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