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PlanetChristmas Showing Off 2004
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David, St. Louis Mo. 3000 lights, 69
blowmolds, 24 wire frames rope lights and homemade items |
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Whitehorse Yukon Christmas |
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Here is our lights display (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/writeus6/
) which includes over 60,000 lights, 100 hand carved wooden
figures including the grinch, spongebob, shrek, rugrats, toy
story, and many more. This year we look more forward to sharing
our hard work with our community of Charlotte County, which was
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Our third year brought
the total to nearly 32,000 lights. For the 2004 display, we
added over 20,000 lights, a 23 foot artificial tree, 2 more
arches, strobes, fencing, 24 two foot trees, and a few more
little things. We are still not computerized, but that should
happen next year. Please visit us at
www.lightup.ca
and have a great Christmas.
Thanks,
Dan, Cindy, & Kyle Lagerstrom
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hi my name is mark i live in St. Louis i have been doing my
display about 10 years have 20,000 lights pulling 86 amps
i have 4600 lights on my tunnel hope everyone has a great
Christmas
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Hi all. Merry Christmas from the Fleets in Hope,
British Columbia.
It's a work in progress. Close to 6000 lights so
far.
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We have done a large lights display at
our house for the past three years. We have something
for just about everyone - yard-art, lots of lights, a
running train, and a Christmas PowerPoint Presentation.
We are trying to spread the word as much as possible.
For more pictures, you can visit my website at
http://sci.tamucc.edu/~jglas/mypage/Pictures.htm Thank
you for your help.
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PorrazzoLand |
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We are from Seaford in the South East of
England and are using about 5,000 lamps this year, all of which
are American. All the shapes are hand made, except the reindeer
and 2 candles on the lawn. The countdown to Christmas is made
from LEDs and controlled by a simple 10 switch control box (just
need to remember to change it each night).
To all that
put on a display, or enjoy looking at them, have a great season.
The Woolgar Family
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This is Christmas Utah in Salt Lake City. I have about
100,000 lights this year and 150 channels of computer
synchronized animation. The display features live music on
weekends. You can find more details at
www.christmasutah.com. |
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!
To all Lighthouse Fans .......Worldwide!!
From Detmold , Germany.
LiaRuediger,Melanie,Tahmia,
Mandy and Michael
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Hello, My name is Michelle Cedillo and I live in South Gate,
CA.
I usually decorate the house with my dad for Christmas
and last year it paid off when the city of South Gate
decided to award our house with the holiday beautification
certificate. This certificate is only awarded to 3 homes out
of the whole city for the best Christmas lights display. We
were so excited and appreciative that our hard work
was recognized! So I submit these pictures to share our 2004
Christmas display! Thanks!
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New for this year was the Arches, and we increased the
Mega-Tree to 50k lights. This year we also went to LOR with
48ch for the computer control and a low power FM station.
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this is a picture of our neighbors house we
live opposite. he has a little girl that has disabilities and
needs stimulation and bright shiny lights are a good way of
achieving this...we are in the north east of england..merry xmas
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This is my 2004 holiday light display in Painesville Ohio.
The general layout is somewhat the same as last year's. I
decided to stick with that layout because it looked so good
last year.
I'm in the neighborhood of 15,000 (or a bit more) lights.
My newest attraction this year, and the centerpieces of my
display, are the electronic firework lights. These lights
stand around 15 feet tall and have a burst diameter of 6 1/2
feet. A computer is located in the bases of the units and
they have several different preprogrammed burst patterns.
Definitely something no one else around here has ever seen,
and they are very mesmerizing to watch. The effect looks
just like a real firework going up and exploding!
The display also features two 20-foot tall trees, a 15-foot
tall candy cane, euro-style driveway arches with icicle
lights on both driveway entrances and other animated and
static light sculptures.
The display is a big conversation piece, as it is every
year, and the neighbors just love it!
Paul Berzins
Painesville, Ohio
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Hi chuck - here's this years offering from
South West England for your website. It's getting better by the
year. Maybe next year it'll be up there with some of the
American displays - you guys sure know how to light a house!!!
I'm quite happy for you to leave my email address in the text if
it's ok with you - if not, just edit away! - Merry Christmas to
you and yours - Andrew Howell (Redruth Cornwall, England)
My second year of showing off on Planet Christmas! It was
hard to know which photo to put in this year. Unfortunately, I
can't get the whole thing into one photo and there are more
lights and blowmoulds by the door. I chose a predominately
white theme this year and decided that the outline ropelights
should be four channel for a little extra razzmatazz. The two
large deer on the left are motorized as well. The spiral trees
are new, as are the blowmould reindeers and sleigh (that you
can't see in the picture! Other then that, I have already had
people stopping me at the local shops and have been in the local
paper so I guess I'm doing something right. This year a couple
of my neighbours have got the bug and have started some new
displays up of their own - We're trying to make ourselves an
English 'satellite' to 'Planet' Christmas! So, to all lighting
friends around the world, from Andrew in Redruth, Cornwall,
England,(ajhowellonline@hotmail.com)
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We just got married back in April and this is our first year
to have a house of our own to decorate. It consists of 4500
lights, green garland and red bows, 15 extension cords, and
a photocell timer. It was funny because it was raining
while me and my wife were on the roof putting up the icicle
lights. (It was about 50 degrees, but colder when your wet)
We thought this would be a good starting point for the years
to come. Next year i hope to add even more. Well, Merry
Christmas from Justin and Brittany Koehn in Mount Juliet
TN.
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here is a sneak preview of the show i put on. I still
have four more elves and a two foot tall train and some
other little things to put out in and around the carport
yet. And I still have my ten foot boat with six foot
wheels in the yard to the left of the photo.
Well I will try to send you more photos later. I put
copies of the photos in the attach file.
Lyle Nunnemaker
15961 21 ave./ po box 5746
Clearlake CA, 95422
email
lylenunster@aol.com
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Scotts Christmas Lights located in Sherman Illinois is home
to over 40,000 lights. Included are 68 strobe lights, 8
wireframes and over 130 blowmolds. To find out more-visit
my web site at
http://www.freewebs.com/scottsxmaslights/index.htm for a
complete history behind the lights and why I do it. Happy
Holidays
The Loftus Family
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this is one of my many display i have up all ready. all i
like left to get out is my pop can displays i made out of
hundreds of popcans.
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The Read family home in Vancouver Wa. has
approx. 12,000 lights. We've been lighting our home for about
twelve years and more is added every year. This photo was taken
in 2002. We have since added an animated singing and dancing
snowman and a sleigh and flying reindeer on a cable stretched
from house eve to tree.
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I'm Jim, and here is a picture
of our house in Laguna Niguel, California. We figured we have
about 8,000 lights on the outside this year. We actually got an
honorable mention in the city's annual decorating contest!! Not
bad for a first attempt! We would like to add more lights this
year, but we are max'd out on our power. Our 11 foot tree in the
living room alone has 2500 lights and takes up some of the
power. Maybe Santa will bring me an electrical upgrade this
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Here is our display in Yuba City California 2004
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I don't know about y'all but my
circuits started blowing after 20 strings! So I built a reindeer
out of pine straw to extend the effect. The neighborhood helps
each year, gathering the recyclable pine star (mulch for
acid-loving plants) and adding the reins from old ribbon.
Kathy Hall
Houston, Texas
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3rd year putting up lights I figure I have around
12,000 lights Happy Holidays From AUBURN, Washington
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hi we love xmas me and my two
neigbours have done a display this year were from bolton lancs
hope you like the pictures |
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hi this is my two neighbours houses next to mine its the
first time lit up for xmas
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I live in Logan City, Queensland, Australia. Have been
lighting up for 7 years but only 2 years at this house.
There are 11,000 lights, 54 blow moulds & over 50 rope
lights, wire frames & rope figures. This is only part of my
home as I have a wide frontage & I cant get it all in the
photo.
