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1 ERO FES 2A EAL SS ALR LK Ib pA a RN, LEAFEAART 5 HARTER ~~ N\ Gingerbread houses, popcorn strings and homemade decorations help to make Christmas special in this home Some 10 years ago, Ralph and Pat Price sat at their kitchen table and construc- ted a small, peaked roof cottage out of gingerbread. Little did they know then that this meager building -would become part of a Christmas ritual, and they would end up creating a miniature village of ginger- - bread. The Star visited the Price home in Manchester last week to view some of their traditional Christmas decor- ations and photograph the gingerbread village and other interesting Christmas items. Mrs. Price said that the This Gingerbread general store is one of many buildings in the Price's Gingerbread Village. House on left is a model of the Price's present home, and the cottage is the first gingerbread. building ever constructed. 'Noah's Ark, a nineteenth century Sunday Ee. | HALE RIEIaE. 1 Rh gingerbread village has become a family project now. Ralph creates the buildings and makes the cardboard templates. Pat makes the dough and cuts the patterns, and the children decorate the assembled structures. The buildings are neatly arranged on a soft white cotton-batten base which takes on the appearance of snow, with figurines of people, angels, and animals scattered about. And each of the buildings, which include a church, general store, cottage, two models of the Price's homes and a nativity scene are wired so they light- up during the night-time. The village takes two or three days to create, and it is done from scratch each year. When Christmas is over, the gingerbread village is taken apart and is eaten by family, birds and squirrels. But the Price household has much more than just a gingerbread village to make the home warm with the feel of Christmas. Popcorn, (Turnto page 23) Miniature cast iron furniture make up the furnishings for this 'Christmas dinner for a family of mice figurines. i Sd a 5 SPE PACA JIE 7 POSER RAS, SE LEE RA BL PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. December 23, 1981 -- 15 poh. "1, 4 SAN ANE IN PRANA SS a Sd Li iid tor A beautifully decorated and constructed church, with miniature people and Angel. Jha ia ie Sein Homemade ornamerits are a part of the decoration on the huge spruce tree.