I think the all white lights look classier and more elegant, but the multicolored lights seem more cheerful and happy. It really comes down to the vibe you're going for I think. They both have pros and cons. I personally prefer the white lights, but I wouldn't be mad at multicolored lights in my house.
These are also my thoughts! I prefer colored in my house, but we also have some fairy lights that were white? now they're yellow. They're strong enough still, as not to need to turn on any lights if you wake up in the middle of the night. ;p
As I am 73, we had the big multi colored tree and house lights. Now that we have the leds, the single colors are more popular. Personally, single colors are beautiful but the multi colors always make me smile.
Definitely white lights, but the warm white lights. Also, everything you create looks so amazing! I love that you bring your creativity to every part of your life.
I grew up with colored Christmas lights and when everyone else was asleep. I would sit in front of the tree and enjoy looking at all the beautiful ornaments and lights and it always made me happy.💗❄
I prefer (warm) whites for the tree, because coloured lights will affect the look of whatever ornament is next to it. But multicolour is great for outdoor house lights :)
@@ShannonMakes the early LED light strings were a harsh, almost bluish white and were very unpleasant to look at, I also prefer the warmer tones that mimic the look of an incandescent bulb.
I had live trees in pots just outside the door, then I found lights that move, change colour and then had fun working out what version was the most annoying. 😅 Because it's a live tree, the birds did all the decorating for me. 👍
I’m an all white kind of girl. I’m a junker so I now use unusual items on my tree. One year I had all clock faces as ornaments. This year I have a mix of vintage keys, spindles from old chairs and baby beds, old metal cash register price numbers, clock faces, and chandelier crystals. It is a small tree that sits in a vintage rusty metal milk can. Glad you have a little cheer in your room. ❤❤❤
Love it! One year I did all very old cookie cutters, and gave them to people that came to the house at Christmas. Pick one and keep it. Yes I have white lights too! I am 77 and still do themes. My tree is a 71/2 foot tree though!
I grew up with the C9 bulbs (so you can tell I’m a little older) and we had all white for many years. Now we have red and white ones. I love that you’re taking your garland with you!
I also grew up with C9 bulbs. They got very hot. I personally like the all white non-blinking lights. Love the braiding of the garland and lights. I'll use that this year.
My mom was partial to blue lights and our outdoor lights were always blue but our tree had multicoloured lights. When I had my own place and our kids were small, we used multicoloured lights on the tree, but after the kids moved out to homes of their own I wanted to have theme Christmas trees, you know, like in the decor magazines, so white lights worked better for that. Love the idea of taking a bit of Christmas with you on the road!
Haha, after we moved out my mom started having multiple trees, one in the living room, one in the dining room and one in the family room so she'd do them all themed, one would have multicolour lights and all the chaos of traditional ornaments that we kids had made, and one would always be like a show tree with matching ornaments and complimentary lights...
I'm definitely all white lights person with additional touches of colourful baubles and gnomes and such. I'm so jealous of that warm weather you have over there, it's cold, rainy and miserable here in Ireland.
Oh, I hate the warm weather... palm trees do not good Christmas trees make. I'd much happier in the cold and snow, although after three years in Denmark, I'm equally used to cold, rainy & grey! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I'm definitely camp 'warm white lights' now too, as they don't distract from the other colours on the tree, but I also grew up with those old spikey multi-coloured ones in my childhood which we sometimes use just for nostalgia's sake. Loving these vlog videos, getting to share in your adventures while I am crafting away on some Christmas crafts to sell at a market in 2 days time!!
Your garland and fireplace turned out perfect! Such a great idea to bring some portable holiday cheer to each hotel room! So cozy! Warm white lights ….NO blinking!!!! While my kids were growing up we had two trees. One with all the fun and sentimental ornaments in The family room with colored lights. In my living room, the tree was decorated with mostly white lights with one string of gold lights wound up the inside of the tree. The ornaments were silver, gold, white and glass, hundreds of them. It took me about a week to decorate that tree. I’ve down sized massively and only have a small tree now. I do miss decorating those big trees! Merry Christmas!
When I was a child we had real candles on the Christmas tree (they were burned maybe once or twice during the holidays). For my tree I have an old string of lights where you can change individual bulbs. It used to be all warm white lights but now I only have red spare bulbs so every time I need to change one of the bulbs, there is one more surprise red spot on the tree (currently less than 10 though). I like the whimsy and red is my favourite colour so I quite like the setup.
Ooh, my in-laws are European and in the 20-some years I've been there for Xmas they've had real candles on a live tree twice, has to be just the right shape of tree and someone's always on active tree duty while they're lit, and you do not leave the room without extinguishing everything. Love your slowly-evolvoing light string :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but we celebrate Lunar New Year. We normally get a blooming cherry blossom or a small kumquat plant with little orange kumquats, and then decorate them with multiple colour lights and little red ornaments for good luck. I like the yellow/white lights personally but multicolor lights are very cute too!
It depends on the tree for me. If your ornaments are multicoloured, then the more colours the better! If you're wanting something more elegant, then white's the way to go! I *finally* started working on my winter coat, only for my vertigo to flair up. :( So it's sitting on my table waiting for me to feel better. Hopefully that happens before spring! lol!
