Just a quick post to share about the 'fire' that's now in my fireplace. Back when I was shooting the Storyteller, I needed a fire in his fireplace, so I cut some clear and coloured cellophane into flame shapes and hot glued them between some of the logs I had pilled in the fire grate. Then I suspended a tied up bunch of 'warm white' Christmas lights down behind it to make a 'fire'....
However, I felt it could still be better, and with Christmas photos coming up, I wanted to make some improvements. I thought maybe a set of really tiny lights might look more realistic, so bought a package from the Dollar store. It was a string of ten tiny lights operated by batteries. Then I trimmed the cellophane 'flames' down some, and cut holes in the fire/log unit, and inserted the ten tiny lights, securing them with hot glue....
The battery pack fit nicely in the grate behind the flame & log unit....
However, once installed back in the fireplace, the ten tiny lights didn't seem quite enough.... although I did like that there were finally some 'glowing embers' at the bottom...
So the string of Christmas lights was suspended down behind them again....
So now I have two options when it comes to the size of the fire in the background.
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