I think the all white lights look classier and more elegant, but the multicolored lights seem more cheerful and happy. It really comes down to the vibe you're going for I think. They both have pros and cons. I personally prefer the white lights, but I wouldn't be mad at multicolored lights in my house.
These are also my thoughts! I prefer colored in my house, but we also have some fairy lights that were white? now they're yellow. They're strong enough still, as not to need to turn on any lights if you wake up in the middle of the night. ;p
As I am 73, we had the big multi colored tree and house lights. Now that we have the leds, the single colors are more popular. Personally, single colors are beautiful but the multi colors always make me smile.
I grew up with colored Christmas lights and when everyone else was asleep. I would sit in front of the tree and enjoy looking at all the beautiful ornaments and lights and it always made me happy.💗❄
I’m an all white kind of girl. I’m a junker so I now use unusual items on my tree. One year I had all clock faces as ornaments. This year I have a mix of vintage keys, spindles from old chairs and baby beds, old metal cash register price numbers, clock faces, and chandelier crystals. It is a small tree that sits in a vintage rusty metal milk can. Glad you have a little cheer in your room. ❤❤❤
Love it! One year I did all very old cookie cutters, and gave them to people that came to the house at Christmas. Pick one and keep it. Yes I have white lights too! I am 77 and still do themes. My tree is a 71/2 foot tree though!
My mom was partial to blue lights and our outdoor lights were always blue but our tree had multicoloured lights. When I had my own place and our kids were small, we used multicoloured lights on the tree, but after the kids moved out to homes of their own I wanted to have theme Christmas trees, you know, like in the decor magazines, so white lights worked better for that. Love the idea of taking a bit of Christmas with you on the road!
Haha, after we moved out my mom started having multiple trees, one in the living room, one in the dining room and one in the family room so she'd do them all themed, one would have multicolour lights and all the chaos of traditional ornaments that we kids had made, and one would always be like a show tree with matching ornaments and complimentary lights...
Definitely white lights, but the warm white lights. Also, everything you create looks so amazing! I love that you bring your creativity to every part of your life.
I grew up with the C9 bulbs (so you can tell I’m a little older) and we had all white for many years. Now we have red and white ones. I love that you’re taking your garland with you!
I also grew up with C9 bulbs. They got very hot. I personally like the all white non-blinking lights. Love the braiding of the garland and lights. I'll use that this year.
When I was a child we had real candles on the Christmas tree (they were burned maybe once or twice during the holidays). For my tree I have an old string of lights where you can change individual bulbs. It used to be all warm white lights but now I only have red spare bulbs so every time I need to change one of the bulbs, there is one more surprise red spot on the tree (currently less than 10 though). I like the whimsy and red is my favourite colour so I quite like the setup.
Ooh, my in-laws are European and in the 20-some years I've been there for Xmas they've had real candles on a live tree twice, has to be just the right shape of tree and someone's always on active tree duty while they're lit, and you do not leave the room without extinguishing everything. Love your slowly-evolvoing light string :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I had live trees in pots just outside the door, then I found lights that move, change colour and then had fun working out what version was the most annoying. 😅 Because it's a live tree, the birds did all the decorating for me. 👍
I'm definitely all white lights person with additional touches of colourful baubles and gnomes and such. I'm so jealous of that warm weather you have over there, it's cold, rainy and miserable here in Ireland.
Oh, I hate the warm weather... palm trees do not good Christmas trees make. I'd much happier in the cold and snow, although after three years in Denmark, I'm equally used to cold, rainy & grey! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I'm definitely camp 'warm white lights' now too, as they don't distract from the other colours on the tree, but I also grew up with those old spikey multi-coloured ones in my childhood which we sometimes use just for nostalgia's sake. Loving these vlog videos, getting to share in your adventures while I am crafting away on some Christmas crafts to sell at a market in 2 days time!!
I use white lights on the woodland themed Christmas tree in our front window. On the family travel tree, I use colored lights. I collect a Christmas ornament from each of my travel locations. I wish I had started that tradition when I was younger. They are the only ornaments my kids will fight over.
Your garland and fireplace turned out perfect! Such a great idea to bring some portable holiday cheer to each hotel room! So cozy! Warm white lights ….NO blinking!!!! While my kids were growing up we had two trees. One with all the fun and sentimental ornaments in The family room with colored lights. In my living room, the tree was decorated with mostly white lights with one string of gold lights wound up the inside of the tree. The ornaments were silver, gold, white and glass, hundreds of them. It took me about a week to decorate that tree. I’ve down sized massively and only have a small tree now. I do miss decorating those big trees! Merry Christmas!
Shannon casually doing nearly a full splits on the bed just to unroll garland! 😂 That garland turned out so lovely. White lights 💯! The right colors (no Easter colors!) are pretty, but there's just something so ... quaint and vintage feeling ... about the warm whites. Especially on a small piece like that, you don't want to add any busy-ness to it, and it really lets the gold & red shine!
As you were starting I was thinking “plaiting!” (British for braiding!) I love the finished decoration, and I love the idea of bringing it tour - taking a little bit of home on the road with you.
I prefer white lights and lots of greenery. My daughter and I also collect ornaments for our trees when we travel, as they're small for packing and we have lots of happy memories when we get them out each year.
I prefer (warm) whites for the tree, because coloured lights will affect the look of whatever ornament is next to it. But multicolour is great for outdoor house lights :)
@@ShannonMakes the early LED light strings were a harsh, almost bluish white and were very unpleasant to look at, I also prefer the warmer tones that mimic the look of an incandescent bulb.
As a former professional Christmas decorator, I got into the habit of clear warm white lights and not LED. I need sparkle and replacing burnt lights was easier at multiple clients. But more recently, now the I’m retired, I started craving colour, and redid our tree in multi colour . I like both depending on the decor style. I too love to keep Christmas cheer in the home.
Very fun! I feel like LED lights have improved VASTLY since the time the first came out on the market - now I have some very reliable, very nice and warm white ones, but MAN... I remember the first ones out on the market were trash!
