Gumball Machine

I bought myself a castrator tool for the balloons. It's called a Marking Ring Applicator according to the people I ordered it from. It's used on goats. When the staff saw my use it on a balloon, they thought it was rather funny!

Here it is :

It's a lot easier to stuff things into balloons now, instead of using brute force with my fingers.

A friend suggested adding chocolates and I gladly obliged. Made her a gumball machine but added some chocolate eggs in it. It doesn't dispense though, so it's either a pop and eat or wait and eat. Hope you'll like it too!

P is for Paddington and Polar Bear

Just so happened that I was making two bears that start with the letter P.

Paddington bear was made for my sister who is a Paddington Bear fan. I don't know when she started falling in love with him, but he sure is adorable. I found out that Paddington's face changed over the last 50 years, which explains why some pictures has a more squarish snout and others have a more roundish-pointy one.

I actually found a picture of balloon paddington on mbd2.com and worked my way from there. It's about 50-60cm tall when standing.

This polar bear came because I had 350Q whites what I wanted to try. It's winter here now, so what better creature than a polar bear! Also to try out this new snout technique that I've been working on after watching a youtube bear tutorial.

My 5 y.o. helped to draw the mouth and decided that it was to be a girl, so she added a heart for it. I can see rooms for improvements, but for now, I'm happy with the way the snout and eyes worked out.
 

You can see more balloon photos on my Facebook page here.

Special requests

After the school fete, I thought I'll thank my little helpers and asked what they'd like.

One asked for a cake, but I didn't have a small cake design, so I made him a cupcake bracelet instead.

 

Another said that he likes Keldeo in Pokemon. I've never had anything to do with Pokemon and had to look it up in the search engines! This one took me awhile because of the hair and mane that it has in the pictures. It's also a two coloured unicorn which took me a bit of tweaking to get the body to be at the right angle.

 

The last one enjoys Star Wars. I did too, 15 years ago. I saw a Yoda tutorial from Flash the Magician and just followed the instructions. :)

 

Balloon gifts in May

Sent out a few gift items in May and here they are :

These two were requested by a client who had a friend in a car accident and her mum with a broken ankle. She asked for a Psalm 23 sheep and a tiger with a band-aid. 

 

This one here was for a baby shower. I gave this rattle to a friend. Added rice grains into the orange balloon for that rattling sound.

 This little bunny rabbit on a stick was for a little girl whom my youngest daughter came to play with in her big sister's school. They're the same age and their birthdays are just a week apart.

I made this rose bud for one the mums I came to know in school. She wanted rose buds for mother's day, but the roses were either bloomed or withered. So, gave her one made with balloons and it made her day. :)

School Fete

I had my longest gig at a school fete on 25 May. It was my daughter's school, so we were there from 8:30am to set up and didn't leave till 5:00pm after packing up.

Did quite a lot of preparations before the fete itself, making sure I had all the balloons I needed and menus for all pricing.

Balloon Bag! Over 1600 balloons! :)

Balloon games for the day : Flying Mouse and Archery

 

 

 Some balloons listed on my menus :

Basic Bumblebee

 Dinosaur. I saw this at a fair by another twister. Children were walking around with it and I got to see quite a few angles of it!

Frog from Jonathan Fudge on youtube

 A Warren Ann aeroplane on youtube

It was wonderful to have some of you pop by to say hi on that day!

Birthday Penguin

This was made for one of my nieces' birthday. She told me before that she likes penguins. The clear body started with a twister, Corinne Sparkles Smith, and I thought I'd use it here. Twisters have been putting all sorts of things into clear balloons and I thought that for my niece's birthday, I'll give her some money to spend.... :)