Christmas light Stargate project

[samvara]

When the QFHC bought our house last year we were told by the previous owners they participated in the Christmas lights tradition. We bought in late December, had 3 couches and the fridges for New Years, and moved in January so lights weren't exactly on our radar back then.

I thought it would be nice to do something this year and since we're not big Christmas people I did something the entire household could get behind. A stargate.

It took me about 2 months of weekends - although a lot of this was thinking and workshopping - and on that note special thanks to maharetr, chaosmanor andcupidsbow, Andy, madradish and the many people who contributed wonderful encouragement and a steady stream of ideas.

Here is the entire process.

Comments

[transcendancing]

So freaking awesome in so many ways - I don't even have the words for how many kinds of amazing.

I am so in love with you :3

[samvara]

*huggle*

[sqbr]

That is fantastic.

But your diagram is confusing me (it is, admitedly, 4am...). Is there a photo of the finished product? I'd love to see!

[samvara]

Bottom left but I agree it's a very busy diagram!

[sqbr]

*Expands to largest size and finds image*

Ooooh.

[samvara]

Added a proper photo to the main post.

[sqbr]

OOooooooooooooooh. Wow that is pretty!

[enigel]

That is unrivalled brilliance! :D

Might I be as bold as to ask for a standalone photo of the completed thing, please? ;;-) (The diagram is impressive and amazing, but hard for me to parse!)

[samvara]

Thank you!

I have added a photo to the main post :)

[sarren]

I missed this post - Zebra told me about it. Fantastic! I hope you don't mind but it's currently my desktop piccie at work and my boss (who does Christmas lights too) is super jealous and trying to figure out how you did it :)

[samvara]

Yay! I'm very proud of it so it's nice to hear people appreciate it too :)

[sarren]

It continues to make me very happy when I minimise screens.