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always look forward to seeing ‘The Yum Yum Tree’ and ‘Let’s which theme touched their heart
old friends and being part of Sparkle.’” – or they relate a story from their
what many think of as a family past that the tree brings to mind.
tradition,” and Wayne adds, “we A sampling of the items one can I consider what we do a work of
believe in shopping local, which expect to find includes: forests the heart – because it brings joy
for us, includes all of West Texas of permanent trees, garlands not only to us, but also to many
and the high plains. We want and home décor; custom-cut others. The most challenging
everyone to have a great time.” light strings for the outdoor part is creating themes that
lighting enthusiast; home incorporate all of our ornaments
The entire scope of Christmas accents, collectibles, giftware and have balanced quantity. We
offerings can be traced to – and everything in-between. try to have a wide range of price
the dozens of themes found The full scope of the family-run points so that anyone can find
throughout the store during peak operation is hard to imagine, for ornaments to re-create that look.”
seasonal months. Ranging from most. The combined energy and
simple and nostalgic to offbeat, enthusiasm of scores of visitors And aside from the core
whimsical or elegant – the diverse and hundreds of dedicated challenges of producing such
number of offerings requires employees throughout the years a spectacle year after year, the
equal parts of product knowledge have contributed to this most one constant is the combined
and freewheeling creativity. unique Lubbock business. dedication of each member of
the team to one core mission:
“In our early days, we had color “There are many factors that bringing the magic of Christmas
themes with names ranging from go into creating an exciting from the farthest corners of the
‘Peaches ‘n’ Cream’ to ‘Caramel and intriguing Christmas store world to the current location at
Candyland’ and ‘Gonna Find each year. Researching new 50th and Memphis in Lubbock.
Me a Bluebird’ – rather than trends, color forecasts, reviewing
just traditional red, silver, green comments – especially themes “Holland Gardens is a HAPPY
and gold colors. We keep a which children are drawn to” – PLACE … we call it the ‘Original
log of more than 600 names to stand out as the key points for Christmas Place.’ There’s always
consider, and we add a banner to Gayle Holland. She adds, “I enjoy something new and different
each themed tree,” Ann Holland seeing and hearing the children, around every corner, and we
notes. “Some of these for 2020 and I like to see what brings out enjoy seeing our frequent guests
are ‘Candy Kiss-mas’, ‘First the look of wonder and awe on and meeting new ones,” Wayne
Responders’, ‘Mission POSSIBLE’, adult faces. Many comment on says.

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