Every Christmas I am faced with a bizarre fact about myself. I'm a Christmas Light-ist. I have white christmas lights in my house - and ONLY white Christmas lights. Steve knows not to bring colored lights within 100 feet of our home. Thankfully he's also a Christmas Light-ist - although I think that just comes from growing up in a country where they didn't even have icicle lights until recently. For the past few years, we've sent boxes of icicle lights to one of his friends in England because his neighborhood has a Christmas decorating contest. Every year he wins because he's the only one on the block with the contraband icicle lights ;) And of course we only send WHITE icicle lights ...
When we're driving home each night ... my eyes are accosted with several houses with colored lights up. Do they not know? Weren't they raised right? How did it get so bad? Did no one tell them to leave those colored lights on the shelves and pick up the good stuff? The only thing worse than multi-colored lights ... are the solid red lights. A house about 4 miles from us has all their windows lined in red lights ... it looks like some evil den of demented elves or something.
Now I know lots of you have colored lights in your homes right now. I just want to tell you that its not too late. Leave your colored past behind. There's still time to come to the light ... the white light...
If someone stumbled on to this blog and didn't realize you were talking about lights you would sound like the Grand Wizard for the KKK.
Your tree looks so pretty!
I gave in this year. And went to the dark side. Or shoudl I say "color-side"?! Next year, it's back to white lights for me, they just sparkle so perfectly and work so well with my silver balls and burgundy ribbon. The colors match the colored balls, but just aren't nearly as elegant! :wink:
Lovely tree.
I'm not a fan of colour lights either. I much prefer white lights, classier or something :D
happy christmas
Imagine if everyone put up only white lights on Christmas. Boring! Colored lights can be quite tasteful when done correctly and they're so much fun for the kids. And that first comment was right one. I actually thought this was a KKK blog!
I forgot to mention that this is my first visit to your site. GORGEOUS design and layout. One of the best that I've seen so far!