Christmas tree and lights

[vintageteddy96]

Here is my Christmas tree with vintage Noma Christmas lights with cloth covered cords and reproduction Noma bubble lights. Also you get a sneak peek of my 70's living room.

 

[phillymatt53]

Very nice!

When I put my (fake) 7 foot tree up, I also have a string of bubble lights on it.
It has 550 mini colored bulbs already on it.
And I put a set of remote controlled trains underneath, and some Hess Trucks, etc.
The tree sits on a vintage 1950's rotating stand that has a music box in it.
As the tree rotates in one direction, I set the trains to rotate in the opposite direction.
And since it revolves, its got to be decorated completely around, and It takes all afternoon to put the damn thing up, but visitors adore it.

 

[vintageteddy96]

Very nice!

When I put my (fake) 7 foot tree up, I also have a string of bubble lights on it.
It has 550 mini colored bulbs already on it.
And I put a set of remote controlled trains underneath, and some Hess Trucks, etc.
The tree sits on a vintage 1950's rotating stand that has a music box in it.
As the tree rotates in one direction, I set the trains to rotate in the opposite direction.
And since it revolves, its got to be decorated completely around, and It takes all afternoon to put the damn thing up, but visitors adore it.

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It looks great! I have a train set, maybe I'll put it out next year.

 

[vacerator]

Haven't gotten our tree up yet. Just the one on the front porch. It was warmer Saturday and snowed overnight, so I thought it was the best day to have hubby lug it up from the basement for me. It has all white incandescent lights. I have large unbreakable ornaments on it in gold, green and red. Green tinsel. LED color changing star. My knee is still in healing from surgery and I still get tired faster. Hubby's been making Italian wedding soup, and pasta fagioli for our family party next Saturday. Also baking some canoli cookies, etc. I usually set up the tree in the living room by the 10th, then bring each of the four or five totes of decorations up one at a time. Nativity set first. Lots of glass ornaments. A few Waterford crystal ones. Tree was new a few years ago. Not a Balsam Hill, but nearly as nice. Has color change LEd's. Brightness, and colors from all white, or combination and flickering, fading, steady on adjust.
I prefer blue and or white outdoor lights.

 

[foraloysius]

About half the people in my apartment building have Christmas lights on the balcony.

 

[phillymatt53]

About half the people in my apartment building have Christmas lights on the balcony.

Now if I lived in one of those apartments, I'd have multicolored lights on the balcony.
All those boring white lights....... bore me.
And besides, I like to show that I'm me. not one to "fit in", I like my individuality.
My outdoor christmas lighting had always been multicolored, while others on my
street do the boring white light thing.
Besides.... it doesn't show well, but my tree has muticolored lighting too.
One could say that I'm a "multicolored kind of guy".

 

[foraloysius]

There are coloured lights on the third floor. In the picture they are the whitest lights. It puzzles me why they look so white in the picture. At the end of the first floor there are red lights.

 

[vacerator]

To each their own tastes the north star is white, and the night sky dark blue on a clear night.

 

[phillymatt53]

There are coloured lights on the third floor. In the picture they are the whitest lights. It puzzles me why they look so white in the picture. At the end of the first floor there are red lights.

Well, it could be my monitor, but it's hard to tell the actual colors, except for one or maybe two balconies.
Nevertheless, I prefer some color.

 

[phillymatt53]

To each their own tastes the north star is white, and the night sky dark blue on a clear night.

And Matty's house shines bright with all the colors of a beautiful rainbow.

 

[ea56]

We put our tree up this weekend. It’s a two day job. Saturday we assembled and fluffed out our 18 year old artificial tree and strung the lights on it. Then on Sunday we hung all the ornaments and set out the Nativity Scene. With 44 years of Christmas’s together we’ve amassed a whole lotta ornaments. And I have some from my childhood, the oldest two being from the first Christmas tree I can remember in 1954 when I was almost 4 years old.

Since we have such a variety of ornaments we use clear mini lights so as to not distract from the many different ornaments. Last year one of the strings went dark a week after the tree was decorated and there was NO way we were gonna be able to replace them on a fully decked out tree and I couldn’t find the bad bulb. So this year we got all new lights.

Eddie

 

[thatwasherguy]

Here is my Christmas tree with vintage Noma Christmas lights with cloth covered cords and reproduction Noma bubble lights. Also you get a sneak peek of my 70's living room.View attachment 321578View attachment 321579View attachment 321580View attachment 321581View attachment 321582View attachment 321583

Oh man! I cannot put into words how jealous I am of that living room. The only thing missing is a disco ball.
Thatwasherguy.

 

[foraloysius]

We put our tree up this weekend. It’s a two day job. Saturday we assembled and fluffed out our 18 year old artificial tree. Then on Sunday we hung all the ornaments and set out the Nativity Scene. With 44 years of Christmas’s together we’ve amassed a whole lotta ornaments. And I have some from my childhood, the oldest two being from the first Christmas tree I can remember in 1954 when I was almost 4 years old.

Since we have such a variety of ornaments we use clear mini lights so as to not distract from the many different ornaments. Last year one of the strings went dark a week after the tree was decorated and there was NO way we were gonna be able to replace them on a fully decked out tree and I couldn’t find the bad bulb. So this year we got all new lights.

Eddie

Very stylish Eddie!

 

[vacerator]

Yes Eddie, classy tree too!