Do you believe in fairies?

[TheLonelySquire]

Fairy lights I mean
Are they just for Christmas or a charming addition to your home lighting design? I put them up over Christmas around pictures and photos ~ just on one wall, I'm not a total freak and I like them and have kept them up.
So I vote for fairy lights all year round, just plain white ones, and not so many that your house starts looking like Stringfellows
My esteemed BBS fellows thoughts?

...not in the least.

 

[Jadzia]

I imagine fairy lights would be nice strung up above my bed head as a nice subdued reading light... add a few voile drapes and satin cushions and velvety throws... I'm going to make that my next project.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Thank GOD you are talking about lights. I was...well, a bit worried. We haven't interacted much, K'ehleyr, but I've read quite a few of your posts here and there, and you never struck me as a Tinkerbell-in-the-garden kind of gal. ::whew::

I think the twinkly little lights can be nice in some rooms, but golly, you do have to be careful. It would be so easy to go overboard - not just with too many lights but too much of the stuff that twinkly lights can spawn. Such as lacy things, for example, and dried flowers. So watch yourself.

Are they fairly easy to keep dusted?

Hi JK and I can reassure you ~ you will not find a crocheted lady covering any spare loo rolls in my house. No, this is about as far as it goes, I do like candles though, for the hot wax

What is this "dust" you speak of?

And as for dust, I have only to quote the greatest fairy of them all...
"Dust... oh you don't notice it after 4 years" Quentin Crisp.

And for the others... these are fairy lights of the none flashing variety

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I imagine fairy lights would be nice strung up above my bed head as a nice subdued reading light... add a few voile drapes and satin cushions and velvety throws... I'm going to make that my next project.

Oh yes, and a young loin-clothed man feeding you turkish delight and red wine from a gold goblet, whilst another plays sittar at your feet whilst you flick through the Karma Sutra...

 

[JustKate]

Oh, you're fine - for fairy lights, that's positively restrained. Avoid excessive ruffleness and so on, and you're perfectly safe.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I do believe in the existence of fairy lights, of course.

My parents keep flashing ones which they use to decorate one of their indoor bonsai trees during Christmas.

As for belief in fairies? People have oft accused me of being away with them at times. I certainly cannot comment.

 

[nevermore]

I use them pretty liberally, actually because I hate bright lights indoors. I have strings of the icicle style lights hanging from the ceiling of my living room along both the east and west walls. Having one or both lit creates a nice, diffuse lighting scheme, especially because the ceiling is quite high (~12 ft) and the room is sizeable. I also have a small string behind my TV table and on top of the bookshelves, both of which are a sort of medium-colored wood. Those strings are not seen at all; they just create a sort of glow around the furniture.

My friend's backyard, the only actual yard anyone I know has, ergo the sight of all Summer parties and BBQs etc, is essentially a narrow, gated bricked alley bewteen his building and the next, with some trees and planting boxes etc. We have hung a canopy of the net lights, which is just great at night, does not attract bugs like a porchlight would and is, again, nicely diffuse. We'll probably wrap the big tree by the grill this year as well for better lighting back there.

Just to clarify, none of the aforementioned lights flash, and they are all white lights. No one is going for the arcade look here.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I use them pretty liberally, actually because I hate bright lights indoors. I have strings of the icicle style lights hanging from the ceiling of my living room along both the east and west walls. Having one or both lit creates a nice, diffuse lighting scheme, especially because the ceiling is quite high (~12 ft) and the room is sizeable. I also have a small string behind my TV table and on top of the bookshelves, both of which are a sort of medium-colored wood. Those strings are not seen at all; they just create a sort of glow around the furniture.

My friend's backyard, the only actual yard anyone I know has, ergo the sight of all Summer parties and BBQs etc, is essentially a narrow, gated bricked alley bewteen his building and the next, with some trees and planting boxes etc. We have hung a canopy of the net lights, which is just great at night, does not attract bugs like a porchlight would and is, again, nicely diffuse. We'll probably wrap the big tree by the grill this year as well for better lighting back there.

Just to clarify, none of the aforementioned lights flash, and they are all white lights. No one is going for the arcade look here.

That sounds really lovely.
And so far I think we have all fairy light positives!!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't think fairy lights would suit my decor, but I have nothing against them.

And Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. Fun fact for the day!

 

[JustKate]

^ Didn't he actually write a book or article something? I read about it on the Museum of Hoaxes website, but that's a long time ago now.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I just had tea with one before they gave me my "happy pills" and strapped my "special jacket" on and put me in the room with pillows for walls.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^ Didn't he actually write a book or article something? I read about it on the Museum of Hoaxes website, but that's a long time ago now.

Indeed. Strangely, the creator of the ultra-rationalist Sherlock Holmes was quite a sucker for Spiritualism.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

^ Didn't he actually write a book or article something? I read about it on the Museum of Hoaxes website, but that's a long time ago now.

Just right JK

http://www.randi.org/library/cottingley/index.html

sorry RJD who beat me to it.

 

[nevermore]

I use them pretty liberally, actually because I hate bright lights indoors. I have strings of the icicle style lights hanging from the ceiling of my living room along both the east and west walls. Having one or both lit creates a nice, diffuse lighting scheme, especially because the ceiling is quite high (~12 ft) and the room is sizeable. I also have a small string behind my TV table and on top of the bookshelves, both of which are a sort of medium-colored wood. Those strings are not seen at all; they just create a sort of glow around the furniture.

My friend's backyard, the only actual yard anyone I know has, ergo the sight of all Summer parties and BBQs etc, is essentially a narrow, gated bricked alley bewteen his building and the next, with some trees and planting boxes etc. We have hung a canopy of the net lights, which is just great at night, does not attract bugs like a porchlight would and is, again, nicely diffuse. We'll probably wrap the big tree by the grill this year as well for better lighting back there.

Just to clarify, none of the aforementioned lights flash, and they are all white lights. No one is going for the arcade look here.

That sounds really lovely.
And so far I think we have all fairy light positives!!

Thanks.

Here are some crappy pictures of some of them.

West wall:

(this was taken at xmas, so there is an extra strand in the windows. I add purple ones during Football season as well.

Couldn't seem to get a decent shot of the ones on the East wall, but they're identical, minus the plants, which will be remedied this weekend at Flowermart.

TV table:

I've just discovered that the lights on the bookshelf are dead.

The backyard is in the process of being re-done for the Summer.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

^ That is so cool. I'm a big ~ less is more ~ as far as lighting is concerned. Love the lights round the plants and blinds.

 

[trekkiedane]

I once made a lamp out of an umbrella -put a chain of about eighty little lights into it after I had removed the 'stick and handle' part.
Looked great over my big table.

But at the moment I have none up.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't have any holiday lights or decorations of any kind.

I mean, I'm not a bah-humbug type, I just figure it's useless to put up such things when I live alone and nobody ever comes by to *look* at any decorations I might put up. I don't have Christmas trees, lights, or anything like that. Guess I'm just too lazy.

 

[Kieran]

Ever hear of Perez Hilton?

 

[RJDiogenes]

sorry RJD who beat me to it.

No problem. You had a better link.

 

[An Officer]

I'm a sucker for a touch of bling (must have been a magpie in a previous life ), so a few fairy lights are fine by me.