# christmas lights (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover christmas lights. Page: Feed: --- ## [Friday In The Rain!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/friday-in-rain.html) _2026-08-22 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ The rain came in torrents yesterday morning. I had finished writing yesterday's blog (my desk is in the basement) and when I went upstairs it looked like 5pm in the winter outside. I texted over to Jen - no walk, rain incoming! And right when I sent the text, the sky opened and whooo-doggie! It POURED! Thus began my "accomplishing little to nothing" day. This was the scene I walked into later as… ## [We're Just Getting Started!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/were-just-getting-started.html) _2026-08-21 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ Well this makes things interesting! I'm really excited to see my "Just Another String Star" coming together. I was a bit intimidated at first - not that I haven't done Y seams before, but it had been a while and there was the additional stretch and bulk of diamonds with bias on ALL edges, and also all of the seams in the diamonds from the string piecing. I've developed a system and things are now… ## [Sew Fabulous!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/sew-fabulous.html) _2026-08-20 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ This week got a little bit hijacked with our Gift-Away Trifecta and the drawing sign-up snafus...but here we are, all of the quilts and projects over the porch rail with the August Quiltvillians 2.0! We worked around the weather, finding an afternoon full of sunshine so we could get these photos taken. We had so many newbies, and that was exciting! I always love seeing things and feeling the… ## [Days Filled To The Brim!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/days-filled-to-brim.html) _2026-08-19 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ This is what happens when a hand stitching date is accepted! And it came right on time because some really weird storm system blew through and blipped the power (Thank you Generac for doing your job!) and the rain came in torrents. We were cozy in the Hen Den! Of course, what is a girl to do with a hand stitching invite, when she has nothing to hand stitch?? Quickly grab some papers and pieces and… ## [A Gift-Away Trifecta!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-gift-away-trifecta.html) _2026-08-18 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ There is a lot going on today! My head is spinning! But it's all coming together in a VERY VERY good way. It's Sunnyside pattern release and gift-away day and we've got lovely Notable Neutrals fabric rolls from Cotton to Quilts to include with THAT event. And my publisher C&T is also hosting a gift away for my new book Scrap-Savvy over on their site! (More details below, keep reading!) And we'll… ## [Can't Believe It's Monday!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/cant-believe-its-monday.html) _2026-08-17 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ So much for the weekend! It was gone in a flash - And speaking of Flash....he has started to exhibit some new "normal" cat behaviors after being with us for about a year and a half now. Learning is slow when you don't have a mama cat around to teach you - Click to Read the Whole Story! ## [Rain, Shine & Quilting!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/rain-shine-quilting.html) _2026-08-15 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ Who wants to start the day with a dirt road hike?!? I found five willing quilters eager to get some steps in. No rain in the forecast? Great! Let's go! It was a beautiful morning, a bit overcast, but we didn't mind. And this route is mostly shady by tree cover anyway. Only one vehicle passed us as we headed up the long and winding gravel/dirt road in between two mountains and alongside a creek.… ## [A Full Up House!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-full-up-house.html) _2026-08-14 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ This retreat is off with a bang! A bang of laughter! This is what I walked in to find yesterday morning as the August Quiltvillians 2.0 were just sitting down to brunch in the dining room due to rain. 2.0?? Yes! Because we have 2 groups of Quiltvillians from my Quiltville’s Open Studio group that visit in August. The first group is at the last few days of July and crosses over into August, and… ## [Lost In Strings -](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/lost-in-strings.html) _2026-08-13 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ I am back in the string of things! I found myself with a couple of hours yesterday after everything at the retreat was made ready. All of these little bits and pieces and strings and strips have got to be sewn into something. The best thing about string piecing? ANYTHING can be made with strings. You can cover any shape. You can color it anyway you want. There are no right or wrong ways to do it… ## [Binding Bliss!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/binding-on.html) _2026-08-12 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ I already knew that Bliss was a heavy quilt. Seam allowances are about 3/8'' instead of a 1/4'' so they wrap around the hexie papers enough to hold it more securely. This puts the basting tacking stitches closer to the center of the hexagon on the back to firmly hold them in place. These are small pieces, and with all of that folding of corners on the back side, there is more fabric on the back of… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IS56fe7776va) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Quilting With the TaDa's!](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/quilting-with-tadas.html) _2026-08-11 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ It was short, it was sweet, it was crammed full of quilty fun! The Tada Quilters were down from Erie, Pennsylvania and beyond and through they were only with us until Sunday morning, they packed a full week's worth of activities into their stay. Not only did they quilt into the wee small hours, but they took time out to cook amazing dishes, while others headed out on early morning dirt road hikes,… ## [All Through The Weekend -](https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-this-photo-because-i-found-car-on.html) _2026-08-10 · Bonnie K. Hunter · Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!