Chirstmas Lights!

[chinaski]

I'm thinking of lining the roof this year with some large multicolor lights.
Anyone have interesting plans this year for their holiday decorating?

[LunaP]

The scooters

Seven Hills is doing a 'Tacky Lights' ride.

I want to try and find battery operated strings of lights to painter's tape to the Buddy for it.

I'm also wanting to finding a Ms. Claus/SnoHo outfit that I can make work over scooter wear.

Alternately, maybe antlers and a red nose for the Buddy? Not sure.

[ericalm]

How I did it last year:


I've been doing a lighted wreath of some sort for the past 5 years or so. Not too sure if I'll use the wreath again this year. Currently don't have a front rack. I can do it on the windshield of my Vespa but it doesn't work as well.

I've looked at some LED tapes and other things, but I'm not ready to go totally Tron with it.

[LunaP]

I remembered last night that for Xmas a couple years back, from and uncle, my sister and I were gifted a chargeable powerblock thing, I think made by Black and Decker. It's made to charge up from a wall line, and then has a standard 'wall' plug on it. Both of them are now at my mom's house from Hurricane Irene- we used them to charge cel phones from.

So, I don't need to buy 2 or 3 short, dinky battery operated lines and batteries for them- I can plug in one normal LED line and be set!! This excites me.

I do like the wreath idea, though, I hadn't thought of that. Did you buy a prelit one or make it? How did you secure it? Zip ties?

[SuperFlyBuddy]

I'm thinking of lining the roof this year with some large multicolor lights.
Anyone have interesting plans this year for their holiday decorating?

Here is my house last year. They are the good ole' meter spinning incandescent C9's. I figure since everybody is going to LED lights there is lots of left over electricity so I can still run my C9's. You can't tell in the pic but I live on a corner lot and the lights continue down the back right side of the roof line as well. Probably will do something similar this year, but only if I can find my notes from last year on how I laid out the lights. It's harder than you'd think to arrange (the roof) lights so they all plug in at only two locations, while in my case (C9's), only plugging two strings end to end. The ground stuff is plugged into a third location with each of the locations being on a different circuit.

[siobhan]

Just finished up the Buddy (well, except for the milkcrate lights which need to be re-soldered).