Here are the titles of the 13 books on collecting putz houses. There are 2 more books in the works... "The Collector's Guide to Vintage Putz Houses Sets" and "More Fancy Coconuts". By the way; I need help deciding if I should go with the Blue Cover History Book or the Orange Cover? Hope to hear from ...

Finally, after all these years I've finished my book "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PUTZ a HISTORY AND COMPENDIUM". This book was suppose to be done for the 2019 Golden Glow of Christmas Past Annual Convention in Chicago. It wound up being a much larger project than I fist thought. This work still needs ...

Tu villa es fabulosa. Me encanta la textura y la combinación de colores. ¡Sigue así! Gracias, Howard.

IMG_1293 B.JPG I just ran into this post from the past. I like to refer to this style of putz house as "THE SANDIES" Basically because the structures are coated with a heavy, colored SAND. And as most of you have noted these are related to the HACIENDA FAMILY. So far I've noticed that these come in ...

Hello fellow collectors. Happy New Year, Its nice to be back. Here are couple more Composite Balcony Houses...

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Hello my old friends. It's been a while, I haven't been able to access this site for a very long time. Anyway, I thought I share this information with you just to see if cardboardchristmas id working for me. As a serious collector of putz houses I have been able to amass a collection of well over ...

Hello Howard and Barb. Nice to see a current post over here at cardboardchristmas. I miss yous guys. First Id like to say wonderful job on your latest project Howard. I always love your building techniques. I have so much to post here but I haven't been able to get in. Ill try now and see if this ...

Hello Roger. Nice to see you back at cardboardchristmas. Thank you for your kind words. I look forward to you new invention. Thank you for sharing...

Here's a couple more fun shots...