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Santa's Work Shop at the North pole! This Display contains
Santa's work shop, a polar bear and Ice burg, a collection
of Deer outside of the work shop, and a hand made Christmas
train with moving wheels and smoke standing 7ft tall and 25
ft long. All located in a small town in north east Oregon!
More detail pictures at
http://www.bowlercentral.com/christmas.htm |
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This is our 4th year of outdoor
display we have approximately 9000 lights. We are in Melbourne,
Australia. Our display includes a home made wood train with
over 700 lights in it, 14 wood cartoon characters made by me, a
lamp with tinker bell inside flapping her wings, blowmolds,
animated seesaw, 7 plastic trees, 3 light trees, Mickey Mouse +
Christmas tree inflatables, and heaps more.
Kenneth
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This is our display in Coeur D'
Alene Idaho. The first year of going all out with 13000 minis,
450 C-9s, three new 20amp circuits and lots of cords. I think
I'm hooked now. Enjoy |
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Here’s our simple display in Lake in the
Hills Illinois. We use an X10 controller to control
three outside outlets and two inside. Outside there
are 6,685 lights including the 35 twinkling lights on the
mailbox. We have a simple approach of framing the
house in white, using single color lights for individual
trees and bushes with multi-color lights on the doors and
windows.
This is our 9th year of putting up this display which
grew to this size about 3 years ago.
Kevin J. Fangman
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Our first effort at animated flamingos pulling a sleigh. We
had a lot fun putting up this up, it was a family
adventure. There are 13,000 lights drawing about 35
AMPS and it is really bright. The kids in the neighborhood
were involved as always.
John Lomnicki, Sr.
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Well I certainly don't have the
light show that all of you have, but I do have about 45 hand
made characters from Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch, Calvin
& Hobbes and Winnie-the-Pooh. We hand draw and create every
character ourselves. Currently there's about 10,000 lights
spread all over the property and we add more as we go. Enjoy!
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HAVELOCK , NC . WHEN WE TURNED ON
THE LIGHTS OUR CHILDREN SAID IT LOOKED LIKE A GINGER BREAD
HOUSE WITH GUMDROP TREES.
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Display of the Koenig family
Christmas display in New Jersey. The display features almost
35,000 lights, all controlled by 48 Light-O-Rama computer
channels and 3 X-10 home automation channels, synchronized to
several Christmas songs. Other features include 10 strobe
lights, a bubble machine, a fog machine, 4 outdoor speakers, FM
broadcasting, an animated Snowman snowball fight, and Santa's
Workshop. Our website is at:
http://www.freewebs.com/koenigchristmas
Glenn Koenig |
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Our display in Buffalo Grove IL.
consists of several thousand lights synchronized to music
broadcasted over a FM radio station. The large tree and house
consist of five different colored lights that change in rhythm
to the playing music. We have more pictures and video on our
website at
http://www.468gregg.com |
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My girlfriend from CA told me about this site and said we
should put our house on it. We try to change or add
something every year. This year it was the little twig tree
which I love as it has such pretty lights on it. It's not
as elaborate as some but we enjoy doing it.
Merry Christmas from..........The Hotle Family
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All lights are computer controlled (LOR) and
animated to music. Music is broadcast to
passing vehicles via a low-power FM
transmitter. ~40,000 lights, 30' tree, ~20,000
lights in animated "yard grid", 2.6 miles of
extension cords, 128 computer-controlled
circuits. 2 weeks to build.
Jeff & Bridgette Trykoski - Frisco, TX
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The Lanclos
family, we live in Slaughter, Louisiana and we live in a 1865
Victorian home. We have been decorating our home for 5 years
now, we look forward to it each year. Carl, Tammy, Daniel, and
Joel. |
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21,107 lights, 2 Projectors, 47 extension
cords, nearly 50 amps of converted 110v pulled.
Please if anyone is in the area, stop by
at 16 Bowling Green Road, Cirencester UK
Cheers
Darren Jeffries
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I love looking at all the fantastic light displays on your
site attached is my picture I have a long long way to go to
catch up with you all. I live in Berkshire in the South of
England The pictures do not show the side of the house and
back display or the diipslay in the front of the house
garden. I have already purchased 6 new rope lights
silhouettes 3 characters and twenty boxes of led lights for
2005!!
Tracey Torr
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Our home in Rohnert Park, CA. We've estimated over 18,000
lights (we lost count on the third weekend of getting it all
up) Our four children all help to do the work. This is the
first time at this house that we done this display. We look
forward to next years improvements!
Thanks!
Curtis and Brenda Smith
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This is a picture of part my
2004 holiday display in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It's small
compared to some of the other displays featured here, but it is
by far the largest display my family and I have done. The
display features over 12,000 lights and draws something in the
area of 33 amps. The waterfall in this picture is computer
animated, and the 12 foot tree changes colors between red,
green, and blue. Also not seen in this picture is a shooting
star with a shimmering tail, and a 12.5 foot inflatable
snowman. I'm planning on expanding into computer animation next
year, and a much larger display.
More pictures and
information can be found at my website, Holiday Landscapes, at
the following address:
http://holiday.atariansun.com
I hope everyone has a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Brian
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This is our first year here in
prospect park pa. Every car slows to take in a good look we
still need to put up the star at the roof peak. there are five
animated reindeer two animated polar bears and a waving Santa. |
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Chuck- Here is a selection of
pictures for Showing Off 2004. My pic is attached. For the
description: “Deltaville, Virginia - 32,000 lights. My 9th year
of doing a display, this is by far my largest ever. 13 PVC
trees, including a giant 20’ tall one with 3,700 lights, a boat
fishing in a pond of lights, fed by a river of running lights,
trains, soldiers, snowmen, lots of penguins, and even a couple
of flamingos included in the display that’s laid out over a 100
foot wide field and all over the office building. For more
pictures, visit
http://christmas.coastalsteve.com.”
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I would like to share with you my house in Maple Valley,
WA. The Warren's house has about 6,000-8,000 lights on
it this year and it grows each year. Along with our
blow up Snowman and lighted wreath, this year we have
added a train and animated deer on the fence along with
many more lights. This is our 3rd year of lighting at
our house and we seem to have encouraged our neighbors
to add more lighting as well, I seem to be the "Clark
Griswold" (like the movie Christmas Vacation) of my
street for sure! The picture shows a left and
right-hand view of our house. Thank you!
Chris Warren
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Merry Christmas to all!
In our first year at attempting to "out-do" the neighbors,
we feature 6,100 lights, two motorized lighted reindeer
drinking from a lake and an animatronic santa waving from
the window. We have grand plans for the years to come and
look forward to posting on your site again next year! All
the posted pictures are beautiful and our one-year-old
daughter has enjoyed them tremendously - thanks! :)
The Hightower Family - Allen, TX
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9551 Palmer Road, Richmond (near Railway & Francis off
of Princeton) The Armitage family presents
.. alightchristmas.com 48,390 lights, bigger & better
than last year. We have computer controlled lights to
music, snowball fight, trains, plains, shooting stars,
animated yard displays, waterfall, and LOADS OF LIGHTS a
must see on your tour. You will get to see it snow no
matter what the weather !!!! Accepting donations for
CANCER SOCIETY ... shows nightly from 5pm - 11pm from
Dec 1 to Jan 2. Come by on December 18th for a hot
chocolate & candy cane for the kids !!
Just follow the glow in the sky & bring your sunglasses
!! The Griswald family would
be envious ..
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We’ve been decorating for about 20 years. As a veteran, I
quit counting lights and started doing a count down of how
many days I had left to be able to put them up. I can tell
you that there are about 15000 lights on the house alone.
Usually there are about as many in the yard. Most yard
scenes are hand made. Special Thanks to my elves (Wife and
Daughter) for all their help and my neighbors for tolerating
the viewers. See more pictures at
http://home.mindspring.com/~hbfuller/ Merry
Christmas from the Fuller Family – Cary, NC
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Christmas On Chestnut Ave
Is up to 6500 lights so far.
