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Here are some pictures of my house located in Orange County, New
York ( Monroe). This years display is not finished yet will have
more than 90,000 lights. I also raise money for the Make A Wish
Foundation last year the total was just over $3,000.
Anthony Volpe
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This is our 4th
Christmas at our northern California location. Our home is located about
50 miles north of San Francisco at 7453 Mitchell Drive, Rohnert Park, CA
94928. This year you can see us on the HGTV special starring George
Gray, "What's With That Christmas House?" It is scheduled to air
December 10, 2006. The exterior of our home was completely decorated by
October 24th for the television shoot. What a wonderful experience and
joy this brings to our family to have been selected as one of the homes
featured on George Grays Christmas Special! Our home consists of about
50,000 lights! (One of these times we'll actually not loose track of the
count! It could be even more!) We are working on a website to load video
to show our yard display and how we've choreographed it to music. You
can visit us at
www.smithchristmas.com. If you are interested in learning
more about how we've created this display, email us directly at
cws1264@hotmail.com. We'd be happy to answer questions and
provide you with insight to creating your own amazing display. Thanks
for taking the time to check us out! Have a great holiday season!
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The Fowee's in Fairfield, Ohio. We put up over 70,000 lights. We
decorate all sides of the house and our play set out back. This is
our 13 year. Merry Christmas.
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Hello, My house is located in NY. The picture doesn't really do it
justice. All the sides of the house and the garage and yard were
done up, but those pictures came out really blurry. This one does
show a little of the porch at least. All together there were over
24,00 lights and a big electric bill, haha which I had a better
picture to show. Thanks for looking
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Hello Planet Christmas,
We have a fantastic Avenue (cul-de-sac) in which we all enjoy the
thrills and chants of excitement from not only the children but also
all the adults we have strolling down our avenue during the Festive
period. Each year since 1995, we have added an extra "Street" motif
to our collection. These Street motifs are designed by my very
talented artist, 16yr old son, Coen. I reproduce them, with our
neighbour Gary, in stainless steel rods welded and bent into the
shape. We then wind appropriate coloured rope lights onto to our
creations and presto... We have our beautiful displays for all the
Christmas & New Year strollers. With the street creations of course
they are complemented by each of our own home's having beautiful
displays.
On Christmas Eve we blockade the street and have over 200 candle
lanterns in the gutters. The local kids enjoy running along
lighting the candles and standing back to see a "Candle Lit" landing
strip runway for Santa to arrive... People donate money as they
enter our street and all the money goes towards to Cancer Council of
Australia. Over the past 4 years we have raised over $20,000.00 for
this great cause. And without saying many, many smiling faces being
lit up with happiness, friendship and goodwill..... I have
attached a few pictures... Although they are dated 2004, they are
the best pictures i had since discovering your web site. This year,
if you are interested I will obtain some more recent and clearer
pickies The 1st is a picture of Santa trailing on a Holden FJ Ute
behind 6 white Boomers.
The display stretches 20 metres between Two gum
trees in our Avenue. Each Boomer (Kangaroo) is 6 metres of steel
rod. I would challenge that this is the only display of its type in
the world?? We love it dearly We wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and hopefully hear from you during the New year Thanks &
Best Wishes Greg Young
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This image is from Ballston commons in Vienna, Virginia.
Of course as you understand these pictures don't do the display
justice.
More to come of my stuff later.
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This is of my home in Tucson, AZ. I just found this wonderful site.
Happy Holidays!
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Marius and Hetta van Zyl, Parow - Cape Town South
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This is my second year submitting my display. I hope to keep
expanding as the years go by. If the rain ever stops I still have a
few plans for the rest of the lights I picked up last year on sale.
MERRY CHRISTMAS , Bob and Lynette Mayfield Hts. Ohio
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Here is our
house in Batavia Illinois. I will still be adding lights this year
so I can pay more on the electric bill.
Merry
Christmas & Happy New Year
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This is my home in Bay St. Louis Ms. My House had damage to the
roof from Hurricane Katrina. But I still decorated. We have almost
ten blowmolds two blowups and Plenty of lights. Merry Christmas
from the Jeanfreau Family.
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This is our 2nd Christmas in our home in Ulster County New York. We
are working on doing a little more and more each year. We are
located off Route 300 which is at a higher elevation so it makes for
a nice view while passing by. This year we have about 25,000 lights
on our home. We do it for the kids, but I think I get a bigger kick
out of it than they do!
Anthony & Antoinette Maresco
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Merry Christmas from the Hendrix's in Riverview,
Florida |
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I've been replacing all my minis with LEDs, I really like the way
they show, almost neon. Have so more work to do, but getting there.
Merry Christmas, Ted Hebert, Lafayette, La
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Hey everyone this is
my 2nd Christmas using LOR this year I have 24 Channels,
last year I only had 8. My display this year has over 23,000 lights and
also
has 9 Charlie brown characters. My show this year includes a talking
reindeer that announces each show and even does a little singing of his
own.
Merry Christmas! and Happy lighting! From Coventry Rhode Island |
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This is a picture of our house
in Waukesha, WI. ( Near Milwaukee ) Lots of C-9’s and ice lights;
plus two extra 20 amp circuits. The snoopy dog house gets a lot of
interest ~ and the porch nutcrackers as well. Last year we were even
featured on TV! We have the neighborhood Griswold Trophy nine years
running. Merry Christmas!
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We live in Southern Indiana. We do not have as many lights as some,
but we are close to about 15,000 lights. We have a life size bible
that measures 8' tall by 6' wide which goes along with out nativity
scene. We have added 4000 square feet of yard lights which are
small lights that are anchored in the ground. They light up even
under the snow. Many yard decorations, windows are wrapped and a
few trees lit up. You can see more of my lights at:
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This is a
picture of our home for the 2006 season. This year we added a
lot of color and many new songs. We are proud uses of Animated
Lighting’s Computer products. Ken & Terri Good
Tyler, Texas
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This is our house in Sugar Land, TX. We have been
adding to it every year. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. |
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Here's my house 10,000 plus
lights on Buckeye Lake, Ohio. Goto my site for animation of this
picture:
http://www.pbase.com/pricelesssnapshot/
house_christmas_lights_2006 |
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Here is the Christmas 2006 pictures for Christmas Decostravaganza
III. I Have about 6,000 lights. 40 inflatables, rope trees, light up
deer etc etc. Hope you like everything. I have also completely
decorated to inside of my store as well. Spongebob Christmas display
complete with full size pineapple house, ukulele island, fender
diner complete with tinsel tree, white tree with 600 lights, Santa
village, dark Christmas tree etc etc Thanks for looking
Daryl-Rossi Music
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Happy Holidays from our family to yours! Due to
unforeseen circumstances our holiday display this year ended up
being completed a little later than originally planned. Wasn’t
certain it would make it up at all this year, due to the loss of my
loving grandmother. As you can imagine the family kept busy and this
all had to be placed on the back burner. This is the second year we
have had my father’s very first eighteen wheeler as the center piece
for our families Christmas display. Our local area has already
nicknamed this display as the “Christmas Express” last year.
