Why another Lemax online store?

Over the past year I have ask myself a couple of times or so why would we need yet another store for Lemax? A lot of people out there sell Lemax or Department 56 or some other band of village. Does to world really need another village seller? My thought right after that was SO WHAT! You might think that I have lost my mind in saything this but here is why I came to the conclusion that selling Lemax was right for me.
I started collecting Lemax Spooky Town in 2002. My first three pieces I got all at once and just had to have them. Spooky Town was my first true love of things that I have ever collected. Never cared much at all for most things I got into. I was not sure though what to do with these amazing little buildings and things. So I will pull them out and sit them around at halloween and collect a few more pieces over time. Then came the day I found out that people landscaped these things. They made little worlds out of them and that was awesome! I had some art skills so I figured I would give it a try one day. I lacked the time or place to do this though then.
Back in 2005 though two things happened that changed my world. One not so good and the other was a blessing in the form of Lemax villages. I went to work one night back in August of 2005. Back then I was a Team Lead on the over night for a Target store in Evenston IL. Shortly after I got to work I had a seizure. Not just a small trimbling one but a full blown, lasting for ten minutes, seizure. That week I found out I would not be going back to work for a while. At that point I was scared, confused and even plan depressed. While all this was going on I needed something to take my mind off the whole seizure thing. I started working on my first village landscape. Not just some small project but a full village with all the triming. Meanwhile the doctors where busy trying to fix the seizure thing.
The treatments were not working very well but when I was working on my village I felt normal again. I felt alive! That was something I would never forget. Something that even now makes days that are not so good some of the best days of my life. It was through village collecting and building villages that I found a way to make my siezure disorder a much better thing that it was will any medical help. To this day I credit having fewer siezures on no meds at all to the work I put into my villages and the love of those around me.
While getting to know other villagers I learned a lot of them had medical conditions also. Over time I have found that many of the members of Building New Worlds use villaging as a means to help them through life and coniditions that are not always very good. THAT is one of the reasons I chose to be yet another retailer of Lemax village.
Another reason is that I love my collection and as a collector I feel that giving other collectors a great service and someone who know village buidling to go to is something wonderful to give back to a hobbie, a company and a community that has made such a difference in my life. It is with this love for all these things that I started Building New Worlds and it is with this love for all these things that I will make Building New Worlds something to be proud to be a part of.