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When it comes to outdoor Christmas decor, Jackie Balser is not a White-Light Type. White-Light Types' front lawns evoke a Martha Stewarty, understated elegance. She's more a Colored-Light Type, but not, she likes to think, in a tacky, overdone way -- more in a festive, kid-friendly Winter Wonderland kind of way.
She likes to watch kids' faces light up when they see the blinking lollipops and twinkling candy canes, red candy arch, plastic elf, Santa, a glowing rocking horse her 8-year-old son Alex has dubbed "Sea Biscuit" and the Christmas tree surrounded by little lighted gingerbread men. "It's sort of a Candyland theme this year," she says proudly.
The Washington Post | Brigid Schulte | December 22, 2005 03:39 PM