A few years ago my wife who is artistically inclined made me some Christmas lights out of my empty shotgun shells.
About 10-years ago, one of my grandchildren gave me a string of faux-shotgun-shell Christmas tree lights in my stocking...
My wife is a Christmas decorating fanatic starting around Thanksgiving. She starts Christmas music in August. She calls me a grinch for not going crazy like her. To aggravate I have an 8 point buck mounted in my office at home and I bought some shotgun shell lights and strung them in the antlers, put a Santa cap on him and a pirate eye patch over one eye. She hates Sparky but I insist he is my contribution to the house decorations.