Well we just got two new additions. We got these two 18″ Grand Venture Snowmen last week. They are in pretty good shape, a few paint chips but not too shabby. Stamped 1999 so they have already seen a few Christmases and will get to see a few more 🙂

They will need to be fitted with a new light cord that is on my To-Do list for later this week.

Well since we got the new light strings set from the USA they are made to run on 110V. As most of you know here in Europe we run on 220V. The good thing about the USA lights is, that the wires used in them can withstand 300V so by making the 100 lights run in series instead of 50 and 50 I can then hook them up directly to our 220V without frying them out. Another added benefit to that is, that I can hook 5 strings together instead of only 3 like in the USA.

So for me that means cutting, stripping, and soldering 60 sets of lights. But what is a balcony for, right?

Well we just got some new lights for this year. Another 60 sets of multi colored lights to be exact, so that is another 6000 bulbs we get to enjoy. Thanks to Indytycoon over at Planetchristmas for helping us get them from the US over here 🙂