It's probably far too late for this, but a Shannon & Stephanie Canada co-video to talk vintage styles would have been so great! I don't even know if you're aware of each other, but there's always a first time.
My mum managed to get her hands on some multicoloured christmas lights that actually had a speaker attached to them and it would play very poor quality christmas songs. I absolutely loved them. I was heartbroken when they finally broke after being a christmas staple in our family for over 10 years. I've been trying to find similar lights ever since with no luck. It's funny how an item such as a very specific string of christmas lights can become such a core childhood memory
I have this terriffically cheaply made Snoopy with anlters on a sled that always hung in my grandmother's Xmas tree, now it lives in my husband's bedroom at the lake house and goes on the family Xmas tree when we arrive cause we're usually too late to help with the tree decorating.
I use white lights on the woodland themed Christmas tree in our front window. On the family travel tree, I use colored lights. I collect a Christmas ornament from each of my travel locations. I wish I had started that tradition when I was younger. They are the only ornaments my kids will fight over.
I've been working on a crocheted scarf since December 1st! I normally have one done by now, but I had several flares of arthritis and couldn't get to it till much later. It's a new stitch, too, and I've been having lots of fun with it! I'm also going to try my hands at dyeing some yarn to add colored accents to the scarf (just as soon as my dyes get delivered). Thank you for sharing your videos; they give me lots of joy!
Wow, sounds like it's going to be quite the creative endeavor, and I'm glad you're enjoying the new stitch... learning can be so fun and satisfying! Hope your dyes arrive soon!
Shannon casually doing nearly a full splits on the bed just to unroll garland! 😂 That garland turned out so lovely. White lights 💯! The right colors (no Easter colors!) are pretty, but there's just something so ... quaint and vintage feeling ... about the warm whites. Especially on a small piece like that, you don't want to add any busy-ness to it, and it really lets the gold & red shine!
As you were starting I was thinking “plaiting!” (British for braiding!) I love the finished decoration, and I love the idea of bringing it tour - taking a little bit of home on the road with you.
Found your creative channel in 2024 but am thrilled to see you in our town and my sister's town last year. Christmas cheer 🎄✨️ thru out Florida is spectacular because our weather is perfect for outdoor decor...On houses,boats,cars and motorcycles.At the beach,in the park,at the mall,in our hotel lobby's and restaurants. White lights shine golden✨️ inside on our living room tree every year but the front porch tree is always multicolored.🎅🎄 Happy Holidays 2024 to you 📯& Phil 🎩& Canal🔔.
We were rebels! We took the bright and cheerful lights that come out during Easter, and put those on the tree permanently. No one ever figured out how we got our lights so bright and vibrant. 🎉
Hello Shannon. There are these thin fabric wall hanging tapestry available for purchase. They are just roughly folded like a sheet of paper. There are these fabric pictures with full size Christmas tree...or other Christmaspictures... You can hang the tapestry on the curtain with safety pins or on the wall with washi tape. There are also those with integrated lights.
I actually have a vintage, hand-crafted cross-stitch with a lovely wintertime scene that I bought at a thrift store in Copenhagen that would be similar, but I didn't even think to bring it... that would have been very cheery indeed!
I'm crocheting appliques for wall hangings for my niece and nephew's Christmas presents. My niece is getting a scene with dogs playing outside an approximation of their house, and my nephew is getting an underwater scene with a scuba diver and plenty of marine life. I'm enjoying this project so much! Enjoy your garland.
You and your channel are a breath of fresh air! You are so talented and have a cheerful attitude. The decorations are beautiful. Personally, I would like to know more about your circus life: costumes, makeup, rehearsals, tour schedules, etc. Since seeing my first circus at about age 9, I have been memorized. I’m in my 70’s now, so those days are gone, but I still find it fascinating. What I admire about your sewing and crafting is that you don’t give up. If it doesn’t work, you find a way to solve the problem and move forward. Enjoy the tour! P.S. I like the white lights!
I am a product of the multi-color C9 lights of the 50s/60s, but now prefer all white lights for a "grown up" tree. I love what you did with your garland - braiding the lights in was a great idea. Can't wait for the next vlog!
As always a fun, fun video. Thank you for taking the time to bring us along with you. Team colored lights for the tree, but white lights on the porch to showcase Yuli the inflatable Christmas dragon. Lots of pre-holiday cleaning now because we're hosting and we've got Newfie hair everywhere. I swear I could knit myself a Pomeranian every 2 weeks with what that girl sheds. Not actually working on the new project yet but getting the materials together. I watched the vid about Bilbo's robe and thought the squares would make a gorgeous quilt. I have never made a quilt in my life and I'm planning to start with that...
the inflatable Christmas dragon?! 😳 🐉 your Christmas sounds as un-traditional as mine!! ♥️💚 And you probably CAN knit something with your Pomeranian's fluff - I have a scarf, my Scout Scarf, knit from my first husky's hair, and it was not unusual to make yarn from dog hair during WW2 due to rationing and wool restrictions - I have a whole section on it in my "History of Wartime Knitting" video, including a clip from a British instructional video on how to do it! 🤣🤣
I don't put up Christmas decorations any more, but I grew up with actual candles on the tree, and that's what I would gravitate towards again. So, it's team candle for me.
