Felix Family Outdoor Christmas Musical Yard Display

by: Joey Felix of Dallas, GA

Merry Christmas, these are some photos of our 2009 light display we call Felix Family Lights!

Our home has become a Christmas landmark in our area. People from all around the metro Atlanta area come to see our house at Christmas. With so many visitors we also decided to collect donations for the American Cancer Society.

Our home has somewhere between 60-70,000 lights and the best part is most of the lights are computerized with music. We use a program called Light O Rama and currently have 136 individual channels.

This year we added several things to our display including the Grinch, Max, and Karen and we also added Felix the Cat made from Christmas Lights. He MC's the show.

As for The Grinch and Felix, they are made from something called corrugated plastic. I am sure you all have seen it, think election campaign signs. Here is a tip, collect those things after elections, find some pictures you like and project them on to the coro, draw them out. Then take a scratch awl (looks like a screwdriver but with a point) and poke holes through the coro. Grab some lights and slide them into the holes and you just made a character out of lights. We have made Felix the Cat, Elton John, and are working on a train.

Our display is quite large and it is hard to fit the entire display in the picture so please visit us on the web to see more pictures and video.