MARYSVILLE – When it comes to Christmas, Sheila Bussey of Marysville admits she’s “over the top.”

One look inside her house proves that.

Walk in the door and the first thing you see is a dancing Santa Claus. To the right of that is a number of smaller Santas on a table. In the living room is a Santa and Mrs. Claus made to resemble Bussey and her husband. There’s also a Christmas tree and numerous other Santas.

In the kitchen there is another Christmas tree. And on a table there is a Christmas village, “downsized because there wasn’t room for it all.”

In their bedroom is yet another Christmas tree, but that one is a little different as it’s pink. On a dresser is another Christmas village.

If you think that’s a lot, it is. But it’s just the beginning.

In a room that is a converted garage the entire space is filled with shelves of different Christmas villages. There’s another Christmas tree, of course. But Bussey’s pride and joy is her replica of Disneyland in a Christmas theme.

“I’m a fanatic” about Disneyland, she said. “I was born down there, and we were one of the first one-hundred families to go there.”

She said they would go to the Magic Kingdom about four times a year.

“I was practically raised at Disneyland,” she said of the “happiest place on earth.”

Her Disneyland is filled with so much stuff that it’s hard to take it all in. There is a Haunted Mansion and a huge roller coaster with Mickey’s face on it. But there are dozens of rides and other attractions, too.

“I’m a hoarder of this stuff,” she said, adding only about half of it is on display because there is no room for more.

Bussey said her mother told her collecting Christmas villages is “something you should do.” And when her mother died, Bussey admitted she “went beserk” doing it, collecting about 300 such villages.

She buys most of them on eBay and on Facebook. Much of it is for personal use, but some of it she buys damaged, fixes it up, paints it and resells it.

The retired Everett School District paraeducator said that helps her pay for her hobby.

“If you sell it at the right time of the year” you can make good money, she said, adding she paints and crafts all year long. She buys and sells on “Villages are us” on eBay and her own Facebook site “Sheila B’s Christmas Village Sales,” which is only live a couple weeks out of the year.

Bussey said when she married her husband 35 years ago he told her he grew up so poor he never even had a Christmas tree.

“I vowed he’d never be without a Christmas tree again,” she said with a smile.