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PlanetChristmas Showing Off 2002
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I live in Marriot Way Morley, PERTH, Western Australia and
I have for my 11th year display of 44000 lights, being one
of the 1st 5 people who started all these displays in
Perth,,, and I raise money (Approx $5000 each year) every
December for the Children's Hospital here, many 1000's of
people file past this big display every Xmas, over the last
11 years, this year 2003 I have added a new dimension to the
display 15 meters high from the ground , included in the
evening sky part of the display,, there is Santa's wishing
well at the front gate for people to donate to the Princess
Margaret Hospital Fund for sick Children and every year,
Santa arrives by Fire Engine with a Police escort with
lights and sirens blaring,,,,lollies for the little kids are
given out by Santa with helium balloon's and
sparklers,,,then the raffle prizes are drawn for al those
who donated $5 or over,,,,we have around 100 prizes to give
away,,,,,,a great scene and story can be followed on this
Webpage address, and linked to now a second page,,,,
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/
Canopy/
9821/john8.html
"The House of Roe" Christmas lights
Display...
John F Roe.
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Bill and Cindy Miller display in McKenzie,Tn.
This year we have 50,000+ mini lights,110 Blowmolds,5 hand made
wooden buildings,9 life size mannequins, many wireframes and an
inflatable. We have been decorating for twelve years and have
grown from 2000 lights and four blowmolds to our present amount.
Many people stop by and take videos and pictures. We have been
on five different TV stations and a special on Christmas lights
on PBS this year. We plan on increasing our display and
updating the animation this next year Happy Holidays to all.
wemiller@aeneas.net |
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Here is our Light display in Holland, Ohio.
This year we have 34,000 lights up. They go all the way around
the house. Last year we had 20,000 lights so this is a good
increase. Happy Holidays. From The Bixlers.
Don_Bixler@AndersonsInc.COM |
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This is the Scalisi's Christmas display on
Teri Ct, In Jackson New Jersey. We feature over 40,000+ lights,
including animated 20 foot train, and an animated horse and
carriage, and an animated bell. Life size nativity scene, 4 man
made arches,10' Merry Christmas candy cane arch, and a 20 '
Happy Holiday sign. Mr & Mrs Claus, Frosty, Santa, and Rudolph
blowmolds, 50 soldiers, 2- 10' wooden shoulders, carolers,
skaters, and many many more wire figures including the misfits,
and soldiers, and deer. 3D fading star, and moving angel. Also
over 1000 feet of rope light, waving Santa, angels with moving
wings, and moving deer, and an oversize present. Vinny Scalisi,
VScalisi@christies.com |
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We are a retired couple in Florida. My husband has
installed a separate electrical panel to run all our
lights. Our lights are on a master timer so they all come
on at once. Our home is on a corner so we decorate three
sides as well as the median in front of our home. We do all
the work our selves. The neighbors as well as grandkids
love it. Every year it takes us a bit longer, this year we
started two weeks before Thanksgiving. We have over 100
light sculptures, to many twinkle lights to count, a heard
of deer, my favorite an six foot lighted America flag on the
roof as well as Santa, sleigh and his reindeer.......and so
on and so on!!
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Our house is located in Yuma, Az. The display is 245' wide
(the house is on two acres). There is over 40,000 lights
this year, with plans of adding more next year. Display
consists of mini's, icicles, 600' of rope, C-9's, nine
lighted deer's & 2,000' of extension cords. Hopefully next
year we can go computer controlled. This picture was taken
from over 400' away. Merry Christmas! Butch & Kim Koretz
koretz@prodigy.net |
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I've been at this house for four year and been doing the
light display since. I try to add to it every year. I'm
currently around 15,000 lights. Many people stop by and take
video and pictures. Kids just love it. Have yourself a Merry
Christmas.
