Christmas Clearance!!!

[Mummy deer-est]

So I read on the HF that some stores were already putting up clearance signs, and I couldn't believe it. On a trip out tonight to Target to get a gift and a string of outdoor lights, I found it was true!!!

Hardly any of thier trees were left, all lighting props were on sale, and the amount of lights they had were ridiculous. I got the last strand of outdoor white mini lights.

I am not sure that they will have anything left after Christmas! Are all Christmas clearances going on right now?!? Christmas isn't even here yet!

[Blinky]

wow Thanks for the heads up I need some lights for next year

[Frosty]

You know whats bad? Before Christmas i went to lowes and all there decorations were gone when did the sale start i have no idea!! :mad: Because i had plans to buy a load of lights at half price today but i guess not :mad:

[Blinky]

sorry to hear that forty , now that Samantha wants the yard decorated for next year I thought now is a good time a get the lights..
she wants 2- 5' tress and a 10 ' tree and I was thinking of making something like Hoghunters penguins on ice too.

[Sickie Ickie]

I love his penguins. I saw something similar when our toddler visited Santa. Their ice was about 2-3 feet wide with full sized figures. Great minds think alike. :)

[Blinky]

well I got me a Big Jolly fat Snowman in the mark down bin today.

[Blinky]

Hog Hunter I Love your Pengie's
so Please dont get mad at me when I ask this:
what if after the Holiday's you take them apart and paint the bottom of the plex-i-glass with light blue and white kind of sponge it in dabs. so it looks like ice but snow patches and you would be able to hide the cross bars by painting them? and still have your lights under it to shine through ,I was thinking of doing this to the one I make. and the top would still be smooth and shiney like ice. Just a Idea!

[Blinky]

I went to the craft store Sickie the one with the big 4' high bowling pins to see if they still had them, of couse they were still closed but I got their addy so I am going to call a see with I can get some .. I wonder if I can .. if People here would be interested in a Group Buy ?
I will have to Ask the head elf if we can do one..

[thehoghunter]

Blinky - that is a pretty good idea on the penguins on ice (don't know why you would think I would get mad). Painting the bottom would help hide the crossbars - but the crossbars are still solid and you would see them as they crossed over the lights underneath. I was thinking of using thicker plexiglass cut into strips as the crossbars - then the paint idea would really be good to help hide the slight difference in a single piece of plexi versus when the single piece and plexi-crossbar pass the lights.

I still think setting up a character in the middle that is connected to the motor so it spins is the best way to hide everything. Then just connect another 1 or two characters (in a row) to each hand so you have 3 or 5 going around. Then no crossbars and the ice doesn't move. Either way - this whole thing is spinning off into so many other projects - this motor setup could be one of those playground spin around rides, a carosel, the main rotor of a helicopter. Gotta go buy some more deer if anyone still has them.

Next year's project - Reindeer Flight School.

[Blinky]

I Like the croos bar plex-i-glass idea
Good luck finding Deer i went out at 7am this morni9ng they were all gone I have been looking on line for them..
But I did snag a snowman,lol