I go to great lengths every year to make the christmas light display go as smoothly as possible. I typically start with a sketch of the house and place the lights where I would like them keeping in mind the elements that I want to use in the show. After that I can tell where I need to put the controllers. Once I have all the controllers placed, I can then make sure that I have the electrical in place.
First Look at 2012
As one of my planning steps I like to visualize the display. I just open the image of my house in Photoshop and apply a gray scale, then add the elements with the pencil tool or duplicate images and resize them to be some-what proportioned. This also helps for the adjustable preview in vixen. I have a better idea of where to put all those pixels that represent the lights in the show. Here is the first view of what I am planning for the 2012 show. I just hope I remembered all the lights :-D.
We’ve Moved
2012 Has come with a flood of changes! To summarize… Jessica is now staying home with the boys full time, I got a job at Build.com and to top it all off, we moved to Chico, CA. All that said we will be having a 2012 show IN CHICO!
