Christmas traditions and hobbies become pieces of art for 2 Regina men
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It has been months in the making for two Regina men, each creating and constructing their own Nativity scene and Christmas village.
Orazio Giannini has spent months individually hand crafting pieces for his Christmas Presepio, an Italian Nativity scene, which has been a long-standing family tradition.
"My dad used to build the Presepio. When we first came to Canada, he brought it back from when I was a child in Italy growing up. All of the pieces ended up to me,” he explained.
Giannini wanted to create a piece that truly depicts Bethlehem. He said it took over 240 hours and 10 weeks to create.
It fully came together in October.
"The buildings are made of Styrofoam, so putting the pieces together and then to actually make it look antique. The sausages with clay and drying them out with a string in between and making sure that each link is perfect. The figures are three and a half inches. Everything has to be to scale,” he explained.
He isn’t the only one with a creative eye and a similar hobby. Larry Lindemann has been collecting Christmas homes for over 40 years.
"It's delicate work. I'd say it took me a couple of hours to get them painted. Build this because you've got to glue everything,” he said.