LOR for the computer control
and a low power FM station.
Jerry Plak
San Marcos,
Ca
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Just getting into the business.
Get a lot of traffic stopping and looking and local front page
photo. Gene & Phyllis Moore, Benton, Arkansas |
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This year I am celebrating my
twenty-second year of decorating, as I started as a 12 year old
in Cincinnati, Ohio. My display this year consists of
approximately 15,000 lights, over 35 figures, and many
custom-made decorations,and complete front and backyard
decorations. Included is a custom- made gingerbread house
complete with animated figurines, and a life-size animated Santa
that sings Christmas carols. New this year is a light display
that spans across Twilight Lane to my neighbor's display,
carolers, and more snow! For the six years I have lived in the
neighborhood, I was sure that I was considered a "nutcase" by
all of my neighbors. However, in the past several years my
neighbors have joined with me in a true bond of neighborhood
celebration. The satisfaction that I have received from seeing
the neighborhood grow closer as a whole has really symbolized
the Christmas spirit for me. The neighborhood consists of
White, Hispanic, Filipino, Asian, and many other ethnicities
who have been brought together in this celebration of the
holidays. Our newest neighbors, an Islamic family from Sudan,
have asked me to decorate their house. I have discussed with
them the idea of putting up a "Peace On Earth" sign on their
house, as a show of support to stop the violence that is
currently occurring in their home country.
In the
troubled times in which we live, it has made
all of us happy
to see this group of diverse people
coming together in an
American neighborhood during the holiday season. Please feel
free to contact me for any other information, and please stop by
to see our lights! Thank You and Merry Christmas,
Brian
Hays, Rancho Santa Margarita,CA
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Merry Christmas!!
Here attached is a photo of my work and a discription!!
This site is Great!!!I have other shots if youd like!!!
Regards!!!
Bob Berger
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Michael & Margaret of Troy, Michigan
This is my second year of showing off on
Planet Christmas! We're in our 9th year of of displaying
lights. Our display includes over 1,000 C-7 lights,3
inflatable characters and over 10,000 lights in all. I use
faders, 4-channel chasers, magic bulbs and digital
programmers in our display. We start working on it right
after Halloween and finish by the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
The City of Troy has given us an award, 5 years running, as
one of Troy's best decorated homes and last year we won a
special award for "Most Spectacular". It utilizes six 20amp
circuits and three 15amp circuits, all told about 16,000
watts, wow what an electric bill! We have a web page showing
the last three years of displays and video of this year too.
http://home.comcast.net/~mike-margaret/
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Here is my nieghbors house. He
has a few more yrs at it than me. God Bless from Boise, Idaho
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Happy Holidays to all from Fort Pierce, Florida USA.
We are Mike and Cheryl Budnik and we have been putting up
our Christmas displays for over 25 years now. This
year especially we are trying to instill a light heart and
good cheer to our neighborhood and friends after the
traumatic devastation of back-to-back hurricanes this fall.
Prior to last year’s display we had an extra 150 AMP
circuit box installed along with 4 outlets in the yard and 3
in the soffits, currently we are utilizing 8 20AMP breakers
just for Christmas lights. (Will add more this spring).
Our display this year consists of 16,000+ lights, 170 feet
of rope lights, a holographic display on the roof
(which being a metal roof took some very careful doing), 40
illuminated blow mold figures and 4 large inflatable, just
to name a few. You may see more pictures and even
watch our video on our website
http://home.comcast.net/~cab979/wsb/index.html Happy
Holidays to All, Mike & Cheryl.
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Hello all,
This is my first year to find this site and share my
display. I have moved from a city lot to an acre lot and am
still looking to increase the number of lights. I have close
to 50,000 lights and I made all the yard art. I hope to add
more before Christmas. I love doing this every year and hope
you enjoy the photo.
Robert Bailey, Forney, TX
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john, Washington
state north of Seattle. Over 15000 lights this year. |
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This is the Schrimp Family House
in San Juan Capistrano, CA. This is their 10th year. The focus
is more on animation than light. There is still many thousand
lights used, but the animation and interactive display for kids
is what keep them coming back year after year. |
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This is our house in Mesa
Arizona. This year we have 10,000 lights with 16 computer
controlled circuits (LIGHT-O-RAMA). We have 3500 lights
controlled by 6 channels for our driveway tunnel 10 ft high x 14
ft wide x 17 ft long! A 25 foot Super Tree controlled by 4
channels, and one of our favorite things, The "next show" Sign,
which has 250 lights and is controlled by 3 channels. And last
but not least we finally got a nativity set this year. Hope you
enjoy the pictures.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Aaron
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Hi my name is Scott, this is our
3rd year doing lights and we have over 30 thousand(actually
almost 50k) due to construction couldn't get them all up this
year but we are excited to see the difference. We are one of
many in Boise, Idaho that love lights. I am happy to be able to
share this picture with all of you. Merry Christmas to all and
to all many lights. Scott & Lynda Boise,Idaho |
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Hi, my name is Garran Sparks at 943
Bluestem Lane in Batavia, Illinois I have been adding
to my decorations every year for the last 12 years. My
display is on 2-60 amp intermatic timers and consists of
approximately 18 inflateables, several wire frame light up
trees, several wire rope and wire frame displays and Santa
on the roof with all the reign deer and a lot of lights. I
have rope light bordered straw path thru the display for
visitors to admire the display. The display pulls about 110
amps Merry Christmas…….
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this is our house that we moved in this
year. we intend to buy more lights for the
side and more for filling in gaps @ the
front next year as this house is bigger than
the last. we have been doing it for about 3
seasons now. we have to change the net
lights as not all of the lights work.
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This is our fourth year for a
display and I have approx. 150+ blowmolds, 20,000+ lights,
homemade animated houses and 14' tall arches over our driveway.
This year we just entered the world of computer controllers and
by next year we should have a few more. Merry Xmas from Bill &
Lynn in Monee, Illinois |
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Cliff Donovan |
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This is my 6th year doing the display and the display
has grown every year. For 2004 there are 32,000 lights
synced to music and this is all controlled by the
computer via 40 channels and hardware/software from a
company called Light-O-Rama. You can check out my site
at
www.freewebs.com/draytonlights or email me at
matt_thiesen@hotmail.com
Matt Thiessen, Drayton Valley, AB Canada
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This is our display located at Travis AFB Ca.
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hi, this is our 2nd year at this house. we have nearly 15000
lights this year.and still growing.
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My display isn't as grand as some simply because we live
in an apartment. We have a small patio area and a small
patch of grass in front of our townhouse so we decorate
for the complex. We have an inflatable Snoopy on his
Xmas dog house, a santa sleigh on the awning, a few blow
molds, and about 1500 lights indoors and in the inside
windows. For an apartment people tend to think it's
impressive!
Michael and Jen Maxim
Broadview Hts. Ohio
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I live in Logan City, Queensland,Australia. Have been
lighting up for 7 years but only 2 years at this house.
There are 11,000 lights, 54 blow moulds & over 50 rope
lights,wire frames & rope figures. This is only part of my
home as I have a wide frontage & I cant get it all in the
photo.
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hi every one hope you have a
happy xmas and a happy new year just thought id send a picture
of my two neighbours houses i think they look great together
they are from westhoughton bolton lancs ps you can put this in
and delete the other one as this is better more decorations have
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hi i live in bolton lancs we
love xmas if we had a big house we would do more but we have a
little house so hope you like it |
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Merry Christmas Everybody!
My display is at 1642 Sunburst Way, in Kissimmee. I have
about 40,000 lights, which are all computerized, and are
Synchronized to music using Light-O-Rama. One song that I
have added this year is a patriotic song, in tribute to our
troops overseas. I have made all of my decorations myself.