I'm located in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
mlabrosse@cogeco.ca
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This is our Christmas light display at 35 Allambee Cres,
Blue Haven, NSW, AUSTRALIA, GINGERBREAD HOUSE CHRISTMAS
DISPLAY HAS BEEN RUNNING NOW FOR FIVE YEARS...
We nominate a local kids charity each year for donations.
My two young kids help me with this display each year, they
are 9 yrs & 11 yrs old....they handed candy cane to
everyone... Regards
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In 2001 the big tree was missing I added it this year. 2003
is going digital I have placed second in the town lighting
only to find my self beat by city counsel members hmmmmmm .
Next year with your help at PlanetChristmas my yard will
have gone mad. I am very excited about my discovery of the
digital world I love computers and have found a hobby in
combining it with my enjoyment of Christmas lights. I am
somewhat glad I didn't discover this before I started this
year I was a bit strapped for time.
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***We are a retired couple
living in North Carolina and start decorating our home each year
in SEPTEMBER of each year. During the season, it is thought of
as the Disneyworld of Havelock, a small town on the southeast
coast of NC. We wake up and go to sleep looking outside only to
find folks videotaping the home, and ringing the doorbell asking
if they can have their kids run in the yard - or, when the
lights are off, we are asked to turn them on - neighbors and
strangers, alike. We love every minute of it .We use
approximately 500 strands of lights on our home, start lighting
in October, and this has been a tradition since I was a young
girl. When we retired from NYC and started to decorate our NC
home as we always did in NYC, few neighborhood homes
participated. Now three years later folks tell us they have
started to decorate the exterior of their homes after getting
inspired by ours. It is now enjoyed by us, our five children,
and four grandchildren and stops traffic on our block. We also
was profiled on the local news. With the end of each season, we
take down the lights and I pack them enclosing a letter to Jesus
Christ thanking him for the season, my family, my life -
everything....and asking that He brings our family together for
the next season. I now have 40 years of letters and continue to
be blessed!
Essie Lowe (Cynthia Briggs is my daughter)
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Mike and Rose Zwicker, Riverside CA. We
have about 9,000 lights. We add more every year. This is our 5th
year decorating like this. We have a big yard so it is hard to
get a good picture of the entire area.
Californiarose3@cs.com
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This is my 7th year of lighting-up and is the biggest year
yet with a grand total of 8117 lights. All but a small
handful have been imported from the States to here in South
Wales, UK, and are powered from our 240 volt supply with
three very large transformers. Featuring 1300 of the new
extra-low-power LED lights in the bushes, a whole pile of
red, blue, maroon and purple Miniature, "Swag-style" and
Icicle lights, and for the first time ever here,
computerization! Four microprocessor-controlled Computerized
Light-Trees in gold and green that change color, chase and
dance in custom programmed effects, each topped with a green
xenon strobe beacon.
For more information, photos and an almost-complete archive
of this and all of my displays including archives from the
three Webcams, see my Displays Archive Site at
http://electriclights.tripod.com/displays.
- Chris W. Millinship. Newport, South Wales, UK.
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Seasons Greetings from New South Wales Australia. We have
been decorating our home now for 10 years. The display
currently consists of some 30,000 globes along with assorted
static displays and cutouts.
Craig Hughes
cehughes2000@hotmail.com
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Hi Chuck. Could you include this new picture
of our 2002 display. Thanks and God Bless.
Roy, Toronto, Canada.
idealwoodscapes@hotmail.com
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I wanted to send you a
picture of my 2002 Display. It consists of 75 blowmolds, 10,000
lights, and 3 inflatables. I also had several handmade wood
items. It is located in Chapin, SC and this is now my 7th year
of doing outdoor Christmas decorating.
Thanks
Brad
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We're the Kelley's in Sunnyvale, CA. We've
been doing this since about 1988. Each year we try to add
something new. It is my wife's job to keep me from being "too
tacky" and some years she's not diligent enough. Dr. Michael
Kelley
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We need to get some better pictures. For some reason these
do not show everything to the best advantage.
