SeymourLights

Today I finished the dancing guy for this year's display. This fellow will come on during one of the more rock and roll portions of the show and dance to the music.

It's just a wood frame with chicken wire, and rope light attached to that.


He has six moves. The final two look a little weird, but I think when he's computer controlled and just doing each move for milliseconds, it should be just fine.

The Ace Hardware store in nearby North Vernon, Indiana had a bankruptcy auction this past Friday and it was a Christmas decorations bonanza. Being the only decorating fanatic there in June, I was pretty much unopposed on the bidding.

Most of the items still had the price tags attached. I spent right around $120 and when I added up just the items with the tags attached, I had $3470 in merchandise. Not sure what I will do with all of this stuff, but what a haul!



A couple shots of the complete haul.


Tons of garland to be used on the rebuilt z-tree this season!


This huge wreath was one thing I really had my eye on. It breaks down into four pieces and is over six feet across. It had $289 on the price tag... I paid $15 :)


Paid $4 for this tree

I didn't bother fluffing any of the trees and such out for the inventory pics, but you get the idea..


Got three of these palm trees for $5, they were labeled $112.99 each!

Three of these


Lots of lights, quite a few are LED!



Set on wrapping paper for the next 100 years


Handy light reels


lots of miscellaneous stockings and santa hats


39 of these bows labeled $1.99 each.. .gave two dollars!


Cinammon scented pine cones.. who knows, they were mixed in on a whole section of shelf that I bought


More Garland, some 25' lengths and some 9' in boxes...



Couple of 24" wreaths

This weekend I have finally gotten all of the dmx fixtures addressed and hooked up. Now, I will start programming some sequences.

Here are some pictures from the garage tonight showing the lights all on. No particular scene here, just all of the lights on with various gobos/colors/etc. selected. The RGB laser projector is the only fixture missing at this point, should be here this coming week.

I am working this week on finalizing the song list for this year's show. I am bringing back some favorites from last season and adding some new songs. Here's what it's looking like as of right now:

Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas is You
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Sleigh Ride
Bond - Explosive (Bellagio Fountain Display)
Christina Aguilera - Christmas Time
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Jam or Siberian Sleigh Ride (dmx lighting show)
Crispy T - DJ Santa (dmx lighting show)
Crazy Frog - Last Christmas
Vince Gauraldi - Linus and Lucy
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24
John Mellencamp - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Appalachian Snowfall (Laser Show)
Ozzy Osbourne & Jessica Simpson - Winter Wonderland