30th 2026

How to Build a Halloween Village Display: Layout, Levels and Lighting
Most Halloween villages fail in the same way. Someone buys four good buildings, lines them up along a shelf at equal spacing, plugs them in, and cannot work out why it looks like a shop display ra

Sep 24th 2026