My husband alerted me to sad news in early June 2024. St. Anne’s Church in Toronto,  Ontario, Canada burned down. We both almost cried,...

Margo Dixon was chair of the 2017 Convention in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Through her "love for babies" (her words) she enmassed a...

Paid members of Friends of the Creche are in a for a treat! We have added a bunch of new benefits on our web site that are available...

May 4, 2024 marked a new direction for our historic Friends of the Creche. (Set featured about is from the Garding Collection -...

November 1 &2, 2024 will be held at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center in Rancho Palos Verde. There is much to see and do, so watch this...

A Creche Signifies a New Beginning As a Child I attended the summer religious school run by our local church. When I was in about third...

Join us for a great new era in our Nativity Community with our first ever "Nativities with Friends: an Online Gathering" event where FOTC...

Having grown up in central Mexico, I was familiar with the artisan styles of the region.  However many years later, I had the opportunity...

There were many firsts: This was our first December gathering of the Friends of the Creche, the first Washington, D.C. Convention, the...

Tom and I had taken a ferry from Buenos Aires in 2012 to visit Colonia, Uruguay’s first capitol.  Wandering through the old section of...

Take a virtual trip to Midway, Utah to see three favorite nativity sets from the collection of Diane & Phil Garding on display at Zenger...

Everyone is familiar with nativities made of wood, pottery, or stone. But nativity collectors are very familiar with the incredible...

We have had a wonderful opportunity to display some of our nativity collection as part of the Zenger & Friends nativity display at Holly...

A blog is information for a website often written in a diary-style entry. To write a blog about one of your nativities here are a few...

All of these miniatures are made of metal. The square silver piece is a poured mass produced nativity with the Holy Family and an ox and...

I mentioned in a previous blog that I would share more miniature nativities. Sometimes we don't realize how hard it is to make tiny...

I was notified today of the death of Alberto Finizio He is the current Vice President of Um Foe Prae and the President of the Italian...

Did you know you can find your Friends of the Creche Schedule online? Entering the "Register Now" portal does not atomically register...