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How to fix a blow mold?

Does your Christmas blow mold need some tender-loving care? John Yanik created an excellent video to guide you through the process. Check it out!

How do they make Christmas lights?

So, how does the factory make a string of Christmas Lights? It really helps to have a specialized machine and a lot of automation. This YouTube video is a bit…

Holiday Lights at Cheekwood Trains 2022

What happens when you mix a giant model trains layout with Christmas lights dancing to the music? You end up with Holiday Lights down at the TRAINS! display at Cheekwood…

2022 Top 10 Christmas tunes list

At PlanetChristmas we get to see a lot of Christmas displays. We also talk to music producers, programmers and radio DJs about what they think will be hot come Christmas…

Be a good Santa

I had the pleasure of attending the “Celebrate Santa” convention back in March of this year. There were about 400 portly gentlemen attending to trade secrets on how to be…

The Forums are back!

It was 1997 when the Internet was relatively new and the PlanetChristmas.com domain had just been granted. Back then you filled out a paper form, mailed it in and waited…

TSO keeps going and going and going

Trans-Siberian Orchestra reveals 2022 holiday tour dates and answers your burning questions by Melissa Ruggieri of USA TODAY Rare is the juggernaut as potent as Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The musical locomotive…

PlanetChristmas video from 2002

Back in the good-old-days the PlanetChristmas display at the Smith household was quite popular. The local Fox 17 news outlet from Nashville, Tennessee came out to film the display. That…

PlanetChristmas featured on Yahoo

Did you know Yahoo used to have a video production group that created content for a channel called “Second Chance”? Somehow they found a reluctant Chuck Smith of PlanetChristmas to…

Before PlanetChristmas

It was 1960. I was six years old. John F. Kennedy was in the White House and the country was experiencing Camelot, we just didn’t know it at the time.…

The rumor mill ends another year

What’s the big decorating trend this year? I really hope it’s not those dress manikins shaped like Christmas trees. Creepy. Pretty sure these mani-trees will end up in the attic…

That house on Christmas Street tour continues

Many of you PlanetChristmas folks know the story of how my little song, “The House on Christmas Street,” was discovered by a decorator online in 2006 and quickly caught on.…

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How to fix a blow mold?

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How do they make Christmas lights?

So, how does the factory make a string of Christmas Lights? It really helps to have a specialized machine and…
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Holiday Lights at Cheekwood Trains 2022

What happens when you mix a giant model trains layout with Christmas lights dancing to the music? You end up…
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Indoor Decorating

2022 Top 10 Christmas tunes list

At PlanetChristmas we get to see a lot of Christmas displays. We also talk to music producers, programmers and radio…
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Be a good Santa

I had the pleasure of attending the “Celebrate Santa” convention back in March of this year. There were about 400…
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Another Top 10 Christmas tunes list

At PlanetChristmas we get to see a lot of Christmas displays. We also talk to music producers, programmers and radio DJs about what they think will be hot come Chrtistmas…

Marking your territory

There’s a morgue under the house according to my wife. It’s where I store most of the Christmas decorations because it’s cool, relatively dry and full of critters that love…

How about some plastic?

Known by various names including Light-ups, Lawn Art, kitsch, illuminated figures, or simply blow molds (two words, not one), they are a type of Christmas decoration that become an obsession…

In true newbie fashion… maybe

I have been decorating with lights for Christmas since age ten when I used a string of blue C-9 bulbs, a staple gun, Mom’s aluminum foil and a couple of…

The Forums are back!

It was 1997 when the Internet was relatively new and the PlanetChristmas.com domain had just been granted. Back then you filled out a paper form, mailed it in and waited…

2022 Top 10 Christmas tunes list

At PlanetChristmas we get to see a lot of Christmas displays. We also talk to music producers, programmers and radio DJs about what they think will be hot come Christmas…

Santaland

Santaland opened for the first time 25 years ago in Madison, MN, a small rural town in west central Minnesota. Inclement weather moved the original Santaland from the frigid cold…

LEDs vs, incandescents

This was supposed to be easy. Determine once and for all if it’s time for all of us to switch to LED (Light Emitting Diode) Christmas lights. Almost everyone has…

How to fix a blow mold?

Does your Christmas blow mold need some tender-loving care? John Yanik created an excellent video to guide you through the process. Check it out!

The Rumor Mill

We get satellite TV in the workshop up here at the North Pole. Ernie (the super-geeky elf: think thick glasses, pocket protector and odd social skills) figured out how to…

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