Regarding Christmas lights: we try to have the best of both worlds by putting white lights on our indoor tree and colored lights on two outdoor trees. It’s fun to see them together! Regarding crafting: I’m self-drafting a new knitting pattern to incorporate a hand-dyed yarn advent I splurged on. So far it’s looking very pretty! 🎄🧶✨✨✨
I prefer white lights and lots of greenery. My daughter and I also collect ornaments for our trees when we travel, as they're small for packing and we have lots of happy memories when we get them out each year.
As a former professional Christmas decorator, I got into the habit of clear warm white lights and not LED. I need sparkle and replacing burnt lights was easier at multiple clients. But more recently, now the I’m retired, I started craving colour, and redid our tree in multi colour . I like both depending on the decor style. I too love to keep Christmas cheer in the home.
Very fun! I feel like LED lights have improved VASTLY since the time the first came out on the market - now I have some very reliable, very nice and warm white ones, but MAN... I remember the first ones out on the market were trash!
We switch back and forth between white and colored lights. When I was growing up, we had many light strands - white, multi-colored, red, green, blue, pink, purple, and yellow. Some years, we had a single color tree - lights and ornaments. We rotated the colors.
Fun to watch you figure out how best to use that crazy LONG garland - it turned out so cheery! I'm loving the chance to see behind-the-scenes show clips, too!🤩
Real candles is the only I ever put on a Christmas tree. I'm German, although I live in Finland now, and my family is quite traditional when it comes to Christmas, so real tree with real candles it is. I love it! The smell of the tree and of the candles just adds to the Christmas feeling for me. Today we celebrate Independence Day in Finland and St. Nicolas Day in Germany, so it's a special day for me either way. Lit up the blue and white candles (Finnish colours), ate my chocolate Nicolaus (not Santa) and cosied up with some knitting for this video. Will watch the obligatory Finnish war movie (The unknown soldier) and have glögi (mulled wine) later :) You made a lovely garland and Phil's reaction was so cute! Excited for more crafting on tour to come :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes definitely keep the tree well watered so it doesn't dry out and have a bucket near by. We also don't leave the tree unattended when the candles are burning.
We always do white and multicolored lights cause we have a couple of ornaments that you can attach to the lights. I've been knitting socks for my mom while watching. Can't wait to see how your knitting's going.
It's so cute to have your own little center of Christmas right in your hotel room! I like colored lights, myself. I think it's more fun and I love to have a whole jumble of ornaments.
Shannon, I always enjoy your craftiness and your creativity. Thank you for sharing. White, colored, it doesn't matter to me; I love them both. You know what I would love to see is how you put on that marvelous performing makeup. It looks great!
My hubby likes colored lights, and I like those, too. But, I also like the white lights. Luckily the tree we have now flashes from color to white. Makes us both happy! Love your little bit of Christmas.
So, I'm working on altering a pattern to make a dress cover with a corset like top for a Renaissance Faire next summer. I'm new to making clothes, so wish me luck! This was such a cute idea to being the Christmas cheer with you. I might have to use this for my home, as we don't have room for a tree. ❤
Growing up we had the huge multi-coloured lights on the outside of our house, and the slightly smaller, but still fairly large, multi-coloured lights on the tree inside. As an adult, I’ve always preferred all white lights, but the husband likes multi lights, so we’ve reached a compromise, and put both on the tree. That way we can switch on whichever colour we want depending on when the mood hits us. 😊
Winter is my favorite time to go to the beach! It has a completely different energy/feel to it. I don’t get in the water, of course, but I do like to walk along the water’s edge. Bonus - there’s usually no one else around!
Hi Shannon, I am really enjoying your videos. Your dedication to crafting is impressive. I love colour but lean towards white lights. I’m in a crafting frenzy myself as my aunt got us a table at a craft fair in the mall for this Saturday. I’ve used tea towels to make child aprons and some tree ornaments with shells and jewelry. By fluke I made some stunning napkin holders with clay and am finishing them up today. I wish I had your energy! Keep up the good work, and Merry Christmas.
I'm a Christmas threw up on my tree kinda person. All the colours, crystal and Hummel alongside kiddy crafts and crochet rainbow garlands. I did cut out fabric for dice bags as gifts this morning but decided to hem the work pants before I did the fun stuff. Thanks for making it more tolerable.
We had multicolor growing up, but when I was a kid I worked out that the lights stood for the original candles (without the fire hazard) and candles are warm white light. So, now that I'm grown up and can have it my way, it's warm white for me.
I love that you set up decorations in the hotel room! Growing up, we always had colored lights and exorbitant amounts of tinsil placed on the tree one strand at a time. But I always remember the one year my dad wanted a white flocked tree with only blue bulbs and blue lights. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, as an adult, I always use warm white incandescent lights. But always think one year I'll do a blue themed tree for nostalgic reasons. Tkx for another fun video.
we have one on our entertainment unit at my parent's house too... love it (they're a VERY warm white, verging on orange-y yellow, so warm and calming)!