You have inspired my husband and is on a mission to bring
his display to the whole USA. I am sending the pictures
from my computer because they are in my computer, but he
would like you to correspond with him at
donald.hill1@attbi.com.
Thanks
Don & Chris Hill
2565 South Marion St.
Denver, Colo 80210
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Here's a picture of my house In Hudson, NH its a scanned
picture from the newspaper I have about 35,000 to 40,000
lights and no computer controls at all any questions please
free to email me at
woodster300@yahoo.com. I would also like to add a
Ferris wheel next year and was wondering if you could help
me find some plans or any info on how to make one ? Happy
New Year Thanks
Marc Mousseau
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Our 36th Christmas Display in Kissimmee, Florida.
Larry & Rachels Christmas Display
xmasdisplay@earthlink.net
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The Fraser residence. All the dolls are
handmade just for Christmas. Clothing bought at Goodwill.!!
Lots of lights, lots of work, & lots of hours but a labor of
love. Our favorite time of the year. Each year we add more
lights & do things a little different. Sign on shed reads "pasatimawa"
Prounounced:" Pass the time away".
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The Faucher Family has been a tradition in Delaware for 23
years, Santa makes a special visit each year to support the
Marine Corp Toys For Tots Program.
Donnie [don-faucher@comcast.net]
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This is a photo of our 60,000 lights display
in Maple St Lugarno, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest
private display in Sydney. Features include a 40-step
computerized animated Santa sequence that arrives with his
sleigh and reindeers, waves, gets out, walks along the roof,
puts his sack on the chimney, pushes it down the chimney, falls
down the chimney after it. A short time later he emerges at the
front of the garage, climbs up the garage wall, walks across the
garage roof, climbs down the other side, walks across the front
of the house, climbs 3 stories up the house, walks across the
roof, gets back in his sleigh, waves and departs. A huge natural
conifer Christmas tree in the front yard containing over 10,000
lights. "Merry Christmas" in lights in 26 different languages.
Animated Mickey Mouse shaking hands with Santa 13ft wide by 9ft
high. Animated Thomas the Tank Engine complete with puffing
smoke and waving Santa, 7ft high. Sylvester (disguised as Santa)
trying to catch an animated flapping Tweety. Pooh Bear, Tigger
Eeyore and piglet opening Christmas presents. A 13ft high
champagne glass complete with slice of lemon, straw and animated
bubbles. Merry Christmas sign 70ft long. "Peace on Earth" sign
20ft long. - "Happy Birthday Jesus" sign 30ft long. A huge star
on top of the house towering 50ft above the roadway. We collect
donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. This year we raised
$30,000.
peterandcarmen@hotmail.com |
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I'm from Glen Waverley, Victoria - Australia and am still
learning to take the 'right photo'.
America has many more possibilities for outdoor lighting and
displays. It frustrates me that they are not available in
Australia.
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Our 2002 lights
include decorating our 50 ft tree as a Christmas tree with
lighted balls and a star on top. Christmas gifts are at the
bottom of the tree. I made the American flag last year. It is
made of 4 X6 peg board and is hung sort of like a picture of the
face of the house. Our second tree has green branches with stars
at the top. An animated “falling star” cascades down the tree to
falling stars on the ground. Its hard to see in the picture but
there is a Santa and deer flying on wires just under the flag.
The icicle lights are chasing.
Next year I want to use your engineering
techniques to animate the Christmas tree and make the balls
chase. I will need some custom extension cords to run up into
the tree.
Cindy, Tommy, Reid & Kent Poynter Sugar
Land, TX
cpoynter@houston.rr.com tpoynter@houston.rr.com
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Happy Holidays to all on the Planet
Christmas web site!
3dx@bellsouth.net
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I am from Australia.
