Lighting Your Christmas Tree

With the holidays right around the corner it is time to start deciding on to decorate your trees. Why not try a few new tricks for lighting your Christmas tree. We all love the finished project, but getting there is not always a lot of fun. With these tips, we hope to make that project a little easier.

A lot of people these days like to do a "theme" Christmas tree. This is very festive and can be a lot of fun. If you are one of the people that like this type of decorating, try picking lights that have key colors from your ornaments and using a similar light color. Let's say you choose to do your tree with green and red ornaments, you could use red lights. This will compliment your other decorations and enhance your tree's appearance.

Untangling your Christmas lights, an every year obstacle. There is a simple solution, start untangling and warp the lights around your arm. Be careful not to tug on any bulbs as you go. While you are at it, try testing all your sting to check for burnt out bulbs. You don't want to get the lights on your tree and then realize there are bulbs that need replacing.

For those of you that like to buy a fresh tree every year, try using three 100 count mini light strings per one foot section of tree. The rest of us that use an artificial tree, use three 50 count light stings per one foot section of tree. These shorter strings will be easier to use and will make packing your tree up with the lights still attached a much easier task.

Lighting u your tree has such a huge impact on your holiday decor. All you will have to do to get the best look is, start from the base of your tree trunk with your Christmas mini lights. Wrap your up the trunk and around each branch all the way out. It will from the inside out.

Have fun with your Christmas tree this year and maybe try something a little more outside of the box.

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Hannah
Christmas Lights Shop

Decorating with Lights for Halloween

This year has gone by so quickly and before we all know it, it will be time for Halloween. It is time to start thinking about how you might decorate for one of the most fun holidays all year. We are proud to offer a selection of different lighting products to fit the needs for Halloween decorating. 

Traditional Mini Lights - These are the most commonly used lights for all occasions. But for Halloween you could get amber and purple to add a little pop of light and color to your decor. You can use them inside or outside. Light up your windows and add black silhouettes of cats and ghosts for a spooky effect. 

LED Lights - LED lights are growing in popularity. These lights would be perfect to use year after year for your Halloween season. These lights come in so many styles and colors. Something for every budget and taste. You could use the LED craft lights in orange or white to light your pumpkins this year. 

Traditional C7 and C9 Lights - These are great for Halloween if you already have stringers for your Christmas lights. All you have to do is trade out the festive Christmas colors for opaque orange and purple. You can really use any combination of colors  to fit your design. These are great for lining your house to show the spooks and ghouls to the door. 

Have fun decorating for Halloween with any of these lighting options. Any of them would be perfect to fit to your spooky holiday decorations.

How To Choose Mini Lights

The next time you decide to buy mini Christmas lights, be sure that you have explored all of the options. If you go into any "big box" store around the holidays, you might see two or three options for mini lights. You'll see: bulb color, bulb spacing and, maybe, wire color. Really, these are the only things most consumers consider. We want you to be an informed consumer, we want you to crave selection. That is why we are proud to offer so many different options for mini Christmas lights. Although, with a large selection, there will be confusion. We are here to help you decide what is perfect for your particular lighting project.

Decorating with Lights for Easter

Decorating for Easter is fun, but why not take it up one more notch and add some lights into your decor. There are several options, as far as matching the Easter holiday theme. No matter if you like to go more trendy with bright colors or stay traditional with pastels. There is something for every taste.

Opaque C7 and C9 lights are one option. These are similar to traditional Christmas lights but are painted, so when they are lit they have a look of pastel colors and a soft glow. You could try colors like, yellow, pink, purple, orange, and white. Perfect to put outside, lining the yard to look like hidden Easter eggs or in the bushes. You could also use them in your centerpieces on your tables. These are going to be better with a more traditional Easter color scheme. 

Mini lights on white wire are another great choice. These are great for small trees, flower arrangements and centerpieces. You could get them in colors such as pink, yellow, teal and purple on white wire. They will be perfect for your festive Easter decor.Since these lights are little brighter colors they might look better with a more trendy Easter theme. 

Either way you go, both options with look great! Check out our selection of mini lights and opaque bulbs.

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Hannah

Lighting Your Wedding with Christmas Lights

With wedding season quickly approaching, we thought it was the perfect time to start thinking about lighting for the big day. Nowadays it can seem a bit overwhelming with all the options. We would like to help narrow down what you are looking for and give you some tips on how to use them in the right way, to make the lighting at your wedding spectacular.

Craft Lights for Glass blocks & Wine Bottles.

Lighting Glass blocks and wine bottles with small Christmas light strings has exploded in popularity over the past few years and ChristmasLightsShop.com has a wide selection of Craft light strings. We carry 10, 15, 20, and 35 count light strings so you can light up any size project.  All of our craft lights feature only a single plug and end with a bulb so it's easy to put them into your project without needing a large hole or having to double light strings over themselves.

Craft Christmas light strings are available in either Green or White Wire and colors can vary depending on the bulb count. The most common colors for all mini lights are Clear, Amber, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, Teal, Pink, Purple, and Multi color. Most of these options are available on our 20 and 35 count craft light strings, with our 10 and 15 count having less variety.

Like most modern mini lights if a light burns out the rest stay lit, and our strings are made to the highest standard while still remaining affordable.

Visit our Craft lights section today.

How to Repair Mini Christmas lights.

Mini Christmas lights, are a classic christmas light bulb and can be a classic pain in the neck when sections or strings go out. Older mini light strings and bulbs are not shunted so if a bulb burns out the electrical connection ceases at that bulb. Modern bulbs are usually shunted, a shunt is a small piece of wire that will keep electricity flowing if the filament burns out.

If you sets have shunted bulbs you can usually fix the light string quickly and easily. Christmas mini light bulbs can shift and get jarred during shipment and even when they are being handled, it's just the nature of the beast. If you have a section of lights that fail it's pretty common for that section to have a bulb that is loose or twisted and it's causing the section to have a broken electrical connection.


We receive many lights back because of this very minor issue, so before you start searching for return info, follow these simple steps:

• Layout your string flat, completely stretched out and plug it up
• On the section that isn't lighting, gently push each bulb into the socket
• If that doesn't light the string by finding the culprit bulb, gently twist each unlit bulb side to side, like turning a doorknob. Do this step without much pressure, if a bulb is twisted it will not be far from where it needs to be to light. 
• Thats it! If your set doesn't light from these steps you may have a connection problem in a socket which isn't an easy fix. 

If you have access to any of the various christmas light testers use these before you roll the set back up, these testers test for continuity. They make sure the electricity if flowing from plug to plug and you can use them to find where that connection stops then test that plug. 

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