Using the open belly of the trailer, we placed a sled and reindeer
with many snowflakes which appear to falling around the holiday
scene. You will also see a jolly Santa Claus, a Snowman holding his
hat held high for all the world to see, Christmas trees, bells,
stockings, ornaments, and two Merry Christmas Signs. My goal was to
use rope lights to outline and still show that it is in fact a real
tractor trailer. There is even one of Santa’s helpers which made his
home in the passenger side seat of the tractor, an Elf who watches
all drive by! And this year we even have Santa inside of the cab
too! It certainly seems to be a big hit within our local area, just
wish it could be shared with more families for the up and soon
coming holidays! Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season,
Charles, Doris Redmond and Christopher, Kristen Gillespie –
Ijamsville, Maryland.
I would
like to dedicate this year’s holiday display, In Loving Memory of
four very special people who always believed in everything I wanted
to achieve, Jack Alden and Shirley Hone Gillespie and George Albert
and Doris Larue Savage.
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Merry Christmas from the McNamara's of Queen Creek,
AZ. This year we have 16 channels of LOR with over 9,000 lights and
broadcast our music over 93.9FM. |
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Hello, Here is my 2006 Christmas
light display in a small town in eastern Oregon. This year’s
display contains a theme of life at the North Pole. Of course we
have Santa in his house next to a Christmas tree with presents. The
house is surrounded by lollipops, candy cane lane, a Toy Soldier, A
polar bear in front of an Ice burg, and a 7ft candy cane arch with a
Snow Man next to a 6ft Christmas tree. New this year is a pond scene
with a gathering of deer spread out around the pond, a church, a
fish coming out of the water, and a set of 3 motion horse and sleigh
with a chaser control box, gliding by the pond. To compliment
everything is a Santa’s Sleigh and reindeer in a snow storm with a
teddy bear. To finish it all off is a 25 foot motion train made out
of lights. Enjoy our detailed pictures and new this year video of
the display at
http://www.bowlercentral.com/christmas.htm Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year! Matt Schilling
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This is my
first year in our new home. hope to see it grow. Fred in Chesapeake, VA |
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This
is Lexington Fire Department, Station 20. First platoon decided instead
of exchanging gifts, we would pool our money and decorate our station
with an animated light show. This is our results. 15,000 lights and lots
of compliments. We are hoping to draw more donations to our Firefighters
Toy Program. Thanks for showing our work.
Keith Dean, 2525 Ashbrooke Drive, Lexington KY 40513 |
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When I found your site
and I was searching around the internet for any other nuts that were
willing to climb a 28' ladder on a center hall colonial house and light
it up I found some really good stuff on your site and now that I'm
unofficially done for this year I thought other people might
enjoy seeing my home as an idea maker as well, This is our 1st real
Christmas here since we just in the house December 15th 2005. Bayport
NY. Happy Holidays!!!
Martin and Cindy |
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Hi every one! Back
again a bit better than last year but there is more too come.
Merry Christmas too all |
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Hi! I wanted to send
along a photo of our Christmas lights for you to check out.
Townhouse dwellers typically don't get too into decorating - the heavy
hitters are almost always single-family homes with large yards. So, we
take it upon ourselves to represent!
Thanks!
Eric Bolstridge
5825 Oak Ladder Court
Burke, VA 22015 |
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My name is Paul Berzins from Painesville, Ohio. Here is the
Berzins 2006 light display. Pictures cannot do this
Vegas-style light display justice, nor can one fully appreciate
this animated light show until one sees its effects in
motion...So I included a link below to a small video showing
what this display really looks like.
This unique display provides a nightly
ongoing firework show all throughout the holidays. Electronic
firework bursts from four to sixteen feet in diameter explode in
the air as high as twenty feet. Onlookers drive past my
parent's home mesmerized by the colorful bursts of light.
Children stare in complete amazement and fascination. This
year's latest addition to my arsenal of animated lights is a
12-foot tall coconut palm tree. With a similar kind of
computer system as the fireworks lights, the entire tree
(including the coconuts) lights up. The fronds, which are made
up of hundreds of small LED-type lights, twinkle in waves as if
a light wind was blowing through them. The tree is also a
delight to look at in the daytime as well as at night. Also
featured in my light display are a few older favorites of past
years including a 15-foot tall lighted candy cane, an animated
train, and archways of cascading lights on both entrances of our
circular driveway. I have been setting up these displays since
1996 and its truly amazing to look back and see how each year
the display has evolved to become what it is today. My display
made Cleveland's Channel 3 News last year and was aired
on TV several times after that throughout the holiday season.
Happy Holidays! Paul Berzins
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My house now has over
18,000 lights and counting.
The light post is covered with 30 rope lights to create the candy cane
effect.
Vancouver, WA |
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Our home is located in Downtown Katy, Texas. This
is our 6th year in this home and we continue to add something new each
year. The lights are more beautiful in person. The large star twinkles
and the Santa is animated. I also decorate our sideyard with 10' and
12' trees along with lighted reindeer and a happy holidays sign. The
completion took around 3 full days of work. Enjoy! Ken and Mary
Seynaeve |
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This is the Holden House in Scranton Pennsylvania. This is the first
year I am putting my holiday house on this website. I think it is a
very cool way to see people's great holiday houses. My house has
about 4000 lights, 2 animated reindeer, 5 airblown inflatables, and
a projector. We have been decorating big for the last 10 years and
we grow a little bit more each year. Enjoy. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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This is my second year
of doing lights to music. My house is in St. Louis mo. So far everyone
loves it. Last year I had 23,000 lights and have moved up to about
37,000 this year. I was going for 40,000 but ran out of outlets and
power cord to run them all. So far I have 4 16 channel LOR controllers
and am going to add more for 2007. you can get more info at my site.
www.gtechdesign.com
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This is our second
year decorating for Christmas. Setting up the display this year was a
family event. I would like to thank Amy, Aaron, Mike, Nadine, Mike Jr.,
Tiffanie, Stephanie, Jordan, Mom, Brian, Aunt Sandi and Glen for all
their help. Our display feature lots of different decorations but my
favorite is our blowmold collection. Our house is located at 11868
192nd Ave in Elk River Minnesota. I would love to hear from other
Christmas decorating lovers. Please email me at
natenamy2000@netzero.com.
Thanks, Nathan Morton |
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This is the home of
tnychristmas.com located just outside of
Jacksonville Fl. We have approx. 50,000 lights attached to 184 computer
controlled channels. This is our second year decorating and our first
using
computer automation. We hope that you enjoy the photo.
Merry Christmas!