Welcome to Florida! I hope you get some time to be outside and enjoy our weather. This series is SO fun! Loving it. Camp white lights here, for sure. But I do love colored lights as well and very happy there's two camps.
I do not personally enjoy warm weather or too much sun, so I kept my outings to the evening 🤣🤣 I love cold weather, especially for Christmas, so I'll be happy when our tour hits the more northern climes! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Colored! For me Christmas is for children and I feel like as a child the colors were so exciting. White lights are great for adults and classy trees or outdoors. I think white is okay outside because it’s reminiscent of snow, but for my life we had colored lights on the tree and outside. We also decorated around the windows with colored lights. The white lights were reserved for my mom’s little Christmas village she would display on a folding table. We had many very old ornaments and lights. We’re probably lucky that nothing went wrong with them because we had original bubble lights from my fathers childhood and a couple other things that were really old, Santa has changed a lot over the years.
I like the warm white lights. But my tree lights actually do both to the amazment of my 6 yr old who insisted on them being colourful. And you know what? They actually make my heart happy as every night it makes me remember lovely CChristmas's with my parents as they had colourful tree lights.❤
Early life was multi, next phase was white, and this year we have lights that can be anything we want. It has been interesting to come in to view the tree and it is always different. The fun is figuring out which house member was with the tree last.
Both! When you asked the lights questions I genuinely said "Both." very loudly and emphatically in the kitchen. Though I very particularly prefer the warm white lights, they end up looking warmer I think.
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Braiding the garland and lights is a stroke of genius!
purely trying to make my life easier and more portable, but it worked well!!
I think the all white lights look classier and more elegant, but the multicolored lights seem more cheerful and happy. It really comes down to the vibe you're going for I think. They both have pros and cons. I personally prefer the white lights, but I wouldn't be mad at multicolored lights in my house.
Happy for some holiday cheer in whatever form/color it might take!!
These are also my thoughts! I prefer colored in my house, but we also have some fairy lights that were white? now they're yellow. They're strong enough still, as not to need to turn on any lights if you wake up in the middle of the night. ;p
All the lights!! Depending on how ambitious I get, I will put both colored and white lights and have my tree full of shining cheerfulness.
@@saraferreira-holz6375 all the lights sounds even better ;p
As I am 73, we had the big multi colored tree and house lights. Now that we have the leds, the single colors are more popular. Personally, single colors are beautiful but the multi colors always make me smile.
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I always wrap my lights around a Pringles tube. The plug socket part goes inside the tube. They never tangle
That's so clever!!! 😳
cut a couple notches in the opening so you have somewhere to anchor the beginning and end of the strand.
@@margaretkaraba8161 that's the one!
Definitely white lights, but the warm white lights. Also, everything you create looks so amazing! I love that you bring your creativity to every part of your life.
awww, why thank you! 🥰🫶🎄
I grew up with colored Christmas lights and when everyone else was asleep. I would sit in front of the tree and enjoy looking at all the beautiful ornaments and lights and it always made me happy.💗❄
I used to do this too... somehow already nostalgic about Christmas even though I was just a kid, lol
Watching your love of life makes me happy…thank you Shannon…
you're very welcome! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Love colored lights since childhood.
Shannon, you are so positive and active that it is transmitted even through the screen 😊 Love your videos 🥰 Thank you for the inspiration! 🙂❤🙏
You said this very elegantly. You are so right.
you're very welcome! glad you're enjoying! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I prefer (warm) whites for the tree, because coloured lights will affect the look of whatever ornament is next to it. But multicolour is great for outdoor house lights :)
That's so true (and WARM white all the way... I didn't even know colder white lights for the tree were even an option)!
@@ShannonMakes the early LED light strings were a harsh, almost bluish white and were very unpleasant to look at, I also prefer the warmer tones that mimic the look of an incandescent bulb.
Firmly a white light person, Hubby prefers the coloured lights
a split household.... the dramah! 🤣
I had live trees in pots just outside the door, then I found lights that move, change colour and then had fun working out what version was the most annoying. 😅
Because it's a live tree, the birds did all the decorating for me. 👍
"what version was the most annoying" 🤣🤣 ♥️💚
Rapid flickering that was worse than a strobe light. Yeesh! 😅
I’m an all white kind of girl. I’m a junker so I now use unusual items on my tree. One year I had all clock faces as ornaments. This year I have a mix of vintage keys, spindles from old chairs and baby beds, old metal cash register price numbers, clock faces, and chandelier crystals. It is a small tree that sits in a vintage rusty metal milk can. Glad you have a little cheer in your room. ❤❤❤
Love it! One year I did all very old cookie cutters, and gave them to people that came to the house at Christmas. Pick one and keep it. Yes I have white lights too! I am 77 and still do themes. My tree is a 71/2 foot tree though!
Your commitment to facilitating the festive vibe is to be commended. It's delightful to see your increasing joy, despite your busyness.
thank you! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I grew up with the C9 bulbs (so you can tell I’m a little older) and we had all white for many years. Now we have red and white ones. I love that you’re taking your garland with you!
