The Green Light Project

Today's blog is all about driving away the darkness.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

The blog may appear philosophical to you (and probably it actually is) but it essentially is a decor blog, at the core of it for sure. A dash of DIY (Do It Yourself) to help decorate the dark rooms around us - aah did we turn philosophical again!

All I have used is a few empty mason jars (you can use any glass jar or wide-mouthed glass bottles for that matter). Thin metallic utility wire is used to make handles for the jars, so they can be hung up from a hook, or tied together in a cluster, Strings of rice-bulbs are put into them, and lit up. Within minutes you have an all-season, no-cost, zero-maintenance, outdoor-lighting, ready! I have these metallic cages hanging all around in the balconies. I have put potted plants, with the foliage hanging out of it, in some while the others are left bare. Stuffing a portion of the light strings, adds to the charm no end.

I use strings of fairy lights (or any string of light bulbs) as my magic wand to transform places into my personal heaven, literally. I have shared some pictures below to give you a glimpse of how it has been used outdoors, in different parts of our balconies, amidst the greens. The "Inside-story" shall be shared some other time.

Believe me, this place feels no less than heaven in the nights, when you are cushioned-up in your cozy chair, sipping your favourite adrak waali chai, as the gentle sea-breeze caresses you, while Kishore Kumar in his most sentimental mood, croons right in your ears, via the bluetooth speakers!

**The pictures are accompanied with some of my favourite light quotes on a (not so) lighter note! :)

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I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood,

and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to every ocassion,

though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor.

~Erin Morgenstern

"To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. 

A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one."

~Edward Walker

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There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. 

When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all." 

~ Erin Morgenstern

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

~ Kami Garcia

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I played around with the flowers and the lighting, 

so that was a good way to educate myself. 

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.

~Desiderius Erasmus

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To shine your brightest light is to be who you really are.

~Roy T. Bennette

We are indeed the light of the world - but only if our switch is turned on.

~Anon

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. 

What matters is the part we choose to act on. 

That's who we reall are. 

~ J.K. Rowling

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

 ~Francis Bacon

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There are darkness in life and there are lights, 

and you are one of the lights, 

the light of all lights. 

~ Bram Stoker

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~ Terry Pratchett

It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world. 

~Gary Starta

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Don't wait for someone to Green-Light your project. Start now and spread the joy. Edith Wharton says, "There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." So spread the light of this blog, eitherways! :) 

©Fursatnama 

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