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To: ChristmasMangerScenes@yahoogroups.com

People don't pay money for classes to build a Christmas
decoration that they buy off the shelf at Walmart. They
don't know it's something that can be built (unless they
read the recent story about Don Haas). The Art League of
Daytona Beach offered a crèche building course. Three
people signed up. Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Daytona
Beach offered a crèche building course. Three people
signed up.

Until people learn about crèche artists/builders, they
won't view it as art and they see it as a Christmas
decoration that is put out when you decorate the tree.

That's why it's so important to get stories in the media
about builders who are ARTISTS -- not people making pipe
cleaner or button figures. It needs to be viewed as an art
form that has master crèche builders like Celso, Luigi, and
Ruben. Notice that they're all outside the United States.
We need media stories about people like Susan Sogaro,
a Maestro Presepista, trained in Italy but creating in the
United States. http://www.shsartandgift.com/

We need media stories about people like you, Larry, who can
create a fantastic setting for purchased figures. Something
that wows the neighbors. We need media stories that show
Ada and Pepe making a huge display in their home. People need
to see that a manger scene is more than a Christmas decoration.

People don't know that they can do that. People take their
Walmart or family-heirloom Woolworth's figures and put them
on a shelf as a Christmas decoration.

Bill (Egan)