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but we celebrate Lunar New Year. We normally get a blooming cherry blossom or a small kumquat plant with little orange kumquats, and then decorate them with multiple colour lights and little red ornaments for good luck. I like the yellow/white lights personally but multicolor lights are very cute too!
I'm crocheting appliques for wall hangings for my niece and nephew's Christmas presents. My niece is getting a scene with dogs playing outside an approximation of their house, and my nephew is getting an underwater scene with a scuba diver and plenty of marine life. I'm enjoying this project so much! Enjoy your garland.
I'm a Christmas threw up on my tree kinda person. All the colours, crystal and Hummel alongside kiddy crafts and crochet rainbow garlands. I did cut out fabric for dice bags as gifts this morning but decided to hem the work pants before I did the fun stuff. Thanks for making it more tolerable.
Growing up we had the multi colored, on a live tree, with no water. They got hot as a firecracker and it was amazing we didn’t burn down the house. Then my sister and I moved into apartments in a bigger town and we got little white lights and I loved them! But now I’m 20 years back in my home town, living in my great-grandparent’s house and I’m back to the multicolored lights. They just look more festive to me. But they are nice cool LEDs now!
Wow, I'm very glad that nothing ever burned!! Sound like you just love festive lights and aren't too picky about the color... just about not burning the house down! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I love the braiding the garland idea! I've always twisted 2 strands, or 2 halves of 1 strand. I love how much fuller the braid looks! As for my lights opinion...on the tree, I prefer coloured lights. It pairs best with the chaos of my family's handmade ornaments and nostalgia. I like white lights (and strands of a single colour, like blue) for other decorations...like a mantel swag.
I am a product of the multi-color C9 lights of the 50s/60s, but now prefer all white lights for a "grown up" tree. I love what you did with your garland - braiding the lights in was a great idea. Can't wait for the next vlog!
I used to have the same problem packing up lights till someone showed me how to make a giant Bobin out of cardboard, to wrap them around. I've had no issues, since! I use that trick for my tinsel and other trimmings, too. 😊 Also, my light preference changes depending on what theme i decide to go with, each year. Traditional, rainbow, pastel, monochrome, etc. I love coming up with new ways to trim the tree!
Real candles is the only I ever put on a Christmas tree. I'm German, although I live in Finland now, and my family is quite traditional when it comes to Christmas, so real tree with real candles it is. I love it! The smell of the tree and of the candles just adds to the Christmas feeling for me. Today we celebrate Independence Day in Finland and St. Nicolas Day in Germany, so it's a special day for me either way. Lit up the blue and white candles (Finnish colours), ate my chocolate Nicolaus (not Santa) and cosied up with some knitting for this video. Will watch the obligatory Finnish war movie (The unknown soldier) and have glögi (mulled wine) later :) You made a lovely garland and Phil's reaction was so cute! Excited for more crafting on tour to come :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes definitely keep the tree well watered so it doesn't dry out and have a bucket near by. We also don't leave the tree unattended when the candles are burning.
Early life was multi, next phase was white, and this year we have lights that can be anything we want. It has been interesting to come in to view the tree and it is always different. The fun is figuring out which house member was with the tree last.
My mum managed to get her hands on some multicoloured christmas lights that actually had a speaker attached to them and it would play very poor quality christmas songs. I absolutely loved them. I was heartbroken when they finally broke after being a christmas staple in our family for over 10 years. I've been trying to find similar lights ever since with no luck. It's funny how an item such as a very specific string of christmas lights can become such a core childhood memory
I have this terriffically cheaply made Snoopy with anlters on a sled that always hung in my grandmother's Xmas tree, now it lives in my husband's bedroom at the lake house and goes on the family Xmas tree when we arrive cause we're usually too late to help with the tree decorating.
I don't put up Christmas decorations any more, but I grew up with actual candles on the tree, and that's what I would gravitate towards again. So, it's team candle for me.
I grew up with colored lights. They were the large bulbs and I think we also had little ones that flashed on and off. As an adult, I prefer small white lights. In fact, my favorite holiday look is a green tree with all white or clear ornaments and trim. My ornaments are carousel horses, large snowflakes, and white silk poinsettia flowers. I celebrate the Winter Solstice as a personal holiday and Christmas as a secular, family holiday.
Hello from team Secular Christmas 👋🎄♥️🎄♥️ We also have a carousel horse on our tree, that we tend to put on a spinner so it turns around (and it has little mirrors that catch the lights and make a disco ball effect!!)
We always do white and multicolored lights cause we have a couple of ornaments that you can attach to the lights. I've been knitting socks for my mom while watching. Can't wait to see how your knitting's going.
It's so cute to have your own little center of Christmas right in your hotel room! I like colored lights, myself. I think it's more fun and I love to have a whole jumble of ornaments.
Colored! For me Christmas is for children and I feel like as a child the colors were so exciting. White lights are great for adults and classy trees or outdoors. I think white is okay outside because it’s reminiscent of snow, but for my life we had colored lights on the tree and outside. We also decorated around the windows with colored lights. The white lights were reserved for my mom’s little Christmas village she would display on a folding table. We had many very old ornaments and lights. We’re probably lucky that nothing went wrong with them because we had original bubble lights from my fathers childhood and a couple other things that were really old, Santa has changed a lot over the years.
Both! When you asked the lights questions I genuinely said "Both." very loudly and emphatically in the kitchen. Though I very particularly prefer the warm white lights, they end up looking warmer I think.
When I was little, our family tree had colourful lights passed down from my dad's side of the family. When they gave up for good, we got warm white ones, but my mom still had a small string of coloured lights she used to put up in the porch! I don't decorate a whole lot where I am now (I had pet birds, things wouldn't go well!) but I do have some warm white lights that I put up in the kitchen window and on the balcony rail.
I've been working on a crocheted scarf since December 1st! I normally have one done by now, but I had several flares of arthritis and couldn't get to it till much later. It's a new stitch, too, and I've been having lots of fun with it! I'm also going to try my hands at dyeing some yarn to add colored accents to the scarf (just as soon as my dyes get delivered). Thank you for sharing your videos; they give me lots of joy!
