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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:49 am 
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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...

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:06 am 
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.


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

http://www.elightbulbs.com/catalog_product.cfm?source=NexTagCSE&prod=HS17599

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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.


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

https://www.lightsforalloccasions.com/s ... paign=(roi)+display+campaign&utm_content=rice+lights&utm_term=led%20rice%20lights

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


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


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


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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.


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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


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


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