My name is Lucio. I do decorate my house for Christmas. We buy
USA lights of 110v, our power is 220v,but by splitting the power
we are able to connect the 110v.The all house has 45.000 lights
the all front to the back of the garage is fully lit. The items
on the roof ,Santa on the sleight Santa on the rope and Santa on
the moon are made by me ,and they are in motions .Also in the
drive passage are fairy wheels ,renders ,Santa on parachute
,stars on the gate are all in motions .Front of the house we
have a Nativity set ,Santa on the swing and a full size Santa
singing Christmas Carols .If you like to have a short video a
will send it to you. I will keep in touch. Happy New Year form
Australia Lucio Our address is Lucio Matropietro 11Lebanon crs.
mulgrave 3170 Victoria Australia
lucio mastro [lmastrop@bigpond.net.au]
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Aloha from Hawaii, We are very proud of
our lights. We live in military housing (Navy) and our
houses are connected, so we got together with our neighbors.
We have over 15,000 lights. This was our first year and we
loved every bit of it. Happy Holidays, Doug, Marlana,
and Kelvi Freeman, Greg, Andrea, and Jenna Pederson, and
Lonny Behar.
freemanw001@hawaii.rr.com
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We started the tradition 3 years ago. I wish we knew how
many lights we on the house, but we just kept buying a set
of 150 here and a set there and before we knew it our house
became the talk of the town. Some items that can be seen are
the inflatable polar bear, snowman as well as two candy
canes, Christmas tree and another snow man built out of
wood. It includes a 12 foot snowman display on the side of
the house (not pictured) as well as a shed in the backyard
and many more trees decorated.
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Taken in Milo, Maine
Sincerely,
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Christmas at the Elmore's in Marysville,
Washington
MICHAEL ELMORE [drizzle_downpour@msn.com]
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Our newest addition for this year is our
"Leg Lamp" in our front room window. This has been a big hit.
Kate & Dave Tobin
Ktdavemindspring@aol.com
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My name is Tiffany I live in Brigham City,
Utah. People say we are the Grizwalds of Brigham. My mom
mainly does everything. My dad does a lot of them too, and if
my sisters and I are lucky she will let us help her. It's kind
of a pain to put them all up, but after it is done you know that
is was all worth it. Tiffany Burt
tiffylonglegs@hotmail.com |
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Michael Felder From Hubertus, Wisconsin.
mkctdmf@nconnect.net
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The Decatur Alabama home of Charles and Janice Vinson, 2313
Cleveland Ave.
Charles Vinson [cvinson2313@charter.net]
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http://www.mcgeescastle.com/
album3.htm
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here is a picture of my Santa Claus car.
Bryan Taylor
santaclauscar@yahoo.com
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From Cocoa Florida
ConnyD@aol.com |
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I have been designing and building my own decorations for
about 10 years. The picture only shows some of my stuff
because my small front yard will not hold it all. My
neighbors let me use some of their yard also. This link
will take you to a
listing of all my decorations. I am currently displaying
an estimated 10,000 lights. This years new project is the
Praying Hands, in memory of those who lost their life on
9-11-01. I am currently working on an animated snowflake
project that uses eight snowflakes. I am located in Aiken,
SC. E-mail
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30,000 lights, 14 wooden cutouts, and a
tribute to the Sacramento Kings. It took 12 days to assemble.
With lots of help from my 4 roommates. The weather has been
pretty bad this year. I've had to re-decorate twice. I've been
decorating for 7 years and add an average of 500 to 1000 lights
a year. My display is different every year. Only because I can
never remember how I put it together the year before. I've won
the Citrus Heights Neighborhood Watch Lighting contest 3 years
in a row. My house has been featured in the local newspaper 3
years now; and was featured on the news last year for our red,
white and blue theme. I'm installing a new roof this year; and
will install outdoor plugs to the outside of my house. Now
that's a die hard Christmas designer. For more go to
www.robingage.com |
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Our house is located on Teri Court in
Jackson, New Jersey. Our display features an 8ft star, air blown
Santa and reindeer. Santa Claus on a Helicopter. Tweedy, Ms.