Wow, sounds like it's going to be quite the creative endeavor, and I'm glad you're enjoying the new stitch... learning can be so fun and satisfying! Hope your dyes arrive soon!
My hubby likes colored lights, and I like those, too. But, I also like the white lights. Luckily the tree we have now flashes from color to white. Makes us both happy! Love your little bit of Christmas.
Growing up we had the huge multi-coloured lights on the outside of our house, and the slightly smaller, but still fairly large, multi-coloured lights on the tree inside. As an adult, I’ve always preferred all white lights, but the husband likes multi lights, so we’ve reached a compromise, and put both on the tree. That way we can switch on whichever colour we want depending on when the mood hits us. 😊
I like the warm white lights. But my tree lights actually do both to the amazment of my 6 yr old who insisted on them being colourful. And you know what? They actually make my heart happy as every night it makes me remember lovely CChristmas's with my parents as they had colourful tree lights.❤
It depends on the tree for me. If your ornaments are multicoloured, then the more colours the better! If you're wanting something more elegant, then white's the way to go! I *finally* started working on my winter coat, only for my vertigo to flair up. :( So it's sitting on my table waiting for me to feel better. Hopefully that happens before spring! lol!
As always a fun, fun video. Thank you for taking the time to bring us along with you. Team colored lights for the tree, but white lights on the porch to showcase Yuli the inflatable Christmas dragon. Lots of pre-holiday cleaning now because we're hosting and we've got Newfie hair everywhere. I swear I could knit myself a Pomeranian every 2 weeks with what that girl sheds. Not actually working on the new project yet but getting the materials together. I watched the vid about Bilbo's robe and thought the squares would make a gorgeous quilt. I have never made a quilt in my life and I'm planning to start with that...
the inflatable Christmas dragon?! 😳 🐉 your Christmas sounds as un-traditional as mine!! ♥️💚 And you probably CAN knit something with your Pomeranian's fluff - I have a scarf, my Scout Scarf, knit from my first husky's hair, and it was not unusual to make yarn from dog hair during WW2 due to rationing and wool restrictions - I have a whole section on it in my "History of Wartime Knitting" video, including a clip from a British instructional video on how to do it! 🤣🤣
Hello Shannon. There are these thin fabric wall hanging tapestry available for purchase. They are just roughly folded like a sheet of paper. There are these fabric pictures with full size Christmas tree...or other Christmaspictures... You can hang the tapestry on the curtain with safety pins or on the wall with washi tape. There are also those with integrated lights.
I actually have a vintage, hand-crafted cross-stitch with a lovely wintertime scene that I bought at a thrift store in Copenhagen that would be similar, but I didn't even think to bring it... that would have been very cheery indeed!
We did multi-coloured lights when I was a kid. We had a few extra strings of the little ones--I think one was all blue and one was multi, and my parents would put a strand up over the curtain rod in each of us kids' rooms during the holidays. It made our rooms feel extra-cosy and magical. I tend towards white lights now as an adult, partly because they seem to be more popular here in Canada than in the States where I grew up, and also because we have a tiny tree, so I just need a battery-powered pack of fairy lights and those are usually white.
Fun to watch you figure out how best to use that crazy LONG garland - it turned out so cheery! I'm loving the chance to see behind-the-scenes show clips, too!🤩
You and your channel are a breath of fresh air! You are so talented and have a cheerful attitude. The decorations are beautiful. Personally, I would like to know more about your circus life: costumes, makeup, rehearsals, tour schedules, etc. Since seeing my first circus at about age 9, I have been memorized. I’m in my 70’s now, so those days are gone, but I still find it fascinating. What I admire about your sewing and crafting is that you don’t give up. If it doesn’t work, you find a way to solve the problem and move forward. Enjoy the tour! P.S. I like the white lights!
I grew up with colored lights. My preference is actually LED remote lights because then I can choose what I want at the time. I haven't had a Christmas tree in over a decade due to living situations and I think I will go with either the LED everything option or straight white lights. We like to collect ornaments when we travel, so I like how the white lights help the collected ornaments stand out.
I love that you set up decorations in the hotel room! Growing up, we always had colored lights and exorbitant amounts of tinsil placed on the tree one strand at a time. But I always remember the one year my dad wanted a white flocked tree with only blue bulbs and blue lights. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, as an adult, I always use warm white incandescent lights. But always think one year I'll do a blue themed tree for nostalgic reasons. Tkx for another fun video.
Oooh. That is the hot debate. I grew up with white Christmas lights on the tree. Each light had a really sharp, starburst plastic collar around them (kind of like a dandelion puff). My husband and I were honestly really relieved when we realized we both grew up with and preferred white Christmas lights on the tree! And then I have colored lights everywhere else (around windows, TV, roof outside, etc).
Regarding Christmas lights: we try to have the best of both worlds by putting white lights on our indoor tree and colored lights on two outdoor trees. It’s fun to see them together! Regarding crafting: I’m self-drafting a new knitting pattern to incorporate a hand-dyed yarn advent I splurged on. So far it’s looking very pretty! 🎄🧶✨✨✨
Winter is my favorite time to go to the beach! It has a completely different energy/feel to it. I don’t get in the water, of course, but I do like to walk along the water’s edge. Bonus - there’s usually no one else around!
i grew up with live candles on the tree. Special candle holders but you watched the lights then extinguished them before leaving the tree. Now my kids do both ... white and coloured. I like white but like the others too.
braiding the garland was a great idea. I'm definitely a coloured christmas lights girl but I do have white lights on garland running down my bannister.
It's probably far too late for this, but a Shannon & Stephanie Canada co-video to talk vintage styles would have been so great! I don't even know if you're aware of each other, but there's always a first time.
We had multicolor growing up, but when I was a kid I worked out that the lights stood for the original candles (without the fire hazard) and candles are warm white light. So, now that I'm grown up and can have it my way, it's warm white for me.
