Now that Christmas is stored away, we are turning our attention to red, pink, and white for February. This is the first of our 5-minute series of projects as we focus on providing inspiration to repurpose lights for fun all year. Materials Pink storage jar Battery lights Double-sided tape Equipment Scissors (Don’t mind a rough…
Category: Other Holidays
Our Top 6 Last-Minute Halloween DIY Projects
Halloween is around the corner! Here are our favorite quick and easy ideas for projects that use lights that are probably already in your Christmas stash:
Lit Halloween Cauldron Project – Witch’s Brew and Spiders!
Spiders, witches brew, and lights, oh my! We love Halloween! In the southern part of the US, we will do anything we can to pretend it’s really not summer any longer even though the mercury might still be in the high 80’s. Putting together this fun cauldron project to light our living room was a…
What exactly are chasing Christmas lights and how do they work?
We hear this question often enough that we thought we make it easier to find the answer here. Chasing Christmas lights are traditional incandescent lights that are built with (usually) 3 circuits that flash on and off sequentially. Each set has an independent controller that cycles through each of the three circuits (1-2-3). Set at…
Making St Patrick’s Day a little brighter!
Always one to find a project – especially when we are all working and studying at home – David turned the house green for St Patrick’s! We know that Christmas lights make everyone smile so repurposing them to celebrate our Irish-ness seemed like the thing to do! Consider pulling lights out of your Holiday closet…
St Patrick’s Day Decoration – a fun wreath to try!
Making plans to decorate for St Patrick’s Day? Not sure where to start? Let’s pretend you have an old Christmas wreath with broken lights, a new set of green mini lights and $5 worth of green things from the Dollar store. What would you do? You make a St Patrick’s Day wreath, naturally. I was…
DIY: Easter Chick Planter Dome with Lights!
Easter is around the corner! Now is the time to look at our decor stash, through fun Easter aisles and create projects that will feel like Spring whether it’s warm outside or not! Since it uses battery lights, it’s super easy to pop it onto a bathroom countertop, onto a shelf, or light a dorm…
Favorite Ways to Brighten New Year’s Eve
New Years Eve = Parties! Hands down, the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to add magic to any party is with lights. If you’ve been following this blog for very long at all, you’ll have it figured out that I have a low threshold for complications and prefer projects that can be done in less…
Decorating For Halloween With Christmas Lights
Using Christmas lights to decorate for Halloween is a great way to put to good use lights that may only see action a few weeks of the year. Pull out your bins and take an inventory of light strings and lights with bulbs that might work for October. Look for these colors: purple, orange, yellow,…
DIY: Milk Carton Ghosts
We love a fun project for Halloween! Milk Carton Ghost Luminaries are officially spooky. We’ve been saving the milk jugs for this project for a while, and we’re happy to get them put to work and out of the storage area. We have another tip…. rinse stored milk jugs. Thankfully, our video did not include…
Christmas Lights for Camping
Just a couple of weeks ago we went camping with our children and a few families and we decided it would be a great time to see what our Christmas lights would look like while roughing it – in our pop-up! We had access to electricity so we rolled out and hung up lights all…
Easter Centerpiece or Tablescape
Materials Easter Eggs Crafty Carrots Easter sign Micro LED battery lights Wooden tray (Optional: foam florists block and moss) Our tray came with the foam and moss already installed. Win! Not so lucky? A foam block and florist moss is all that’s needed to duplicate this look. The speckled Easter eggs. We found these at…
Lighting a Mini Christmas Tree for Easter!
We love tiny Christmas Trees around here! We decorated for Christmas in our previous post we featuring miniature Christmas Trees. Easter is a great time to turn the little white tree into beautiful Easter Decor. Materials Miniature Christmas Tree Micro LED battery lights – warm white Small Easter ornaments Micro LED Battery lights are the…
DIY: Birthday Party Lights and Glass Blocks!
Birthday parties are a wonderful way to mark milestones in a person’s life. Decorating can be overwhelming but this easy DIY project takes at least a little of the stress out of the celebration! Materials Craft lights Glass block Vinyl or adhesive letters Lantern Glass blocks come in all sizes and are readily available at…
DIY: Light and Easter Centerpiece!
A vintage candy dish or cake plate, a few easy to find Easter accessories and a couple of sets of battery lights combine to create a fun Easter centerpiece or tablescape accent this season. Materials A vintage candy dish, cake plate, or platter Paper Easter grass Battery lights Eggs, bunnies, stuffed animals Instructions Here is…
Mardi Gras Christmas Tree
At the Welcome Center along I-20 While crossing over the Mississippi River is the beautiful Vicksburg, Mississippi Welcome Center. Recently, while passing through, we spotted the fun Mardi Gras Christmas Tree and had to share them! We love how they’ve repurposed their Christmas trees and ornaments in gold and silver and transformed the tree for…
Light Up Winter with a Mardi Gras Party
Everyone knows that New Orleans is known for an over-the-top celebration of Mardi Gras, but you don’t have to live in New Orleans to have a fun party with friends. Rumor has it, the historical celebration of Mardi Gras is said to have begun years ago with the Romans, so continue this tradition and join…
The Perfect Margarita
Every February, we raise our glass to toast National Margarita Day and dream about warm Spring and Summer days ahead! Read more about this February 22nd “holiday” at the Official Margarita Day website. While we don’t know exactly who created the margarita we raise our glasses in tribute and say, “Muchas Gracias!”. Here’s my favorite…
DIY: Raffia Easter Eggs in a Vase!
Any of our readers know we love quick and easy projects to add light to our homes all year. We’re so excited that Spring is just around the corner that we grabbed a few items from our decor center – yes the part of our office that looks like a craft store descended and at…
DIY: Fun Glowing Valentines Vase
See how a few easy-to-find items marry together to make a super cute lit vase that is perfect for a guest bath, dorm room desk or entryway. Materials Glass vase Transparent stones, hearts or if your vase has a cover, jellybeans work as well Battery lights The Process Assemble the materials. We love these plastic,…
DIY: Valentines Lanterns, Containers and Sticky Hearts!
Kick the year off with an easy Valentines project! Join us for a quick and easy project celebrating Valentine’s Day with materials you should already have on hand with the exception of the Valentines themed clings. Easy projects like this one make keeping a variety of craft and Christmas mini lights on hand for quick…
Lights for Carnivals! LED T50’s in Action!
Shopping for lights for a carnival Merry-Go-Round or just looking for lights for a backyard party this Friday? Get the look! You can achieve this look with either smooth or faceted T50 LED lights in warm white. Find warm white with a faceted look here. Or shop for a bulb with a smooth finish here…
DIY: Halloween Glass Blocks and Canisters
We love quick and easy and when it comes to adding Halloween to countertops, nothing is easier than this project. Materials Glass Block or Glass Canister Window Clings LED Christmas Lights Instructions Shine up the container!! And unpack your window clings! Be gentle when removing the clings, they can tear themselves apart!…
DIY: Fun Trunk or Treat Project
We always love to hear what Dawn and Mike from up in Illinois are doing for the latest Holiday. This Halloween’s trunk or treat extravaganza didn’t disappoint. This year’s theme: Space Search the kid’s rooms. Open those science bins if you are a homeschooling family. Find every random Star Wars moon and chicken toy. (Chicken? Really,…