Tim & Yuni |
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Merry Christmas from the Meyers in
Thornton Colorado home of Rocky mountain Christmas lights. The
display is controlled by 3 LOR boards and has approximately 5000
lights. The house is a gingerbread theme. This is the 1st year for
the gingerbread theme. The theme décor is made entirely out of
corrugated plastic. it turned out awesome!! The manger is all hand
made from old barn wood from Michigan. The nativity is synced to
the Christmas story. The lights in the frosting and the candy
canes are LED!! you can read more about my display and see more
pictures at
http://rockymountainlights.spaces.live.com/ Merry Christmas!!
Scot Meyers
http://rockymountainlights.spaces.msn.com
God said "let there be light" so I had to decorate my house!!
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Attached are pictures of our home outside of
Houston, TX. Have approximately 30K lights so far and still adding. We
just moved into this house this year so we are learning how to flip
breakers pretty quickly.. It is hard keeping it lit up. Hope you enjoy…
Will send a pic of final product when complete. Michael Marino |
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The Graham’s in Chillicothe, Texas. First year for
animation, 48 channels of LOR, 10,000 plus lights. Located 1 mile south
of only stop light in Chillicothe.
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The Rice Family
is located in Troy, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri. We
kicked it up a notch this year and added many new pieces. My
wife and I like to make our own decorations. Last year we
built a 10’ Ferris Wheel. This year
we added a carousel, which features Wonder Horse spring horses from
the early 60’s. Each horse was hand painted by my wife. Since
we are running out of yard space we went “up on the rooftop” with a
12 foot wireframe
Hot Air Balloon with a waving Santa. The Balloon is animated
with 22 channels of LOR. Also on the roof is a 12 foot Radio Tower
which flashes the call letters of our Christmas radio station
K-O-L-D. The display is animated to music, but our feature
pieces are left lit during the show. In the yard we have
“Toyland”, “Candy Land”, “The North Pole” and our Nativity scene
which are made up of wireframes,
blowmolds and
inflatables…we have such a variety of pieces there is
something for everyone. We will be appearing on the HGTV show
“What’s with that Christmas House” along with some other PC members.
We are really excited to be on the show. Each year we accept
donations to support a not-for-profit charitable organization.
This year we are collecting for a local no-kill animal shelter. On
December 15-16th Santa will visit. All the neighbors and
other visitors will stop by for hot cocoa and a quick visit with
Santa. Thanks to everyone on PC for trading ideas and
inspiration. Merry Christmas The Rice Family
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Hi there, NWSanta
here: In the City of Langford you'll find us here with approximately
8000 lights total some under the snow in this picture and the little
tree farm will be timed to LOR this year. It grows little by little
every year and we've won one of the local competitions. Now on to the
bigger City Competition.... Merry Christmas. Please enjoy and thank
you for this great site Chuck.
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12th Annual Schrimp Family Display.
Too many items to fit into just one photo. Thousands of lights,
numerous animated characters, many hand made, thru out the yard.
Huge interactive animated garage display, along with candy canes and
falling snow every night. 31142 Via Cristal, San Juan Capistrano,
CA.
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Here's a picture of my small
decorations in Covina ,CA.
Merry Christmas to all.
The Aclans
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Merry Christmas from Northwest Georgia. Every year we decorate the
house with lots of lights, but the last two years the number of
lights has grown. Although small compared to all the other
wonderful displays on PlanetChristmas so far, our display features
7000 mini lights and a new addition this year, a Santa blow mold.
There are also lights to the left of the house and on the mailbox
not visible in the picture. I had to install a new 20 amp outlet in
the front (last year the light total was only about 3300) and an
outlet in the soffit for the lights around the windows. My hope is
to double the size of the display every year. -The Woodsides
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This is a picture of our neighbors lights. They are
beautiful each year and attract a good many people. They have about
15000 lights and expand each year. |
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Happy Holiday from "Holiday on Holmar" , Azusa, CA.
This years show is my first year with LOR 16 channels and over 8000
lights. We are located in Azusa, CA on Holmar Ave. There is only one
Holmar in Azusa so its not too hard to find. The show runs from 5:10 -
9:30 sun-thur, and till 1030 on Friday - Saturday and is 24 minutes
long with 6 songs and some great dementedelf voiceovers. Thanks!
Steven Juarez, Azusa, CA |
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We are lit from
November 25th 2006 till January 5th 2007 from dusk till 10.30pm (festive
backing music till 10pm only) We are situated in Carrvale near Bolsover
which is about 6 miles from chesterfield in Derbyshire! The facts:
This years display has been put together so that as you walk past you
spot something different in the garden that you couldn't see before
because it was hidden behind something else! Also the entire outline of
the display is L.E.D lit this year making it stand out and use less
energy! We have a total of 188 light sets indoors and outdoors all
spread between 6 ring mains! 100 of the 188 sets are outside on the
main display! our longest rope light is a brand new 40 metre link-it
rope! (4x 10 metre). All our blowmould figures have got energy saving
tubes in, about half our sets are reduced voltage and 18 of our sets are
led lighting to reduce power consumption! The transformers in the main
cupboard and box are kept cool by 12volt fans. We have a total of 23
different trees indoors and out (not counting 2D rope displays) Another
new display this year is the weatherproof mirror ball to create a
snowing effect! ALSO THIS YEAR WE HAVE A BRAND NEW LIT NOTICE BOARD
HOMEMADE BY ME TO DISPLAY LAMINATED COPIES OF THE THANK-YOU LETTERS WE
HAVE RECEIVED! We are raising money for a local charity again this year,
last year we raised £72 for Ashgate hospice and the year before we
raised £35 for cancer research! We are hoping to raise more this year by
selling raffle tickets to win a festive bear at the same time as having
the donation bucket outside! for more detailed pictures, info and
previous years displays visit:
www.carrvalechristmaslights.piczo.com
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Finally, I'm baacckkk
again this year - see:
http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/christmas_webcam "Only" 15,000 lights
... but new additions include the giant inflatable Elmo and Homer
Simpson - D'OH! Three (real!) webcams and X10 controls provide an
entertaining experience. I also did a Google Maps mish-mash that is
kinda cool - see:
http://www.komar.org/christmas/maps/ This was super-easy - drop me a
note if you want a how-to. The over $14,000 raised so far for Celiac
Disease Research, something my kids have, is kinda cool too.
Merry Christmas,
Alek
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Kelly & Richard Moore
201 Ash Drive, Gatesville, Texas
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John Halpin |
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Here is a Montana's First Fully Computerized
Christmas Light Show. The house features 30,000+ lights, a 20' x 18'
Mega tree with 6,400 lights, 21 stars, 17 Spiral Trees, 10 Deer and the
house fully decked in white, as well as much including the 30FT maple
covered in lights. The theme was Season's Greetings. It was
programmed, designed, and assembled by a 24 year old Montana State
University engineering student. The display is the first of its kind in
Montana and is located in the heart of Billings, MT in Yellowstone
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This is our 1st year with an
animated lighting display. We committed to the project very late
and thus are starting off small. We have 16 channels
via Light-O-Rama driving 5564 lights. We are in Folsom, CA. Here
is a photo with all lights on. We should have a live web cam up
this weekend and I'll post the URL. Cars are already stopping to
look. I'm hooked! Merry Christmas!
