Adding Fun Creative Lighting For Entertaining

One of the most magical things you do to transform your home at Christmastime, is to use Christmas lights all around your house…inside and out.  Adding creative lighting for entertaining family and friends in our homes is a yearly ritual.  Who doesn’t like the ambience lights add to the home?

Candles are great for homes, but adding color takes your ambience up a level.  In our Valentines Day Gadgets for the Loves in Your Life, we introduced you to the PLAYBULB Candle, a LED battery-operated candle that can turn to many beautiful glowing colors with a touch of your finger on the PLAYBULB X app (available in iTunes and Google Play).  

We use a Candle everyday at our dinner table.  Blowing out the candle is our favorite part!

The candle adds fun creative lighting for entertaining…or for everyday life. We use a PLAYBBULB candle on our dinner table each night.  The color makes our nightly dinners more lively and the kids love the blow out feature.  Just pick up the candle and blow it out…,and it actually goes out!

The PLAYBULB – Lighting for Entertaining

PLAYBULB Candles are good to put on tables or use 5 or 6 of them in a line for a fireplace mantle.  They provide subtle lighting that is appealing to the eye.  But for more creative lighting for entertaining, PLAYBULB has recently introduced the PLAYBULB Sphere.  The PLAYBULB Sphere introduces a burst of light wrapped up in one spellbinding glowing globe.

There is something so captivating about the 6 inch diameter PLAYBULB Sphere.  It’s simply a frosted glass orb that glows an illuminous color…of your choice.  

Because it’s made of glass and sealed, the Sphere has a high rating of IP65, which means it is water resistant and can be used poolside or near the garden.  It includes a wireless battery that can last up to 8 hours when lit.  Charging is easy, just place your PLAYBULB in it’s charging base to charge.  There are no wires between the PLAYBULB and base, only between the base and the plug or your computer.

As with the PLAYBULB Candle, the Sphere uses the same PLAYBULB X app to control the color, scenes, and timing.  You can choose up to 5 lighting effects.    Choose your own unique color using the color wheel.  Or, simply tap on the Sphere (or Candle) to change the color to one of 5 manual presets.  Scenes to choose from include Flashing, Pulse, Rainbow, and Rainbow Fade.

Group Effects

PLAYBULB understands that although one Candle or Sphere is fun, having more than one is double the fun.  To control multiple PLAYBULB products, you can connect all of them through the Group tab in your PLAYBULB X app.  Now you can change the color or scene all at the same time.

Using the Group mode gives you the convenience to have all of your PLAYBULB products to come on and go off at the same time.  You can change the all to aqua blue or have them flash red if you want to warn people of something.  Have them fade into the different colors of the rainbow, it’s all up to you.

So, how did we use the PLAYBULB Candle and Sphere?  I’ll show you….

Cool Sphere effects by the pool.

A little ambience for our family room.

Ping pong ambience – who can hit the sphere?  My son loved knocking on the table and seeing the colors change!

My daughter LOVES the Sphere in her room as a nightlight. 

The PLAYBULB Candle uses 3 AA batteries and is priced $19.79 at Amazon.  The PLAYBULB Sphere sells for $49.99 including free shipping at Amazon.

A Mom’s Perspective

There is one serious problem with the PLAYBULB products….one simply isn’t enough! The PLAYBULB lights are so alluring, so inviting, so luminous, that before too long, you’ll think of tons of places you’d like your PLAYBULBS to be.

I envision a line of about 5 PLAYBULB spheres along our pool.  I see them lining up our walkway to the house on a special event night.

Add to the fun of the night by lining up three spheres by the TV on movie night.  Or space them around the kitchen.  How about using them to give off light during yoga?

I would love to put a circle of PLAYBULB Candles around a table or line them up in a line near our bathtub.  The possibilities are endless!

How would you use PLAYBULB lighting for entertaining…or just everyday life?

* I was given PLAYBULB Candles and spheres for purposes of review.  All opinions are my own.