2010 Copeland Christmas Garage Display

Here's a quick note a short video of the garage display. More to come!



We enjoyed a large crowd last night...probably 150 people. Since it was a Saturday, we extended the program to 11pm. We had a few sweet stories...

A Palm City resident who has turned into a regular brought friends this year again and made a significant Toys For Tots donation. She still has the little punch cup that we gave her last year! How cute!...and generous!

A crowd of young ladies came last night celebrating a birthday and a miracle. The mom was overtaken with emotion because at this time last year, her daughter was in the hospital waiting to get a pacemaker. Last night was the daughter's birthday and I must say she is looking fab!

Two new trees for Copeland Christmas

This year I was not going to struggle with Black Friday crowds, but then I saw the Lowes flyer showing prelit trees for $38 and a shopvac for $29. I figured the traffic and crowds would be horrible...turns out the whole experience was a pleasure!!!! Our Stuart Lowes had a full staff and there we no lines. I was there around 8am. Love it. Here's a photo of the two trees fully decorated on the back porch.


Here's the USA tree where we are collecting Toys for Tots


Here's the retro tree.

Cute store Christmas Display

Originally uploaded by ladybugfalcon

I really like this idea of using landscape bricks for the snowy scene. This could work really well on the porch where the display is a bit more rustic. I will remember this for next year!

Copeland Christams Gold Angel Tree

Copeland Christams 2010-24
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We always do gold angels in the kitchen. For this year's 2010 display, I was so excited to use ornaments from last year's after-Christmas sales. Here's how the tree looks on top of the refrigerator. Here's a link to my photos from last year after I purchsed the gold angel ornaments.

We finished Copeland Christmas 2010 "The Garage"

Over the past three days we really put a lot of work into the garage! I'm pleased to say last night it was finished!!!

Here is a neighbor making a little elf dangle off the workbench with some little presents in his hands.
Here's the same helper placing snow to perfectly hide every single wire.


Here we are late last night putting all the village people, cars, trees, and accessories into the village building scene. It was so much fun to do this with kids because they know exactly which house each person should be in front of. There is a reason why each of the little accessories was placed in its spot. It's precious.

Got a lot on the porch done!

We are hoping to be done by Sunday, so we spent all day working on the garage and porch. In the garage we did the North mountain and in the middle of the train. In the porch we did the USA tree, the tinsel hot air balloon corner and the silver trees. My Mom, Matthew, and Allie came over to help today and I just can't imagine that we could have done it without them! More photos to follow.
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Copeland Christmas in local Newspaper

Wow! Our display was featured in an editorial piece in today's Flashes!


Here's the jpg version

Copeland Christmas Custom Gator Outdoor Lighted Display

Our good friends rescued this old gator wireframe from a marina out near Lake Okeechobbee. They refurbished it and strung it with orange and blue GATOR lights! What a great gift!....thank you Dennis, Joely, Danielle, and Chris!!!



It's little things like this that make this whole Christmas display worth laboring over each year!

Added new items to the Candy Mountain Scene

I added a few items from our recent trip to the Christmas Palace to our Candy Mountain Scene. The fence and the peppermint path has been added. Now I just need to find a "charlie" to stick in the scene.

Jim and Cathys Christmas decorations 2010

Jim and Cathy decorated the kitchen last weekend. It looks so cute!
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