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The Fourth of July is a great time to celebrate with our friends and family and to remember how the United States came to be the free country it is today. We all have our own ways of celebrating but almost every celebration could be made more fun and amazing by decorating with white, blue, and red colored Christmas mini lights and traditional C7 and C9 light sets. If you have never thought of using Christmas Lights for your Independence Day celebrations, then go up into the attic, pull them down and consider some of these ideas.

Outdoor Decorations If you are having an outdoor barbecue, you may rely on sunlight to brighten your day time activities. But you can also use the Christmas lights to brighten up the area after the sun starts sinking. For example, if you have bushes, hedges, or trees in your outdoor area then string these with the mini lights and different colors of net lights. Do you have an outdoor grill or patio set? Run lights around these outdoor items so they stand out in the dusk, adding color and fun to your festivities and making it a little easier to see what you're doing. Mini lights attached to the support of your patio umbrella are really stunning and make after dark conversations magical. Mini lights and C7 and C9 light sets also look beautiful when strung around gazebos, along the roofline in colors tailored to the season - in this case, red, white and blue and can can spruce up your child's swing set making it into an object of architectural beauty for adult parties! If your car, boat, or other vehicle is visible from your party location, you can always string lights along it as well.

Indoor Decorations While most of our Independence Day festivities our outdoors, if the weather is too hot or too stormy for those barbecues, we can still spruce up our indoor party with the patriotic-themed

Christmas Lights. Look around you living room. Drape lights around your television and along the shelves of your entertainment center. Hang mini lights on the walls using simple push pins or tacks that can be removed once the party is over. Just place the pins to create the design you want and lay the lights over them. Fill unused vases with mini lights and run and extension cord to the nearest outlet to accent your food tables or your furniture. This is a great tip year round - change out the lights depending on the colors associated with the season. Stair railings are also great because you can weave the lights around them or drape them over the rails depending on the look you want. With the lights off or turned down, the lights look amazing and can be useful in helping your guests find their ways to the next level of the party. Barbeques, parties - good times with friends and family. No matter what you do to celebrate the 4th or other patriotic Holidays be sure to make them sparkle with your Christmas Lights.

Shellie Gardner, owner of Christmas Light Source, has a passion for decorating with Mini Lights and Traditional C7 And C9 Light Cords And Bulbs. A firm believer in using Christmas lights year round, she and her team spend a lot of time figuring out ways to use them all year long.