1, Monkey, unknown
2, Bidou's team entry, link o loon ride in car
3, Our 20 minute competition rock star entry, Graham Lee, Harvey and Jenine

1, Zanie Janie playing games at the award/gala night with Jimmy Leo and Jack Mattson
2, Cricket in the busking competitio
3, Roger the balloon wizard also from the busking competition

The last thing to write about is the balloon fashion show so when I get a few minutes I'll sort some pictures out as I took over 200 just at this event, but it was amazing, the dresses, words would fail to do this event justice. Everyone that made a dress and competed should be congratulated as I got tingles at this event and to be in the room where the majority of the dresses were being made during the day was a great experience and very interesting to see how everything was put together.

thanks for posting so much Graham, I haven't gone thru all my pictures yet, but I have noticed that not many of my pictures turned out  :cry:  so it's nice to see some of the figures here.  The elephant hat is Jack's.  I'm not sure who made the other unknowns.  Glad you are having a good time, it was great seeing you.  I can't wait to see all the fashion show pics, sounds like there was some amazing dresses again.
thanks again Graham for all the updates  Have a safe trip home.

Great write up Graham!  
I very much enjoyed Diamond Jam this year, even though it seemed so much smaller than past conventions. I actually felt like I was on vacation.  I came away with some really good ideas, and some designs I know I will get a lot of use out of (especially that woven heart).

It was great to hang out with both Tonya and Graham.

And Graham, you DO make a lovely Princess!

~Jeanine

Princess here with some more pictures, if anyone else would like to comment on classes they went to and what they thought of them. It would be good to see what others thought about the event.

1, Miss Balloon Heart, our newest member on the forum
2, Benny Nieves
3. Jack Mattson, competition piece

More competition pieces;

More from the competitions;

More;

Robbir Firman has just gone by handing out cold drinks, how nice is that. So many lovely people in this business  

More;

Some more from the jam room

These are from Janice Whitehead class on fantasy flowers;

1, Class for the fantasy flowers.
2, Entrance for the gala awards.
3, Stage set for the awards ceremony.

1, Table decorations
2, Someone getting ready if they don't agre with the voting
3, Joe Baird and the scholarship winners