Merry and bright

Here's the deal: I love Christmas lights. No, I mean it. I don't just like them....I LOVE Christmas lights. So this is our first Christmas in a home, thus being the first chance that we have to do outside Christmas lights. I've always wanted to be able to put lights on a house, but on one condition: they have to be PERFECT! I don't want to have those lights that are all crooked and random and stuff like that. I wanted them be perfectly straight and look like they were put up by professionals. I even called a couple companies that do it cause I thought I just might pay someone to do it so they would look nice. Too expensive.

For several years now, my favorite color combo for outside lights has been red and clear. I think that it looks like a candy cane and I just think it's so cute. So that was an obvious choice when deciding what color of lights to do on our house. I must admit, I almost talked myself out of doing red and clear because lately that color combo has gotten more popular. I didn't want to do them just because lots of other people have them now. But I just had to. I feel like putting up a sign on my house that says, "I wanted to do candy cane lights like TEN years ago" just to separate myself from the crowd. :-)

So here's the finished product. (Not the greatest pictures because I just used my point and shoot camera and it didn't really do so great in such low light, but you get the idea.) I must say that I just love driving up to my house each night and seeing our lights. It brings a smile to my face every time. Aren't they so perfect and straight?? That's Craig's handy work. Didn't he do so good? I sure do think so!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!