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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Wade Johnson
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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
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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
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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.
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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
casey685@msn.com
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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
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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
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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
mel.kev@rogers.com |
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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.
Lmsmom699@aol.com |
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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 azparadise@juno.com |
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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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