My Nativity: Teri Groff tells her story
I started collecting in 1951. I was give a wonderful Baby Jesus and then started the endless search for figures to enhance the telling...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Margo Dixon shares her love of angles. 'Tis the season when the Angel Tree at the Met in NYC is usually set up. Seeing it being placed in...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Link for Helen Holder's Recent Home Tour
Thanks to the Mower County Historical Society for making this Facebook live video also available on YouTube. Note to self: People can...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Great Idea From a Creche Lover
Carol Waldo writes: This year I had the idea to drop an anonymous Christmas card at the door of people who display a nativity in their...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Pandemic Era Displays
Following up on a previous conversation about how Covid-19 has affected displays open to the public, our board members responded. ith...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Something New
(Made by the Children's Sunday school Class) It’s been more than 20 years now, but I can still see the little girl that stood in awe...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Letters of Love
Here's just one of the many positive notes from our membership regarding the 2020 first Annual Meeting via zoom. This note from a long...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Sue Parker's Collection
After the devastating fire that totally destroyed one of the collections we had planned to use at the Portland Convention next year, Sue...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Board Meeting Bullet Points
17 members of the board were present. Marguerite Sullivan was welcomed as a new member 2. A committee was formed to look at revising...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20223 min read
An Important Conversation - 30 year in the Making
An Important Conversation Me (Neil Allen Webmaster FOTC) : Hey, some day I want to do a blog on our Friends of the Creche page about your...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Wood Tartan
I found a lady who lives in Scotland who makes nativity sets customized with family tartans. I wrote to her and said I wanted a set...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20223 min read
About our FOTC Board
Perhaps you wonder (I always did) about our Friends of the Creche Organization? How it came to be (I knew most of it), or what a Board...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Family Nativity
Rev. A.J. Beavers Using Family Nativity Sets in the Time of the Scattered Church While the coronavirus will mean that there won’t be...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20223 min read
A Special Message from our President
November 1, 2020 Happy Fall one and all, I hope this finds you well.much has happened over these last few months - even if we have been...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Outside the Box
By Neil Allen. Talking with a new nativity friend the other day we were speaking about a very carefully collected set that took years and...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Still time to register for the Annual Meeting!
Sneak peak at one of the many sets to be share electronically with Friends of the Creche on November 21st at 1 p.m. EST. This unique...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Nativity Markets
by Neil Allen A recent conversation among our board members about the state of the nativity markets prompted a lively discussion. With a...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Miniature Size/Maximum Craftsmanship
Germany By Michelle Devitt Miniatures have always fascinated me because of the delicate nature of their size. Seeing miniscule nativites,...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Rita Bocher Shares a link
Recently, Rita was contacted by a society of Creche lovers in Spain to do a presentation for their organization from the archive files as...
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Neil Allen
Mar 15, 20223 min read
When I grow up I want to be like Patty
My dear friend and team member of the 2021 Portland Convention recently lost everything in one of the wildfires that ripped through her...
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