-Mike Breton
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Lumberton, NJ. First year decorating, have approximately 8000
lights up this year. Just purchased a 32 channel Light O Rama
controller for next year. Looking to hit the 25,000 light mark next
year. Merry Christmas!
DS
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Merry Christmas from the Arizona desert, Still wishing for a white
Christmas :-) . My display includes 29,000 lights, and computer
animation with animated lighting and fm music transmission. 80%
of this years display is energy efficient led lights. Merry
Christmas everyone. For more pictures and videos check out
www.andersonholidaylighting.com.
Michael Anderson
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Hi There Every one. Welcome from Down Under I've been busy again for
the third year building up my lights and working on the mega
display. This is the house in 2005 but working on a home brew
designed computer controlled display just finishing off the
software although I may go out and buy a few LOR kits next year.
This years display will be a 64 output extravaganza. Anyway I love
the site. Wombat, Sydney Australia.
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Here is Michael and Rosina Liquori's display for 2006. Located in
Glen Cove NY. There are 1000's of lights 450 blow molds and 20 air
blown inflatables. This year we have been featured on HGTV's
Christmas special. "What's with that Christmas House", to be aired
on December 10th. This years display is the largest its ever been.
We have been featured in all the local papers and TV stations, and
last year on CNN. The house has truly become an institution in the
city of Glen Cove, over the years. This is our 18th year
decorating., and more is in the works for next season. Merry
Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Liquori family.
www.mikeliquori.com
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"PlanetChristmas" brings our family so much joy!
Thank you. Our house and yard; 5Kondolf Street, Rochester, NY 14606 |
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We have been doing this for quite a few years but each year is a
little different. This year we did red white and blue to show
support for our troops. Seabrook, NH
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Here is our house in Rockmart, GA. This year we
have about 11,000 lights. We are hoping to get computerized next year.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Karen and Mike Z. |
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Molly McKinney
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This is a picture of
our display located in Apache, Oklahoma. We are in a small town about
an hour and a half south of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This is our first
year with an animated display. We are using 4 Light-O-Rama
controllers. The display turned out better than we thought it would
since it is our first year using the controllers. We are very proud of
it. Please visit our website at
www.northpolesouth.net for more pictures and videos of the display. |
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Hi. Found your site
last year, and saw all the displays.
Thank you for your time.
Steve Tiesman |
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This is my brothers house in Omaha, Nebraska. When we sold him the
house we told him that he must continue to decorate it and he has
come through. We love looking at our old house! Merry Christmas.
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Hi. This
is 2006, from Karl Grizwold & family. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!! |
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Enjoy, James
& Carri Kiehl
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Merry Christmas,
the picture i attached is of my front yard Christmas Light Display.
My name is Bill and I’m 16 years old. I’ve been decorating since I
was 5 and my display gets bigger every year. You can see all of the
pictures I have of my display at
http://www.billhartelectric.com/photo.html I update these
pictures frequently. Also, you can look under the links page for
links to websites that have my display on them. You can view the
article from the Pittsburgh Pose Gazette about my lights there too.
I hope you enjoy them!
Bill Hart, 947 Saxonburg Blvd., Pittsburgh,
PA 15223
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This is my home in
Perth, Western Australia. There's over 40,000 lights and 7 giant
inflatables. It also includes a dancing Santa display which uses laser
lighting, strobes and a fog machine to create an overall awesome effect.
The display also raises money for the kids hospital here in Perth. Check
out our website:
www.duncraigxmaslights.tk. Merry Christmas! |
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I wanted to share our latest display with
everyone. Our home is located in Vermillion SD. It is a
three story Victorian with the peaks at about 37 feet. I got
every peak and roofline done all the way around it this year.
There are way too many hours involved to count and at least 20,000
lights. What you can’t see are the 13 Christmas trees inside and
about another 300 feet of lighted garland. It has been a
project both I and my fiancé have worked hard on and thoroughly
enjoy doing every year. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Hi.
Merry Christmas to all from
Denmark.
Greetings from Jankowski Family
DENMARK
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Mousseau and Roy Display 2006.
Located in Hudson,NH. This is our 5th year lighting our
home with thousands of lights This year we scaled back to 110,000
lights and are using a circus theme for the 2006 lighting season. 48
computer controlled channels . 34 mini trees. 6400 light mega
tree. Several new wire frames were also added this year to include
a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, hot air balloon and several
new circus animals to just name a few. You can see more photos and
info at
www.hudsonchristmas.com
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H there.
We are from Westoughton Bolton Lancs. This is our 3rd time on here and
we are getting a different show each year. My daughters and
grandchildren love Christmas .hope you like our display. Happy
Christmas to all from Tracy John Roxy. Maxine Michael Courtney and
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Chuck, I'm just another one of the lovers of you web site....
Thanks so much.
ere are a couple of pictures of our display at 1188 Clubhouse Drive,
Broomfield. CO. For Owner’s Kim Weibert and Kevin Hart, Christmas
is a time for Family, and their display is a family affair. The
decorating starts in late September, and gets very busy after
Halloween. The display highlights the custom built Candy Cane
Express Christmas train, that chugs around on an elevated, oval
track through the front lawn. The train was built by Kevin’s father
Marvin Hart, of St. John USVI. The train track circles a 35’ tall
tree that is decorated with over 400 lighted candy canes and is
complete with assorted packages under the tree. The display
continues with a beautiful custom built carousel in the picture
window of the home and observers will even hear very unique
Christmas carousel music throughout the yard. An eight foot tall
Nutcracker greats visitors to the entry way, and even Mickey and
Minnie Mouse have made a special guest appearance in the yard.
Rudolf and his eight other friends and a sleigh, complete with
packages decorates the roof, along with multiple snow flakes that
twinkle like new fallen snow. Looking in the front picture window
you will see that Santa has made it down the chimney and is waving
to everyone. The arches over the driveway dance, flash, and sparkle
courtesy of a computerized lighting system. New in 2006 is a 10’
tall Ferris wheel, built by the owner’s fathers. Each chair is
decorated in a different theme. Look for Snoopy, Santa Claus, Pooh,
and Tiger too. This classic Ferris wheel has it’s own light show
that is fascinating to watch. Another addition this year is the
scene of Santa’s Workshop on the double garage door which was
created by a graphic designer here in Denver. The huge outdoor
Christmas tree has over 4500 lights and lots of over sized ornaments
reminding us that Christmas is just around the corner. Look for
Kim’s dad John Weibert outside every weekend handing out candy canes
and giving everyone a personal tour of the display. Guests are
welcome to take an up close and personal look every night till 10
PM. The entire family enjoys in the creation of this annual display
– especially when it is enjoyed by the children and neighbors. Come
on by and see for yourself.
