Hollywood Cocktails for New Year’s December 30, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com New Year’s Eve is the time when everything old and new converge. It is a time to celebrate the past and the future in one memorable New Year’s Eve party. And to create that memorable party—the one that everyone talks about--you need memorable drinks. So to help set the stage for that … [Read more...] about Hollywood Cocktails for New Year’s
Silver Bells and Silver Screens: Where to find Hollywood Christmas Magic December 18, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com What is the ideal Christmas landscape? This question triggers so many images—the Hallmark Christmas Card scene of rooftops cake-frosted in snow. For children, perhaps it is some scene out of the North Pole, with Santa standing in the polar wind and snow-flakes, dressed in bold red and white ermine, … [Read more...] about Silver Bells and Silver Screens: Where to find Hollywood Christmas Magic
Christmas Light Installation Do’s and Don’ts November 26, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com Who hasn’t seen those Holiday movies that make comedic fodder out of our annual struggles with Christmas light installation and décor? Who hasn’t laughed at those hapless would-be burglars in Home Alone, stepping on a jagged minefield of tree ornaments, or the iconic film poster of National … [Read more...] about Christmas Light Installation Do’s and Don’ts
2014 Los Angeles Holiday Lighting Ceremonies November 6, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com The Holidays are a time to collect images with your friends and family. Bowls of gold-wrapped chocolates, toffees, and caramels nested around Poinsettia centerpieces. The smell of wood-smoke and Christmas Tree pine. Storybooks read around the fireplace. Family walks along Main Street, under the red … [Read more...] about 2014 Los Angeles Holiday Lighting Ceremonies
Should I Hire a Christmas Lighting Professional? October 31, 2014 by Mobile Illumination This season, let a Christmas lighting professional do the hard work while you focus on family and friends.The winter season brings shorter days, longer nights, and the twinkling splendor of Christmas lights! Holiday lighting can transform a home’s plain winter landscape into an elegant wonderland. … [Read more...] about Should I Hire a Christmas Lighting Professional?
Top Five Holiday Light Destinations in Los Angeles October 29, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com Christmas is all about transformation. Ebeneezer Scrooge changing overnight from neighborhood miser to philanthropist. Natalie Wood’s childhood skepticism transformed into the miracle of belief in A Miracle on 34th Street. And yes, George Bailey of It’s A Wonderful Life discovering that wealth is … [Read more...] about Top Five Holiday Light Destinations in Los Angeles
Top Five California Made Holiday Cocktails October 15, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com It’s time to start thinking about the perfect Holiday party. Think about holly and mistletoe, evergreen wreaths and poinsettias. Think about fat Yule logs crackling in the fireplace. Think about ornamented fir trees towering over a company of good friends. Think about those friends, hoisting … [Read more...] about Top Five California Made Holiday Cocktails
Vintage Christmas Decorations September 25, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com Let’s talk vintage Christmas decorations. Let’s recall some of the great decorative hits of the 1970’s and 80’s. Let’s remember those red and green bubble Christmas lights--The ones that looked like they could have been made in Edison’s New Jersey laboratory. How about those light sets with the … [Read more...] about Vintage Christmas Decorations
The Gift of Giving – Wounded Warrior Project September 16, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com When you were a child, it was all about the gift. Counting off the days until Christmas with your Advent Calendar. Lighting the Menorah from left to right during Hanukkah, a new gift for each new candle. What could be better than opening the perfect gift? Well, there are better things. As great … [Read more...] about The Gift of Giving – Wounded Warrior Project
It’s Never Too Early for Christmas August 31, 2014 by marketing@mobileillumination.com Yes, holidays. All of them have light in common. The soft gold flicker of a romantic candlelit dinner on Saint Valentine’s Day. The red, white, and blue fireworks exploding across the American sky. Source: Epic Fireworks That orange glow from the Jack-o-lantern. Source: Jeff Kramer And … [Read more...] about It’s Never Too Early for Christmas