November 10, 2009

Albany NEW YORK

Joe Penny builds sparkleballs inside glass globes and calls his creations
Borealis Lamps. "Mood Lamp" (above) is just one of the many variations. See videos of his Mood Lamp and Reverse Dance Lamp.

November 10, 2009

Tingalpa, Brisbane AUSTRALIA

Rob Cox has to work with a smaller, more rigid plastic cup than the standard 9 oz. cup available in the US. This one features 7 oz blue and peach-colored cups. To build a sparkleball with odd-sized cups see the modified instructions. [rollover image]

November 10, 2009

San Diego CALIFORNIA

Pete Schmalenberger arranged his wife's sparkleball in a patio tableau with his newspaper-plastic-bag sculpture.

November 10, 2009

San Diego CALIFORNIA

A solar sparkleball using a string of 25 solar icicle lights from Target. Best part is no electrical cord. Just a little solar panel that rests on top or hangs from the sparkleball. [rollover image]

November 10, 2009

Fullerton CALIFORNIA

Every year the neighbors on North Yale Ave turn their block into Sparkleball Street. It takes 2 days and four commercial boom lifts to hang the 450+ sparkleballs. The action starts the day after Thanksgiving, so stop by! [Rollover image. Video here. More North Yale photos here.  Photo credit above - Dave Welch]

June 6 , 2009

Lakeland FLORIDA

Beverly Farley started making sparkleballs as a craft to share with her mom. Now she makes sparkleballs for friends, craft shows, to sell on Craigslist and on our contact page. Above, Bev's Fourth of July red-white-blue sparkleballs at friend Frank's house.

June 6 , 2009

West Texas

Apartment Therapy style correspondent Heather Blaha spotted these sparkleballs at a West Texas campsight and writes: "This would be a fun project and addition to any outdoor space -- yards, decks, patios, communal gardens, etc."

Port Arthur TEXAS

This is Gwen's first sparkleball-- and my first time to upload a video. Gwen used a string of steady blue's and a blinking string of multi's.

Park Ridge ILLINOIS

Tom made this "sparkle-egg" out of 12 oz. Coke bottles, from which he cut off the bottoms and part of the tops.

Park Ridge ILLINOIS

Tom calls this one Sporeball. He writes, "The basic idea was to take a normal sparkleball and attach, to each cup, another cup, rim to rim, bottom facing outward. I figured that this would add a whole new set of angles for reflection."

Park Ridge ILLINOIS

Tom soldered small blue cups inside clear tumblers and used yellow wire twists on this no-melt sparkleball. (rollover image)

Barcelona Spain

Plastic cups, paper clips, and one bulb. Photo: Andrew Murray.

Dillon TEXAS

Yee-ha! It's Sparkleball starring in NBC TV drama Friday Night Lights! (We won't mention that it's hanging in the home of a stripper character.)

Oakdale CALIFORNIA

Crystal Baccus had to buy two colors of cups because that's all Target had left. So she made one layer red, one layer green, alternating.  

Chinango Forks NEW YORK

JoAnn puts rose petals in the center and a complete rose in the bottom of each cup.