♥️💚 Thank you! It's definitely improved the hotel rooms! ♥️💚
I also grew up with C9 bulbs. They got very hot. I personally like the all white non-blinking lights.
Love the braiding of the garland and lights. I'll use that this year.
My mom was partial to blue lights and our outdoor lights were always blue but our tree had multicoloured lights. When I had my own place and our kids were small, we used multicoloured lights on the tree, but after the kids moved out to homes of their own I wanted to have theme Christmas trees, you know, like in the decor magazines, so white lights worked better for that. Love the idea of taking a bit of Christmas with you on the road!
Haha, after we moved out my mom started having multiple trees, one in the living room, one in the dining room and one in the family room so she'd do them all themed, one would have multicolour lights and all the chaos of traditional ornaments that we kids had made, and one would always be like a show tree with matching ornaments and complimentary lights...
The beach in December. So normal.
Hi from Australia 😅
YES - My thoughts exactly!❤ December = summer & beach weather here ( hello from Melbourne, Australia)
Drinking white wine in the sun 🎅☀️🍷🎄
I'm definitely all white lights person with additional touches of colourful baubles and gnomes and such. I'm so jealous of that warm weather you have over there, it's cold, rainy and miserable here in Ireland.
Oh, I hate the warm weather... palm trees do not good Christmas trees make. I'd much happier in the cold and snow, although after three years in Denmark, I'm equally used to cold, rainy & grey! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Definitely multi coloured lights. For me Christmas has to be over the top with colours and textures and memories.
♥️💚♥️💚♥️💚 alllll the colorssss
Thanks for sharing your craftiness with us. It is a good example of how we can fit artistic creation into our travels.
💚♥️ You are so welcome! 💚♥️
Love all white lights, inside and outside!!! Enjoyed your decorations and will be braiding the garland and lights now...❤❤❤❤❤
I'm definitely camp 'warm white lights' now too, as they don't distract from the other colours on the tree, but I also grew up with those old spikey multi-coloured ones in my childhood which we sometimes use just for nostalgia's sake.
Loving these vlog videos, getting to share in your adventures while I am crafting away on some Christmas crafts to sell at a market in 2 days time!!
oooh, good luck with the market!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Coloured lights, all the way. It's what my family had when I was growing up, and it's what I have on my tree now.
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Your garland and fireplace turned out perfect! Such a great idea to bring some portable holiday cheer to each hotel room! So cozy!
Warm white lights ….NO blinking!!!! While my kids were growing up we had two trees. One with all the fun and sentimental ornaments in The family room with colored lights. In my living room, the tree was decorated with mostly white lights with one string of gold lights wound up the inside of the tree. The ornaments were silver, gold, white and glass, hundreds of them. It took me about a week to decorate that tree. I’ve down sized massively and only have a small tree now. I do miss decorating those big trees! Merry Christmas!
Agreed that I don't love the blinking... a subtle fade, at most, for me! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Warm white.
♥️💚(I didn't even know cold white was an option... that sounds horrible 😳)♥️💚
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I think that at least you have the Christmas spirit. And that is great to see these days. Ps. Love the knitting
Bag.
we had real burning candles on our Christmas tree with a big bucket of water next to the tree. (my german mom's tradition)
I love the bucket of water, reassures my mind! 💦🎄♥️💚
Love the white lights that's what I use.
White lights all the way. It's so sweet that you take the time to bring the holidays with you on tour.
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When I was a child we had real candles on the Christmas tree (they were burned maybe once or twice during the holidays). For my tree I have an old string of lights where you can change individual bulbs. It used to be all warm white lights but now I only have red spare bulbs so every time I need to change one of the bulbs, there is one more surprise red spot on the tree (currently less than 10 though). I like the whimsy and red is my favourite colour so I quite like the setup.
Ooh, my in-laws are European and in the 20-some years I've been there for Xmas they've had real candles on a live tree twice, has to be just the right shape of tree and someone's always on active tree duty while they're lit, and you do not leave the room without extinguishing everything. Love your slowly-evolvoing light string :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but we celebrate Lunar New Year. We normally get a blooming cherry blossom or a small kumquat plant with little orange kumquats, and then decorate them with multiple colour lights and little red ornaments for good luck. I like the yellow/white lights personally but multicolor lights are very cute too!
Oooh, that sounds so lovely!! And the cherry blossoms are just gorgeous too! 🌸
Color, the more color the better!😋
It depends on the tree for me. If your ornaments are multicoloured, then the more colours the better! If you're wanting something more elegant, then white's the way to go!
I *finally* started working on my winter coat, only for my vertigo to flair up. :( So it's sitting on my table waiting for me to feel better. Hopefully that happens before spring! lol!
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I have a white flocked tree and the lights go colored and then all white. It is so beautiful.
That looks great I love the garland braided with the lights.
Such a cheery look!
It's probably far too late for this, but a Shannon & Stephanie Canada co-video to talk vintage styles would have been so great! I don't even know if you're aware of each other, but there's always a first time.
