Linda Johnson

Christmas Decorating-Adorning a Living Christmas Tree With More Than Just Lights



Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

by Linda Johnson
Showcase to Ideas

By taking your common indoor/outdoor light strand and combining it with some light colored plastic ornaments, you can make your house the envy of the neighborhood during the holidays with a unique and festive light garland that most folks wouldn't have even considered putting together. 
 
You'll want to start out by prepping your ornaments first.  If you do not have any that can be spared for this project, you should be able to find starter craft making ornaments at any of your better craft stores or online.  You want to drill a hole large enough on opposite sides of each other on every ornament to be able to feed your strand of lights through, but not so large that the lights easily fall out.  You can make a pilot hole to get started with a smaller drill bit.
Then, just feed your strand of lights through each ornament, evenly spacing however many you made to give a nice coverage to the tree.  I decided to not go overboard, since these were larger size ornaments, and my Leyland Cypress they would be hanging on might not take too kindly to so much weight.  I spread 16 ornaments over the 5 foot tree.  That is it.  Hang and enjoy your festive light garland, and store it away as is for the off season ready to hang again next year.  You may want to try using a multi-display type of light strand to vary the light show.

Supplies:

  • Single plug indoor/outdoor clear Christmas lights (Make sure your single strand will be sufficient for your size tree)
  • Solid color plastic ornaments (must be white or very light colored so light can shine through)
  • Drill gun (Don't get scared-it's only a power tool)
  • Drill bit (9/32 size)

Linda Johnson is an experienced crafter and interior/exterior decorating specialist, sharing her passion by helping friends, family, and clients solve their decorating and craft needs, and is currently the publisher of http://www.showcasetoideas.com, where everyone is invited to show off their own wonderful creations, and find a wealth of craft ideas and decorating projects.  Linda's education and practical decorating experience laid the framework for putting together an evergrowing library of how-to articles, video tutorials, and supply resources, while enabling viewers to share her passion by showing off their projects as well at http://www.showcasetoideas.com.  

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