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Gingerbread House We invite you to visit and
enjoy the Kleiberg’s 3rd Annual Christmas Light Display. There are over
40,000 lights that decorate the yard and many handmade and hand painted
attractions. Walk through lighted paths to see a 20’ long Christmas
train, Santa and his reindeer, polar bears and deer, candlesticks and
candy canes, and, of course, a Christmas star. See Winnie the Pooh and
friends skating on an outdoor ice sheet and cartoon heroes enjoying a
Ferris wheel ride! Location: 2683 – 204 Street, Langley Dates:
December 1st to January 1st Times: 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 pm Donations are
gratefully accepted and all proceeds are given to the charitable
organizations supported by the Township of Langley Fire Department.
These are: Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities, Langley Ishtar
(Home for Abused Women and Children), Langley Special Olympics for
Special Needs Children. In 2005, we were able to donate $2,004 to the
Fire Department on behalf of all those who donated. Thank you for your
generosity. Come join us again this year to enjoy the lights, have a
cup of hot chocolate and a candy cane and to raise money to assist these
valuable organizations. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year |
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Sara and Scott Pastryk from Mishawaka, Indiana. This
is our 3rd Christmas in our house. We our trying to add more lights each
year (and more outlets). Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! |
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Home of Bob and Jan in Hemet California. Special
thanks goes to Rob’s friends! Rob is smiling down on us all (probably
thankful he didn’t have to help!). |
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We have been doing this for 12 years now and we
stumbled upon your site! we submitted our picture don't look like you
have many from Phoenix AZ. we have a theme called Santa's candy land we
have about 100,000 lights and animation with a live Santa and elf we
light from 6:00pm till 10:00 pm each night. our address is 4827 W
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Hi Chuck. This is my 1st year at PC
and I would like to share my pics. Christmas In Shirley.
www.ChristmasInShirley.com This year we have over 13,000 lights
and 108 channels of control utilizing 2 64 port Olsen 595 boards
controlled by Vixen light control software.
Thank You, Brian
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Greetings from
Midland, Texas! This is Ricky and Lucy Thames’ 2006 Christmas
Display. This is my 8th year of decorating and my
forth year on Planet Christmas. Below are a few statistics of
this year’s display: Lights – 34,274; Amps – 156.46; Installation
time – 132 hours; Designing, planning and building – 200 hours; 20
amp dedicated circuits – 18; Extension cords – 148; Length of
extension cords – 3,529; Watts – 18,776, Timers – 18; Three-way taps
– 54, Spot lights – 4. I started putting out the lights on
October 16 and had the grand lighting on Thanksgiving night in
beautiful 70 degree weather. I’m finally up to 48 channels of
LOR that I used on my new 20’ “Mega Tree” and 9 mini-trees.
Also new in my display this year is a 101” train, Light storm, new
arches over my walkway, garage door banners, polar bear, church,
angel and an abominable snowman. We have a lot of traffic
every night looking at our display and taking pictures and video.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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This year we have 72,000 lights 48 channels of computer control. We
also accept donations for children's hospital. You can listen to
the music on 88.7 fm
stop by1736 Beryl, Pittsburgh, PA 15227
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Merry Christmas from James and Camille Wagoner in Edgewater, Florida
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This is our
display for 2006. We have about 20,000 lights. 64 channels of Light
o Rama control and we are transmitting on 88.5fm. On the roof is
Santa Flying a 30 foot diameter landing pattern. This is our 9th
and best year for our display. We live in Livonia, Michigan
Have A Merry Christmas
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www.lacasadibabbonatale.com
154,764 lights. LED – LED – LED. Most of the
luminous subjects are completely handmade. Works start
towards the middle of January, immediately after the
International Christmas exhibition held in Milan and in
Frankfurt. This exhibition gives me the possibility to
find some new ideas and choose the materials for future
shopping. To create luminous decorations I used different
types of lights, depending on the selected way of installation.
The yellow little stars have been made by me, with a meter of
aluminium strap, which has been folded like a star, on which I
put one meter of yellow luminous tube LED; while for bigger
stars I studied a bigger template with a larger development. The
lanterns placed on the left side of the house are made just as
the stars but, with different sizes and colours. The
little pines are made with a galvanized wire net, duly cut,
rolled up so to take shape of a cone high 50 cm , making
use of 4 meters of white luminous LED tube. For the trees
of 1,2 m. and 1,8 m., I used some little clear lamps and little
ed led spheres of 22 mm. The STROBO are part of the
lawn and use some xenon lamps making a very white light.
The larch is a structure in
iron and aluminium, to form a tree of 6 meters, that is a
larch. It has hundreds of branches and 20,600 LED.
The three trees high 3 m. are decorated
with classic low-tension pea lamps and LED
There are also 8
self-propelled reindeers, moved by a little engine both in
vertical and horizontal directions.
The lawn is enlightened by 7,680 little
white lamps; these are connected to an electric power station so
to create light games. Little Father Christmas are
puppets, made of fibre glass, hollow inside and equipped with a
lamp for their lighting, they are placed on the frontal side of
the house, following all the lawn perimeter. The two
inflatable puppets, the seated Father Christmas and the snow
puppet, located on the right side of the house, are made of
micro-fibre; they are inflated and they remain inflated through
a compressor placed at their base and have an inside lamp.
Hidden among big branches of trees, there are the machines for
the snow and bubbles. An electric power station
controlled by a personal computer has been arranged to manage
most part of lights together with 23+ peripheral units, designed
and personalized on purpose for Santa Workshop; I use only 23+
respect their effective capacity, 256 cards each one with 8
channels, therefore 2048 channels available.
Three
contactors supply the electric energy. The total amount of the
154,764 lights consumption gives a result of
approx. 30.000 Watt (136 Ampere at 220 Volts).
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Our 2006 display is on
the eastern shore of Maryland. It consists of 17 inflatables, over 40
blowmolds, eight wire frames and approximately 6000 lights. We group
the inflatables to form themes. Thanks and have a Merry Christmas! See
several more photos at http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r239/
easternshorechristmasdecor/.
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Here is our display for 2006 in
Deltona, Florida. I completed my goal of 50,085 lights this year.
My roof cutouts and my wall of lights are our favorites. Along with
2 - 15 foot mega trees, we found a way to use purple mini's they mix
well with Blue and Gold, works out nice! Next year LOR and a major
sub electric panel upgrade, storage solutions, and bringing my home
web page up and running! Any questions private message me through
the PlanetChristmas chatroom " Deltona " (http://cr.planetchristmas.com).
