Holiday Lights at the Lake!
I worked with my daughter last night to transfer the wood pattern onto a primed piece of 1/2 inch plywood. Tonight I cut them out carefully with a coping saw and jig saw. Sanding and paint come next. She is going to have a blast painting them!
Started buying lights last weekend! Woohoo. Started seeing them at Costco, Walmart and Target in the last week or so. Got 16 strands of 100 mini lights for $2.79 each. Also did some testing on the arches and determined that 1.25 inch PVC was too big and not flexible enough. Swapped out for 1 inch and much happier with the results. 28 days until setup activities begin!
Here is a quick photo of the star with holes drilled for the lights. You can see the general idea of what the light pattern will eventually look like. More photos to come as we progress!
Woohoo! A great weekend spent working on stuff for the 2011 display. We are building a Star that will go on the second floor roof. Many thanks to the Holdman family for the design assistance. We are following their step-by-step approach and design which can be found here: Holdman Christmas Lights . Two weeks ago we cut out the star and this weekend was spent drilling about 175 holes for the C9 lights. After that, we installed and cut the 7 strings to size for the three different channels I will be using. Once cut and tested, we removed the lights, and boxed up the string for re-installation toward the end of October. We then sanded, primed and painted the star. Next up will be the stand (also can be seen on the Holdman Christmas Lights webpage) and work on the Santa and Mrs. Claus cut outs.
Last week, the new clear C9 bulbs arrived. I ordered them from 1000 bulbs. Also arriving was the new plugs and SPT1 wire that I ordered from Christmas Light Show.com.
The one thing about all this decorating and ordering – it feels a little like Christmas morning with packages arriving all of the time! LOL
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