Balloon Chat
Uncategorized Boards => Events. Balloon, Magic, Etc => Topic started by: Graham Lee on January 23, 2017, 06:11:31 PM
Just a heads up that we have been allocated a new position for our balloon
dealer stand at the blackpool magic convention. We will now be in the main
hall next to where derek lever used to have his stand, although derek is not there this year.
So please come and say hello, stay a while and twist some balloons if you would like.
If anyone fancies bringing Thelma and I a cream cake, we wont say no.
Website details are , www.balloonartwholesale.co.uk (http://www.balloonartwholesale.co.uk) we will be selling at
wholesale prices at the convention with a few special offers.
Off to Blackpool convention next week and have just agreed with Thelma what we will
be building on the stand for people to come and get a picture taken with.
This might be the first time ever we have decided what we would build before we actually get to the event.
All packed and ready to go, first stop Nuneaton, then Hinckley and then onto
Blackpool in the morning.
Hope you have a good weekend Graham :)
Just back from Blackpool, tired and exhausted are a couple of the words I would
use to describe myself at the moment.
A couple of pictures to keep you going, will post some more later on.
This is our new position in the main dealer hall, it's only taken about 12 years to get there.
The cooker that we built for the stand.
Thelma and I cooking away.
The cooking set, we did make the control knobs a little bigger on day two.
We had a little one balloon session with this gentleman, sorry forgot his name.
Sorting out breakfast on the stand, the things I have to do!
It was a nice 20 minutes just sharing a few one balloon designs with each other.
Some more of the one balloon designs.
After making the Mickey Mouse wand last month I was having a play
with the TNMT wand. Kelly and Adam with the cooker.
More designs from the stand.
And a few more.
I up scaled the 2 balloon handbag that I posted on Balloontube the other week.
It looked a little too square on version one so smoothed it down a little on version two.
This is the link for the handbag on BalloonTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4s7YZcMaVU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4s7YZcMaVU)
Thelma made the ballerina, I like the way one balloon can be used with one
continual movement for the arms and legs.
Thelma and I went for a meal the night before and got talking with Gay and his wife
who I think came from Sweden. Anyway they were telling us they used to keep budgies
and parrot's etc so Thelma made them a model for their stand.
I had an idea for a weave, I think it did not work.
I like the simplicity of the feet for the Dove.
Kelly playing with the cooker.
The joys of working the convention, Thelma doing her hair on the stand.
The first picture with Thelma smiling in the ipad as she saw me taking the
picture made me smile and we were open :)
PS, I did ask if it was OK to post these.