This year I am also a collection site for the SHARE YOUR
CHRISTMAS food drive. You can see more of my display at my
website,
http://www.christmaswonders.com. |
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This is our home in
Northeastern Illinois. We add more lights to it every year since
the trees out front just keep getting bigger. I've loved doing
Christmas lights for as long as I can remember. We tend to make
it a family project putting them all up, starting the friday
after thanksgiving. Taking them down isn't nearly as much fun as
putting them up! My neighbors all call us the Griswolds of the
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First attempt at lighting a 35
foot tall cedar tree. Great branches for lights but it sure uses
up the light strings. I used strings of icicle lights in the
tree and, wow, 8000 lights were used. About 2000 more lights
decorate the eves and roof lines, using icicle and C-7 lights.
"Winnie the Santa Pooh" greets you at the front door and the
great train at the chimney was a present from my next door
neighbor! Merry Christmas All |
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Greetings again from across
the Atlantic. Edinburgh has been dry and not too cold this year
which made the job of lighting the house much easier.
This is the fifth year of lighting the house at Christmas and it
seems to make people stop and enjoy it, spreading a little light
on the dark nights.
Have a good holiday Gordon |
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Don & Jean: Howard city
Michigan Approx.45,000 lights
Thank You
Don
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Please check out
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G'Day,
Here is a picture
of my 2004 display. I live in Saratoga which is near Gosford,
New South Wales Australia on the Central Coast. I have been
doing lighting displays for 2 years now, this is my first year
in this house. There is about 5000 odd lights and about 600
metres of cables and extension cords. I made some of my own
dispays this year from corflu or coroplast, hopefully you can
see them in the photo (Sleigh, Reindeer, Santa Hat and
Snowflake) I also made the giant rred star and yellow christmas
tree from ropelight and aluminium moulding. All up I have spent
about a month putting it all up between shift working and a new
baby in September, can't tell you how long it took me to make
the displays this year, lots of late nights in the garage.
Hope you enjoy it if your passing by!! Merry Christmas
Nath |
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Hi, I live in Reno Nevada and
Im 13 years old. This is the Seasons-of-Lights 04' display. I
have been Lighting our house for 5 years or so... But Never quit
like this year. We have over 15,000 lights, 3 AirBlowns (Grinch,
Spongebob, and Santa with Rudolph) plus many wire and widow
displays. The front of the house and back are lighted up. I love
Christmas and Have a Merry One too!! The Picture is the best I
could get. Come see it on Ruby Mtn Rd in Reno NV.
site:
www.freewebs.com/seasons-of-lights
Thanks, Jared
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2 Full windows at house that are full of moving statues.
Over 50 nutcrackers. 7 blow up characters. Lights? Didn't
want to count lost around 50,000. It's all for the kids that
come by to see it. Joe and Sharon Brock
Martinez, California
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Another entry from Nardian Way in
Westchester, Los Angeles, where we add a little bit to the
neighborhood effort every year. This time, there are
fourteen custom made wire frame presents suspended from a
cable spanning the street, added to Santa and his reindeer
flying over four homes. As always, the spirit
Christmas is expressed in kilowatt-hours! Happy
holidays, Ernst.
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This year i believe i broke the
100,000 barrier with about 102,000... i think, it starts to get
a little hectic. The lights dangling from the roof are
controlled via animated lighting older style lc-16 and MB. I
have had the roof the same 2 years in a row now due to not
getting anymore controllers. i hope to post more pictures in the
chat forum with a few more updates of added stuff, it seems like
it's never done.
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It’s been another great year!
We have over 20,000 lights this year. Also, I have my first
Animated Lighting controller in use. You can view more pictures
at
http://www.keithportell.net . Merry Christmas from the
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The whole neighborhood in lights. Merry Christmas
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Hi my name is Scott, this is
our 3rd year doing lights and we have over 30 thousand (actually
almost 50k) due to construction couldn't get them all up this
year but we are excited to see the difference. We are one of
many in Boise, Idaho that love lights. I am happy to be able to
share this picture with all of you. Merry Christmas to all and
to all many lights. Scott & Lynda Boise, Idaho |
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Attached is a few photos of this years
display.
My Webpage is
www.eakerxmas.4t.com. Merry Christmas to all from Mike
and Melissa Eaker of Folsom, CA
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I live in
Cincinnati, Ohio and I've been putting up me display for three
years now. This is me first year going this big. I've built a 14
foot ferries wheel, 9 foot merry-go-round, and signs that no one
will have. I have more than 40,000 lights and a Santa's workshop
that has more than 13 elves that are building trains, ornaments,
and Santa's wife baking. For more pic. or other info. email me
at THECHRISTMASWRAP@AOL.COM |
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My name is Jeff Long and I live in Atco, NJ. This picture
doesn't really do my display justice, took it from far away
and still could not get everything in the picture. Guess I
need a new camera. I have a little over 50,000 lights this
year with several animated ground display's and a 6 ft.
motion Santa on the upper deck. I am hoping with some more
time from my business that I can finally go computerized
next year. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Safe
and Happy New Year!
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Knoxville, TN
40-foot
live tree with 2,600 C9 lights on 12 dedicated 20 amp circuits |
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Here are some pictures of our Christmas
Decorations in Covina, CA.This is our second year of
decorating. We really don’t know how many lights we have. We
will have more lights next year
Leonard, Elvie and Marissa Lei
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Hello. I am a 15 year old male that lives in New Lenox,
Illinois. This is my first year decorating this house
because we just had it built so i am looking for some
recommendations. I am going to be putting out more and more
every year once I get some more higher voltage circuits in
so I don't blow the circuit breaker. E-mail me if u have any
recommendations at
MTPG13@comcast.net |
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Merry Christmas from the Sansing Family
Glenview, Illinois
Thanks to you, Chuck, and PlanetChristmas for giving us this
opportunity to share our Holiday Joy with all of you!
Bigger and better in 2005!
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This Massachusetts home is lit for the
First Time ever!! Better late than never!
Thanks to our grown daughter and her wonderful boyfriend,
our ‘dream’ became a reality!!
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I'm back and better than ever for 2004. This year I have
over 40,000 lights and a snow machine. The house is trimmed
in blue and twinkling clear C-7 bulbs. Also on the trim are
white icicle lights, blue icicle lights, and the new
snowflake lights. The roof is covered with over 9,000 clear
mini lights. Very "Griswald-esque" in a tasteful sort of
way. There are several deer sculptures and a snowball
tossing snowman. Plans for next year include strobe lights
and a Santa vacationing on the beach scene. I am also going
to shoot for computerized animation.
Greg Egelstad
519 95th DR SE
Everett, WA 98205
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believe there's just over
100,000 lights this year, and last year was the first time using
computer control via animated lighting lc-16 controller and MB.
thanks again for a great place to come to for people who have a
love for lights.
Brett
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My name is Jim Martin and I
live in Slidell, Louisiana and I have close to 40,000 lights in,
on and around my house. I built a gingerbread house that stands
5' tall and the chimney actually smokes, I have animated polar
bears, rocking horses and a lit horse drawn sleigh that shoots
out thousands of bubbles. Since we don't have snow down here,
the bubbles are the closest thing to snow flurries and looks
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We are the Temaat family and
here is our display. This is our 3rd year and it features over
14,000 lights complete with a 35 foot long animated tunnel,
guarded by our 7 foot tall nutcrackers. Our design also
features custom made "CD" trees that have lights and give off a
cool effect. Our lighted path to Santa's Workshop, the North
Pole and lighted "fruit jar" sidewalk keeps the area bright.
Spongebob also has the Christmas spirit and Christmas music is
playing to entertain passers by. Hope you enjoy it and Merry
Christmas.
