Simple reindeer

Had a family outing to a deer farm during the school holidays. This is my first time seeing a real deer. It was an even greater surprise to see a reindeer! We get to feed the deers that were fenced up. Very cute creatures. One kept sneezing and we stayed away from it.

Thought I'd make a white balloon reindeer for the staff and so here it is!

A ladybug and a couple of flowers

A friend from church was quite sick last week and when I dropped in a meal for the family, I dropped in this bouquet too. My eldest daughter had fun helping me make it. We added water to the body of the ladybug to help stabilize the sculpture. Actually, my daughter helped me to add water to the balloon. :) Maybe I shouldn't have showed her that, because since then, she's been finding balloons to fill with water.

Train

I watched a youtube video of this train a couple of weeks back and have been meaning to do it. It is a very easy train to make, but I never got an excuse to do it. So, last Sunday after church, I made it for a Vietnamese eatery that my family frequents. I like to make them some balloons after a meal as a thank you and decided on a train. Only 2 balloons but it looks pretty good!

Oh, and if you're after some Vietnamese food in Brisbane, I do recommend Secret Beef at Pinelands Plaza on Pinelands Road, Sunnybank Hills

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. :)