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Christmas Village Displays Come to Second Life.


Annie's Costumes Creates a Virtual Christmas Village
For the seasonal attraction near Reading, Pennsylvania, see Koziar's Christmas Village.


A Christmas village (or putz) is a decorative, miniature-scale village often set up during the Christmas season.
 Where Second Life Avatars Can Explore Santa's Workshop Santa's workshop may refer to
  • Santa's Workshop (film), an 1932 animated short by Disney.
  • Santa Claus workshop.
, Skate on a Lake and Shop for Christmas Decorating Ideas and Clothing

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Annie's Costumes, one of the largest online costume shops, announced the launch of their new holiday clothing line and virtual Christmas village display at their Second Life costume store. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world with millions of residents registered from around the globe. As a member of this virtual community, Annie's Costumes created these Christmas village displays and holiday themed costumes with the Second Life residents in mind.

When first arriving to the virtual Christmas village, avatars are greeted with snowflakes snowflakes

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 falling overhead. Santa's elves move about the village, doing some last minute Christmas decorating. An ice covered pond with a Christmas tree Christmas tree

Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews.
 in the middle has free ice skates for ice skating ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. Skating as a Sport


Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice) has developed
. Santa's home sits in between two workshops where Second Life avatars can drop in for some milk and cookies before shopping for Christmas trees and decorations. At the center of this Winter Wonderland is the holiday Second Life clothing line that features a life-like Santa suit This is what professional Santa Clauses call their clothing. Many people erroneously call the outfit a "Santa Costume". Those that are realistic Santa Clauses, like to think that they really are playing Santa Claus. They refer to the red outfit as their "Suit". , a sexy Mrs. Claus Mrs. Claus is a folk hero, and is the wife of Santa Claus in many modern versions of the Santa Claus legend.

In many current versions of the mythos, Mrs. Claus lives with her husband and assists with the production of Santa's toys, sometimes overseeing their production by
, and Male and Female Elf costumes.

"After the success of our virtual haunted house and Halloween costume line, we wanted to take it up a notch for Christmas by creating virtual Christmas village displays that not only showcases our new holiday clothing line but also creates a Winter Wonderland experience for Second Life avatars," states Shari McConahay, Marketing Director for Annie's Costumes. "Ten Golden Rules and LeftBank Studios were instrumental in helping us expand our Second Life Store for Christmas. Additionally, we were able to partner with ChristmasTreeforMe.com so we could offer virtual Christmas trees for avatars looking for Looking for

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 holiday decorating ideas."

About Annie's Costumes

Online costume shop (www.AnniesCostumes.com/) has been providing Christmas costumes, costume accessories and related products for shoppers since 1996.

About ChristmasTreeforMe.com

ChristmasTreeforMe.com is a Christmas decoration store that's been selling artificial Christmas trees, wreaths and garland to the public since 2004.

About Ten Golden Rules

Ten Golden Rules (www.TenGoldenRules.com) specializes in strategic planning, internet advertising, search engine marketing (SEM) and online press releases.

About LeftBank Studios

LeftBank Studios (www.LeftBankStudios.com) is a design studio that provides complete solutions for doing business virtually.
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