Claus, a precious moments blowmold nativity scene, light up
deer, sled and Santa Claus on the lawn. Thousands of mini lights
highlight our house. Each year we add a little more. Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year. Brian and Theresa Bisignano
Brianbiz2@aol.com |
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I have lost count of the numbers of lights. I know we have
3,600 plus icicle lights on the roof. Plus MANY hundreds
of feet of mini lights, any time I see a Dark spot I get
some more. The local paper came by the other night and the
reporter said it looks like a Winter Wonderland. How sweet
is that?! Todd and Kelly
toddandkelly@orangeburgcomputers.com
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Our display is located in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and features over 15,000 lights this year. This
year's features include a Peanuts-themed Nativity scene,
where Linus shares the Gospel message via projected slides,
a large animated Merry Christmas sign, a 150' candy cane
fence, and lots of other touches. You can visit our website
at
http://www.fischersplace.com/
christmas to view the
display. Thanks! Tim & Cathy Fischer,
webmaster@fischersplace.com |
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This is the 2002 Bisignano Family Christmas
Display on Teri Court in Jackson, New Jersey. We have around
30,000 mini's, C9's, C7's, and ropelight. This years display
features an 8ft air blown Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Grinch,
and Frosty the Snowman (10 ft). We have over 25 moving dolls in
the windows and over 100 lawn decorations, including a miniature
carousel, horse and carriage, skaters, 20 foot train, Mickey,
Minnie, Winnie, Tiger, Taz, Tweety, Frosty, Santa, Ms. Claus,
elves, choir children, Angels, deer, soldiers, cannon, and too
many more to list. The entire display is over 275 feet long. It
runs on 9 20 amp circuit breakers. Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year.
sbisigna@lehman.com |
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from Les Chelmsford, Essex, England.
LESDOWNES@compuserve.com
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stats: 40,000
miniatures (or so ... I gave up counting 2 years ago, I now go
by amps 5 30A breakers plus 2 15A breakers. Rented a 60ft cherry
picker to get up into the tall trees. Next year I'm going to add
some EL and computer control. I saw some GREAT light trees in
Shenzhen China, but haven't been able to find anything like them
here. question: Know where I can get cheap LED lights or blue
minis that don't fade?
John Karpiel
Have a happy holiday. 751 Jamestown Ct
Hudson, Ohio,
qpm01@yahoo.com
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My house is located in San Rafael, CA near
the Marin County Civic Center. It's lit up every year from
Thanksgiving to New Years Day, dark till 11:00 pm.
Connie Giambra
giambra@iwon.com
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This is my first year working with over 50,000 lights. Last
year I put up about 33,000 lights and this year I almost
doubled that. It was a little bit harder this year,
because I now have to use a 6500 generator, and have to run
about 8 extension cords out from inside the house. This
year I completely covered my lawn, and added 4 moving
reindeer. All in all I have 6 reindeer, 4 that move, Santa
and his sleigh. The full manger set. A hole bunch of
twisty white trees, and a moving angle. That is all the
stuff on my lawn. On the windows I have a joy sign, a peace
sign, a Santa with HO HO HO written below it, and on the big
window I have a huge wreath. At the front door there is 2
candles on either side, and on the pathway to that door,
there is a hole bunch of candy canes leading the way. If
you have any questions about my home you can e-mail me at,
Have a very Merry Christmas. -Casey Hendrickson
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My neighbor and I live in a small town in a rural farming
community hard hit by lack of rain for the past four
years.. A vacant lot across the street from our houses is
dusty and drab so we decided to brighten it up. All summer
we searched garage sales and auctions for fake trees and
this is what we did with them. Everyone seems to be
enjoying the scenery as we get lots of traffic after dark.