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We are from Fremont, CA and
I've been lighting up my street for about 5 years now. Every
year my daughter and I add something new. I was recently
married, and my husband has since been deployed. I wanted a
little something special in the display just for him. Hopefully
he will feel the love, and get into the spirit of the holidays
since he loves this time of year, and cannot be with us to enjoy
it. It's also great to see all the people pass by and pay
compliments, and let us know they also support our troops
overseas. There are yellow ribbons, the American flag, and the
Blue star flag flying that didn't come out to well in the
pictures. I didn't have enough time to get a great picture. A
special thanks to Carrie for getting me the yard sign in time!
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I'm back and better than ever for 2004. This year I have
over 40,000 lights and a snow machine. The house is trimmed
in blue and twinkling clear C-7 bulbs. Also on the trim are
white icicle lights, blue icicle lights, and the new
snowflake lights. The roof is covered with over 9,000 clear
mini lights. Very "Griswald-esque" in a tasteful sort of
way. There are several deer sculptures and a snowball
tossing snowman. Plans for next year include strobe lights
and a Santa vacationing on the beach scene. I am also going
to shoot for computerized animation.
Greg Egelstad
519 95th DR SE
Everett, WA 98205
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I believe
there's just over 100,000 lights this year, and last year was
the first time using computer control via animated lighting
lc-16 controller and MB. thanks again for a great place to come
to for people who have a love for lights.
Brett
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We are the Temaat family and
here is our display. This is our 3rd year and it features over
14,000 lights complete with a 35 foot long animated tunnel,
guarded by our 7 foot tall nutcrackers. Our design also
features custom made "CD" trees that have lights and give off a
cool effect. Our lighted path to Santa's Workshop, the North
Pole and lighted "fruit jar" sidewalk keeps the area bright.
Spongebob also has the Christmas spirit and Christmas music is
playing to entertain passers by. Hope you enjoy it and Merry
Christmas. |
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It all started many years ago with one set of 25 c-9 bulbs
and it has grown to over 25,000 lights. With the official
count of 26,950 mini lights, 12 inflatables, 21 blow-molds,
200+ 30" candy canes, 3 animated reindeer, and a 10' star, I
still have one set of 25 c-9 bulbs that takes front and
center in the front lawn. The original plan for this year
was over 35,000 lights, however do to a power overload I
could only manage 26,950 and not one more. I have always
enjoyed decorating the house but the past few years things
beyond my control prevented my from going all out. But this
year I have managed to turn a few heads, stop a few cars and
and make a few kids go ahhhh, which is great. But I am sure
I will be going ahhhhhh when I get the light bill. Have a
GREAT HOLIDAY.
Thanks
Bobby Joe
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Dan Deshaies from Meriden, Ct. The centerpiece of this years
display is a working train built this year.
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This is my Second year of
decorating. I'm located in Rancho Santa margarita in Southern
California. There are about 7,000 lights and 26 extension cords
equaling about 900ft. Next year will be my first try with LOR. |
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These six feet
snowflakes and two snowmen really light up the night in my
cul-de-sac. They consist of about 5,000 white lights. I had a
note in my mailbox from the mom and two kids down the street
asking me to continue because they fell asleep looking out their
windows at night. one lady and her elderly mom dropped by today
to thank me for the snowfall of lights. I will have to continue
each year with this kind of applause in Marietta,GA. Home of
the Stancil's. |
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Christmas in Council Bluffs
Iowa.
Hue Turnbough |
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I would like to submit this
picture of my house Jerry Muller East Rutherford,N.J. |
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Our house
is located in Santa Clarita, California. We are running over
6,000 lights this year with plans to add 10,000 lights,
animation and new circuits next year. Display consists of
mini's, icicles, rope, C-9's, animated reindeer, blowups, and
more. Display is on from Thanksgiving to New Years from Dusk to
10pm nightly.
The
Lewis Family
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Hi. I am Lenny Bullard from
Oakland, TN, I love your website. a friend in Boston sent me to
it. Here are a few of mine. I haven't figured out how to take
great pics at night yet. Feel free to post them on your site.
The front yard is 11 acres, and we try to put something
everywhere. |
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17000 Miniature lights and 52
blow molds.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS" FROM THE "MORGANS"
Wakeman, Ohio |
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Hello, My name is Dave and I am 13 years of age. I come
from Birmingham in U.K. I have collected the lights over a
period of about 3 years, I think I have about 1000 lights, 4
blowmoulds and about 15 metres of ropelight (including
silhouettes).
On this photo 3 of the blowmoulds are either not up or have
failed, Climbing Santa, Normal standing Santa and Swinging
Santa. The picture does not do the display justice as you
cannot see the 10 metre ropelight outlining a fence and the
200 LED 'Happy Xmas' cannot be seen.
The display is not as big as some of the others, but still I
am only 13 and I can keep building on the collection.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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The Bisignano family Christmas
display features 8 airblown displays, thousands of mini lights,
hundreds of feet of rope light and over 150 lawn decorations.
Included are window displays that feature over 25 moving dolls.
Santa waves to the crowd each evening to the tune of Christmas
carols played from 6pm to 10pm daily. The display is located in
Jackson, New Jersey.
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Chuck, here's our display for
2004. Approximately 125000 lights, numerous
wire frames,
blow molds, plywood cutouts and inflatables; 16 channels or LOR
and 2 DLS boxes. This is only a portion of the display. There
are three other areas of the display not seen in this picture.
Can't get it all
in one shot.
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Merry Christmas from Council
Bluffs Iowa |
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Hello from Kenosha Wisconsin. Here
is a picture of our 2004 display. It has grown an
additional 7000 lights this year to a little over 20,000
lights throughout our front and back yard. We even ran
4 new 20 amp circuits to the garage this year to eliminate
extension cords plugged into sockets throughout the house
(Ok, it’s also in preparation for next years planned
additions). Thank you for hosting this site. It
has given us lots of great ideas that we have used this year
as well as ideas we plan to use in next years display.
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Mike, New Mexico this house has a total of 16,000 lights
on it the blue down the front is a waterfall that forms
into a river that puddles in the front of the yard.
There are 4 deer in the yard you can only see one in
this picture but there is one beside the large tree and
two small ones by the river. We do this display every
year for the past 4 years. Just wanted to share it with
you. Thanks
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Merry Christmas and a Happy 2005 to all of you who are
lighthouse fans!
We´re from Brazil, São Paulo!
Tatiana e Victor Blas
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http://www.geocities.com/friared1/lights.html
In November I moved to Colorado Springs, CO. I wasn't able to
put up as many lights as I wanted, but still managed to outdo
last year's display of 9000 lights. This year I'm using 12,429
lights on 16 computer controlled channels. Larry Hazeltine |
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This is are 2004 display we did this for all of the
troops who couldn't be here for Christmas with there
families. It took 2 months to put up all of are lights
we have 150,000 lights this display can be found in
Umatilla, Florida.
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Trying to
master taking pictures with a digital camera at night. Sorry for
the poor quality. 9,000 lights all computer controlled with
music.
John and Janet Pidliskey
Sicklerville, NJ
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The Rediske family, Vancouver,
WA. We just began doing a little extra on our lights last year,
so it is a work in progress. We live on a corner lot so we have
a lot of room to work with over years to come. Next year we
hope to add a "Happy Holiday's sign on the roof above the bay
window. Any ideas on a good approach would be greatly
appreciated. |
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My name is Jim Martin and I
live in Slidell, Louisiana and I have close to 40,000 lights in,
on and around my house. I built a gingerbread house that stands
5' tall and the chimney actually smokes, I have animated polar
bears, rocking horses and a lit horse drawn sleigh that shoots
out thousands of bubbles. Since we don't have snow down here,
the bubbles are the closest thing to snow flurries and looks
great. |
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The Mayors house in The Village
of St. Jacob Illinois.
After 15 years of displaying his
home St. Jacob Mayor Ray Muñiz lights have grown to nearly
20,000 |
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Hi my names Mark. I come from
Essex in the UK. Here is my picture.
