i was asked this recently...and thought it might be a good topic for the forum...

what traditional, and perhaps, new, creative ways do you put lights in your houses?...

my very best regards...howard...

I love using the flickering led tea lights. Most of the houses I make so I can pick them up & put the little led lights under them. This also works great for storing, in that I can seperate the platforms from the houses when putting them away for the next year.

count on our good friend, maria, to come through with a list of lights...

http://www.elightbulbs.com/catalog_prod ... od=HS17599

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/36795/ ... nextag.com

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/56186/ ... nextag.com

http://www.elightbulbs.com/catalog_prod ... od=HS36901

I sometimes use the electric tea lights for houses--they can be very effective but you have to remember to turn them off--and buy them by the dozens from the 99 cents store.

I have these sites to share...
The firt site has the rice lights.

https://www.lightsforalloccasions.com/s ... e%20lights

http://miniatures.about.com/od/material ... ylight.htm

Thank you Lynn--will get these up on our blog soon!

At last - Here are the putz lights we were looking for a few weeks ago! http://www.mistletoenholly.com/cr4020160.html

How do you fashion your houses so you can lift them up to put them down on one of the LED lights? I thought I saw a suggestion on this site but I can't find it again.

Nan - some people use checkers to lift their houses high enough for the led lights (when the hole is on the BOTTOM of the house); they hide the checkers by spray painting them white and with cotton batting and snow flakes.

I also hide the wires with sparkling garland, usually silver or white--the cheap stuff you find in the supermarket or five and dime. see photo--I tape the wires down or use bobby pins to hold them in place if i am using a styrofoam base as is the case in this photo

p.s. here's how the whole thing looks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22283683@N07/5235907659/