Regards, Barbara Rathbun and Carolyn Hauser
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Over 15,000 light here. With my inflatable snowman on the
roof. We are in Hudson, Fl
Jerry Todd
gtodd@cusave.com
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This year we have 65,000 lights, most of
them minis. Fifteen artificial trees in the front are
controlled by a disk-jockey type sound activated controller.
They flash on and off in 16 patterns according to the music.
We encourage viewers to walk through the back and then take a
drive past the back from a block away.
Cheryl and Alfred
von Hollen
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
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I have 65,000 lights outside, featuring 8
ft. inflatable, snowman, Santa, Nutcracker, reindeer, and
Christmas tree. We have 120 animated figures in our window
display which is easily accessible by walking under the arch of
lights up the center of the yard. Our home is located on a
corner lot just about a mile outside the front gates of Fort
Hood, TX. It is clearly visible from the highway. We get about
200-300 cars by nightly. This year we added outdoor speakers so
Christmas carols are played from 5:30 to 10 PM nightly. We also
have a 5 foot talking Santa waiting to greet all the little ones
standing on the patio. Merry Christmas to all. Marilyn and Dan
Caron Daniel Caron
dcaron@hot.rr.com
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Merry Christmas, this is a
picture of Cindy and Larry's house in Manteno, IL. All
decorations are run off 7 - 20 amp circuits, all switched from
inside the house. The carousal and castle were made by Larry.
We used many animated decorations and all decorations are
arranged by themes.
HD47HOG@aol.com |
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Our house is located in Santa Clarita,
California. We are running over 5,000 lights this year with
plans to add more next year. Display consists of mini's,
icicles, rope, C-9's, etc. Next year will have more decorations,
lights and animation. Display is on from Thanksgiving to New
Years from Dusk to 10pm nightly.
The Lewis Family
Jonathan Lewis [jplewis@socal.rr.com]
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A 30' tree with 6,300 lights is the
centerpiece of our 2002 display. Over 13,000 lights in total
grace our front yard and home. Looking forward to computer
control, a taller tree, and 20k+ lights next year! Happy
holidays!
Jeff and Bridgette Trykoski -
friscochristmas@yahoo.com
Frisco, TX
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Greetings again from
Edinburgh, Scotland. This is our fourth year of decorating the
outside of the house and we have added more rope light
decorations. This gives more animation and helps to pick out the
shape of the house. Tom, who helps me, thinks we must be crazy
to do this in the winter but we keep coming back to do more each
year. Merry Christmas!
Gordon Duncan
G.S.R.Duncan@hw.ac.uk
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I live in Richmond B.C. Canada. I have 12,450 lights up
this year. 1st year this big, but i am already planning
2003. Hope you enjoy my pix's...
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Our house is in the west end of Newcastle Upon Tyne in a
area called Lemington. This is are 4th year and we are up
to a 5,700 lights in total its a mostly static display but
next year we are going to be computer controlled are display
is on from Saturday 30th Nov 02 to 1st Jan 03 from 4pm to
8pm.
les murray [leslie.murray@btinternet.com]
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Our house is located in Apache Junction,
Arizona, This year there are 5,000 lights. The Happy Holidays
sign was made from a piece of 4' by 8' plywood, it has 490
lights. The lights on the front of the house are all moving. The
green tree is 30 feet tall and contains 1200 lights. The lights
in the garden and on the wreath are actual twinkling lights, not
flashing or chasing.
Aaron and Kristen
akj_724@yahoo.com |
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We live in Palm Bay FL and have right
around 10,000 lights. Hope to have more by Christmas. This is
our second year and all I can say is its addictive Andy &
Maureen Houssell
andy1fl@cfl.rr.com |
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TwasTheNightBefore.Com - is a display by
the Parcell Family of Geneva, IL. Our display has over 26,000
lights, dozens of your favorite characters from the North Pole
and computerized light display.
www.twasthenightbefore.com
Greg Parcell [santa@twasthenightbefore.com]
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Hi gang. This is a picture of our display.