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE
msn:
markrichard2@hotmail.com
p.s the picture does not
show all the front because of the wall. |
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Here is are our light display in Kingston Ontario Canada
Bill & Tinazan Cawlishaw
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Greetings from Hurricane
Charley Country. I wanted to brighten up what has otherwise been
a pretty gloomy second half of 2004. Currently there are 40,250
mini lights. I have 22 mini trees with 18 chasing across the
yard. There are 12 arches (six on each side of property) that I
program a different sequence nightly. There is a blinking New
Years ball above an eight foot lighted Happy New Year sign.
Displays include a gingerbread village, 2 nativity scenes, over
100 wooden hand painted yard art displays, a patriotic area,
many sleigh and reindeer displays, two giant eight foot toy
soldiers and many other items.
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Hi We are Den and Christine from Bowen Queensland
Australia. This is a picture our house Early December
2004. About 9000 lights. We have added another 3,500
lights to the roof since then. This is our first year &
we hope you like it. Merry Christmas to all. |
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Merry Christmas from Kihei, Maui Hawaii! My lightning
consists of 20,000 plus lights (lost track of the exact
amount), dear, Santa, 1200 feet of extension cords and a
Neon NOEL. This picture only shows about half of the lights
because our property is large and on then end of a dead end
street.
MeleKalikimaka, Karen Shelton
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Our display is called Christmas at the Fischer's Place, and
is located in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year
featured over 32,000 lights and 81 channels of Light-O-Rama
computer control. Our new features this year were 24
rope-light mini trees and a toyland area, which joined our
expanded 20 foot, 5500 light Mega-tree, Peanuts-themed
Nativity scene with a Linus sharing the gospel via projected
slides, 200 foot candy-cane fence, and lots of other
touches. You can see more pictures and learn about our
display at our website:
http://www.plymouthlights.com. |
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The Miller's home, Spokane, WA. Total lights: 20,000+.
Santa Claus has come into town, He has landed his sleigh on
our rooftop today, our snowman-lined driveway helped to
guide his way. Through shooting stars, and arches that glow,
the nativity scene is all set for the show. With animated
windows, and a train full of toys, Santa is here to see all
the girls and boys. He'll pass out candy canes to those that
are nice, while those who are not had better think twice!
The sky is filled with music, and loud HO!, HO!, HO's!!, So
come see us tonight, and enjoy the show. Merry Christmas to
all! Thanks, Curt and Rene Miller
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Hi , my name is MARIO CALLEJA
from Melbourne, Australia and this attachment is my display for
2004. It’s been built over the past 5 years adding something new
every year. |
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This is Ricky and Lucy's 2004
Christmas display in Midland Texas.
rickythames@yahoo.com.
This is my 7th year of decorating and my second year on
Christmas Planet. Below are a few statistics of this year's
display: Lights - 27,561, Amps - 168.1, Installation time - 76
hours, Preparation time before installing the lights - 100
hours, Building new decorations - 50 hours, 18 - 20 amp
dedicated circuits, Extension cords - 83, Length of extension
cords - 1,535, Watts - 20,172, Timers - 18, Three-way taps -
52. I started putting out the lights on October 23 and finished
on Thanksgiving Day. We have a lot of traffic every night
looking at our display taking pictures and video. Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year! |
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This is our home for Christmas.
What makes our Christmas display so unique is my husband made me
a real snowman. We live in New Orleans Louisiana and we never
get snow way down here in Bayou Country. And these snowmen
never melt, because there is 5 1/2 tons of refrigeration running
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I love your site! Here are a
couple of pictures from our modest setup. I am going to have to
add another breaker next year though. We have breakers trip
when we turn on the space heater at night in our upstairs bath!
:-)
Robert Burton
Fayettville, GA
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I have about 32,000 lights up,
including a 20ft white cross, a star that towers over the
nativity scene 35ft in the air, a waving and singing Santa and
much, much more. I have a little for everybody of all ages. I
enjoy seeing people come by, and just stop, and smile. Then it
makes all of those hours spent putting these decorations up all
worth it. This display is in Pompano Beach, Florida, so if you
ever here during Christmas please plan on stopping by and saying
hello, because each year we will be getting bigger and bigger.
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Hi all,
This is our 3rd year of decorating our house. We have
roughly 15,000 on display.
Merry Christmas to everyone!...............from Julie in
Tasmania.
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First year in our 1865 farmhouse in St. Georges Delaware. I
will be attending the
2005
Planet Christmas Symposium in Tennessee next year so I
can improve my display of next year.
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Santa Claus has come into town, He has landed his sleigh on
our rooftop today, our snowman-lined driveway helped to
guide his way. Through shooting stars, and arches that glow,
the nativity scene is all set for the show. With animated
windows, and a train full of toys, Santa is here to see all
the girls and boys. He'll pass out candy canes to those that
are nice, while those who are not had better think twice!
The sky is filled with music, and loud HO!, HO!, HO's!!, So
come see us tonight, and enjoy the show. Merry Christmas to
all!
Thanks, Curt and Rene Miller
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I have been adding on to our home's light
display for the past few years. This year I have a little
over 50,000 lights and for the first time have started dabbling
in computer controlled displays. We have a number of
static display (A couple of blowups, a Polar Bear with its
bottle of Coke, A family of deer drinking at a pond of blue
lights, Santa's sleigh and 3 reindeer, A skating Santa, and a
Ginger Bread house). I have 23 trees wrapped with over 15,000
lights. My center pieces are a flowing waterfall feeding a
stream and a pond. And a 14 foot Christmas Tree that changes
colors every 6 seconds. Here is a link to another
Christmas site that has more of my photo's posted.
http://computerchristmas.com/?link=photos&PhotoOwner=frhodes&PhotoCat=84
Frank & Angie Rhodes Cedar
Park, Texas
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The Bosses of Charlevoix, MI. |
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Bill Rhoten- Kingsport, TN.
This year only 116 blowmolds and 2,600 lights. (This is our 1st
Christmas in this house next year I'll throw the whole 25,000
and the rest of the blowmolds at them!) I also have a Ramsey FM
100 and a 6ft. mechanical Santa from the 60's. |
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This years display contains
32,850 lights. The megatree is 39' tall to the top of the star.
I have maxed out my 6-20amp dedicated circuits and had to use
one other outside outlet. All displays except the reindeer are
hand made. The reindeer was bought as a non-working floor model
and I restrung the lights on it.
http://www.cloud9tours.com/Christmas
Charles
Edwards
Cloud 9 Tours
www.cloud9tours.com |
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Mousseau and Roy Display 2004
Located in Hudson,NH. This is our 3rd year
lighting our home with thousands of lights
We have 128,000 lights for the 2004 lighting
season. We have also added 200 more amps of
power. 96 computer controlled channels . 32
mini trees. 6400 light mega tree. Several new
wire frames were also added this year. You can
see more photos and info at
www.hudsonchristmas.com
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From Whakatane in New Zealand, this is one section of our
display which, for the second year now, is based on an Elves
Theme. About 30 to 40% of the display is taken out each
year and replaced with something new. We have been using a
computer controlled system and for the past two years have
gone just over 15,000 lights. With over 80 channels being
controlled, there is always something happening in the way
of animation, and not just turning lights on and off. The
Toy Factory and Elves' Sleigh alone, uses over 20 circuits.
Seasons Greetings to All from Don and Jacquie
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We have been decorating our
residence for over 12 years and we are up to 25,000 lights. The
display is all static with multiple figurines, a
nativity
scene, and a huge 13 foot Christmas tree and much more. We also
have a website at HYPERLINK
"http://www.floridachristmasdisplay.com/xmas.htm"
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Roger & Janette Jones
Claremore, Oklahoma we add something new every year. |
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Kathy Byrd, Louisiana
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This is our finished effort for 2004. We came 2nd in
our local town Christmas lights competition. Thank
you for posting our pictures. Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to all. See you all next year.
