Glass blocks aren’t just for 80’s decor. Available at local hobby and craft shops, they are now made with one side open so drilling is no longer required. If you have a glass block in your crafting stash, add a set of craft lights and patriotic gel clings for a project that looks great on…
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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…
Do Christmas tree lights get hot?
Traditional incandescent Christmas lights do warm up under operation. Light from an incandescent bulb is actually created by heating that tiny little filament inside the bulb. Allowing airflow around the lights and not installing them on flammable materials are good safety measures and good common sense. Wondering if your light string is incandescent or LED?…
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 Wine Cork Craft!
Have a bowl of wine cork you’ve been saving for a project? Have you been saving those wine cork from the bottle of wine you drink on your anniversary? Are you looking for a fun way to accent your bar cart? This project is for you. Materials Micro LED battery lights Corks Vase…
Patriotic Glass Blocks
We had so much fun with our 4th of July lantern project and we had leftover window clings that we HAD to do a project with glass blocks too! Quick and easy, this project translates to any season. Materials Glass blocks – we use two sizes, readily available at your local craft store Lights –…
Snowman Grapevine Wreath: Light Your Winter Entryway
Do you want to build a snowman? We did. We live in Texas so we made ours out of grapevine wreaths. Materials 2 medium-sized grapevine wreaths – check your local hobby store or create them from your own grapevine 1-2 strings of white Christmas lights on white wire a black foam sheet Red adhesive-backed…
Lighting Up Tiny Trees!
First, there were tiny houses, now we’d like to introduce you to tiny trees. These cute little guys come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Both real and fake, they are perfect for small apartments and make lovely table accents. We love them because they are super-easy to decorate, look great around the…
What do vintage jewelry and mini lights have in common?
Our friend Melanie decorates using Christmas Light Source’s multi color mini lights, vintage jewelry, and a frame. Craft lights would have been a great choice for this project as well if just a few bulbs are needed. How are you using your lights to remember or decorate?
Craft Lights: Use them in bottle trees!
We had fun shooting this video. It’s all about making your bottle tree look as good after dark as it does during the day by adding a few strings of craft lights. We found the bottle tree at Old Home Supply which is a cool salvage store with a bunch of architectural antiques and new things to…
Filling bottles to the brim with lights!
Planning to fill a glass bottle and really want to STUFF it full of lights? These bottles are great examples of using 35 to 40 lights inside of a bottle. This number of lights was accomplished but using a single string of crafts lights that have 35 lights on a string or doubling up with…
Sandblasting Wine Bottles
I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting ways to marry craft lights and wine bottles to create wonderful decorative lit objects to brighten up the home. Today I wanted to feature sandblasting as a way to complement bottle and light selections in projects. The folks at H and W…
Craft Lights on Brown Wire!
We’re happy to announce that in response to customers who are working with the following types of projects we’ve created a craft light string that has white bulbs on brown wire. brown bottles amber bottles small grapevine wreaths and topiaries Here’s a quick video showing you what they look like: Each strings has the following…
What do craft lights look like?
One of our customers asked what our craft lights looked like – she wanted to see what a single plug really meant. This video answers that question! See how these lights will work great for lighting up wine bottles and glass blocks.
Tracy Makes Fantastic Nightlights
I was recently speaking with one of our customers – she had a question about when her lights would arrive – and I recognized her name. She’s been placing orders for craft lights. I enjoy seeing what people do with our light strings and asked for a photo. She was kind enough to send us…
Rainy Day Projects – Make an Illuminated Manger
I just received the photos for this wonderful project from Meg (friend and crafter-extraordinaire). It’s a fun activity for a rainy day afternoon with kids and turns common and found materials into a wonderful manger for your Christmas nativity figures. Considering that you would have to pay $60 or more for this type of project,…
Teal Lights Used for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Event
The Center for Women in Charleston, South Carolina is gearing up for an event to bring awareness to Ovarian Cancer. I know this because they just purchased teal Christmas lights for the event 🙂 The Center for Women is a great organization that is reaching out to 1000’s of women in the area. Here is…