_ Why this photo? Because I found the car on empty - warning light on and everything and I had to go up and over and around to get to the nearest gas station. Still - everything has become the deep green of August and I love this view in all seasons so I had to stop on the road, roll the window down and take a quick snap before moving on. It just never ceases to catch my breath. And I'm just really… ## [Preparing for Preschool](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/preparing-for-preschool) _2026-08-03 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Getting Ready for This Important Transition ## [Purging "PMEDIA" spam from my music library with Beets and Mutagen](https://adebenham.com/blog/2026/07/beets-pmedia-cleanup/) _2026-07-04 · chris@adebenham.com (Chris Debenham) · Dual Elephants - Chris Debenhams homepage_ I have been cleaning up my music collection, which I have ripped from CDs over the years, finally getting around to tagging them properly. I used MusicBrainz Picard to tag my music, but what I didn’t know is that it was adding a bunch of tags which contain ‘PMEDIA’ (even in places like the composer field, which makes no sense). Seeing this as annoying, I needed a way to clean up… ## [Patriotic Preschoolers: Celebrate the USA’s 250 Birthday with Young Children](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/patriotic-preschoolers-celebrate) _2026-06-29 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Best Snacks When Traveling with Preschoolers](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/best-snacks-when-traveling-with-preschoolers) _2026-06-03 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Automating storage backups with Kyverno sidecars](https://adebenham.com/blog/2026/05/volsync-kyverno/) _2026-05-06 · chris@adebenham.com (Chris Debenham) · Dual Elephants - Chris Debenhams homepage_ In my homelab, I’ve been using Longhorn as my primary Kubernetes storage solution. It’s fantastic for high-availability block storage, but I still wanted a way to keep my data synchronized with my central NAS for long-term backups and to make it easier to recover from total cluster failures. Initially, I was manually adding a pair of initContainers as sidecars to every single service… ## [Raising Readers and Writers](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/raising-readers-and-writers) _2026-05-04 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Create Your Own Books to Engage Young Children in Reading and Writing ## [The Joy of Grandparenting!](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/the-joy-of-grandparenting) _2026-04-01 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Nature’s Night Light: Teaching Young Children the Moon Phases](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/natures-night-light-teaching-young) _2026-03-04 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Plus a Giveaway! ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RvJ05qtnDo9M) _2026-03-04 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Help Your Child's Imagination Grow with Fairy tales and Folktales](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/help-your-childs-imagination-grow) _2026-02-03 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Plus a Giveaway! ## [Create Your Own Stick Puppets to Engage Young Children in Reading](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/create-your-own-stick-puppets-to) _2026-01-05 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Active Waiting with Open Hands](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/active-waiting-with-open-hands) _2025-12-24 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ A Reflection on Mary's "Yes", Mary in the Quran & her Immaculate Conception ## [From Our Home to Yours](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/from-our-home-to-yours) _2025-12-22 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ With over a dozen holidays celebrated around the world this month, it’s a season of great anticipation and joy. ## [Freakonomics talks about Christmas Lights](https://planetchristmas.com/freakonomics-talks-about-christmas-lights/) _2025-12-22 · Chuck Smith · PlanetChristmas_ Freakonomics The Economics of Everyday Things did an episode on Christmas lights. About 15 minutes in you get to hear a little from Chuck Smith at PlanetChristmas. Listen to the podcast at the Freakonomics website, or look for episode 119 on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. For the audio-challenged, here s the transcript pulled from the Freakonomics website: The post Freakonomics talks about Christmas… ## [Advent Story: Christmas Hardships](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/advent-story-christmas-hardships) _2025-12-19 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson ## [Advent Carol: Little Drummer Boy](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/advent-carol-little-drummer-boy) _2025-12-16 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ Featuring Alex Boyé’s African tribal version ## [Rejoice!](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/rejoice) _2025-12-14 · No Room At The Inn_ Homily: 3rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete) ## [Advent Carol: Children Go Where I Send Thee](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/advent-carol-children-go-where-i) _2025-12-12 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ And a little child shall lead them - Isaiah 