<div dir="ltr">It'd be something to keep in mind for next years Lumiere Festival - <a href="http://www.lumiereottawa.com/">http://www.lumiereottawa.com/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@inventorartist.com" target="_blank">darcy@inventorartist.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Last year I made these cool lanterns for Christmas. <div><br></div><div>They look like this <a href="http://inventorartist.com/parol-gallery/" target="_blank">http://inventorartist.com/parol-gallery/</a></div>
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<div>I want to do a run of them again this year and I'm looking for ideas. Probably just a small run so I can give them to Christmas visitors and roll them out at a couple of parties.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year people said they'd like to have the kits more complete. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My logic was that people already have tissue paper and I didn't want to put it in the kits since then I'd be choosing people's colors. And if I put random colors then people will rummage through and become indecisive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So this year I am considering having precut tissue in the kits.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">What do you think?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The other thing is to make them easier to assemble. The current version (which I've only prototyped) looks like this:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2223-1000.jpg" target="_blank">http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2223-1000.jpg</a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2214-1000.jpg" target="_blank">http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2214-1000.jpg</a></div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Is there an easier way to put this together?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This might be a little aggressive for this year but what about having a lighting kit? I made a couple of these last year: <a href="http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2222-1000.jpg" target="_blank">http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2222-1000.jpg</a></div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The thing is batteries don't get too far... I guess wall warts could be a way to go.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>If anybody wants do do a workshop for these that could be fun too. Perhaps a version that has IR remote to control the lights...</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><br></div><div><div>--</div><div>Darcy Whyte</div><div><br></div><div>Art+ <a href="http://inventorartist.com/" target="_blank">inventorArtist.com</a> | Aviation <a href="http://rubber-power.com/" target="_blank">rubber-power.com</a></div>
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