#25. The Bannner is really cool. The Allens sent their daughter to Art School for this! #24 You will see rare nativities! #23. You will...

Neil Allen - Webmaster This “Nativity” (hardly that) was purchased at Ikea a few years ago with the idea that someone would see it and...

Without a doubt the Covid-19 reality has dramatically impacted business throughout the world. Even major chains like the Radisson have...

Benito Santivan ̃ez began setting his amazing Spanish style villages up in two different churches many years ago, never missing....until...

I needed some air dry clay to repair damage to a cheap nativity figure. I didn’t need much but the only package of clay was big. Lots...

Good news is on the near horizon. Governor Brown has said she will likely open the state up in the coming weeks. Currently Multnomah...

The Friends of the Creche Board met on May 6, 2021 via zoom. There was lots of ground covered, and much of it centered around the...

At an early age I dabbled in learning how to crochet, being taught by my mother. But for many years I put that skill behind me. A...

Phillip Garding recently did our very first presentation on how to catalogue your nativities: I asked the participants to respond to a...

Dare County Arts Council, in North Carolina's Outer Banks, has hosted a two month solo exhibit of my art “Heavenly Host”. It includes...

Creche Collection Catalog I like lists. As a teenager I started a list of every book I read for seven years. It was inevitable that when...

Rita Bocher In 2021 the Friends of the Creche Organization will celebrate 20 years of gatherings. What you may not know is the Creche...

The following are photos and a video of an attempt at a Nacimiento scene that I have put up yearly in the garage. I reside in Southern...

Interview with Cindy Angelich - Neil Allen reporting Neil: I was excited to receive the news about the Upper Room collection moving to...

When you start collecting a large number of nativities (more than 50 sets) it will happen soon enough - pieces will go missing. Last...

My first recollection of seeing a nativity scene, was as a very young child in the Corpus Christi Cathedral. My Mother took me to see...

I received my first nativity while in college; my parents sent a set from Hawaii where I was raised. It has a coconut hut stable and all...

Who would have thought it would be hard to set up fewer sets than the 950 I usually set up? Just like most of 2020 there was a lot of...

I had always loved Nativities. One of these images is the ceramic ornaments we put on our tree when I was a child. I always begged to...

It is our family collection for over 70 years. 95% of the figures are from Mexico, and the rest are from Brazil and France. On my wife's...