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I made this Christmas music box which plays Walking In A Winterland in a few stages. It started out as three ceramic Nutcrackers on a simple base which I painted with acrylics. It got knocked off my table and smashed but my father was able to save the Nutcrackers which amazingly survived with non life-threatening injuries. The legs broke off at the feet and some of them were decapitated and he managed to glue them back together. Yay dad!

Without a base now, my dad again came to the rescue and built a box out of plastic sheeting and remounted the music box and Nutcrackers. It looked very plain this way so I drew up a template of the guardhouse and he cut it out of pine and I painted it with gold paint. The roof now looked plain so I added balsa wood shingles that are used to build dollhouses and I left them unstained.

I found the Christmas tree at a department store and glued down some glittery fake snow, some holly berries and then finished off the base with velvet wired ribbon.









This is my favorite Christmas decoration ever for quite a few reasons and I just about wept when I saw it falling and couldn't do jack about it. It's about ten times better than it was originally though, so the fall was a good thing in the end.