Christmas Decorations

Jen where did you buy the battery lights? Are they about a yard long or smaller?

I actually found the lights at Acme grocery store and as soon as I saw them thought "let me just get them here so I don't have to look around for them", Home Depot also has some but at the time had only multi color and red ones
They are strands are 6' long
The lighted branches I got at Bed Bath and Beyond and are 39" tall

Acme?? Run into the coyote??!

sometimes christmas tree shop has those branches .. look by the candles

I've seen them at AC Moore, Big Lot's, CTS and Michaels.

Made a dozen of those ice balloons today in various sizes. The colors are orange, yellow, red, green, purple and 2 shades of blue.
I then made large ice luminaries as Karen had suggested to me. I took 3 large plastic containers, 2 preen and one kitty litter. Filled them with colored water, and at the top I added a string to hold a plastic large cup in place. I have a blue, green and purple done so far.
http://www.theheartofnewengland.com/LifeinNewEngland-Ice-Luminaries.html

Depending on how these come out I may try to get alittle fancier. :) http://www.freshhomeideas.com/diy-projects/lighting-projects/how-to-make-ice-luminaries

cool, wish it was cold enough here to do something like that

Pretty but glad it's not cold enough here! :-)

Can hardly wait for pics!!

I can't wait to see them .. and very very happy it's not cold enough for it here.. have to share my silly photo.. coming home from work and the firehouse Santa looks like he wants to take a swan dive... I felt like yelling out the window .. don't do it... don't do it

He's getting ready to jump off that fiscal cliff!

sigh

DH brought the outside decorations down from the attic last night. He hopes to put them up this weekend.

Nifty idea.

http://interiordesigningblog.com/tips-tricks/christmas-dining-table-decoration-cheap-and-easy/

Very nice....love the luminaries as well......I'm thankful if I get my tree up....have a wreath on the house right now, but the tree is in the garden, just sitting there....

I like it!!!!

I like that too Victor!

Of course I would hate drinking my wine from a candle holder!

dollar store stuff is always great for that kind of stuff.. not that I would buy a drinking glass from there for any other reason.. god knows what the contents of that material is

You don't trust the Chinese??!!

Saw Dickens's hand-written original draft of A Christmas Carol the other day at the Morgan Library. Pretty cool.

heck no!!!

Here it is.

neat!!!

it's official ... we are over 35,000 lights

That's cool Victor, I love the pic!

Wow Allison, don't know how you guys do it!!

me either.. LOL

have to hope we get enough dry time to get that tree up tomorrow.. then I will put the lights on

Way to go, Allison!!

I am doing my little rascals .. prize fight.. hands together over the head thing!!!

oh Victor these are now my favorite drippers.. the 360 is really nice.. can't wait to get them outside

http://www.creativedisplays.com/product/922/DRIPPING-ICICLE-TUBES-20-LENGTH/

Saw some real nice ones in the city.

those most likely are the expensive ones.. LOL.. I will send you a video of these if you want

oh yeah.. NJites.. when you go to the food store.. see if they have NJ family mag in the free rack... they have us listed

http://www.njfamily.com/NJ-Family/December-2012/Garden-State-Glow/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2#artanc

cool!!

Very cool!!

Wonderful!

made me giggle she goofed the name

I have to share the SWEETEST Christmas photo....I just love it.
This is Miss Elle, she is the daughter of good friends of my DD Tarsha.

Congrats, Allison! Pixie, what a beautiful photo!

did you count those twice allison? :) wow!

very cute photo celeste

believe it or not.. that is actually a short count.. we are missing some things on there.. well we still didn't get finished today.. hopefully tomorrow.. my back is killing me.. and exhausted