Cool Battery Christmas Lights

I was at Kroger today, hoping to find a small string of lights on a white cord to use on a wreath on our front porch.  No 30- or 50-light packages...only 100, and no white cord.

An employee working in that area asks me what I'm looking for, and nope, they don't have what I'm looking for.

I start to walk away and she says, "Have you seen these?"  No, I hadn't looked at that tiny little box hanging from one of those Mylar (?) strips.

Battery-operated, tiny LED lights--but here's the BEST part...
they have a timer built in!
(And another plus that will definitely come in handy--they can be
immersed in water!  How cool is that?!)

Yes!  I'll take them!  $5.24!  I could hardly wait till I got home from dinner at our son's and DIL's to check them out.

This picture shows how to open the battery compartment, because there are no instructions for that,
and it was NOT easy!  My husband carefully inserted a small screwdriver where we could
tell it would open, and pushed gently.

Look at that little, tiny strand and the teeny, tiny lights!
Would they be bright enough?
Would they work for the wreath?

Yes!  They ARE bright enough! (but short.  The box says it's 3 feet long,
but that must include the bare wire leading to the battery compartment and the compartment itself,
so if you buy these, plan accordingly to have enough length.)
I'll be at Kroger first thing in the morning to get more before they're sold out!

But aren't they oh, so pretty?!

 

Last week I posted a tutorial for pomanders HERE, where I inserted
battery-operated "candles" in the arrangement.  Those have to be turned on and off...
How, I wondered, would my new, nifty, tiny string of lights work
in the pomander arrangement?



PERFECTLY!!
And because they have a timer (do you think that feature is as cool as I do??)  they'll come on
in the evening and back off in six hours!
Love the timer feature!

What ideas do you have for how to use these fab lights? 
           Think they'll work in ICE?!  I'm thinking about how cool it would be to put them in a vase
              with water outside and let it freeze (the battery compartment can't be immersed). 
           Or how about just in a vase with flowers?
           Or in the china cabinet or bookcases?  The cord is virtually invisible, so versatile, they are!              
           Certainly they will be great on the wreaths on the porch, because with the timer there's no need to
                run a cord to a different timer.

I can't wait to hear your ideas on ways to use these nifty things!  Happy decorating!

(Or are you wondering if I've been living under a rock because I didn't go right out to look for these specifically?  I've seen immersible lights, but not this tiny, and certainly I wasn't thinking about how to
use them at Christmas when I saw them this past summer.)

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Fall Wreaths

My "wreaths," for a variety of reasons, aren't wreaths in the traditional sense...they aren't "firm," if you know what I mean.  They are made from garlands, which has worked great for me.

Our storm door doesn't allow enough clearance for a traditional ("firm") wreath, so I've used a beautiful garland that is less bulky instead.  Another bonus is that the garlands out there allow for endless possibilities for already-decorated "wreaths"!

I added the mesh ribbon for additional decoration and to hang it.

I also needed something next to the door, to add additional interest, but again, a traditional wreath wouldn't work, so I created one of sorts with another garland around the ligth fixture.  It's worked well, because I can shape it to create a loose effect rather than the structured circle.

This "wreath" looks very pretty at night when the light is on...the leaves seem to glow, so they add interest
in the daytime and night too.

In the backyard, I created another "wreath" to lay across our old hand plow, and added a pretty sunflower/berry "pick.  Easy as pie!
(Well, easier than pie; pies aren't easy for me. :)  )

What decorating solutions have you come up with when you're dealing with storm doors?

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