Regards Den and Christine
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Home of Lewis Bartholomew and James Derry in Courtenay,
BC. To celebrate my immigrating to Canada, we chose as
this year's theme: AN ARTIC CHRISTMAS. This photo shows
a part of the front lawn with our polar bears surrounded
by blue "water". Above the bears we used "white" LED
lights which glow a nice periwinkle blue and some
regular C9 blue lights. All our dogwood trees are
draped in orange and copper lights, the rhododendrons
and berry bushes along the front of the house are in
pinks, greens and whites. Across the roof line we used
teal, dark blue and purple C9 bulbs. Our tall maple
trees were spotlighted with green, red and blue
spotlights into the branches to give that added Northern
Lights look. The theme continues up our side driveway
and to the back yard. We were able to find lights in
every colour of the spectrum which also represents the
diversity of my new home in Canada. A large 25
foot Spruce "traditional" Christmas tree is all lit up
at the edge of the lawn at the street which can be seen
for 1/2 Km down the road.
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Merry Christmas from the Parcell family of Geneva, IL. Our
display has almost 50,000 lights and is controlled using
Animated Lighting controllers. We feature a virtual Santa
and the Polar Bear Cafe. Please visit our web site at:
www.twasthenightbefore.com
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Als Anlage ein paar Bilder von
Lichterhäusern in unserer Gegend:
You'll find pictures
from Xmas-Houses in Germany and France.
thank you, best
regards
greetings vom germany
Engelbert
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This is a picture of our Christmas
decorations in Burbank, California.
The picture did not do any justice to how
the decorations really look. We had been decorating
for four years now and won three years in a row in Burbank
Christmas decoration contest. This is a lot of work
but worth all the time and effort when we see the sparkle in
the eyes of the onlookers.
Daniel, Aurora, Monique, Bianca, Gerard
and Summer Garoian.
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| Brian & Jenn
Mussato have brought their whole display of 25,000
lights and lawn ornaments from North Delta, BC to
Aldergrove, BC. This is our third big year, it just
keeps getting bigger and better!!! |
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Hi, my name is Orest Malczewsky
and I live in North Tonawanda, NY (near Niagara Falls). This is
my display this year, and it just keeps on getting bigger. I've
never really taken the time to count all my lights, I've just
lived by the standard that once a breaker trips, it's time to
move on to the next one. Merry Christmas to all! |
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This is our first year submitting a picture of our new house
decorated with 24,000 lights, including blowups and blow
molds. In this picture you are not able to see our side and
back yard but they are also decorated. My husband and I have
been putting up lights for 15 years now and look forward to
getting into computerized lights in 2005. We live in LaVista
Nebraska and we entered a Griswold lighting contest this
year but lost to the brother in law! No more advise for
him!. Happy Holidays!
Marc and Deb Hansen
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This is Sal, Grace and Stacy
Bisignano's Christmas display in Jackson, NJ. This display made
the front page of the Jackson Times, a local weekly newspaper.
The display consists of various inflatables, projectors,
blowmolds, and multiple lighted lawn figures.
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Our home in Fayetteville, TN
hosts 20,000 lights this yeaar complete with LOR and radio
transimitter. We have had very POSITIVE reaction from the
community and have been featured in our local paper! Happy
Holidays From Our Family to Yours. Hope to see you at PLUS2005. |
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Lucci family in Paisley, FL
approx 1200 lights, reindeer, Santa, snowmen and 100 candy
canes. Our house is known as the candy cane house. |
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The Buza Family - Binghamton,
New York
Here are three different pictures of our 2004
light display. Over 20,000 lights this car stopper has a seven
speaker surround sound home theater system pumping out the
sounds of The Mark Buza Orchestra and their CD "Because it's
Christmas". If it's too cold outside the onlookers can turn
their car stereos to 95.5FM and listen to it in the comfort of
their vehicle. It's all about attention to detail. We love to
take the commercial and store bought lights and add our own
customization to them. Those reindeer on the deck really do fly
up and down thanks to a homemade motorized system. Santa Claus
always makes a stop on Christmas Eve and gives out candy canes
and listens to last minute gift requests. This is our gift to
the community. May you have a Blessed Christmas and we'll see
you next year.
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Here is my light display from
Canfield, Ohio. I am 21 and have been doing this display for
about 8 years. Each year me and my neighbor have a contest
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We are from Ljungsbro in Sweden and it is our third year of
Christmas light decoration. This year we are using around
6.500 lights and we are adding more each year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Lindbeck family
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Greetings from Ingleside, IL.
This is the 5th year I have put up lights. This year I have
14,200 mini lights and 150 C7 lights, controlled by five
Intermatic timers. Total amps is roughly 43.
Thanks,
Tom, Julie, Taylor, & Tommy |
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The Slover House in Crosby
Texas Wish Everyone A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year |
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Hello Planet Christmas:
C9 Lights 30 ft in the air, 72 lighted driveway candy canes
lots of animated figures, rope light bells and an 8 ft tree both
made from # 3 rebar make this house in Hudson NY a local
attraction with many cars stopping by and driving in to see the
displays during the Christmas Season.
Paul S,
Hudson
NY
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Jon and Wendy Fiedler, Ellicott City, MD
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This is the Scalisi's display.
Formerly from Jackson NJ, now living in beautiful sunny Gilbert,
Arizona. We have a 20' animated train and a 20' animated horse
and carriage. We also have a 20' Merry Christmas Candy Cane
arch, and a 20' Happy Holiday sign. We have thousands of lights
and 1000 feet of rope lights. An animated bell, Life size
nativity scene, Mr. & Mrs. Claus, Frosty, Santa, and Rudolph
blowmolds, 50 soldiers, carolers, skaters, and many many more
wire figures including the misfits, 3D fading star, moving
angels, A waving Santa, moving deer, and an oversize present. On
weekends Santa Claus makes a special appearance handing out
candy canes to all the children young and old. We truly love
Christmas, and the joy it brings to many people for this holiday
season. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful
New Year !!!!! Mary Lynn and Vinny Scalisi and family. |
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I would be honor, as I hope to
add every year.
Auburn, WA. Don Isaacs
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HI THIS IS MATT FROM RICHMOND VA WE HAVE 21,000 LIGHTS AND
WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 6YRS AND PLAN ON LOT MORE LIGHTS
TO COME.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
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Seasons Greetings from The Cielo's of Covington Wa.
This is my first year to decorate the house since it's
practically brand new. the theme is Walking into Winter
Wonderland our display includes 1500+ pieces of blue and
white lights, 2 inflatable snowman, 4 metallic snowman,
plastic lighted arches, angel, poles, snowflakes and
Christmas tree, 5 blue flood lights illuminating the
whole house, one strobe light placed on top of the
Christmas tree giving that sparkling effect that will
catch the attention of passerby's and a animated
projector focused on the biggest snowman inflatable
making use of it as a white screen and another regular
projector used indoor. I expect to continue on with the
theme and make it even better for next year. till then.
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Hi all you Christmas
enthusiasts! My name is Don Hill and my display is in Denver
Colorado. My friend Keith and I have been participating in the
Holiday Lights display for six years and each year the display
gets bigger and bigger. This year we expanded into the back
yard because we ran out of room and my wife Chris even got
involved. We have over 50,000 lights, all mini. We gave away
the bigger ones because they pull too much power. We have
several themes going on here, separated by candy cane lanes. We
have the Santa scene, the train and church scene and the
Nativity featured in the center of the yard. In the back yard
we have an old mining town. We use rope lights and inflatables
and wooden hand painted figures. The lights on the house are
controlled by music. Next year we plan to go totally
computerized. Thanks to Chuck Smith.
Today we got a card
saying that we had won the Denver light display for 2004. Kind
of exciting, huh? Happy Holidays to you all. Every display
shown is awesome!