Coloured lights all the way! Specifically the yellow, blue, red, and green ones! When I was a kid we had those giant bulbs with the aluminum reflectors behind them. At least before people realized that they were a fire hazard, ah the 80’s!😂 I’ve got 3 sweaters to knit, 2 are mostly finished. 2 pairs of PJ’s to sew for my kids for xmas eve. Currently I’m writing out cards.
I remember those bulbs, my neighbor's tree had some (Along with teh bubble lights)!! Best of luck with the sweaters... that's a lot to do before the 24th!
It makes me grin every time I see you in a mirror or whatever wearing the towel jumpsuit :) I like coloured lights on stuff other than the tree but if I decorate my tree (which hasn't happened in a while for travel reasons) I prefer white on the tree, mostly cause I use holographic tinsel and it gets lost with coloured lights. I actually have purple LED xmas lights strung all year on my stair bannister as a night light. And we also have champagne coloured rather than the blue-white coloured icicle lights hanging in the bedroom window as a night light as well. My dream tree lights would be ones where individual bulbs, not timed with each other, slowly fade on and off for a pleasant subtle twinkle. I also like the ones that will do a slow fade colour change. I actually installed a colour changey LED regular bulb in my bathroom next to a white one for just a little bit of happy. Eventually I plan to replace the stair bannister night light string with one that's got motion sensors on both ends so it's not on all the time but I keep forgetting to order it. My holiday craft is still in the "proof of concept and prototype is done, now change the damn thread in the sewing machine and get sewing" stage cause I was interrupted by a snowstorm I had to go deal with and then the skidsteer we use broke down and then I needed a day to recover and... yeah... I'd say you got the same storm in Montreal but I guess you don't care since you're in Florida!! I figured out this year's Xmas craft in late November... I'm making little fabric bags for everyone on my xmas list that can hold safety glasses/readers/sunglasses, and incoorporated will be one of those strong fridge magnets with the clip on them, because the only thing worse than not being able to find your eyewear cause it's lost in the bottom of the toolbox/glove compartment is finding them scratched all to heck from banging around unprotected. For work I keep my own safety eyewear in a Crown Royal bag but then they bang into each other, so the uglier ones are going to end up clipped around the work van in places easily reached but that won't be in the way. Maybe I can clip one to each piece of equipment that warrants PPE, but I'll need a different attachment than the fridge magnet clips so we don't end up dying to a safety feature :P
So lovely, but make me a bit nervous... I prefer the light strings in the shape of candles, with the old fashioned style bulb to imitate the flame! 💚♥️💚♥️
Braiding the garland and lights is a stroke of genius!
purely trying to make my life easier and more portable, but it worked well!!
I think the all white lights look classier and more elegant, but the multicolored lights seem more cheerful and happy. It really comes down to the vibe you're going for I think. They both have pros and cons. I personally prefer the white lights, but I wouldn't be mad at multicolored lights in my house.
Happy for some holiday cheer in whatever form/color it might take!!
These are also my thoughts! I prefer colored in my house, but we also have some fairy lights that were white? now they're yellow. They're strong enough still, as not to need to turn on any lights if you wake up in the middle of the night. ;p
All the lights!! Depending on how ambitious I get, I will put both colored and white lights and have my tree full of shining cheerfulness.
@@saraferreira-holz6375 all the lights sounds even better ;p
As I am 73, we had the big multi colored tree and house lights. Now that we have the leds, the single colors are more popular. Personally, single colors are beautiful but the multi colors always make me smile.
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I grew up with colored Christmas lights and when everyone else was asleep. I would sit in front of the tree and enjoy looking at all the beautiful ornaments and lights and it always made me happy.💗❄
I used to do this too... somehow already nostalgic about Christmas even though I was just a kid, lol
I’m an all white kind of girl. I’m a junker so I now use unusual items on my tree. One year I had all clock faces as ornaments. This year I have a mix of vintage keys, spindles from old chairs and baby beds, old metal cash register price numbers, clock faces, and chandelier crystals. It is a small tree that sits in a vintage rusty metal milk can. Glad you have a little cheer in your room. ❤❤❤
Love it! One year I did all very old cookie cutters, and gave them to people that came to the house at Christmas. Pick one and keep it. Yes I have white lights too! I am 77 and still do themes. My tree is a 71/2 foot tree though!
Watching your love of life makes me happy…thank you Shannon…
you're very welcome! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I always wrap my lights around a Pringles tube. The plug socket part goes inside the tube. They never tangle
That's so clever!!! 😳
cut a couple notches in the opening so you have somewhere to anchor the beginning and end of the strand.
@@margaretkaraba8161 that's the one!
My mom was partial to blue lights and our outdoor lights were always blue but our tree had multicoloured lights. When I had my own place and our kids were small, we used multicoloured lights on the tree, but after the kids moved out to homes of their own I wanted to have theme Christmas trees, you know, like in the decor magazines, so white lights worked better for that. Love the idea of taking a bit of Christmas with you on the road!
Haha, after we moved out my mom started having multiple trees, one in the living room, one in the dining room and one in the family room so she'd do them all themed, one would have multicolour lights and all the chaos of traditional ornaments that we kids had made, and one would always be like a show tree with matching ornaments and complimentary lights...
Definitely white lights, but the warm white lights. Also, everything you create looks so amazing! I love that you bring your creativity to every part of your life.
awww, why thank you! 🥰🫶🎄
Love colored lights since childhood.
Your commitment to facilitating the festive vibe is to be commended. It's delightful to see your increasing joy, despite your busyness.
thank you! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Coloured lights, all the way. It's what my family had when I was growing up, and it's what I have on my tree now.
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I grew up with the C9 bulbs (so you can tell I’m a little older) and we had all white for many years. Now we have red and white ones. I love that you’re taking your garland with you!
♥️💚 Thank you! It's definitely improved the hotel rooms! ♥️💚
I also grew up with C9 bulbs. They got very hot. I personally like the all white non-blinking lights.