11:6 ## [Last Day to Enter! The World’s Best Christmas Light](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/last-day-to-enter-the-worlds-best) _2025-12-10 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ A Light-Up Board Book ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TpaDetqkt0Oe) _2025-12-10 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Blessed Are the Eyes That See](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/blessed-are-the-eyes-that-see) _2025-12-09 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ 10/12/25: A Morning Meditation from Magnificat magazine. ## [A Radical Peace](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/a-radical-peace) _2025-12-07 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ Reflection for the 2nd Week in Advent ## [A Social Network Christmas](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/a-social-network-christmas) _2025-12-04 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ The nativity through the eyes of early social media ## [Faith In Action](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/faith-in-action) _2025-12-04 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ Living the Gospel through hands-on service, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and building hope in communities worldwide. ## [Advent Movie](https://theadventmessage.substack.com/p/advent-movie) _2025-12-04 · Jude Manickam · No Room At The Inn_ The Fourth Wise Man ## [P.S. Correct Link to Giveaway](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/ps-correct-link-to-giveaway) _2025-12-03 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ The code I tried to embed in my newsletter, “How-to Find the BEST Christmas Lights” didn’t work. ## [How to Find the BEST Christmas Lights](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/how-to-find-the-best-christmas-lights) _2025-12-03 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ And a giveaway! ## [So Many Santas!](https://planetchristmas.com/so-many-santas/) _2025-11-20 · Chuck Smith · PlanetChristmas_ One guy, a camera, computer and too much time. John Wernega plays his music arrangement of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas. This video shows some of the fun, crazy things that Santa likes to do throughout the year when he is not delivering presents. Videography, choreography, costume design, and video editing by John Wernega The multitrack The post So Many Santas! appeared first on PlanetChristmas . ## [P.S. Autumn Decorating with Young Children](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/ps-autumn-decorating-with-young-children) _2025-11-02 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ A very important addition to yesterday's newsletter! ## [Autumn Decorating with Young Children](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/autumn-decorating-with-young-children) _2025-11-01 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [From Physical Books to a Digital Library: Introducing the Book Barcode Scanner & EPUB Generator](https://adebenham.com/posts/make-placeholder-epub/) _2025-10-24 · chris@adebenham.com (Chris Debenham) · Dual Elephants - Chris Debenhams homepage_ A new tool to help you digitize your physical book library. ## [Apple Picking with Young Children Plus Our Favorite Apple Crisp Recipe](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/apple-picking-with-young-children) _2025-10-04 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [An Easy Way to Raise Your Child’s Self-Esteem](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/an-easy-way-to-raise-your-childs) _2025-09-05 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [The Story Behind the Story of My New Spooky/Sweet Picture Book](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-story-of-my) _2025-08-05 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Summer (Non)Schedule](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/summer-nonschedule) _2025-07-05 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Just a note](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/just-a-note) _2025-06-23 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ STEM/SEL Book review/giveaway ## [Where are Christmas Lights Made?](https://planetchristmas.com/where-are-christmas-lights-made/) _2025-06-06 · Chuck Smith · PlanetChristmas_ Ever wonder where all the Christmas lights come from in the 21st century? My first thought was Walmart Thanks to our friends at Christmas Designers, we can gain insight into how, where, and why they re made. Watch the video and be just a little bit smarter. The post Where are Christmas Lights Made? appeared first on PlanetChristmas . ## [Moving with Young Children: 12 Strategies for a Smooth Transition](https://amyhouts.substack.com/p/moving-with-young-children-12-strategies) _2025-06-01 · Amy Houts · Author Amy Houts_ Preschool Parade: A celebration of books, activities, and ideas for parents of young children by Author Amy Houts ## [Time to fix that Christmas Light string](https://planetchristmas.com/time-to-fix-that-christmas-light-string/) _2025-02-23 · Chuck Smith · PlanetChristmas_ The best time to fix troublesome Christmas light strings is during the off-season. Here s a pretty good video for attacking those cheap incandescent light strings: The post Time to fix that Christmas Light string appeared first on PlanetChristmas . ## [Getting metrics out of longhorn without prometheus](https://adebenham.com/blog/2025/01/longhorn-metrics/) _2025-01-15 · chris@adebenham.com (Chris Debenham) · Dual Elephants - Chris Debenhams homepage_ Recently, I migrated all my homelab Kubernetes storage to Longhorn. While Longhorn provides excellent features, monitoring its performance is crucial for identifying potential issues and optimizing resource utilization. Longhorn offers Prometheus as the recommended monitoring solution. However, since I use InfluxDB for my time-series data needs, I needed to find a way to integrate Longhorn metrics…