Andy Anderson

We will have a meet and greet at 11, lunch at noon and then start the Mini at 1 pm. So far only lunch meat and buns so it is your choice. Looking forward to seeing you Saturday.

VA mini coming up this next Saturday the 11th at Franktronics Computer Store located at 3618 George Washington Memorial Highway in Hayes (Gloucester County), Virginia Frank Farmer is working on an itinerary and should have it out on Wednesday. If you have a topic you would like to talk about during the mini, please let Frank know so he can get you on the list. Once you know what you are bring for food, please post on our Face Book page Virginia Holiday Decorators Group so we don’t have any duplication. Also post anything you plan to bring for the sale/trade session. Ralph Priest, Steven Stern & Frank Farmer have been working hard to get some new sponsors for us this year. Thank you to the following sponsors. Light O Rama. 3G Lighting, Boscoyo Studio, CoolTees Custom Apparel, Creative Displays & Designs, Christmas Done Bright, Christmas-LEDs, The Christmas Light Emporium, Crockett Fantasy of Lights, Falcon Controllers, Gilbert Engineering USA, Holiday Sequences, Pixel Pro Displays, Wired Watts, Wizard of Wire, xTreme Sequences. Frank & Andy

Bring the singing angels. Looking forward to seeing you again. Also looking forward to the cupcakes. Andy

Glad you are going to be able to make it again this year. Looking forward to seeing you .

The 12th Annual Virginia Mini will be held on Saturday, May 11th. The location will be at the Frantronics computer store located at 3618 George Washington Memorial Highway in Hayes (Gloucester county), Virginia. If you need further directions or information, please feel free to contact Frank Farmer at (804) 642-5233, email Frank at [email protected] or you can leave a message here. We will have a meet and greet at 11, lunch at noon and then start the Mini at 1pm. The mini’s are an excellent opportunity to meet with other Christmas lighting enthusiast to share ideas, design plans, implementation, sequencing or just to meet others with the same goals in Christmas lighting displays. This mini is open to any and all Christmas lighting enthusiasts. Both ones doing it for the first time and those who have done it for years. Whether you have a large display or a small one. All are welcome. Anyone who would be willing to talk for a few minutes on a display element they have made, design tips, sequencing or anything else you would like to share with the group, please let me know. I would like to have competed agenda within a couple of weeks. Frank will have a couple of his own display elements up and running. Please let us know by phone, email, or this topic that you can attend and how many, so that I can have enough drinks and supplies here. We will provide drinks (water, coffee, iced tea and sodas). If everyone can bring along something for lunch/snacks, to share with the group, that would be great. There is no charge to attend the Mini, just bring some food to share. I look forward to seeing everyone. We will have computers and projectors available for use. Please like us on Face Book. Virginia Holiday Decorators Group Frank Farmer & Andy Anderson

We had an excellent mini yesterday. Thank you to our sponsors Light O Rama, Creative Displays, Christmas Done Bright, Christmas Light Emporium and Paul Glancy.

Despite all the rain the Virginia Mini is still on for tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everyone. Drive safe.

PM sent.

Al, Sorry to hear you will be there this year. Shawn, Hopefully you will make it this year, otherwise will see you next year. The mini is almost here.

Bill & Al, looking forward to seeing you again.

Always love tasting your baked goods.

The 11th Annual Virginia Mini will be held on Saturday, May 19. Matthew Satterwhite has graciously offered to host the mini again this year. The location will be HanoverAcademy located at 115 Frances Road in Ashland, VA23005. HanoverAcademy is just off I95 in Ashland which is on the north side of Richmond. The minis are an excellent opportunity to meet with other Christmas lighting enthusiasts to share ideas, design plans, implementation, sequencing or just to meet other with the same goals in Christmas lighting displays. We want to allow time for everyone attending to introduce themselves and tell us about their favorite display element. We want to give you a heads up so you can prepare to either bring the element or take pictures or videos of it and describe the details of how you built it and how it works. This could take some time, but we'll all learn so much more! Anything from your display that you would like to share with the group. Talk about why it is special to you, or why you made it, how you made it or anything you want to share about it. There is always a story to tell. We will provide drinks. Like last year we are asking everyone to bring some food to share with the group for lunch. Cost will be $5 per person to pay for use of the building. We will start with a meet and greet about 11:00 AM, with lunch at noon. Then start the mini at 1:00 PM and be over by 4:00 PM Matthew & I look forward to seeing everyone.

Any interest in hosting the mini?

We are open to pretty much anywhere in Virginia. We have been to Gloucester, Fredericksburg, Culpeper & Richmond.

It is time to start thinking about the 11th annual Virginia Mini. In past we have quite often held it the third Saturday in May. If we stick to that date the mini will be on Saturday May 19. That date is flexible depending on availability of a meeting place. As of yet no one has offered to host the mini this year. If anyone is interested in hosting the mini now is the time to volunteer. Yes, there is some work involved in hosting the mini. You will need to secure a location and some other items needed that day. If you are interested in hosting the mini please contact me via this thread or by private message.