2020 Christmas In The City 

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Thank you. I will be posting London Town soon.

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Thank you…if you can believe it, my collection has grown a lot since this video. So the next time I bring it out, it will be a lot larger.

@@danadoan will you do an updated video?! Ive watch this video a few times to get ideas for my village. Im in awe. How long have you been collecting? Is every piece from the CITC collection?

Thank you Don!!!

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Thank you Larry.

Thanks Linda. I used Davidson’s department store from Dept56 CIC collection.

Thank you so much. I enjoyed setting it up immensely. Christmas time is the best time to be in NYC.

@@danadoan It definitely is! I hope to get back again next Christmas, hopefully things will be better then with the covid situation and everything 🤞🎄🤶🎅 wonderful piece of work ❤️👏👏👏

@@BalliBee yes. There’s still many restrictions this year but tourists are visiting. Hopefully next year will be back to normal.

@@danadoan I'm so glad I went before happened, before all these restrictions were put in place. I read tourists were visiting again so hopefully next year it will more or less be back to normal 🤞🗽

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Well thank you Patrick.

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The NY football Giants?

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Thank you very much Vanessa. I love creating these displays. Will try to do some tutorial videos this Christmas. If you message me on Facebook messenger, I’ll send you some pics of the process. facebook.com/dana.d.stein

Thank you. The trees are called City Bare Lit Trees by department 56.

Thanks. I did 2 rehabs (Chanel and Starbucks) and my friend did the other 3 (LV, Macy’s and Manolo Blahnik) for me

@@danadoan You really have to know the pieces to recognize their origins. A normal person would never even guess what was done there for those pieces to look like that.

@@klprsd thank you. My friend who does these rehabs so well taught me how to do them. I have only done the easy ones.

Does your friend sell the rehabs ? Id live to get some!!!

@@danielanthonyestrada128 yes he does sell the rehabs. He goes by the name ‘Red Misha’ on Facebook.

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Also could you please let me know what brand name and model number are those super cute trees on the sidwalks with the iron square railings, please. They are sooo new york.

Thank you so much Anthony. That was my little tribute to the city that had given so much to me. My friend did a few rehabs for me from other original Dept56 buildings. He painted, changed interior window scenes and made signs with stickers. I did Channel and Starbucks myself.

@@danielanthonyestrada128They’re called ‘city lit bare branch tree’. They’re retired a long time ago so you’ll have to look for them in a secondary markets. retiredproducts.department56.com/products/city-lit-bare-branch-tree

Thank you. I decided to alternate different collections. This is the first year I built NYC. I’m working on North Pole now. I was going to do Harry Potter after North Pole but I don’t think I have the energy. I’ll go back to Dickens next year.

Thank you. Those were rehabbed from Dept56’s buildings.

I wish I could add photos here. But basically, the whole display is sitting on 2-inch thick styrofoam sheets. The blocks that the houses are sitting on are 0.5-inch styrofoam sheets that I carved and painted. If you send me a FB messager messages, I’ll send you some pics of the bases. facebook.com/dana.d.stein

Thank you. I love building NYC display.

I couldn't manage to add you to messenger but my email is soonerdka@gmail.com. Thanks so much for your kind offer. I will be very happy if my display turns out even half as good as yours

Thank you. I got that building from an Etsy store called City Sights ‘44. Here is the link www.etsy.com/shop/CitySights44

@@danadoan Thank you so much! 🥰

Thank you. My friend rehabbed a few of those designer shops for me from other dept 56 houses. I did Channel and Starbucks.

Thanks Paulette. I made a styrofoam base so holes were carved underneath the buildings. All the street lights and lighted accessories go through those holes. The great thing about styrofoam is you can make channels and push the cords into those channels

@@danadoan Thank you so much!

Please make a video on how you work with the Styrofoam 🙏 we could really use some tutorials 🙌❤️

They were transformed from other CIC buildings. I did 2 rehabs and my friend did 3 for me.

Thank you Marlene. Those shops were rehabbed buildings from other original Dept56 buildings. I rehabbed to make Chanel and Starbucks and my friend did Manolo, Macy’s and others for me.

Oh I just used the iMovie apps and uploaded the photos/videos that I took with my iPhone. I’m not very tech savvy. ☺️🤓

Thank you. I got the retired skyscrapers from other collectors and the current ones from retailers.

All the buildings are from Department 56 Christmas in The City collection. All the retired items I got from secondary market place (like FB marketplace or eBay). The current pieces I got from department 56 dealers. Do a search on Amazon and eBay for ‘department 56 Christmas in the city’ and see what’s available.

You can find the list of all the items for this collection here. retiredproducts.department56.com/pages/history-lists

It’s Michael Bublé

Thank you. The blocks of buildings are on 0.5” styrofoam sheets that I carved and painted.

Well Dana I have to say your really good at this. Like the Chanel building is that really a department 56 building or did you paint that also. I wish you would make a video of how you do this all. Because your really good at it. So much talent in your family. I saw your video of you son playing the piano what a talent he has. Thank you for the great talent.

Thank you for your kind comment. This was my love project last Christmas.

A lot of the Asian figurines are from King and Country Old Street of Hong Kong. There’s 2 houses/accessories from Dickens Village. The other CIC building is called ‘Golden Ox’.

You can use hair dryer to gently blow on the window. The ‘glass window’ is glued on with hot glue so the glue will melt. Then you can again gently blow on the objects inside the window to remove them.

I used - CIC Welcoming Christmas for Chanel Dairy Queen for LV (my friend did this and the next two for me) Davidson’s Department Store for Macy’s Lafayette’s Bakery for Manolo Blahnik.

My friend known as Red Misha on Facebook did the ornament fountain piece.

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Hello. That’s the easiest part. I just printed the signs out from stock pics I found on the internet. Have fun building your village.

I just used dark gray mixed with a little more black in the grooves. Basically I painted the whole surface with that dark color. Then dry brushed lighter gray on top.

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I got it From Amazon. Just search NewYork city background…

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If you PM me on my FB messenger, I’ll send you some pics. facebook.com/dana.d.stein

Harry Jacob’s is the original building that Department 56 made.

I don’t have any brownstone with the light up Santa in the front. Are you talking about this one? retiredproducts.department56.com/products/parkside-holiday-brownstone

@@danadoan 755 Pacific Avenue

I used the 2018 CIC Welcoming Christmas to transform into Chanel.

@@danadoan TY

They haven’t made the freedom tower yet. But this just came out this year. www.fitzulas.com/shop/c/SBB-Department56-American-Pride

@@danadoan oh ok thanks for telling me! :)

Beautiful collection btw I absolutely love anything to do with Department 56

@@AlexJones-rp3ld thank you. I’ll go back to Dickens Village this year.

@@danadoan great too bad they don’t have many movie themed villages

Those are rehabbed pieces from other department 56 pieces.

@@danadoan are you interested in making any others if I pay you

@@thomaslessing2511 contact Red. He’s the one who made them for me. facebook.com/villagedisplays?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Oh I’m sorry I didn’t see your comment. All these are Department 56. Most of them are retired pieces.

@@danadoan thanks so much

And if you made it i would like to know how

@@enricoviani1204 I made the cobble stone bases myself. The bases (blocks of buildings) are 1/2 inch styrofoam sheets that I carved using the Hotwire foam cutters/carved. Then I painted dark color and dry-brushed with the lighter color.

@@danadoan thanks I thought so