Yes, we know of each other, and have chatted a few times. I didn't know she was in Florida until yesterday though 😭
My mum managed to get her hands on some multicoloured christmas lights that actually had a speaker attached to them and it would play very poor quality christmas songs. I absolutely loved them. I was heartbroken when they finally broke after being a christmas staple in our family for over 10 years. I've been trying to find similar lights ever since with no luck. It's funny how an item such as a very specific string of christmas lights can become such a core childhood memory
I have this terriffically cheaply made Snoopy with anlters on a sled that always hung in my grandmother's Xmas tree, now it lives in my husband's bedroom at the lake house and goes on the family Xmas tree when we arrive cause we're usually too late to help with the tree decorating.
so true about nostalgia and the specificity! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I'm definitely multi coloured lights because I think they bring more cheer to my tree.
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I use white lights on the woodland themed Christmas tree in our front window. On the family travel tree, I use colored lights. I collect a Christmas ornament from each of my travel locations. I wish I had started that tradition when I was younger. They are the only ornaments my kids will fight over.
Love travel ornamentsss!! ♥️💚♥️💚
I've been working on a crocheted scarf since December 1st! I normally have one done by now, but I had several flares of arthritis and couldn't get to it till much later. It's a new stitch, too, and I've been having lots of fun with it! I'm also going to try my hands at dyeing some yarn to add colored accents to the scarf (just as soon as my dyes get delivered). Thank you for sharing your videos; they give me lots of joy!
Wow, sounds like it's going to be quite the creative endeavor, and I'm glad you're enjoying the new stitch... learning can be so fun and satisfying! Hope your dyes arrive soon!
White on my tree colored lights outside.😊
Shannon casually doing nearly a full splits on the bed just to unroll garland! 😂 That garland turned out so lovely. White lights 💯! The right colors (no Easter colors!) are pretty, but there's just something so ... quaint and vintage feeling ... about the warm whites. Especially on a small piece like that, you don't want to add any busy-ness to it, and it really lets the gold & red shine!
that not a full split
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I’m all about multi-colored lights and the warmth they bring. Fun video!
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White lights!
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I knit my gift socks through your videos. Thanks for such a nice company!
You're very welcome! Huzzah for gift socks! 🧦
As you were starting I was thinking “plaiting!” (British for braiding!)
I love the finished decoration, and I love the idea of bringing it tour - taking a little bit of home on the road with you.
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@@ShannonMakes you’re welcome!
I like both at once.
Found your creative channel in 2024 but am thrilled to see you in our town and my sister's town last year. Christmas cheer 🎄✨️ thru out Florida is spectacular because our weather is perfect for outdoor decor...On houses,boats,cars and motorcycles.At the beach,in the park,at the mall,in our hotel lobby's and restaurants.
White lights shine golden✨️ inside on our living room tree every year but the front porch tree is always multicolored.🎅🎄
Happy Holidays 2024 to you 📯& Phil 🎩& Canal🔔.
We were rebels! We took the bright and cheerful lights that come out during Easter, and put those on the tree permanently. No one ever figured out how we got our lights so bright and vibrant. 🎉
hahahaha that's brilliant!
Thank you for your peak behind the curtain! This video makes me miss backstage theatre life.
🎄♥️💚♥️🎄 you're welcome!
Hello Shannon. There are these thin fabric wall hanging tapestry available for purchase. They are just roughly folded like a sheet of paper. There are these fabric pictures with full size Christmas tree...or other Christmaspictures... You can hang the tapestry on the curtain with safety pins or on the wall with washi tape. There are also those with integrated lights.
I actually have a vintage, hand-crafted cross-stitch with a lovely wintertime scene that I bought at a thrift store in Copenhagen that would be similar, but I didn't even think to bring it... that would have been very cheery indeed!
I'm crocheting appliques for wall hangings for my niece and nephew's Christmas presents. My niece is getting a scene with dogs playing outside an approximation of their house, and my nephew is getting an underwater scene with a scuba diver and plenty of marine life. I'm enjoying this project so much! Enjoy your garland.
That sounds so fun and delightful... I hope they love them!! 💚♥️
@@ShannonMakes I hope so too!
You and your channel are a breath of fresh air! You are so talented and have a cheerful attitude. The decorations are beautiful. Personally, I would like to know more about your circus life: costumes, makeup, rehearsals, tour schedules, etc. Since seeing my first circus at about age 9, I have been memorized. I’m in my 70’s now, so those days are gone, but I still find it fascinating. What I admire about your sewing and crafting is that you don’t give up. If it doesn’t work, you find a way to solve the problem and move forward. Enjoy the tour! P.S. I like the white lights!
thank you so much!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
White lights. Probably because I grew up with that.
The past few years I’ve done light overload. Multicolor and white on separate plugs so we have the option of one, the other or both. It’s beautiful.
I am a product of the multi-color C9 lights of the 50s/60s, but now prefer all white lights for a "grown up" tree. I love what you did with your garland - braiding the lights in was a great idea. Can't wait for the next vlog!
Thank you - it works super well! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
you created amazing ~ :))
Thank you! 😊
As always a fun, fun video. Thank you for taking the time to bring us along with you.
Team colored lights for the tree, but white lights on the porch to showcase Yuli the inflatable Christmas dragon.
Lots of pre-holiday cleaning now because we're hosting and we've got Newfie hair everywhere. I swear I could knit myself a Pomeranian every 2 weeks with what that girl sheds.
