How to turn "white" Christmas lights different color temporarily

And so back to decorating our home (yep...we are JUST putting some lights up and the tree) <- we are bad! haha!

Here you can look at my mood board for this Christmas decor idea. To re-fresh your memory - I called it lemon-lime winter. I'm using yellow, green and white color scheme. Today I accomplished: 

a) made salt dough ornaments in lemon/lime shapes 

b) painted them

c) changed colors of lights

d) put our fake tree up 

e) and few lights in the kitchen. 

Tree still needs the topper and fireplace few details, but I'll continue tomorrow.

For now I will share a quick tip of how to change those boring "white" or "yellowish" Christmas lights (that you've been using every year and now you are tired of them and your soul craves some pops of colors) into a different color temporarily, just so it will suit your color scheme you are working with this year.

All you need is:

1) your lights

2) Scotch tape

3) acrylic paint (+brush)

4) patience :)

 

Acrylic paint dries fast, scotch tape is easy to remove when you are done with your lights. Either keep it for next year, get rid of the painted tape and use regular lights or change colors again for the next year's color scheme. I'm happy the way my lights turned out. For this project I spent ZERO dollars...which makes me even happier :D

What do you think? Have other idea on how to change colors of your Xmas lights for one season? Please share!

Watercolour Wreath

I thought I'd wait until I'm completely done decorating but I can't wait that long haha, so here is a little sneak peak at what kind of wreath I made. 

Basically I painted leaves and lemon/lime with watercolour and glued to a ring. Very simple. A little time consuming but when you have a cool husband who doesn't mind hanging with the teething kid, you'll have time to do a little project at a time. After all it's for us, not just for me ;)

Lemon-Lime Winter

You don't need all the money in the world to be able to decorate every year in a different theme. If you love DIY projects as much as I do, you'll know what I'm talking about. Here is a little update on what decor I will be creating this year for this Christmas Holidays. I wanted to do something non traditional and very different. So I picked citrus theme :) I'm about half way done. Will be doing a big post after all is in it's place. 

Check my mood board:

Lemon-Lime Winter Christmas by marixa featuring earrings