Wishing you all a " Merry Christmas " and a " Happy New Year "
Deltona
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It's a picture of the
water tower on the grounds of the
Factory at
Franklin in Tennessee where the 2006 PlanetChristmas display is
located this year. There are 16 reindeer attached to the water tower
catwalk 90 feet off the ground. Eight reindeer face clockwise. Eight
reindeer face counter-clockwise. The computer makes the reindeer chase
around the tower in different directions. See more at
www.planetchristmas.com Merry Christmas! Chuck and Marla Smith |
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Hi PlanetChristmas. This is my first year doing
this and we have about 3,000 lights on the house. I love to decorate
and I'm enjoying reading up on how to make my display bigger and better
for next year. But for now, it's doing pretty good. Thanks for
allowing me to submit my picture. The house is located in Toms River,
NJ. See ya next year!!! Donna |
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Colorado Christmas is back
again and better than ever. This years new addition was 10 Mini-Trees,
2 Stick Trees, and a Video Projection Screen that shows Flash
animations, and Classic Christmas Videos to go with the music. Merry
Christmas All
Kevin & Linda Pickett, Colorado Christmas, Colorado
Springs, CO
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This is my friends Frank & Courtney's house located
in Newburgh NY. Frank helped me put up the lights on my house in
picture #12, and I helped Frank put up his lights. Frank and Courtney
chose white lights which turned out really nice. All the whole house is
outlined and a BIG wreath sits over the front door. The house is SO
BRIGHT you can see it from the peak of a nearby mountain top while
driving to their house. The roof of the house is VERY steep. Frank and
I made a "special" safety harness so he didn't fall off the roof.
Congratulations on the beautiful job guys & Merry Christmas! |
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Hello from Michigan! This is our fabulous blowmolds
display. We have been collecting blowmolds for over 20 years, and we
haven't found a display in Michigan yet that is bigger or better than
ours! Here's some pictures from this year's display. We are up to 325
blowmolds and 72 miscellaneous lighted items, not to mention the 6000
lights it takes to light every tree and shrub. Every item has a
particular place in the scene. Our nativity is up to 43 pieces, and our
choir is a whopping 38 pieces! I wanted more, but as you can see we are
starting to run out of lawn! We also added music to our choir this
year. Watch closely and you can see their mouths moving as they sing "O
Holy Night" for the whole neighborhood to hear. We regrouped a lot of
our items, so new this year is the North Pole Factory, with 14 elves
working hard to make the toys, the SnowPeople village, with 15 of your
"coolest" friends, and the Misfit Toys, complete with an ice cream cone,
a pink gingerbread boy, a "Dolly for Sue" and a "Charlie in the Box."
You can see on the night pictures that the giant green sign lets Santa
know where all the Misfits are, so they won't be left behind! It only
took us 14 days to put it all up, we started the weekend before
Thanksgiving. We have gotten so much traffic this year that you can't
even get around the corner to get down our street some nights! It's
definitely worth the work. If you want to see more pictures, you can
reach me on PlanetChristmas - hollywoodjenkins. Merry Christmas to
everyone and keep on decorating! |
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Hi SoCal PC Pals! So
it was a crazy weekend to get us going, but we are up and running! Just
a few glitches to still work out and a couple of things to add to the
display when the wind dies down and Chris gets a second wind (of
energy). Thanks to Peter Lent we are have one of the 4 houses that was
having major box problems hooked up and running until we get another
box. (THANKS PETER!!!) So we were not without our Christmas Gremlins
this year, but thanks to the persistence of my husband and Peter, we
hopefully have it under control now. We managed to take some pictures
tonight of the display as it is, as you will notice our 16’ Z-Tree is
still standing!!! :-) despite the 50-60mph winds we had all weekend.
Okay, so sometimes my MAC isn’t always the greatest (or it could just
be my pregnant brain infection), so I am sending you this video uncut
and through my .mac site. I can’t seem to get it to save in Quicktime
or iMovie for editing adding sound. So, no there is no sound, sorry :-(
So enjoy the silent movies :-) Also, the video was taken with my
little pocket Minolta still camera (LOL!!) - we are hoping sometime this
season to secure a GOOD video camera that takes videos at night to get a
better set put together :-) but for now, what we have up on the website
will give you an idea of what the 4-house show is like. But the picture
is better here than it was on YouTube! :-)
http://homepage.mac.com/klafournaise/i
MovieTheater17.html
http://homepage.mac.com/klafournaise/i
MovieTheater18.html
http://web.mac.com/klafournaise/iWeb/
socalchristmas/2006 Display
Photos.html
Thanks everyone for all your support! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
-- Chris
and Kerilyn LaFournaise, Temecula, CA,
Www.lafournaise.org
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This is our "first year" display in
San Diego called "Belardo Lights". It features 220 channels of LOR,
over 38,000 lights, 12,000 feet of wire used, and a lot of fun to
design and build. The inspiration for this display came from our 9
year old son Brandon, who has Autism. Last year at this time, we
were driving around looking at different displays, and Brandon
really enjoyed them for the first time. So I asked him if he'd like
to work with me to help build our own Christmas display, and it was
off to the races after that. We're broadcasting on 89.7 FM, and
have been featured by a local television station and the local
newspaper. We've received great comments from folks driving and
walking by, and plan to expand the display next year and also do
some fundraising for local Autism charities. Thanks to all the fine
folks at PlanetChristmas, I was able to learn a lot about this great
hobby / obsession, and produce a display that has been called pretty
amazing for a beginner. We'll be back again next year bigger and
better than ever... Randy, Belardo Lights, San Diego, CA
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Merry Christmas...From Troy, Michigan Our second year submitting to
Planet Christmas. This year we put 5,000 lights on our large tree,
it's a real eye catcher. All together we have six 20amp and three
15amp circuits running the lights, running at around 17,000 watts.
Lots of animation, chasers, faders and controllers, but no
computerization...yet! Maybe next year we'll add the
computer...until then, Merry Christmas...From Mike & Margaret
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Merry Christmas from
Christmas In The Grove. We are located at 810 Power St, China
Grove, NC. We’ve been decorating our House for the last three
years. This is our biggest display so far. Our display this years
has
12000+ lights, 60
blowmolds, 2 inflatables and a Mr Christmas Light Show
machine. You can see more pictures of Christmas In The Grove
here.
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We are up to over 30,000 this year with 5 trees
inside. 21ft Mega tree with 2800 multi-color mini lights and 1200 Blue
LEDs, 14 mini trees with 6500 mini lights, 3450 icicle mini lights, 5184
rope mini lights, 1000 white LEDs on the roof, Plus a lot more. 48
computer control LOR channels, Music broadcast over FM radio transmitter
(BlackBox) with in a few hundred feet of the house. 7 synchronized
songs, Show is about 25 minutes Runs nightly from 5:15pm to 10:00pm
weather permitting, might run later as it gets closer to Christmas and
on weekends. Some of these lights are extremely bright, but the
brightest Christmas lights are the Christians that carry the light of
Christ to the darkest corners of the Earth. Merry Christmas!!! |
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Here we are in Dunedin Florida getting ready for
Santa. This is our first submission to Planet Christmas. Merry Christmas
to all and a Happy New Year. |
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Below is the link to our 2006 Dancing Waters Holiday Decorations:
Happy Holidays,
Bill Vanderslice
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This is our first year decorating!
I'm an official newbie! We are using Animated Lighting with 63 of
our 64 available channels in use, and around 9000 lights.