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Located in Northbridge, MA. This is
out 6th year of putting lights up, 2nd year at this house.
We have 85,000 lights. There are 128 Channels of
computer control, 5200 light mega tree, 75 3’ mini trees,
and over 70 plywood cutouts, and 30 blowmolds. We also
added 10 different wireframes this year.
Check out our website at
www.lr-lighting.com
Rich and Leslie Arsenault
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Our diner in the Netherlands!!
It's getting nicer every year!
Vincent en Esther Postma
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We have 7 inflatables, 20,000 lights 28
wireframes, many homemade, 2 giant Nutcrackers guard the
garage, and about 40 blowmolds are spread around. We also
feature a low power FM station which plays music and
announcements. This is the first year we took a collection.
Our charity was “ A soldiers wish list”. They are a local
organization which take soldiers wishes for different items
and try to send them that gift. We raised about $800.00
this year.. Thanks to everyone at Planet Christmas for
their inspiration.
Laurie, Marshall, and Kyle Rice,
Troy, IL
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Located in Yuma, Arizona, the house of Butch & Kim
Koretz. This years display had over 70,000 mini
lights and six controllers from Design Specialty
that made the display change four different colors.
We also had over 20 wire frames and 9 inflatables,
plus over 1000' of rope light to make up the
display.
Merry Christmas
The Koretz Family
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We start putting up our lights before Thanksgiving. Every
year we try to add a bit more. My husband has installed a
separate electrical panel to run our Christmas lights. He
tells me we are pulling 188 amps. The lights are controlled
by a master timer and they ALL go on at once...and the
neighborhood dims! We live on a corner and decorate three
sides of our home as well as the median in front of our
home. We even have a few displays in the backyard. We are
in Titusville, Florida. Our display has been chosen as one
of the ten finalists for a display contest on WESH
television here in central Florida. The winner to be
announced 1/1/05. We wish ALL a very Merry and well lit
Christmas. Jack and Donna Lotts
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34Ft Candy cane
6x9Ft
Helicopter
Candycane and front yard all on 8 channel
controller for constant strobe lighting.
Three weeks to
build - 16000 lights - 200 man-hours to assemble.
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My name is Cory Waite i am 16
(as of 2004) and this was my second year of doing a major
Christmas Display. This year I was brought into the computer
world of Christmas Lighting. My display is Located in
Bakersfield, California. Estimated 5,000 lights up this year.
Next year expected around 10,000.
For more photos/videos
and Information visit:
http://holidastic.net.tc |
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Hi and Happy Holidays...I am a
first timer with submitting a picture, but have been enjoying
all the other ones for some time. I am going for a
Victorian/Winter Wonderland feel in my front yard. I have been
adding every year for about 10 years. I have 6 lamp posts coming
up the center of my lawn, a one horse open sleigh in the middle,
with an arbor with a 6 1/2 ft. twig tree under it and 4 hanging
snowflakes. A small pond to the left with 3 deer's and 6
different trees around it. Also there are 3 10 foot light strand
trees done in 1 green and 2 red. Already have bought some items
for 2005 so hopefully I will be back again next year. Jean
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Here are some photos of my parents house in Woodway, Texas.
We have won the Woodway Christmas Decorating contest the
last three years in a row. All of our lighted animated
displays were made by me and my dad. They are out of
plywood with holes drilled and lights inserted. The Santa
going up the roof was the first animated project we did. It
is tethered between our chimney and a tree in the yard. The
last Santa in the sequence is going down the chimney. This
year we added the North Pole around the driveway and a fader
to the large Christmas tree behind Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Plus, a train that is not pictured. We built the US flag,
the ribbon on the tree and the toy soldier after 9/11. We
have been featured on local newscasts and also in the Waco
Tribune Herald on December 26, this year. We have just over
40,000 lights in the display. The trees in the front yard
are covered in 3000 green mini lights. Thanks,
The Chapmans
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Hi! Big John House in Cincinnati Ohio out in Bridgetown. I
have close to 17000 lights this year. I won Local 12 TV 12
light of Christmas for the first time. I like your web site.
Happy New Year to all !
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This is our 2004 Christmas display in Parker, Co. As usual
is a work in progress. The big attraction is the Ferris
wheel as I didn't redo the carousel in time to put out this
year. Have already done the post Christmas critique and
mapped out changes for next year and have started on those.
Ken Knighton
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This is my house in Washington,
DC. There are over 5,000 lights here that changes from color to
white every 3 mins. My father and I started this tradition in
1978 and after his death in 2002, I decided to keep his legacy
going.
Thanks PlantChristmas.
Tyrone Bowie
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Greetings! From
Mike and Noel Gabrielli of long Island, Ny. This year was our
first year going crazy on decorating. It is also our first year
in this house. We kind of ran short on time, and my wife and I
only had 5 days to do all this. We still have cases of lights we
didn't get to use. Oh, well!! Although you can't see them in
this picture, we have 10 inflatables, as well as 22,000 lights
displayed. We purchased one controller for our animated light
show, where the lights around our windows, garage doors, front
door, and our 20 arbor vities dance to music in 6 different
colors. To run all of this, we have used over 2500 feet of
extension cords.
Next year will be the big year, and we
will be starting much sooner! (Right after Halloween). We will
be adding more lights, shows, different kinds of music, atleast
3 more controllers, and hopefully adding some homemade displays.
We are also adding an FM transmitter (a low powered radio
station). We're even thinking of having a Santa (my wife says it
should be me-big smile)!.
We both wish everyone a happy
holiday and New Year, and we hope you enjoyed our pictures as
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OK Chuck! Because it's my first time in many, many eons. I
got sick of not being able to decorate. being in apartments
for long periods of time wears on a person like myself.
this was my first year to try again, haven't been able to do
it due to constraints of space and lack of outdoors. i
still don't have the outdoors like i would really enjoy but
this is a start. who says i can't decorate my balcony.
it's small so it'll be easier to make it the way i want it
if the years treat me well. 2004 was just a basic display
more or less feeling out the vibes. many liked it, some
wanted more. well I also assume that because of this 'test
drive' I'm hoping to see more enthused people at this
complex in the 2005 season. of course I'll have more up and
there'll be some geometry to it instead of just laying
across the wires and having a basic ensemble. I'm also
hoping to include some palms in this deal. I'm hoping to
double or triple the lights and action (include 3 more
trees: one larger pine and two palms) and have a symmetry
happening.
we'll see. I'll shut up now. I'm also thinking of putting
these up on a future site (all about my balcony) since my
balcony is a topic at a local site in town about habitat and
the development happening in the area. (i got a great view
of some construction and my balcony has been known to be a
tropical paradise in the summer :D)
NOW I'll shut up.
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Karla Toba from Tijuana, Mexico |
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Here is my Version of the
lighted Candy Cane |
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Greetings! From
Mike and Noel Gabrielli of long Island, NY. This year was our
first year going crazy on decorating. It is also our first year
in this house. We kind of ran short on time, and my wife and I
only had 5 days to do all this. We still have cases of lights we
didn't get to use. Oh, well!! Although you can't see them in
this picture, we have 10 inflatables, as well as 22,000 lights
displayed. We purchased one controller for our animated light
show, where the lights around our windows, garage doors, front
door, and our 20 arbor vities dance to music in 6 different
colors. To run all of this, we have used over 2500 feet of
extension cords. Next year will be the big year, and we will be
starting much sooner! (Right after Halloween). We will be
adding more lights, shows, different kinds of music, at least 3
more controllers, and hopefully adding some homemade displays.
We are also adding an FM transmitter (a low powered radio
station). We're even thinking of having a Santa (my wife says it
should be me-big smile)!. We both wish everyone a happy holiday
and New Year, and we hope you enjoyed our pictures as much as
we've enjoyed yours. See you next year! |
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