Christmas Lights

[polkanut]

[COLOR=#141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.456px]Put our front Christmas lights up this afternoon. They're all vintage and we're using vintage GE C-7 bulbs too. A homemade plywood star painted silver and trimmed with silver garland around the outside edge for the front door. The star will be lit with green & white bulbs. Two vintage electric candoliers in the two front windows with red bulbs in them. I'm using a lamp dimmer this year to cut down on the amount of electricity used, and to prolong the life of all of the vintage bulbs as well. Also using a vintage Intermatic Time-All timer from the early 1960's. Will post pics on Friday evening when the lights go on for the first time.  I'm including a pic of the Intermatic timer.[/COLOR]

 

[COLOR=#141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.456px]Hans (Norgeway) gifted me quite an assortment of C-7 bulbs several years ago.  Since then I've been buying old light sets at estate sales for the bulbs.  [/COLOR][COLOR=#141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12.864px; background-color: #f6f7f8]The star was made by a deceased member of my parish, Trinity Lutheran Church-Wausau, WI. His name was Marlyn Bartsch. I purchased it when they had the estate sale after his wife, Evelyn, had moved to an assisted living facility.  [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12.864px; background-color: #f6f7f8]All items were found at estate sales over the last couple of years, and I probably only have about $20 invested in all of it. I definitely don't get crazy like Clark Griswold though. lol[/COLOR]

 

[ladyearth]

lots of gold bulbs kind of funny story

several years ago after Christmas clearance table... I bought quite a bit of those C7.. My husband had made some real nice multi candles that go in window... His Dad had did so years before...He made I believe 6 or seven sets...
he got hold of some rough lumber and drill pressed it all....and wired it all up and I believe used pvc for the bases..He did a fine job
So I stood in a drug store and took out all the gold bulbs from all the packages.....No one said anything, LOL
it took a while to do so. course I made sure that what was left had four bulbs in each cardboard package.
I still have most of them. But I gave away the candle set.. cause I got tired of Christmas decorating. I dont even own a Christmas tree now.. Bah humbug...LOL

 

[polkanut]

Here's a couple of pics of our star and single bulb candoliers.  Pic was taken last night, but they don't show up very well.  All of the bulbs are vintage GE's, and the green & red ones come from Hans (Norgeway) and his partner Donald.  Thanks bunches guys!

 

[washingpowder]

Call me modest I like LEDs. Call me modest again for not being a fan of multi-color LOL.
Love white or red wrapped around curtain rods while sipping on espresso martinis, a bit of kitsch hasn't killed me yet.