Knock knock, it's September! What are you making and are you ready for Christmas 2026?

[Skymaster]

Gave the hedge a light trim, this should allow more visibility into the yard.
One more bush to do on the south side of the front fence once the green bin is emptied again.

 

[greenyellow]

This year new
column matrix x2
Efl candy canes x5
Efl showstopper wreath
Efl show stopper snowflake
Efl singing girl.
New B8 controller

Redesign controller rack
Redesign push for music

 

[merryoncherry]

Gave the hedge a light trim.

You missed a leaf.

 

[ryanschristmaslights]

Final week of October check-in, how is everyone's progress?

I have completed a control box build, painted some coro, pushed pixels into said coro, and started putting up some of the lights outside (starting with the more discreet elements). I meant to grab some photos of the painted coro props but forgot before it got dark. I'll try to post a picture or two one evening next week.

My new props consist of a reindeer, three 2D presents, and a couple of star poles. With 350 bullet pixels boy is the reindeer heavy!

 

[Juddge]

checkin for last week of october - pushed pixels into inkcreations props, bit hard as the material is more solid, so very sore hands, even with pliers, - had to wrap the handles of the pliers in strapping tape to help as the handles are soo tiny
down to my last 1000 pixels to push into other props
got all my controllers out of storage and have updated all to new 10.3 - they perform so much better now
and the new features showed me one prop was causing an entire controller to act slow and drop frames, - so split that prop to 2 ports per prop and now the controller indicates it can now keep up with the sequence speed and all other controllers ( such a cool feature letting you know a contoller is not able to keep up )
now to finish building my 180 degree poles, using 8 inch seed pixel toppers and 3m tall poles

so looking good for start next week to start installs ready for December 1st

also 3d printing some mounts for props standard coro prop to 25mm hole for poles

but need to find one mount that is 4 holes around a single pixel - for a star

other than that looks like im actually on course for once (touch wood)

How about everyone else ?

 

[Juddge]

My new props consist of a reindeer, three 2D presents, and a couple of star poles. With 350 bullet pixels boy is the reindeer heavy!

Would love to see the reindeer

 

[Lamb_bros]

First Year have some props that have been populated and more need populating and many hours of x lights learning to do and no motivation to do it and another controller box to build

 

[ryanschristmaslights]

Here's the reindeer and two of the three presents (not final location). I decided to leave the antlers white to make them stand out against a dark brown fence at night. For this same reason I also opted for a lighter brown/orange for the fur.

Hopefully the paint holds up in the weather but I did finish it with Rust-Oleum 2x Ultra Clear. Undecided if I'll leave the bolt heads black or stick of a bit of paint on them too.

 

[Juddge]

Here's the reindeer and two of the three presents (not final location). I decided to leave the antlers white to make them stand out against a dark brown fence at night. For this same reason I also opted for a lighter brown/orange for the fur.

Hopefully the paint holds up in the weather but I did finish it with Rust-Oleum 2x Ultra Clear. Undecided if I'll leave the bolt heads black or stick of a bit of paint on them too.

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that actually looks cute

im glad im not the only on thats finding coloured props are nicer for during the day, did you paint that one yourself ?
(better that plain white or black - but i cheat now and get impression props )