{"id":589287,"date":"2025-11-23T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:03:19","slug":"edinburgh-local-transforms-home-into-christmas-wonderland-with-20-foot-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589287\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh local transforms home into &#8216;Christmas wonderland&#8217; with 20-foot Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Christmas-loving Edinburgh local has wowed her neighbourhood by erecting a vibrant holiday display in her front garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Portobello resident transformed the home into a colourful wonderland inspired by the spirit of the season, complete with a massive inflatable Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Located on Windsor Place, she invited the community to stop by to see the display which she said will benefit charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The yard is chock full of coloured lights, inflatable decorations, and candy cane strings. A stand-out feature of this year&#8217;s offerings is a 20-foot-tall Santa wearing his iconic red suit and holding a present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other decorations include an inflatable snow man, two Santas riding sleighs, reindeer, a mini Christmas tree, and festive green-and-red lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The local took to social media with a warm message, inviting residents to come view the display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said: &#8220;Hi everyone! Well, it&#8217;s this time of year. I love to put all my Christmas decorations out in the garden and this year is a special one, so I have a 20 ft Santa. He&#8217;s for charity so please if you want your kids taken a photo with him, could you spare some change? Just tap my door and I will let you in to get a photo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Locals shared their awe for the magnificent display, saying: &#8220;Absolutely awesome&#8221; and &#8220;Looks amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another posted: &#8220;My mum stayed above you and loves all your deccys . Lovely your doing it for charity this year well done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One shared: &#8220;My in law&#8217;s used to live in Windsor Place. Love this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> <b>and get the latest news sent<\/b> <b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Christmas-loving Edinburgh local has wowed her neighbourhood by erecting a vibrant holiday display in her front garden.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,32161,1102,51974,4884,185765,712,16,15,185766],"class_list":{"0":"post-589287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christmas-decorations","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-front-garden","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-inflatable-decorations","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-windsor-place"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115600569475641628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}