Danielle Earl
Simi Valley, CA
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This took me about 3 weeks in November
to put up and I have roughly 3000 lights in the display, maybe a
little more. I have nearly tripled my display from last year (#178
on 2005 pg. 4) Next year I am doing the same display but adding more
icicles and lawn displays, and maybe something on the roof. This
display is powered through 3 outlets. One outlet that controls the
front portion comes on at dusk and shuts off 6 hours later, the next
2 portions both are controlled with a remote that has a 50 foot
range. If anyone has any questions or would like to see more
pictures feel free to e-mail me at
worthchristmasdisplay@yahoo.com. Merry Christmas from Upstate
NY
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we just wanted everyone to see our Christmas spirit........i don't
know how many lights there are but i know everything was made not
bought.......it took a while but they look really great this
year..............
debbie and john savage, md
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This is our 13th year, 18,500+ lights. We received
an award from our town last year for the most original display. Come
visit us on Plymouth Drive, Iselin, New Jersey. Can't miss us! |
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We have
almost 35,000 lights and over 135 blow molds. we have been decorating
the past few years, BUT this is the biggest display so far, as we just
moved into the new home/location in the spring. and have been adding to
the display as we do it to raise money for charities, and this year are
asking people to send Christmas cards to the military. Please check us
out on the web at
www.carmanyschristmaslights2006.piczo.com. Please be sure to sign
our guest book, and or email us at
christmaslightfanatic@comcast.net. thanks. Richard and Kyra
Carmany. Alyssa Stutzman. 615 Sycamore Drive. Columbia, PA 17512 |
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This is a
pictures of our Santa toyshop. it is 30 ft long,10ft tall & 6ft
deep. it is made of all wood, with close to 80 animated figures,24
in & life-size. there is a life-size animated Mr. & Mrs. Claus,
elves & snowmen. there is 6 large windows with animated Disney,
peanuts, Looney tunes, elves,& carolers characters. there is 2 large
double doors which house Mr. & Mrs. Claus we are located at 14338
Funston ave. Norwalk, California so if your in the area, please stop
by and look at our display. open every night until after new
years. merry Christmas from the Veloz family.
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Our home is
located in beautiful Pawleys Island, SC. This is the 3rd year in this
house for Christmas and our second year decorating. We have a total of
15,000 lights (1,500 indoor / 13,500 outdoor). All four sides of our
house are lit up. Key features include our two 6 foot soldiers guarding
the front porch and a 6 1/2' Santa watching the neighbors in the front
window. Christmas music plays each night for passers-by. Inside, we
have a 10' tree and seven mini trees throughout the house. Our pride and
joy is a replica of the Advent House from the movie Christmas Vacation,
which I have built from scratch. It has quickly become a family
heirloom. Here is a link to more photos inside and out:
http://infinite-dominion.com/christmaslights2006/
index.cfm Merry
Christmas & Happy Holidays to Everyone, Raymond, Pawleys Island, SC |
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We are Mark and Tina Bolt, and we have a 2 1/2 year old daughter
named Emily. We live in Billings, MT. Our display contains 24,000
lights this year, which uses about 195 amps. We live down in a
valley called Alkali Creek valley, so we always go with a theme of
"Light up the Valley". This Christmas season we also want to remind
people that Jesus is the reason we do all this stuff. We may light
up our little valley, but He is the light of the world. Merry
Christmas from the Bolts in Montana.
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Hi Chuck,
Merry
Christmas & Happy New Year! From the Bromley’s located in
Shrewsbury, Pa.
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We are located in Hamburg, NJ. We have just over 12,000 lights
so far (I know that doesn't even compare to alot of the houses
on this site!). We start shortly after Halloween each year,
and never really finish! We have been told by many that our
house is the most decorated house in Sussex County!! We have
added more since this picture, but we hope you enjoy it
anyway! Happy Holidays 2006 from The Guest Family!!!
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Here are some pictures of my home in
Indian Trail, North Carolina. This year we have 47,855
lights that include 13 blowups. I have built many of my displays.
This year’s project was the Santa’s Castle that has three floors
and stands 8 feet tall. Each floor has different scenes. Other
year’s projects include a Gingerbread House which featured an entire
Gingerbread Family inside. Another display is the Santa’s Train that
is delivering presents by a Reindeer and is being driven by a
Penguin. A 48 inch tall Igloo, 10 foot and 5 foot candy canes and
many Christmas trees that are placed throughout my property. We not
only decorate the front yard but also the back yard. Click on this
link and view additional pictures that show the details are
difficult to explain.
http://www.e2etech.net/nikitas/
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Hi from
Chicago The Wawrocki Family We have been doing this for 10 years now and
every year is different. We have 2000 lights on the house with 100
figurines on both sides of the parkway, and one globe. The front window
has moveable figurines also and a tree with 1000 lights on it The front
window up stairs has moveable figurines also Have a Merry Christmas
every one |
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Hello Planet Christmas, Merry Christmas from the Berger Family in
Monmouth County, NJ. We have 20,000 bulbs lighting up our Winter
Wonderland as our unique, "Flying" Reindeer take off, attracting
many from miles away.We always appreciate the local papers making a
annual stop at our home to see "What's New" and most importantly,
the joy it brings to those who visit our display. Happy New year!!!!
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This a photo of our 2006 Display in
Greencastle, Indiana. Visit us at
www.freewebs.com/hillsdalechristmas for more pictures. While
viewing our display you can listen to our Christmas station. We
began setting up our display the weekend after Halloween. We have
about 9,000 lights used in the display. The new major addition to
this years display was the Nativity Scene, but there were also
several other small improvements. We hope that you get a chance to
come by, but if you can't we hope that you enjoy the pictures of our
display.
Merry Christmas, Justin (Hillsdale Ave. Christmas)
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This light display located in downtown
Coulterville Illinois. The display is put up by the Coulterville Fire
Department along with other community volunteers. The walk thru display
is open through Jan. 1 from dusk till 9pm every evening with music
playing each night. The display consists of over 35,00 lights and 155
wooden cut-outs throughout the 1 block city park. Every Saturday from 6
to 8 the fire department offers visitors a bonfire to warm up by and
free refreshments to go along a visit from Santa. |
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Hi everyone, Here is the photo of our Home this year. Hope you all
enjoy.
Happy Holidays
The Deweil Family
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My display
is very simple. I put lights all over a very old mesquite tree at
the front of my house near downtown Tucson. In fact, the house was
designed around the tree when it was built 15 years ago. While not
as flashy as some, it shows off the shape of this amazing mesquite
tree. Happy Holidays! John Laswick, 560 S. Samaniego
Street, Tucson, AZ 85701
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This is my house in Port Charlotte
Florida HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Jake and Sally Long |
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The new
portions of this years display consists of an animated Santa, Sleigh,
and Eight Reindeer. This display stretches over 30’ long on the roof.
Other features are the additional computerized programs for the lights.
