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23 November, 2013

Wonderful Note from California

I just love love love getting these letters(see below) from 'new friends' who have stumbled onto us via the internet.  It just makes my heart happy to see community time and know that they will bring much joy there.  I wish I could go see every Lighted Christmas Ball in the world.  At least I sure would like to have a push pin of all the places we know they exist.  
Thanks Denice, I can wait to see the Main Street photos.  
Anne & Jonathan 

Hi,
My name is Denice Cull, I am a realtor in Sebastopol California. I came across your video of the lighted balls when searching prices on the store bought version. Our city needed help badly and I sent an e-mail to our mayor and within a week a small committee of people from our downtown association and chamber of commerce met to hear my idea. Three months and 108 balls later, we have just started hanging them on our Main St. and plan on making a bunch more in the next week. THANK YOU! I consider myself a highly experienced light ball assembly-person now, as well as having to figure out all the technical glitches of extension cords and connectors!
The pics below are my favorite color combinations which I have in my own trees at home, we chose multi-colored strands for the ones downtown and I haven't taken pics of those yet.
We also started late in the year and would like to eventually incorporate the hunger charity cause in the future.
Denice Cull
Realtor-Sales Associate
CPS Real Estate
5925 Fredricks Rd.
Sebastopol, CA  95472

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2 comments:

  1. Denice,

    I too live in California in the East Bay by San Francisco. I have been slowly making Lighted Christmas Balls for the past two years. This is the first year I plan to actually use them in a very tall, California Cork Oak tree right next to our driveway. Our neighborhood is set up on a fairly high hill, so cars driving by should be able to see it. We have approximately 25 houses and 84 townhouses here. I'm hoping that everyone here will be amazed at how beautiful they look and either want to make some for their trees this years, or plan on making them next year. I'd love to be able to plan an afternoon here every year, just like the one that they have back east. This neighborhood would look spectacular if a lot of people decorated their trees with these balls. I definitely know that it would draw a lot of attention because we are up on a hill and so many people would be able to see it.

    Justin, you mentioned that you will be showing people how to launch the balls into the trees tomorrow. Do you think that you could possibly post a video here, showing the process. I've watched a few that show it from a distance but I can't quite seem to fill in the blanks properly and the instruction sheet has no details on it. Is there a rope tied to each ball that remains there while they're hanging in the tree, so that you can retrieve them when the season ends? After you launch the rope over the branch, do you then tie the Christmas ball to the end and pull it up to the branch? If so, how far do you pull it up and is the other end of the rope anchored on the ground? Sorry for all of the questions, but this part of the process is what has held me back from using them the last two years. Any directions/help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

    I would like to wish everyone that is making Christmas balls this year, good luck in their endeavor and God bless......


    Michelle

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  2. Denice,

    I too live in California in the East Bay by San Francisco. I have been slowly making Lighted Christmas Balls for the past two years. This is the first year I plan to actually use them in a very tall, California Cork Oak tree right next to our driveway. Our neighborhood is set up on a fairly high hill, so cars driving by should be able to see it. We have approximately 25 houses and 84 townhouses here. I'm hoping that everyone here will be amazed at how beautiful they look and either want to make some for their trees this years, or plan on making them next year. I'd love to be able to plan an afternoon here every year, just like the one that they have back east. This neighborhood would look spectacular if a lot of people decorated their trees with these balls. I definitely know that it would draw a lot of attention because we are up on a hill and so many people would be able to see it.

    Jonathan, you mentioned that you will be showing people how to launch the balls into the trees tomorrow. Do you think that you could possibly post a video here, showing the process. I've watched a few that show it from a distance but I can't quite seem to fill in the blanks properly and the instruction sheet has no details on it. Is there a rope tied to each ball that remains there while they're hanging in the tree, so that you can retrieve them when the season ends? After you launch the rope over the branch, do you then tie the Christmas ball to the end and pull it up to the branch? If so, how far do you pull it up and is the other end of the rope anchored on the ground? Sorry for all of the questions, but this part of the process is what has held me back from using them the last two years. Any directions/help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

    I would like to wish everyone that is making Christmas balls this year, good luck in their endeavor and God bless......


    Michelle

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Hi - Thanks for stopping by. We'd love to include images or video of your Lighted Christmas Balls. Mailto:lightedchristmasballs@gmail.com along with your street address, city, and state.