Not actually working on the new project yet but getting the materials together. I watched the vid about Bilbo's robe and thought the squares would make a gorgeous quilt. I have never made a quilt in my life and I'm planning to start with that...
the inflatable Christmas dragon?! 😳 🐉 your Christmas sounds as un-traditional as mine!! ♥️💚 And you probably CAN knit something with your Pomeranian's fluff - I have a scarf, my Scout Scarf, knit from my first husky's hair, and it was not unusual to make yarn from dog hair during WW2 due to rationing and wool restrictions - I have a whole section on it in my "History of Wartime Knitting" video, including a clip from a British instructional video on how to do it! 🤣🤣
I don't put up Christmas decorations any more, but I grew up with actual candles on the tree, and that's what I would gravitate towards again. So, it's team candle for me.
That's very fun... just maybe with a bucket of water nearby? 💦
Living in the Southern hemisphere aka South Africa, go with ALL coloured lights. The more the merrier❤🎄🎄🎄✨️✨️✨️❤
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Bubble lights! They were always the coolest
omg yes, my neighbor always had these on her tree, and they were so fun!
Regarding Christmas lights: we try to have the best of both worlds by putting white lights on our indoor tree and colored lights on two outdoor trees. It’s fun to see them together! Regarding crafting: I’m self-drafting a new knitting pattern to incorporate a hand-dyed yarn advent I splurged on. So far it’s looking very pretty! 🎄🧶✨✨✨
That's very fun! Best of fun on the knitting pattern, sounds like fun! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I prefer white lights and lots of greenery. My daughter and I also collect ornaments for our trees when we travel, as they're small for packing and we have lots of happy memories when we get them out each year.
that's so cute, I love that!
I love white lights on the tree, multicolored is fine outside
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As a former professional Christmas decorator, I got into the habit of clear warm white lights and not LED. I need sparkle and replacing burnt lights was easier at multiple clients. But more recently, now the I’m retired, I started craving colour, and redid our tree in multi colour . I like both depending on the decor style. I too love to keep Christmas cheer in the home.
Very fun! I feel like LED lights have improved VASTLY since the time the first came out on the market - now I have some very reliable, very nice and warm white ones, but MAN... I remember the first ones out on the market were trash!
We switch back and forth between white and colored lights. When I was growing up, we had many light strands - white, multi-colored, red, green, blue, pink, purple, and yellow. Some years, we had a single color tree - lights and ornaments. We rotated the colors.
fun!!
Definitely white Christmas lights. We have the fire on our end TV Xmas morning 😊
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Housekeeping needs a cleanup tip. Lol. Sparkles and those little garland bits……..❤🎉❤ also one question answered 😉
Warm white light, ❤
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We’re team white lights and hodgepodge ornaments! ❤️ so many memories!
YASSS!! that's my personal preference too!
Fun to watch you figure out how best to use that crazy LONG garland - it turned out so cheery!
I'm loving the chance to see behind-the-scenes show clips, too!🤩
thank youuu! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Real candles is the only I ever put on a Christmas tree. I'm German, although I live in Finland now, and my family is quite traditional when it comes to Christmas, so real tree with real candles it is. I love it! The smell of the tree and of the candles just adds to the Christmas feeling for me.
Today we celebrate Independence Day in Finland and St. Nicolas Day in Germany, so it's a special day for me either way. Lit up the blue and white candles (Finnish colours), ate my chocolate Nicolaus (not Santa) and cosied up with some knitting for this video. Will watch the obligatory Finnish war movie (The unknown soldier) and have glögi (mulled wine) later :)
You made a lovely garland and Phil's reaction was so cute! Excited for more crafting on tour to come :)
I have never seen real candles on a tree (only imitation candles with lightbulbs in place of flames in Denmark), but it sounds like it'd be stunning, albeit maybe keep a bucket nearby?! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes definitely keep the tree well watered so it doesn't dry out and have a bucket near by. We also don't leave the tree unattended when the candles are burning.
I love that you're bringing Christmas cheer to each hotel! I'm definitely a warm white lights kind of person. Thanks for the fun update!! 💚
🎄♥️💚♥️🎄you're very welcoem!
Love this highly spirited episode
thank you 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄!!
Perfect to spend time with when wrapping gifts ❤️ Merry Christmas!
We always do white and multicolored lights cause we have a couple of ornaments that you can attach to the lights. I've been knitting socks for my mom while watching. Can't wait to see how your knitting's going.
🧦🧶 it's been a wild ride, I can tell you that much... you'll probably enjoy tomorrow's installment!
It's so cute to have your own little center of Christmas right in your hotel room!
I like colored lights, myself. I think it's more fun and I love to have a whole jumble of ornaments.
It's so cozy and cheerful!! ♥️🎄♥️
Shannon, I always enjoy your craftiness and your creativity. Thank you for sharing. White, colored, it doesn't matter to me; I love them both. You know what I would love to see is how you put on that marvelous performing makeup. It looks great!
thank you! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
While I am watching, I am knitting a pelegrine before starting a WOII top I saw you knitting. So thank you for that.
