Hallowe'en Photos...

[teylaminh]

...are here.

Enjoy.

Comments

[pandorasblog]

I love the fairy lights; where'd you buy them?

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Good old Ikea... they're about four years old now, though.

They're a nightmare to put together..

[pandorasblog]

Ahhh. That kind of fairy lights. Every Christmas ours drive us mad too. That said, I just dug up a set of yellow moon lights which are made of some kind of translucent rubber and don't overheat or tangle or anything, and now they're hanging in my room!

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, no matter how carefully you repack or untangle them, they will tangle again within five minutes. It's like an Eddie Izzard sketch; reminiscent of the fruit-bowl-ripening one...

I have a set of star-shaped fairy lights (also designed like these to hang from the ceiling - Ikea give you plenty of cable!) across the hallway curtain, though I had them in the window our first Christmas, before I'd put voile on the curtain poles. ;)

This year I'm looking forward to taking arty Christmas tree shots with the new camera...

[pandorasblog]

The best thing I've found is to lay them out on the floor in a zigzag and crunch lengths of kitchen foil around them, securing with tape if necessary (it may rip in places when you put it in the box). Sometimes wrapping a set of lights around a cardboard tube works too, though you'd need a poster tube for the bigger light sets...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Most of our more expensive sets still have the original boxes with the special plastic / cardboard holders, so they're not a problem, and the majority of the others I tend to get for £1.99 and they only last a year anyway. ;) Even when I've unravelled them, they tangle when my back is turned...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

PS: I also have a set of purple fluffy fairy lights hanging over the bed, which are excellent for ambient lighting. :)