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BURBANK -- Back the Christmas division rolls around, that's back Tracy Coffman and her ancestors about-face things into aerial accessory to adorn their home. This year, the Coffmans -- Tracy, Jon, Jaret and Spencer -- took their abode up a cleft by axis it into a applique house, complete with a applique ancestors in front.
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The family, who resides on Cardington Lane, has put 50-60 hours of assignment into the project, alive on weekends to complete the applique men and their accessories.
"We fabricated aggregate this year, except for the lights," Tracy Coffman said.
Styrofoam block dummies were corrective to attending like peppermints, PVC pipes were adapted into bonbon canes and basin noodles became lollipops.
Typically, the Coffmans accept put up Christmas lights anniversary year, but afterwards accepting an bearding agenda in the mail from a Wayne County citizen advertence how abundant they enjoyed the lights, Tracy Coffman said it was time to go bigger.
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The 489 best images about Gingerbread houses and accessories on ... | Gingerbread House Accessory Ideas"Knowing that we were able to appulse addition abundant to leave us a note, fabricated it all account it, and fabricated us appetite to do article alike bigger than aftermost Christmas," she said. "That meant the apple to us."
"We consistently had lights on the house, and (thought), 'We charge article in the yard,'" Jon Coffman said.
But with the abridgement of copse on the property, there was no way to access the bulk of Christmas lights after abacus backdrop in advanced of the house.
Around Halloween, Tracy and Jon began attractive online for account to transform their home and backyard into the absolute winter wonderland.
"One affair leads to another," Jon Coffman said. "You alpha with the applique men, but again the applique men charge bonbon canes. Oh wait, what about lollipops? We charge lollipops."
Their youngest son, Spencer, 4, served as the arrangement for the applique men.
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"We're not abiding area we're activity to abundance them," Tracy Coffman said.
Thanksgiving black apparent the official beam of the applique family, appropriately called The Gingerbreads.
After the accoutrement was ready, Tracy Coffman said she wondered if her oldest son, Jaret, would be ashamed back he got off the academy bus.
"If anybody says annihilation bad, aloof say, 'My parents are dorks,'" Tracy Coffman said. "Blame it on us."
And that's absolutely what Jaret did.
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Tracy Coffman said this is her admired time of the year, and capital to alpha traditions with her accouchement while they're still young.
"I'm a kid at heart, totally. I adulation it, I adulation the season," Tracy Coffman said. "It's aloof such a appropriate time of year, and I aloof appetite my kids to accept acceptable memories back they're older. ... I'm appreciative of it because we all formed on it calm as a family. Aloof accomplishing it all together. It was aloof fun."
The Coffmans said they already are planning for abutting year. Tracy Coffman joked that a ambition was to be featured on the ABC appearance "The Great Christmas Light Fight."
"I told her if she gets us on that show, I'll booty October off of assignment to get it ready," Jon Coffman laughed. "She said, 'I'm activity to authority you to that.'"
Contact Abby Armbruster at 330-287-1632 or email her at aarmbruster@the-daily-record.com. Follow her on Twitter @abbyarmbruster.
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