Love the braiding of the garland and lights. I'll use that this year.
Shannon, you are so positive and active that it is transmitted even through the screen 😊 Love your videos 🥰 Thank you for the inspiration! 🙂❤🙏
You said this very elegantly. You are so right.
you're very welcome! glad you're enjoying! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
When I was a child we had real candles on the Christmas tree (they were burned maybe once or twice during the holidays). For my tree I have an old string of lights where you can change individual bulbs. It used to be all warm white lights but now I only have red spare bulbs so every time I need to change one of the bulbs, there is one more surprise red spot on the tree (currently less than 10 though). I like the whimsy and red is my favourite colour so I quite like the setup.
Ooh, my in-laws are European and in the 20-some years I've been there for Xmas they've had real candles on a live tree twice, has to be just the right shape of tree and someone's always on active tree duty while they're lit, and you do not leave the room without extinguishing everything. Love your slowly-evolvoing light string :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I had live trees in pots just outside the door, then I found lights that move, change colour and then had fun working out what version was the most annoying. 😅
Because it's a live tree, the birds did all the decorating for me. 👍
"what version was the most annoying" 🤣🤣 ♥️💚
Rapid flickering that was worse than a strobe light. Yeesh! 😅
I'm definitely all white lights person with additional touches of colourful baubles and gnomes and such. I'm so jealous of that warm weather you have over there, it's cold, rainy and miserable here in Ireland.
Oh, I hate the warm weather... palm trees do not good Christmas trees make. I'd much happier in the cold and snow, although after three years in Denmark, I'm equally used to cold, rainy & grey! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I'm definitely camp 'warm white lights' now too, as they don't distract from the other colours on the tree, but I also grew up with those old spikey multi-coloured ones in my childhood which we sometimes use just for nostalgia's sake.
Loving these vlog videos, getting to share in your adventures while I am crafting away on some Christmas crafts to sell at a market in 2 days time!!
oooh, good luck with the market!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Color, the more color the better!😋
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I use white lights on the woodland themed Christmas tree in our front window. On the family travel tree, I use colored lights. I collect a Christmas ornament from each of my travel locations. I wish I had started that tradition when I was younger. They are the only ornaments my kids will fight over.
Love travel ornamentsss!! ♥️💚♥️💚
Your garland and fireplace turned out perfect! Such a great idea to bring some portable holiday cheer to each hotel room! So cozy!
Warm white lights ….NO blinking!!!! While my kids were growing up we had two trees. One with all the fun and sentimental ornaments in The family room with colored lights. In my living room, the tree was decorated with mostly white lights with one string of gold lights wound up the inside of the tree. The ornaments were silver, gold, white and glass, hundreds of them. It took me about a week to decorate that tree. I’ve down sized massively and only have a small tree now. I do miss decorating those big trees! Merry Christmas!
Agreed that I don't love the blinking... a subtle fade, at most, for me! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Shannon casually doing nearly a full splits on the bed just to unroll garland! 😂 That garland turned out so lovely. White lights 💯! The right colors (no Easter colors!) are pretty, but there's just something so ... quaint and vintage feeling ... about the warm whites. Especially on a small piece like that, you don't want to add any busy-ness to it, and it really lets the gold & red shine!
that not a full split
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As you were starting I was thinking “plaiting!” (British for braiding!)
I love the finished decoration, and I love the idea of bringing it tour - taking a little bit of home on the road with you.
Thank you! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes you’re welcome!
I prefer white lights and lots of greenery. My daughter and I also collect ornaments for our trees when we travel, as they're small for packing and we have lots of happy memories when we get them out each year.
that's so cute, I love that!
Definitely multi coloured lights. For me Christmas has to be over the top with colours and textures and memories.
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The beach in December. So normal.
Hi from Australia 😅
YES - My thoughts exactly!❤ December = summer & beach weather here ( hello from Melbourne, Australia)
Drinking white wine in the sun 🎅☀️🍷🎄
I prefer (warm) whites for the tree, because coloured lights will affect the look of whatever ornament is next to it. But multicolour is great for outdoor house lights :)
That's so true (and WARM white all the way... I didn't even know colder white lights for the tree were even an option)!
@@ShannonMakes the early LED light strings were a harsh, almost bluish white and were very unpleasant to look at, I also prefer the warmer tones that mimic the look of an incandescent bulb.
White lights all the way. It's so sweet that you take the time to bring the holidays with you on tour.
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As a former professional Christmas decorator, I got into the habit of clear warm white lights and not LED. I need sparkle and replacing burnt lights was easier at multiple clients. But more recently, now the I’m retired, I started craving colour, and redid our tree in multi colour . I like both depending on the decor style. I too love to keep Christmas cheer in the home.
Very fun! I feel like LED lights have improved VASTLY since the time the first came out on the market - now I have some very reliable, very nice and warm white ones, but MAN... I remember the first ones out on the market were trash!
The past few years I’ve done light overload. Multicolor and white on separate plugs so we have the option of one, the other or both. It’s beautiful.
I'm definitely multi coloured lights because I think they bring more cheer to my tree.
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Living in the Southern hemisphere aka South Africa, go with ALL coloured lights. The more the merrier❤🎄🎄🎄✨️✨️✨️❤
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My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but we celebrate Lunar New Year. We normally get a blooming cherry blossom or a small kumquat plant with little orange kumquats, and then decorate them with multiple colour lights and little red ornaments for good luck. I like the yellow/white lights personally but multicolor lights are very cute too!
Oooh, that sounds so lovely!! And the cherry blossoms are just gorgeous too! 🌸
I'm crocheting appliques for wall hangings for my niece and nephew's Christmas presents. My niece is getting a scene with dogs playing outside an approximation of their house, and my nephew is getting an underwater scene with a scuba diver and plenty of marine life. I'm enjoying this project so much! Enjoy your garland.
That sounds so fun and delightful... I hope they love them!! 💚♥️
@@ShannonMakes I hope so too!
I have a white flocked tree and the lights go colored and then all white. It is so beautiful.