16,000 lights, mixture of mini nets, icicle, c-7, c-9 and
floods. There is some animation now with re-programmed chasers,
wavers and the like. 2,500 visitors last year. We are close to
22,000 this year still with simple circuitry and timers. About
90 amps worth. We are fundraising for the Dog Guides of Canada
program which trains certain breeds to be working dogs in the
hearing and sight impaired programs. I hope the others on the
site that do fundraising could contact me about how they did it
and the technical aspect of how the donation was left I would
really appreciate it. Roy Bartell, Toronto, Canada
idealwoodscapes@hotmail.com
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This is our 5th year of
lighting up our home. We live in Hampshire, England.
We have changed the display quite a bit from last year and added
new lights. All our neighbours came to our display on the
first night which went really well, it was a great atmosphere
with about 100 people outside. We wanted to go
computerised this year but ran out of time due to a new baby in
the family, hopefully we will be able to do it for next year.
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. From Keith, Jenny,
Ryan and Luke.
Keith@Christmas-Lighting.co.uk
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This is my biggest display, so far. We moved into a new
home this year and was able to have over 14,000 lights on
display. I think next year I am going to try to add
animation. Merry Christmas from the Portell family and
Jacksonville, Florida.
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My Display this year consists of
approximately 20,000 light, which I am controlling with Dasher
X10. Some of the new items this year include the 8 foot star,
which I made from tomato cages, chicken wire and 5,000 lights.
I have a light organ attached to the large tree, so that it
dances with the music I have playing. My display is in
Kissimmee, Florida. Ron Lister
rlister@kua.net |
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Mike Shimko, 2695 Keene Lane, Deltona Fla.
32725 10,440 Lights
sbs0011@cfl.rr.com
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greetings from germany!
We love christmas lights and hope to install this year about
20.000 computer controlled lights. There is an inflantable
Snowman on our roof and a train is running under the roof.
You´ll see a lot of our experience at
www.weihnachtshaus.com
Hope to hear from you!!!!!
Markus.Weidlich@t-online.de
Best regards
Markus and Andrea Weidlich
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Hello. My lights don't compare to the fine
work on your site but I'm proud of them anyway. Melanie Wilson
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Christmas Lights display includes 20,000+ lights
Return to the time of Woodstock's great wealth when you stay at
Chateau "Carbide" Willson. Listed on the National and
Provincial Registers of Historic Homes, and appreciate the
preservation of the past of this small town. Van. Ave as
it now is commonly called, always has been considered as "the
Avenue", and to live on the Avenue was the final step up the
social ladder of the elite of Woodstock at the turn of the
Century. A glance down the list of residents turns up a fair
collection of doctors, lawyers, merchants, gentlemen, and town
and county officials. The social standing of these people is
quite visible in some of the homes that still are standing. The
owners of these homes engaged any amount of domestic help,
including gardeners, parlor maids, kitchen help. Often a retired
army officer would keep his man on as a private servant. Yes, it
was something to live on the Avenue. Along with this we have a
name that is still well remembered due to the fact that their
home is still a showplace of Woodstock. It was built by Thomas
L. Willson, in 1895 as a gift to his mother. It was
designed by H. Hudson Holly, a New York Architect and cost $
90,000 to built, a phenomenal price just prior to the turn
of the century. It is deemed today to still be the finest house
in Woodstock. A mini-mansion in today's estimation. The elegant
exterior of ruby volcanic-stone is in the Richardsonian
Romanesque style with high turrets, balconies, soaring chimneys
and a grand curving porch. This house has approximately 6,800
square feet, 21 rooms, eight fireplaces. The foyer interior
adorned in golden oak paneling opens to a sweeping staircase.
