| By taking your common indoor/outdoor light | | | | your better craft stores or online. You want to |
| strand and combining it with some light colored | | | | drill a hole large enough on opposite sides of each |
| plastic ornaments, you can make your house the | | | | other on every ornament to be able to feed your |
| envy of the neighborhood during the holidays with | | | | strand of lights through, but not so large that the |
| a unique and festive light garland that most folks | | | | lights easily fall out. You can make a pilot hole to |
| wouldn't have even considered putting together. | | | | get started with a smaller drill bit. |
| Supplies: | | | | Then, just feed your strand of lights through each |
| Single plug indoor/outdoor clear Christmas lights | | | | ornament, evenly spacing however many you |
| (Make sure your single strand will be sufficient for | | | | made to give a nice coverage to the tree. I |
| your size tree) | | | | decided to not go overboard, since these were |
| Solid color plastic ornaments (must be white or | | | | larger size ornaments, and my Leyland Cypress |
| very light colored so light can shine through) | | | | they would be hanging on might not take too |
| Drill gun (Do not get scared-it is only a power | | | | kindly to so much weight. I spread 16 ornaments |
| tool) | | | | over the 5 foot tree. That is it. Hang and enjoy |
| Drill bit (9/32 size) | | | | your festive light garland, and store it away as is |
| You will want to start out by prepping your | | | | for the off season ready to hang again next year. |
| ornaments first. If you do not have any that can | | | | You may want to try using a multi-display type of |
| be spared for this project, you should be able to | | | | light strand to vary the light show. |
| find starter craft making ornaments at any of | | | | |