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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Christmas Tree Lights - warm or cool white?


On Saturday night we came home from a family lunch, 
to put up the Christmas Tree.
But, oh no, one of the sets of tree lights didn't work!
I rushed out to Kmart to buy some new lights, because Saturday night
was the only good night to put up the tree for some time.
We've had our lights for quite a few years now, they are the old kind,
and of course the only lights to be found now are LED lights. Kmart only had
cool white lights, so I bought them and hoped for the best. 


The new lights are bright, and sparkly, but I was disappointed.
Our ornaments are red, gold, white and cream, and the very blue cool lights just weren't doing it for me.
I tried to be content with them. Because people all over the world are suffering all sorts of hardships and I'm fussing about Christmas tree lights.... but every time I looked at the tree, the lights bothered me.

So today I shopped again, in the daytime, this time at Target. Oh joy, I found warm white lights, 100 on a string, and on special! Tonight Emily and I extricated the cool white lights from under the hundreds of ornaments and beads (no easy task) and put the warm white ones on instead.


So much better (don't you think?)

And we've ended up with more lights, which I always wanted. The whole tree seems lighter.
The white of these lights ties in much better with our ornaments, and gives a sort of golden glow.
So I'm one happy girl.

Now I'm wondering what to do with the cool white light, perhaps something for outdoors or upstairs ...
I think they would be great with a blue or turquoise colour scheme, and with silver. 
Perhaps I'll even find a new home for them.

It's late here, and it's been a hot day. Christmas beetles are kamakazi-ing around the room.
It's just started to rain, quite heavily now. I've spent some of today making the house Christmassy, and the rest teaching and rehearsing music - my recorder class is playing at the school carols night tomorrow; I had some recorder and piano students come for lessons, and tonight I rehearsed with a cellist who I'm accompanying for an exam on Saturday. Tomorrow friends are coming for lunch. 
It's all good.

How has December begun for you?
(and what colour are your tree lights?)

4 comments:

Amy at love made my home said...

Your tree looks lovely, but I do prefer the warm white lights myself. A couple of years ago we needed new lights and I initially - accidentally - got the blue white ones and they didn't go with our decorations either, so I got some warm white ones and the others are now used outside - where we also needed new lights - so it all worked out in the end. I hope that you enjoy your tree and your Christmas preparations. xx

Fiona said...

Great minds think alike, Amy! I hope you enjoy your preparations and tree, too!

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