We love the wide variety of trees available each season. Finding the right lights can be tricky when a tree isn’t green or white. We love the black and silver tree in this Get This Look. Multicolor string lights on black wire are a good fit and traditional ornaments round out the design. (The rock…
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Get This Look: Incandescent Mini Lights for Your Christmas Tree
A customer from Omaha was kind enough to share this lovely photo of her Christmas tree. Winding 14 strings of 50 white lights on green wire and another 5 sets of 100 white lights beautifully light this classic tree. The light strings used for this set are made with 4 inches between the light bulbs….
What does the Christmas tree symbolize?
We see folks asking this question quite a bit on Google and we thought we’d chime in with our response as well. The use of trees to celebrate festivals can be traced back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In recent history, Germans brought the tradition of candlelit trees from the old country to the…
Christmas Family Traditions
Making memories with your kids is one of the highlights of every holiday season. From drinking hot cocoa and playing Christmas music while hanging ornaments on a real tree when it’s 100 degrees outside to choosing to all pink lights inside and out for December, there are simple, easy, and sometimes inexpensive activities to count…
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…
Texturize Your Christmas Tree with Light!
I LOVE your tree! Wow! Your tree just really sparkles! Why doesn’t my tree look as bright as yours? Well, I have a secret. I’ve decided that it’s time to share it. I layer lights on my trees. I texturize them. If they are pre-lit, I add more. I just can’t leave well enough…
How to light a Christmas Tree: Light the Core!
Before installing lights at the outer edges of your Christmas tree, start instead by running 100-150 mini lights up the center of your tree. It takes less than 10 minutes and adds real depth and texture to your tree. You don’t have to wind the lights strings around the trunk, just let them hang gently through…
Eugene Mid-Century Modern Store and Red Christmas Lights
Photo of our tree from a couple of years ago…basically same idea every year, just a different theme with ornaments. Thanks again!! Denise S. MODERN Eugene, OR Denise used our red Christmas lights on red wire to refresh the lighting on her all red tree that she displays each year in her cool mid-century…
See how our friends in France decorate
Marc, one of our international customers located in France shares with us how he uses Christmas Light Source to decorates for the Christmas season. His family enjoys holiday lights on their 8-foot Christmas tree, throughout their home and outside. They even decorate their car. “I used candles Christmas lights all over the tree (warm white),…
Best 2016 Christmas Tree Lighting Tips
2016 Top Tip Before installing lights at the outer edges of your Christmas tree, start instead by running 100-150 mini lights up the center of your tree. It takes less than 10 minutes and adds real depth and texture to your tree. You don’t have to wind the lights strings around the trunk, just let…
How Many Lights Should I put on my tree?
This is the time of year when you may be looking out your front window or thinking about the perfect Christmas tree and are asking yourself…… How Many Lights Should I Put on My Tree? Every season, this is our #1 question. We find it’s a tricky one to answer. One man or woman’s basic…
Lights Across the Country: Ohio and Valentines Day
I just received this wonderful photo and lovely email from Curt in Ohio. Shellie Gardner, Hello this is Curt and I wanted to show you what wife is doing with the colored lights I bought. This picture is her Valentine trees. She is carrying on a family tradition that her Grandmother has done every year….
Rent a Christmas tree?
Back in the Spring, I took an adventurous solo cruise to the Caribbean with the intention of writing like a crazy woman and having a spa moment or two. Well, I did get a lot of work done the first night in Miami (never fly on the day of the cruise!) and the first…
210 House Fires a Year Start with Christmas Trees : 5 Ways to Stay Safer During the Holidays
Every year families are tragically affected by the very Christmas decorations that are supposed to bring joy. Here is a startling video from the National Fire Protection Agency: According to the The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) (https://www.nfpa.org/): Between 2009-2013, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 210 home fires that started with Christmas…
Family Traditions – Christmas Tree Decorating
Are you someone who simply pulls out the decorations and hurriedly put them up so they can check the task off on their to-do list? Do you think of putting up the tree as just a Saturday afternoon project in November or December? Think of putting up your tree as a family tradition. Include the…
Christmas Pickle Ornament Story
Pickles are green, somewhat sour, crispy, crunchy, and make your cheeks pucker. They’re a great addition to any burger or hot dog. If you love pickles, perhaps you already have a Christmas pickle ornament on your tree. However, if you are one of those who has yet to hear of the tradition of the…