Magical Holiday Lights

You can almost have some type of holiday lights up year round. Well I did say ALMOST... Pretty soon I'll have to add an addition on my home just to store all of it! But that's OK!

My two favorite holidays are Halloween and Christmas. I use a lot of string lights in my Halloween and Christmas displays.

I do however try not to ignore the other holidays such as Thanksgiving, New Years and Valentines Day.

When it comes to Halloween and decorating another one of my passions is pumpkins. I TRY to grow them so all I have to do is mosey over to the garden, pick them and start carving and decorating. It's a lot of fun! I just wish I had some of those ghosts and goblins come trick or treating so they could enjoy them too! I live pretty far out in the country so we usually don't get ANY, bummer...

One of the nice things about holiday lighting is that you can decorate inside and out. I think it's great that they make so many different types of outdoor string lighting in the festive holiday colors. The blacks, purples and oranges for Halloween make it so easy and cost effective for almost anyone to add holiday spirit to their home.

A favorite Halloween piece of mine is this stained glass pumpkin.

Well, that's a little about Halloween, now moving on to Christmas!

Christmas time is so joyous and I really believe it brings out the best in people. Now I know that everyone does not celebrate Christmas and that's fine, but for me personally it's that special time of year that I want to be around my family and friends and celebrate the season.

Which takes me into christmas lighting. I usually start to decorate for Christmas right after Thanksgiving. I haul out all of my christmas lighting and sort through it while hoping I've packed it away in an organized manner. It's great if you can wrap your holiday lights around a spool of some type when you store them,that way they won't be all tangled up when it comes time to use them again.

It takes me a few days between decorating the inside and out to get it all up.

One of the decorations I use are my lighted window decorations. You can have them accent the inside of your home or mount them in the window facing out.

Snowflake decorations are also a big part of my decor.

My tree doesn't go up right away though, usually the second week in December. We put up a real tree every year and I don't want it to start losing its needles before the season is over.

Every couple of years I switch to a different color or style of christmas tree lighting. Then I'll use the lights from the previous year in a different spot in the house or outside. I love to decorate outside and I have a good variety of decorations, but not like I've seen from some people. (not that I wouldn't like to...) I think it's great when you see yards that are just so beautifully done and have thousands of lights.

If you would like to share your lighting ideas please contact me directly. I would love to share them on this site.

Every year I try to add at least one item to my outside decor. The outside lighting pieces usually cost a bit more (the bigger animated ones) so if you add a few at a time it doesn't hurt the pocket book as hard.

I remember as a child our family would all pile in the station wagon and go ride around all the local neighborhoods looking at the holiday lights. Now those are special memories!

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