Each room has its own unique character, with fireplaces made of
many varieties of rich wood and ceramics; curved tower windows;
crafted patterned plaster; rich rosewood detail on fireplace and
pillars in the salon; built in bookcase in the octagonal
library;
cherubs dancing on the ceiling. Antique furnishings,
and art are throughout the library parlor and dining room and
the quaint yet comfortable guest rooms. The present owners
have spent over two years, restoring the natural beauty of this
architectural masterpiece, and updating the functional features,
to become one of Ontario's premier Bed & Breakfast Country Inns.
http://www.chateaucarbidewillson.com
carbide@sympatico.ca
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House is located in Southern
Indiana near Louisville KY. As of 2002, there were
approximately 18,000 lights. Our main attraction is an animated
Santa in sleigh and 2 reindeer which we built and run off a
special electrical box programmed to make the reindeer look like
their legs are moving and the Santa's hat comes on and off as if
flying through the air. We will have this year between 50 and
60 strands of lights on the roof itself. The bushes are double
and some triple wrapped with lights. The yard is outlined with
chaser lights. Then there are numerous yard light displays.
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Our home is in the
heart of the Salt Lake Valley. This years display includes over
25,000 lights, animation, strobes, and live music.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~mslack/
Slacks/christmas_lights.htm
Marty Slack
horncatcher@byu.net
Photo Pages:
http://www.users.qwest.net/~mslack/
Slacks/index.htm
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Hi - We have about 12 000 bubbles - we are worst in our
community in Sollentuna Sweden, it´s not so common here!
regards: Kicki Brunzell
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We’re relatively new to Christmas light
displays as it is only our second year. We are from Seaford in
the South East of England. So far it is 2,000 lamps. All the
shapes are hand built in Plywood, the snowman measuring 8’x4’.
If anyone can help us, we are thinking about
building a tree of light for next year, but are a little unsure
on how to go about it.
Michael and Craig Woolgar
xmaslights@craigwoolgar.plus.com
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Here's a picture of my mother's Christmas village that every
year is getting bigger!!! I wanted to share because is
something that exciting me a lot!!!! We're are from
Tijuana, Mexico!!!
Karla Moriel
marsheloz@hotmail.com
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Here is my house in Woodingdean Brighton,,
England. Mine only runs on indoor extensions but hope to
computerize next year. I have a few more lights to add but have
run out of sockets.
Michael
family8@ntlworld.com
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This is a picture on man home in Sweden! The picture is
from the Christmas 2002, its about 2100 mini lamps.
Thanks
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This my next door neighbors trailer in
Apache Junction Arizona. Her display had 1,600 lights all
together, She enjoyed the icicle lights the most and the simple
yet elegant fence turned out wonderful, The fence was done up
with green garland and red bows which made it look just as good
in the daytime. Between the two displays in a rather dark
trailer park we had people standing outside our places in
amazement because of how beautiful they looked, the kids loved
them too. that's why I do this, it makes people happy at
Christmastime, because the holidays are not easy for everyone,
and if I can serve to cheer them up, Then I'll always be putting
lights up. We just recently moved into a house, So it will be
neat to see what this year brings.... I'm already getting
idea's!! Aaron Jabkowski
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This is my parents house in Claymont,
Delaware. This was the last year I was going to decorate this
house, as I was planning on getting married and moving out. I
called it "The Big Bang" I pulled out all the stops and put up
every light I had. I changed my mind from last years display,
instead of having the lights come out from the top of the tree I
thought It would be different to wrap it, It worked out pretty
good, I wasn't pleased with the outcome, it looks unfinished to
me. But there are 13,000 lights all together all colored also.
Aaron Jabkowski
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This is my 2002 decoration. I have been
doing this for 10 years. I live in Oxford N.C.
The Campbell Family
Yvonne and David
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2002 Porrazzoland Lowellville, Ohio |
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Seasons Greetings from New South Wales
Australia. We have been decorating our home now for 10 years.
The display currently consists of some 30 000 globes along with
assorted static displays and cutouts.
craig hughes
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