Love the white lights that's what I use.
I'm a Christmas threw up on my tree kinda person. All the colours, crystal and Hummel alongside kiddy crafts and crochet rainbow garlands. I did cut out fabric for dice bags as gifts this morning but decided to hem the work pants before I did the fun stuff. Thanks for making it more tolerable.
you'd like the aesthetic of our show, I affectionately call it "Christmas Vomit" 🤣🤣 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
we had real burning candles on our Christmas tree with a big bucket of water next to the tree. (my german mom's tradition)
I love the bucket of water, reassures my mind! 💦🎄♥️💚
Growing up we had the multi colored, on a live tree, with no water. They got hot as a firecracker and it was amazing we didn’t burn down the house. Then my sister and I moved into apartments in a bigger town and we got little white lights and I loved them! But now I’m 20 years back in my home town, living in my great-grandparent’s house and I’m back to the multicolored lights. They just look more festive to me. But they are nice cool LEDs now!
Wow, I'm very glad that nothing ever burned!! Sound like you just love festive lights and aren't too picky about the color... just about not burning the house down! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I love the braiding the garland idea! I've always twisted 2 strands, or 2 halves of 1 strand. I love how much fuller the braid looks! As for my lights opinion...on the tree, I prefer coloured lights. It pairs best with the chaos of my family's handmade ornaments and nostalgia. I like white lights (and strands of a single colour, like blue) for other decorations...like a mantel swag.
Yea, this was my first time braiding them, but I love it! It's super portable and low maintenance! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I am a product of the multi-color C9 lights of the 50s/60s, but now prefer all white lights for a "grown up" tree. I love what you did with your garland - braiding the lights in was a great idea. Can't wait for the next vlog!
Thank you - it works super well! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I used to have the same problem packing up lights till someone showed me how to make a giant Bobin out of cardboard, to wrap them around. I've had no issues, since! I use that trick for my tinsel and other trimmings, too. 😊
Also, my light preference changes depending on what theme i decide to go with, each year. Traditional, rainbow, pastel, monochrome, etc. I love coming up with new ways to trim the tree!
Yes, a few people have recommended this technique in the comments, and I think it's genius, thank you!! 🎄♥️🎄♥️
Real candles is the only I ever put on a Christmas tree. I'm German, although I live in Finland now, and my family is quite traditional when it comes to Christmas, so real tree with real candles it is. I love it! The smell of the tree and of the candles just adds to the Christmas feeling for me.
Today we celebrate Independence Day in Finland and St. Nicolas Day in Germany, so it's a special day for me either way. Lit up the blue and white candles (Finnish colours), ate my chocolate Nicolaus (not Santa) and cosied up with some knitting for this video. Will watch the obligatory Finnish war movie (The unknown soldier) and have glögi (mulled wine) later :)
You made a lovely garland and Phil's reaction was so cute! Excited for more crafting on tour to come :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes definitely keep the tree well watered so it doesn't dry out and have a bucket near by. We also don't leave the tree unattended when the candles are burning.
Early life was multi, next phase was white, and this year we have lights that can be anything we want. It has been interesting to come in to view the tree and it is always different. The fun is figuring out which house member was with the tree last.
hahaha, that sounds like such a fun game! 💚♥️
My mum managed to get her hands on some multicoloured christmas lights that actually had a speaker attached to them and it would play very poor quality christmas songs. I absolutely loved them. I was heartbroken when they finally broke after being a christmas staple in our family for over 10 years. I've been trying to find similar lights ever since with no luck. It's funny how an item such as a very specific string of christmas lights can become such a core childhood memory
I have this terriffically cheaply made Snoopy with anlters on a sled that always hung in my grandmother's Xmas tree, now it lives in my husband's bedroom at the lake house and goes on the family Xmas tree when we arrive cause we're usually too late to help with the tree decorating.
so true about nostalgia and the specificity! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I don't put up Christmas decorations any more, but I grew up with actual candles on the tree, and that's what I would gravitate towards again. So, it's team candle for me.
That's very fun... just maybe with a bucket of water nearby? 💦
I like both at once.
I grew up with colored lights. They were the large bulbs and I think we also had little ones that flashed on and off. As an adult, I prefer small white lights. In fact, my favorite holiday look is a green tree with all white or clear ornaments and trim. My ornaments are carousel horses, large snowflakes, and white silk poinsettia flowers. I celebrate the Winter Solstice as a personal holiday and Christmas as a secular, family holiday.
Hello from team Secular Christmas 👋🎄♥️🎄♥️ We also have a carousel horse on our tree, that we tend to put on a spinner so it turns around (and it has little mirrors that catch the lights and make a disco ball effect!!)
We always do white and multicolored lights cause we have a couple of ornaments that you can attach to the lights. I've been knitting socks for my mom while watching. Can't wait to see how your knitting's going.
🧦🧶 it's been a wild ride, I can tell you that much... you'll probably enjoy tomorrow's installment!
While I am watching, I am knitting a pelegrine before starting a WOII top I saw you knitting. So thank you for that.
It's so cute to have your own little center of Christmas right in your hotel room!
I like colored lights, myself. I think it's more fun and I love to have a whole jumble of ornaments.
It's so cozy and cheerful!! ♥️🎄♥️
Colored! For me Christmas is for children and I feel like as a child the colors were so exciting. White lights are great for adults and classy trees or outdoors. I think white is okay outside because it’s reminiscent of snow, but for my life we had colored lights on the tree and outside. We also decorated around the windows with colored lights. The white lights were reserved for my mom’s little Christmas village she would display on a folding table. We had many very old ornaments and lights. We’re probably lucky that nothing went wrong with them because we had original bubble lights from my fathers childhood and a couple other things that were really old, Santa has changed a lot over the years.
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Both! When you asked the lights questions I genuinely said "Both." very loudly and emphatically in the kitchen.
Though I very particularly prefer the warm white lights, they end up looking warmer I think.
hahahah... porque no los dos!?
