christmas light sightings

I love driving around looking at Christmas lights and Kevin is so good to be my chauffeur every year! This year the Pantagraph website had a nifty map of "bright" houses worth seeing. See here for the map.

I even snapped some pictures in case you might feel like you're too old to go driving around yourself, but still want to see all the pretty lights!

pretty sparkly lights!

this house make great use of rope lighting and spot lights!

this is my favorite huse that hass lights programmed to music - so much fun!

this house had lot of blow ups!

This tree is in our neck of the woods and it is huge! I can't believe they can get lights all the way ont he top!

I love Christmas time!

o christmas tree

We got a new Christmas tree this year! I've been wanting one for a long time now and this one is about 4x as big as the $12 Walmart one I've owned for the last 6 years. It still has lots of room for new ornaments, but the budget says we have to wait till next year :)

Here's a sweet little bird ornament

And a classy looking reindeer

I made the ruffle tree skirt (which is why I didn't post tree pics sooner).

I saw several tutorials online for hotgluing a ruffle skirt, but I decided to sew mine.

I used 8 yards of fabric for all the ruffles and I love how it turned out!

Kevin always does a good job decorating the house with lights too!

Hope you and your loved ones are having a wonderful Christmas season!