http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog Real Christmas Decorators Start While it's HOT! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, today I recieved my Tracer Jr. and went promptly to work tracing my characters for the display on my new coroplast. They look great! Now it's on to installing the lights. I finished Suzy Snowflake today. I spent the better part of today working on ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/08/28/first-coro-project-done/ Well, One of my plans for the front yard are large animated displays using Coroplast. One of the more difficult things to do when planning this is just buying the Coro. I called around to local sign shops and none we willing to sell any. Then I ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/08/23/a-hurtle-cleared/ I just got back from vacation. Most of my efforts were directed toward that for the last month or so. Now, I am in full fabrication mode. I finished the Tree topper by adding the star today. I'll be looking around the local sign shops for ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/08/22/back-to-work/ Checked out my showtime computer today. Everything was in working order. I then rearranged the wiring to work better in the cabinet and hooked the computer up to the internet to verify that I had all the necessary upgrades to the system. (not many since MS is ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/27/tested-and-proven/ Went out today and bought all that I will need to build a new topper for the Mini-Mega Tree. I built it out of PVC this time because the wooden one was trashed after only one year. I added a new page with pics on the main website. ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/26/building-a-better-topper/ I've not been doing much for the Christmas lights lately. I've been working a great deal, getting ready for our vacation. But not actively working does not mean that I haven't been thinking about things. Last week I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamt that I ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/23/from-16-channels-to-80/ Progress goes slowly when in the synchronizing phase. I'm about 40% done with Mr. Heatmiser. The lip-synching is giving me a headache. My fear is that while it looks good on the LOR Visualizer (hardly much more than a lite-brite) it may not look so good ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/15/plugging-right-along/ Just returned from the CCLC picnic last month. We had some great talks on decorating and I learned a lot that will save me money this year. During my first animated year, I had just 16 channels. That required me to spend over $200 in extension cords ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/02/summarizing-what-has-occurred-this-past-month/ Well, for me the Christmas decorating season has officially started. Actually, I've been playing with a few ideas since the first of the year. However I recently made my first purchase of the decorating season when I purchased my 4 LOR boxes with will increase the number of channels on ... http://cereschristmastreelane.com/blog/2008/07/01/hello-world/