It's been 13 years since she first began decorating her Meehan Close house with lights after her son asked to put some lights up.

"From one set of lights to all this. It's a lot of lights," the 57-year-old said.

"We have more than 90 boxes of solar-powered lights...they help us save on the electricity bill."

Mrs Taylor said it takes about three weeks to complete her display and the design is tweaked from year to year.

Rows and rows of lights are strung all around the front yard and various festive characters are dotted around the garden. 

Mrs Taylor tries to do as much as possible while her grandchildren Blake, 3 and Izaac, 1, take their daily nap. But when they wake, they're her two little helpers.

"It's for the kids, that's why I keep doing it and doing it and doing it. People think I'm crazy when I get up on the roof, I get up there and put the lights up myself," she said.

"I'm going to keep on going, I want my grandsons to carry it on but I don't know."

Mrs Taylor's twinkling abode is well-known around town and she gets car-loads of families stopping to admire her display.

She puts out a bucket for donations and this year's proceeds will go the Queanbeyan Children with Special Needs Group.

"I get to meet a lot of people, they like to get out and walk around the gardens. I don't push them to make a donation, that's their choice. If they put money in, good and if they don't, that's fine," she said.

Mrs Taylor is dedicated to the cause. Although, she and husband, Gavin will spend Christmas Day at Gundagai, they'll ensure they are home in time to switch on the lights at 8.30pm.

"If I didn't do the lights one year, I think people would come past and knock on my door and say 'why aren't you doing it?," she said.

"But while I can still get up on the roof ... I'll keep on doing it."

Visit Anita and Gavin Taylor's Christmas Lights display at 3 Meehan Close, Karabar. They are switched on from 8.30pm daily.