We’re team white lights and hodgepodge ornaments! ❤️ so many memories!
YASSS!! that's my personal preference too!
Both. I used to put up a dozen trees for Freak Little Kids Out Xmas chaos. Each tree gets it own theme and some get white, some colors.
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Definitely white Christmas lights. We have the fire on our end TV Xmas morning 😊
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Bubble lights! They were always the coolest
omg yes, my neighbor always had these on her tree, and they were so fun!
Love all white lights, inside and outside!!! Enjoyed your decorations and will be braiding the garland and lights now...❤❤❤❤❤
When I was little, our family tree had colourful lights passed down from my dad's side of the family. When they gave up for good, we got warm white ones, but my mom still had a small string of coloured lights she used to put up in the porch! I don't decorate a whole lot where I am now (I had pet birds, things wouldn't go well!) but I do have some warm white lights that I put up in the kitchen window and on the balcony rail.
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I've been working on a crocheted scarf since December 1st! I normally have one done by now, but I had several flares of arthritis and couldn't get to it till much later. It's a new stitch, too, and I've been having lots of fun with it! I'm also going to try my hands at dyeing some yarn to add colored accents to the scarf (just as soon as my dyes get delivered). Thank you for sharing your videos; they give me lots of joy!
Wow, sounds like it's going to be quite the creative endeavor, and I'm glad you're enjoying the new stitch... learning can be so fun and satisfying! Hope your dyes arrive soon!
I love white lights on the tree, multicolored is fine outside
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My hubby likes colored lights, and I like those, too. But, I also like the white lights. Luckily the tree we have now flashes from color to white. Makes us both happy! Love your little bit of Christmas.
♥️💚 a Christmas compromise! ♥️💚
Thanks for sharing your craftiness with us. It is a good example of how we can fit artistic creation into our travels.
💚♥️ You are so welcome! 💚♥️
Growing up we had the huge multi-coloured lights on the outside of our house, and the slightly smaller, but still fairly large, multi-coloured lights on the tree inside. As an adult, I’ve always preferred all white lights, but the husband likes multi lights, so we’ve reached a compromise, and put both on the tree. That way we can switch on whichever colour we want depending on when the mood hits us. 😊
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I like the warm white lights. But my tree lights actually do both to the amazment of my 6 yr old who insisted on them being colourful. And you know what? They actually make my heart happy as every night it makes me remember lovely CChristmas's with my parents as they had colourful tree lights.❤
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I’m all about multi-colored lights and the warmth they bring. Fun video!
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Your dad and I are on Team All Blue Lights! Warm whites are choice #2. 😊
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you created amazing ~ :))
Thank you! 😊
It depends on the tree for me. If your ornaments are multicoloured, then the more colours the better! If you're wanting something more elegant, then white's the way to go!
I *finally* started working on my winter coat, only for my vertigo to flair up. :( So it's sitting on my table waiting for me to feel better. Hopefully that happens before spring! lol!
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As always a fun, fun video. Thank you for taking the time to bring us along with you.
Team colored lights for the tree, but white lights on the porch to showcase Yuli the inflatable Christmas dragon.
Lots of pre-holiday cleaning now because we're hosting and we've got Newfie hair everywhere. I swear I could knit myself a Pomeranian every 2 weeks with what that girl sheds.
Not actually working on the new project yet but getting the materials together. I watched the vid about Bilbo's robe and thought the squares would make a gorgeous quilt. I have never made a quilt in my life and I'm planning to start with that...
the inflatable Christmas dragon?! 😳 🐉 your Christmas sounds as un-traditional as mine!! ♥️💚 And you probably CAN knit something with your Pomeranian's fluff - I have a scarf, my Scout Scarf, knit from my first husky's hair, and it was not unusual to make yarn from dog hair during WW2 due to rationing and wool restrictions - I have a whole section on it in my "History of Wartime Knitting" video, including a clip from a British instructional video on how to do it! 🤣🤣
Hello Shannon. There are these thin fabric wall hanging tapestry available for purchase. They are just roughly folded like a sheet of paper. There are these fabric pictures with full size Christmas tree...or other Christmaspictures... You can hang the tapestry on the curtain with safety pins or on the wall with washi tape. There are also those with integrated lights.
I actually have a vintage, hand-crafted cross-stitch with a lovely wintertime scene that I bought at a thrift store in Copenhagen that would be similar, but I didn't even think to bring it... that would have been very cheery indeed!
I knit my gift socks through your videos. Thanks for such a nice company!
You're very welcome! Huzzah for gift socks! 🧦
We did multi-coloured lights when I was a kid. We had a few extra strings of the little ones--I think one was all blue and one was multi, and my parents would put a strand up over the curtain rod in each of us kids' rooms during the holidays. It made our rooms feel extra-cosy and magical. I tend towards white lights now as an adult, partly because they seem to be more popular here in Canada than in the States where I grew up, and also because we have a tiny tree, so I just need a battery-powered pack of fairy lights and those are usually white.
love a good cozy, magical kid's room (or honestly, adult's room... why does whimsy have to be reserved for adults?! We deserve magic too!) 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Fun to watch you figure out how best to use that crazy LONG garland - it turned out so cheery!
I'm loving the chance to see behind-the-scenes show clips, too!🤩
thank youuu! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Housekeeping needs a cleanup tip. Lol. Sparkles and those little garland bits……..❤🎉❤ also one question answered 😉
White lights all day, particularly warm. My aunt had an all blue tree but it hurts my eyes. The big bulb multi lights looks nostalgic on houses.
agreed with the bigger bulbs looking nostalgic!
Thank you for your peak behind the curtain! This video makes me miss backstage theatre life.
🎄♥️💚♥️🎄 you're welcome!
