Friday, December 21, 2012
You can't see this light show from space...yet. Andrew Proctor is working on it.
The annual Park Avenue light show is back. Nearly 100,000 lights adorn the Proctor house. And the front lawn...and the side yards. And if you're a regular viewer of Andrew Proctor's light show in Cinnaminson, you'll notice some new additions this year. Proctor imported LED light strips that outline the house. There's also new star on top of the roof. And if you give Proctor a few days, you might hear some new songs on the radio that the lights dance to. "I'm in the process of synchronizing a new song," he said. "It’s just very time-consuming." And the matrix—the wall of lights that was a new addition last year—is down at the moment due to some technical difficulties. But it doesn't matter. Just pull up, tune in and watch the show. Every…
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Crab cake magnate Bobby Chez's can't-miss-it holiday decorations stem from a lifelong love of Christmas.
It happens every night: Motorists ease off the gas, pump the brakes and stare, taking in the spectacle. The less discreet stop altogether, pulling to the side of the road to step out of their cars and snap a picture before moving on. If you’ve driven down Bridgeboro Road during the month of December in the last six or seven years, you’ve noticed the house—home of crab cake king Bobby Chez and his wife Linda, who have lived on the four-acre property since having it built in 2005. That’s OK; rubberneckers are welcome. The home acts as a bright Christmas beacon, the eye inexorably drawn to its almost otherworldly glow, the byproduct of more than a million festive lights. And that’s just the outside. The sleigh loaded with gifts in the …
Friday, December 7, 2012
Capturing Christmas lights on your camera can be a challenge. Get some tips. Photograph your lights. You could win $100,000.
We put up holiday lights to see how pretty they look when it gets dark. You want to capture those lights on your camera, but getting them to look right in your pictures can be more of a challenge than you bargained for. Professional photographers have lot of experience and cameras with all sorts of settings that most of us wouldn’t know what to do with. Here are three tips for the amateur photographers out there. Use these tips to take a picture of your holiday lights. Post the picture to Cinnaminson Patch’s Deck the House contest page and you could win $100,000 for the school district. Want to get more technical than that? Here are some other resources for taking holiday photographs. For more information about the Deck the House contest…
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual "Deck the House" Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 by clicking here. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand-prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our contest is live, so now’s the time to get …
Andy
9:44 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
As for the toys, they are going to a general distribution location in Brick NJ to be distributed to the children in NJ that were affected by Sandy in the shore regions. So we will accept any new unwrapped toys! more ›