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Vintage Villages The Christmas Village Store. Department 56, Lemax, Steinbach nutcrackers and glass ornaments, new and vintage. Toronto based, with free shipping across Canada.

Visits by appointment. Vintage Villages was established in 2024 by Breanne and Dylan with a clear vision: to create a destination for vintage and vintage-inspired Christmas dรฉcor, with a focus on collectible villages and hard-to-find seasonal pieces. What began as a personal passion for Department 56 and Lemax villages grew into a business built around preserving tradition. The tradition of decorating for the holidays, sharing it with others, and adding special touches each year is something weโ€™ve always cherished. Itโ€™s a tradition worth keeping. We source retired and limited production village pieces from across North America and make them available in one curated collection. Our focus is on quality, scarcity, and aesthetic value, items that are difficult to find elsewhere and that hold lasting appeal. In 2025, we expanded our offering to include the newest Lemax collections, allowing us to serve both collectors searching for rare retired pieces and customers looking to build something new. Weโ€™ve also introduced a growing selection of carefully chosen gifts that reflect the same craftsmanship and character we've found in the villages that we sell. This includes handmade teapots from Carters of Suffolk, imported from England and produced in exceptionally small numbers. Each teapot takes about a week to make and is hand painted with care. Most designs are limited to just a few hundred pieces before a new style is introduced, making them truly rare and highly collectible. We found that same attention to quality and detail in Steinbach Nutcrackers, which we import directly from Germany. Each nutcracker is entirely handmade in Germany and produced in limited quantities, with many designs released in exceptionally small runs. With this in mind, we continue to seek out brands and gifts that carry the same sense of tradition and share our values around quality, craftsmanship, and lasting appeal.

Lots of stock coming in this week!  Gearing up for the busy season ๐ŸŽ„
09/21/2026

Lots of stock coming in this week! Gearing up for the busy season ๐ŸŽ„

New on the blog: the story of New York's Flatiron Building, and the village street we would build around it.When the rea...
09/01/2026

New on the blog: the story of New York's Flatiron Building, and the village street we would build around it.

When the real Flatiron went up in 1902, New Yorkers were so sure the wind would knock it over that they took bets on it. It is still standing 124 years later. The corner became famous for its gusts instead, and Department 56 even made a figure of a couple losing their umbrella to them.

From the photograph Alfred Stieglitz took in the snow of 1903 to the vintage Department 56 piece that keeps the famous triangle whole, the whole story is here:
https://vintagevillages.ca/blogs/the-vintage-villager/building-a-new-york-display-around-the-flatiron-building

The front of Buckingham Palace that everyone pictures is younger than you would think.Sir Aston Webb refaced it in 1913,...
08/18/2026

The front of Buckingham Palace that everyone pictures is younger than you would think.

Sir Aston Webb refaced it in 1913, and once the work started the whole front was replaced in thirteen weeks. The balcony underneath it is much older. Edward Blore added it in the 1840s at Prince Albert's suggestion, and Queen Victoria stepped out onto it for the first time in 1851 to open the Great Exhibition.

So Dickens could genuinely have stood in the street and watched that balcony. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

We have written up how to build a royal London display around the vintage Department 56 Buckingham Palace, using pieces that show real places: the Yeomen of the Guard, a mounted guard on the approach, the Queen's coach, and Victoria Station at the far end of the road.

Full guide ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.vintagevillages.ca/blogs/the-vintage-villager/building-a-royal-london-display-around-buckingham-palace

Dickens' Village collectors, which real landmark would you add first? ๐Ÿ‘‡

It starts with one haunted house on the mantel.Then a graveyard, because the haunted house looked lonely. Then a Ferris ...
08/12/2026

It starts with one haunted house on the mantel.

Then a graveyard, because the haunted house looked lonely. Then a Ferris wheel, because obviously. By October you've rearranged the dining room and you're explaining to someone that the fog is load-bearing. ๐ŸŽƒ

We wrote a beginner's guide to starting a Lemax Spooky Town village: what to buy first, how to lay it out so it looks like a place, and the shortcut that makes it all come together.

(It's this. One big building already looks like a village, and everything you add afterwards has something to gather around.)

Full guide ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.vintagevillages.ca/blogs/the-vintage-villager/how-to-build-a-lemax-spooky-town-village-in-canada-a-beginners-guide

Spooky Town collectors, what was your first piece? ๐Ÿ‘‡

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