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Hello Lovelies!
My name is Hayley, and I am your friendly carpenter at Wooden it Be Crate. My little business all started when I wanted to 'do up' my garden for my 25th birthday during Lockdown.
I started off from a very wobbly pergola, shed lots of tears along the way (mainly from having the wrong attire and cutting myself!) but now have managed to purchase the correct equipment for the job and absolutely love creating beautiful unique pieces that are all sustainably sourced, ethically made, and are animal and cruelty free.
My rock, my partner Oliver, has been beside me on this journey and pulled me through all the heartache when something hasn't gone right. We live in Shropshire with our 6 children (2 human and 4 who like to think they're human!).
My children think I am Wonder Woman by being able to fix things and making people smile with my creations - and who am I to tell them any different?! So, here I am, desperately acting like a swan on a lake by looking cool, calm and collected on top of the water, when actually, I am frantically paddling underneath to try stay afloat in the big world that is full of beautiful, small, independent businesses.
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Personal choice has a lot to play here of course, but as a minimum, we recommend the golden rule which is 5 metres of lights for every 2ft of Christmas tree. So, for an average 6ft Christmas tree, we’d recommend going for 15 metres of lights.
However, if you have a tree over 6ft, we’d suggest adding another 5-metre string for every foot thereafter. This will ensure that your tree has sufficient lights to go all the way around your tree as well as all the way up to the top.
If you’re a fairy light kind of family, double up!
There are so many different types of lights that you can get for your tree – sparkling, twinkling, multi-coloured, cluster, candle clipped, capped etc. Any of which, will look fabulous on your tree, but make sure if you’re choosing new lights to buy for your real Christmas tree that they have LED bulbs. Modern LEDs do not emit as much heat as the older type bulbs and this is especially better for your tree as they won’t contribute to drying it out.
If you’re wondering how to string your lights over your tree, there is no real right or wrong way, but we do have a few tips for you!
You need to decide whether you would like to string your lights around your tree from left to right or if you’d prefer the more European way of hanging them, vertically from top to bottom. Next decision is whether you would like to string them along the outside of the branches or whether you want to weave them in and out of the branches to create more depth to your tree.
We love weaving our lights and find the effect is pretty much the same whether we string vertically or horizontally, as long as we weave from the trunk to the tip as we go.
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