Here are your Cavender boys working like someone is actually paying us to light the outside of our house….
Yeah, that hard.
Jamie on the roof…..
Lining the little peaks and roof line in white bulbs.
James in the bushes….
Mixing b-lights with red ceramics bulbs and tin reflectors…..
We think that Christmas lights look a little more spectacular when you mix different sizes and styles.
We pick up these vintage punched tin reflectors whenever we find them cheap, usually about 50 cents each.
They fit right around a standard C7 light bulb…..and reflect like a little star.
See?
After a trip to the Dallas Farmer’s Market, Jamie came back with green/white kale and red Cyclamen. He mixed in some glass gazing balls that we found at the Wall-Mart last summer on clearance.
We already posted about the lush garland that we framed the front door in….
But we also added a huge pile of pinecones in the black fishbowl pot with little twinkly B-lights inside the bowl.
You can read our tutorial for “beefing up” crappy craft store garland here.
Y’all should also remember that giant star we made with scrap cedar and pallet wood. We decided to “share” it with the neighbors….Aren’t they just sooooo lucky?
For fun, we used the same light bulbs that they use on carnival rides.
Add all those details together and this is what it looks like at night…..
This is the first year that we erected the Christmas tree in the living room in front of the windows…..
and we like it……We like it a whole lot.
“How about that festive 6 foot star?” you might ask.
“Brilliant, It looks like it came right off of some old carnival ride.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Wait, didn’t it snow in Dallas? I demand a snow photo with lights!
We took sooooo many snow pictures, we’ll post some tomorrow…..promise!
The star turned out fantastic!! I was wondering where you were going to hang it.
We couldn’t keep it all to ourselves, we had to share it with the neighbors.
So excited to find you all on HOUZZ! What an inspiration!
We are more excited that YOU found us on HOUZZ!!!! Welcome aboard….
I’m in love with those little tin stars that you put your C7s in. Where do you find them?
Lately I have been finding them on eBay…”vintage tin reflector” will usually generate about 100 results. We’re kinda “full-up” on them right now…..but I still buy them if they are in great shape, cheap, and not rusty
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