This year all of the 60,000 lights will be controlled by a computerized
program. The lights will be dancing with the sound of music being
transmitted through a FM station which will only be transmitting an area
within site of the home. Anyone driving by will be able to tune their
radio station to FM 90.1 and will be able to listen to the Ludy Light
Spectacular Display Program. Thanks to Chuck and everyone at Planet
Christmas, each year continues to grow with excitement and anticipation
for new ideas to improve each year.
www.ludychristmas.com |
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This is my fraternity (Phi Kappa Psi) house at the University of
Illinois. This year we purchased 17,000 lights. We took second in
the campus decorating contest. The coolest part is Santa on the
roof. Next year we look forward to saving for a light controller and
a very tall ladder! Merry Christmas... DOUG McDonald
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My first year of Christmas decorating - with musical lights.
Skagit County, Washington
Randi
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Here's
my first pictures submitted to Planet Christmas. Began three years ago
with the help of Lori @ Lori's Lighted D'lites and the manual labor of
my sister Debbie from WA state. I started this in memory of my mom
knowing she is looking down through the stars and enjoying my display as
much as my family and I, neighbors and passerby. Hope you all enjoy
them too. Merry Christmas, Cindy |
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This is our house in Mesa, Arizona. This year we have about 14,000
lights, a 40 foot super tree, a motorized new years ball and various
light grids controlled by Light O rama. This is my 12th year doing
the lights and I hope to continue for many years to come. Merry
Christmas Everyone !!
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Attached please find a photo of my 20' inflatable Santa, taken in
the daytime when a winter storm blew into Dallas in late November.
I also have a 20' inflatable snowman in the other corner of my front
yard. The local news people are telling me these two inflatables
may be the biggest Christmas inflatables in Texas, and therefore, by
definition, the largest Christmas inflatables in the USA! Could
this be true? Or are they just exaggerating?
Sincerely, Jim Hardesty, 3313 Wolfe Court, Plano, Texas 75025
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Happy Holidays from the Farrell family of
Clifton New Jersey. This year we added 32 channels of LOR that has made
the display more exciting. The main attraction this year is a castle on
the front lawn with Cinderella and Santa Claus dancing inside. Our
house was featured on NBC TV's Today in New York holiday special. |
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This is our house in Ellicott City Maryland this year. There are
approximately 25,000 lights. New additions this year are the NOEL,
2 - 6' drummer soldiers at the driveway entrance, a north pole
candy cane, Mickey Mouse Santa blow up, Snowboarding Reindeer Blow
up and two angles. This year is a tribute to my wife Wendy, who was
the artistic director of the display in the past. She passed away
in February after a 2 year battle with ovarian cancer. Hope
everyone has a happy holiday season. Jon Fiedler p.s. Thanks
Chuck, I was chosen to be one of the featured houses on HGTV for
next years "What's up with this Christmas House".
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This is our small display, we are in Nottinghamshire UK
have a great Christmas
from Tony & Angie
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Welcome to the Wullkotte's 2006 Christmas display. This will be our
4th year decorating the house and it gets bigger and better every
year. Classic Christmas music plays nightly and this display is sure
to put a smile on your face. Unfortunately the other side of the
yard could not be fully captured, but you get an idea of what the
display looks like. We had to add an extra circuit this year due to
it being overloaded and next year we hope to have the whole display
synchronized to music. We have one of the larger displays in Ohio
and put more emphasis on things in the yard than lights on the
house. New additions this year include a Santa stop here sign, large
light up holiday banner, Nativity scene, extra ice cycle lights,
extra candy canes and more. Seasons Greetings, Noah Wullkotte
Cincinnati, OH
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Andrew & Evie, Alexandria, VA: Some more
reps for townhouse dwellers…First display in the new home! 8400 lights,
including 5 chaser strands, 40 star lights, 28 feet of icicles, and one
penguin. Next year: LOR, hopefully at least 48 channels, and some more
thematic items, if the price on blow molds and animated reindeer goes
down a bit after Christmas. J |
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Lee is also featured in Las Vegas Life Magazine and was taped
for a national TV show special on holiday lights - a special
showing of the program "What's with that House" on HGTV! Visit
lee's site for more info.
Thanks!
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Welcome to the DeBrocke Home in Riverview,
FL. This is our first year going "all out" and have about 20,000 lights
total, all synchronized to music with 48 LOR Channels. You can visit us
at
http://www.DeBrockeLights.com |
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And now a
plug for PlanetChristmas!
A special thanks to Robert McClurkan for taking this picture |
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I thought
you might want to hear about a local Christmas House. We sit outside
each night from 6:30-9:00 and share punch, candy canes, and cookies with
guests. We've been collecting decorations for over 30 years. People can
drive by or park to view from close up (best viewed upclose). We have:
- three Christmas villages
- a snowman with real snow
- a runway on the roof for Santa
- the entire garage has been transformed into Santa's workshop
- the outside is lit up with tens of thousands of lights
- the kitchen is decorated with hundreds of decorations
Here are a few pictures and a link to other pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ldybug/
CopelandChristmasHouse
The Copeland Christmas House, Palm City, FL |
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CHUCK:
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM OUR HOUSE IN JACKSON NJ. THIS YEAR WE
ADDED SOME ROPE LIGHTING, THE ROOF, AND THE LAWN LIGHTS. WE
ALSO ADDED A FEW YARD DECORATIONS AND THE “NOEL” INFLATABLE.
WE REALLY ENJOY THE WEBSITE AND ALL THE THINGS GOING ON HERE. MERRY
CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE FRED & TRISH HELFRICH
JACKSON NJ
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Merry Christmas to all PlanetChristmas
visitors! Here is our 2006 display This is our 2nd year submitting to
"Showing Off". We love decorating for the holidays. Our development
has an annual contest for the best display. Last year we won!! This
year we doubled our display, to over 10,000 lights. We have fun doing
this. It's great for the kids (and for me). We are actually expecting
our second child around Christmas, and I just know he'll enjoy the
lights! Thanks for viewing. Have a safe and happy Holiday Season!!
Brad, Stacy, Rylie & "Baby" Hollar. Morgantown, WV |
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WWW.PORRAZZOLAND.COM Hello
to my favorite web site. Another Year is here and Christmas
in Lowellville has begun. Porrazzoland is now Complete
Inside and out, with over 100 Inflatable Christmas
Characters and Thousands of Lights.
Every Year you have been to my home and my display keeps
growing and growing. This year is the best we have over 20
new attractions. with numerous Snow Globes added and a 12
foot animated Carousel. I invite you to our home to be
featured on your news channel. It will make a great story
of how soon we are already complete for the holidays.
Please call me and make arrangements to come and visit
Porrazzoland again hopefully a couple times this year even
before Christmas season begins.
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This is our second Christmas in our home and our first time
submitting our house on this site. We want to add more next year.
Decorating our home is something we really enjoy and our kids love
helping us. Hope everyone enjoys our home and Happy Holidays.
James, Mande and Kids. Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio.
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