My hubby likes colored lights, and I like those, too. But, I also like the white lights. Luckily the tree we have now flashes from color to white. Makes us both happy! Love your little bit of Christmas.
♥️💚 a Christmas compromise! ♥️💚
So, I'm working on altering a pattern to make a dress cover with a corset like top for a Renaissance Faire next summer. I'm new to making clothes, so wish me luck!
This was such a cute idea to being the Christmas cheer with you. I might have to use this for my home, as we don't have room for a tree. ❤
good luck on your project! I hope it goes well!
Thank you, and definitely recommend garland as a substitute for a tree - very cheerful and pratical! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Your dad and I are on Team All Blue Lights! Warm whites are choice #2. 😊
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Warm white lights for sure!
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Growing up we had the huge multi-coloured lights on the outside of our house, and the slightly smaller, but still fairly large, multi-coloured lights on the tree inside. As an adult, I’ve always preferred all white lights, but the husband likes multi lights, so we’ve reached a compromise, and put both on the tree. That way we can switch on whichever colour we want depending on when the mood hits us. 😊
love that! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
Winter is my favorite time to go to the beach! It has a completely different energy/feel to it. I don’t get in the water, of course, but I do like to walk along the water’s edge. Bonus - there’s usually no one else around!
That's fun! 🌊
Hi Shannon, I am really enjoying your videos. Your dedication to crafting is impressive. I love colour but lean towards white lights. I’m in a crafting frenzy myself as my aunt got us a table at a craft fair in the mall for this Saturday. I’ve used tea towels to make child aprons and some tree ornaments with shells and jewelry. By fluke I made some stunning napkin holders with clay and am finishing them up today. I wish I had your energy! Keep up the good work, and Merry Christmas.
You're not the only one with a Christmas market this weekend... hope all goes well for you and your aunt!! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I like colored and white lights. It depends how I'm decorating that year.😊
totally fair! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
So fun to join in on your Christmas decorating. I like both colored lights and white lights. My hubby likes white lights.
thank you! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
I'm a Christmas threw up on my tree kinda person. All the colours, crystal and Hummel alongside kiddy crafts and crochet rainbow garlands. I did cut out fabric for dice bags as gifts this morning but decided to hem the work pants before I did the fun stuff. Thanks for making it more tolerable.
you'd like the aesthetic of our show, I affectionately call it "Christmas Vomit" 🤣🤣 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
We had multicolor growing up, but when I was a kid I worked out that the lights stood for the original candles (without the fire hazard) and candles are warm white light. So, now that I'm grown up and can have it my way, it's warm white for me.
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I love that you set up decorations in the hotel room! Growing up, we always had colored lights and exorbitant amounts of tinsil placed on the tree one strand at a time. But I always remember the one year my dad wanted a white flocked tree with only blue bulbs and blue lights. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, as an adult, I always use warm white incandescent lights. But always think one year I'll do a blue themed tree for nostalgic reasons. Tkx for another fun video.
Another blue nostalgia tree.... I love that! 🥹💙💙💙
You have inspired me to create a garland for our entertainment unit. I like all white lights.
we have one on our entertainment unit at my parent's house too... love it (they're a VERY warm white, verging on orange-y yellow, so warm and calming)!
Welcome to Florida! I hope you get some time to be outside and enjoy our weather. This series is SO fun! Loving it. Camp white lights here, for sure. But I do love colored lights as well and very happy there's two camps.
I do not personally enjoy warm weather or too much sun, so I kept my outings to the evening 🤣🤣 I love cold weather, especially for Christmas, so I'll be happy when our tour hits the more northern climes! 🎄♥️💚♥️🎄
@@ShannonMakes LOL. Little snowgirl! ❤Be happy you're not here in the summer. You'd melt in a minute.
Colored! For me Christmas is for children and I feel like as a child the colors were so exciting. White lights are great for adults and classy trees or outdoors. I think white is okay outside because it’s reminiscent of snow, but for my life we had colored lights on the tree and outside. We also decorated around the windows with colored lights. The white lights were reserved for my mom’s little Christmas village she would display on a folding table. We had many very old ornaments and lights. We’re probably lucky that nothing went wrong with them because we had original bubble lights from my fathers childhood and a couple other things that were really old, Santa has changed a lot over the years.
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I like the warm white lights. But my tree lights actually do both to the amazment of my 6 yr old who insisted on them being colourful. And you know what? They actually make my heart happy as every night it makes me remember lovely CChristmas's with my parents as they had colourful tree lights.❤
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Early life was multi, next phase was white, and this year we have lights that can be anything we want. It has been interesting to come in to view the tree and it is always different. The fun is figuring out which house member was with the tree last.
hahaha, that sounds like such a fun game! 💚♥️
Both! When you asked the lights questions I genuinely said "Both." very loudly and emphatically in the kitchen.
Though I very particularly prefer the warm white lights, they end up looking warmer I think.
hahahah... porque no los dos!?
I like the look of white lights on other people's trees, but I always do colored. It's cozier :)
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Both. I used to put up a dozen trees for Freak Little Kids Out Xmas chaos. Each tree gets it own theme and some get white, some colors.
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White lights all the way 😊❤
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