Well, winter time is coming. That means the cold is coming too. I don’t want to be cold, and I bet you don’t want to be either. When winter comes and you start to feel that chill come in your house  it gets into your bones to makes you achey and cold!   However, the problem is, nobody wants to crank the heat and pay the extra money and electric bill.

Did you know that ceiling fans can also help you keep warm in the winter, saving you a bit off your heating bill?

Check your fan to see if it has a switch at or near the base. Moving this switch changes the direction in which the blades rotate.

During warmer months, you should run your fan in a “forward” (counter-clockwise) direction so that it fans the air, making you feel cool. When it gets cold outside, switch the fan to the “reverse” setting so that it runs in a clockwise direction. This forces cold air upward while pushing the warm air in the room down to you. For optimal effects, set the fan to circulate at a slow speed.

Right now Creative Lighting has a coupon allowing you to save money on all ceiling fans at their store. The coupon is valid from 10-22 to 11-3 for 10% off all in-stock fans and 5% off all special order fans in-store only.  That makes prices even better than online!

Click through the picture of the coupon below to get in on this great deal.

The White House became the ‘Pink House’ late Thursday in a visible show of support for Breast Cancer Awareness month.  The presidential mansion was bathed in a rosy hue by colored spotlights for one night only, drawing a crowd of tourists, as soon as dusk fell.

October is observed as Breast Cancer Awareness Month every year, by public service groups, medical professionals and government agencies that combine to promote awareness of the disease.

The American Cancer Society says about 207,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women will be diagnosed this year and nearly 40,000 women will die from the disease.

Check out this video from the Associated Press to see White House transform into the “Pink House” and watch what a difference lighting makes!

Chank paints "Creative Lighting" on the front of the building

It has been a few weeks since painting started on our building and it has never looked better.  It has been amazing to watch the daily transformation as artists Chank Diesel and Adam Turman along with a gang of volunteers paint away.  Chank himself has been blogging about it himself over at his “chankblog“:

I’m working on FOUR new big murals for the Creative Lighting building in St. Paul, MN near 94 & Snelling. All four are still in progress, but here are some preview pics of the first mural. This one, measuring 15′ tall by 65′ wide, is a collaborative piece with Twin Cities’ poster artist and bicycle evangelist Adam Turman, one of my local art heros. He made the design and painted the lady. I made the Drunk Cowboy font and am still working on painting drop-shadows on that. We had lots of friends come out to help, too. Painting is fun. Thanks y’all!

 

The big "Hi!" on the building is morphing into "SHINE"

Last Thursday there was a “Painting Open House” of sorts where Chank and volunteers came out and painted even when it was so dark they needed lights to keep on going.  They were working on the mural on the south side of the building.  Chank is working with designer Anne Ulku on this particular mural. It’s an upcoming story for her collaborative Six Word Story Every Day project. The words they were painting were that evening were appropriate, “Darkness” and “Light”.

The word "Darkness" appears out of the darkness