You and your channel are a breath of fresh air! You are so talented and have a cheerful attitude. The decorations are beautiful. Personally, I would like to know more about your circus life: costumes, makeup, rehearsals, tour schedules, etc. Since seeing my first circus at about age 9, I have been memorized. I’m in my 70’s now, so those days are gone, but I still find it fascinating. What I admire about your sewing and crafting is that you don’t give up. If it doesn’t work, you find a way to solve the problem and move forward. Enjoy the tour! P.S. I like the white lights!
thank you so much!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I grew up with colored lights. My preference is actually LED remote lights because then I can choose what I want at the time. I haven't had a Christmas tree in over a decade due to living situations and I think I will go with either the LED everything option or straight white lights. We like to collect ornaments when we travel, so I like how the white lights help the collected ornaments stand out.
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I love that you set up decorations in the hotel room! Growing up, we always had colored lights and exorbitant amounts of tinsil placed on the tree one strand at a time. But I always remember the one year my dad wanted a white flocked tree with only blue bulbs and blue lights. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, as an adult, I always use warm white incandescent lights. But always think one year I'll do a blue themed tree for nostalgic reasons. Tkx for another fun video.
Another blue nostalgia tree.... I love that! 🥹💙💙💙
Oooh. That is the hot debate. I grew up with white Christmas lights on the tree. Each light had a really sharp, starburst plastic collar around them (kind of like a dandelion puff). My husband and I were honestly really relieved when we realized we both grew up with and preferred white Christmas lights on the tree! And then I have colored lights everywhere else (around windows, TV, roof outside, etc).
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Regarding Christmas lights: we try to have the best of both worlds by putting white lights on our indoor tree and colored lights on two outdoor trees. It’s fun to see them together! Regarding crafting: I’m self-drafting a new knitting pattern to incorporate a hand-dyed yarn advent I splurged on. So far it’s looking very pretty! 🎄🧶✨✨✨
That's very fun! Best of fun on the knitting pattern, sounds like fun! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I like the look of white lights on other people's trees, but I always do colored. It's cozier :)
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Winter is my favorite time to go to the beach! It has a completely different energy/feel to it. I don’t get in the water, of course, but I do like to walk along the water’s edge. Bonus - there’s usually no one else around!
That's fun! 🌊
i grew up with live candles on the tree. Special candle holders but you watched the lights then extinguished them before leaving the tree. Now my kids do both ... white and coloured. I like white but like the others too.
Love that!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Warm white light, ❤
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That looks great I love the garland braided with the lights.
Such a cheery look!
White on my tree colored lights outside.😊
I love that you're bringing Christmas cheer to each hotel! I'm definitely a warm white lights kind of person. Thanks for the fun update!! 💚
🎄♥️💚♥️🎄you're very welcoem!
Love this highly spirited episode
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braiding the garland was a great idea. I'm definitely a coloured christmas lights girl but I do have white lights on garland running down my bannister.
Thank you! It works super well, very portable and self-contained!
White lights all the way 😊❤
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It's probably far too late for this, but a Shannon & Stephanie Canada co-video to talk vintage styles would have been so great! I don't even know if you're aware of each other, but there's always a first time.
Yes, we know of each other, and have chatted a few times. I didn't know she was in Florida until yesterday though 😭
We had multicolor growing up, but when I was a kid I worked out that the lights stood for the original candles (without the fire hazard) and candles are warm white light. So, now that I'm grown up and can have it my way, it's warm white for me.
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Coloured lights all the way! Specifically the yellow, blue, red, and green ones! When I was a kid we had those giant bulbs with the aluminum reflectors behind them. At least before people realized that they were a fire hazard, ah the 80’s!😂
I’ve got 3 sweaters to knit, 2 are mostly finished. 2 pairs of PJ’s to sew for my kids for xmas eve. Currently I’m writing out cards.
I remember those bulbs, my neighbor's tree had some (Along with teh bubble lights)!! Best of luck with the sweaters... that's a lot to do before the 24th!
Warm white lights for sure!
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It makes me grin every time I see you in a mirror or whatever wearing the towel jumpsuit :)
I like coloured lights on stuff other than the tree but if I decorate my tree (which hasn't happened in a while for travel reasons) I prefer white on the tree, mostly cause I use holographic tinsel and it gets lost with coloured lights. I actually have purple LED xmas lights strung all year on my stair bannister as a night light. And we also have champagne coloured rather than the blue-white coloured icicle lights hanging in the bedroom window as a night light as well. My dream tree lights would be ones where individual bulbs, not timed with each other, slowly fade on and off for a pleasant subtle twinkle. I also like the ones that will do a slow fade colour change. I actually installed a colour changey LED regular bulb in my bathroom next to a white one for just a little bit of happy.
Eventually I plan to replace the stair bannister night light string with one that's got motion sensors on both ends so it's not on all the time but I keep forgetting to order it.
My holiday craft is still in the "proof of concept and prototype is done, now change the damn thread in the sewing machine and get sewing" stage cause I was interrupted by a snowstorm I had to go deal with and then the skidsteer we use broke down and then I needed a day to recover and... yeah... I'd say you got the same storm in Montreal but I guess you don't care since you're in Florida!!
I figured out this year's Xmas craft in late November... I'm making little fabric bags for everyone on my xmas list that can hold safety glasses/readers/sunglasses, and incoorporated will be one of those strong fridge magnets with the clip on them, because the only thing worse than not being able to find your eyewear cause it's lost in the bottom of the toolbox/glove compartment is finding them scratched all to heck from banging around unprotected. For work I keep my own safety eyewear in a Crown Royal bag but then they bang into each other, so the uglier ones are going to end up clipped around the work van in places easily reached but that won't be in the way. Maybe I can clip one to each piece of equipment that warrants PPE, but I'll need a different attachment than the fridge magnet clips so we don't end up dying to a safety feature :P
The towel jumpsuit gets used all the time during winter contracts, to the point that I need to resew some of the buttons before they pop off!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I like colored and white lights. It depends how I'm decorating that year.😊
totally fair! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I am Team real candles 😇. Yep, real candles on the tree. Thank you for sharing your Christmas tour with us.
So lovely, but make me a bit nervous... I prefer the light strings in the shape of candles, with the old fashioned style bulb to imitate the flame! 💚♥️💚♥️