Have you ever taken on an event and then realised what a stupid idea it was! Just spent the last four hours making simple balloons to hand out at a football match tomorrow. It really takes its toll pumping, tying and twisting. I thought I would share a photo of my balloon room!

Let's hope they don't pop by tomorrow.

The hazards of our profession (who don't drive their car fast through the woods).

Do you have fellow twisters nearby who can help with future jobs like this if they come up?  Often providing a meal and screening some balloon DVD's afterwards makes for a nice social evening, and many hands makes light work...

Great work.

I feel your pain. I took a balloon delivery job of 100 simple balloons (1-3 balloons each). I calculated that it would take 5 hours. I thought - that can't be right. It was. Ouch.

Why are you not making them on site when asked?

Hi Pam,

Time would not allow me to make them all on-site. The venue was a 1st Division football match. There were around 2500 people in the family enclosure with ticket sales of approx 700 for children. Gates opened at 2pm, kick off at 3pm. I simply couldn't manage 700 balloons in 60 mins all on my own, especially outside in the wind and the cold.

It went well, i had only a few balloons left by kick off and the family enclosure look nice with blue and white balloons.

Thanks

Confuses me!! although I have to say at the moment that does not take much.. Hope they paid you for all the time it took to make them?

Or did you charge buyers per balloon as in a stall?

When we have worked a game venues they have not expected us to supply a balloon for all the childrens that attend knowing it is such a short window of entertainment, they have expected basic models but they have expected the entertainment side of things as well as just balloons..

Just food for thought

Pam
xx

Hi Pam,

The brief for the job was to fill the family enclosure with blue and white so it was high volume in a very short amount of time. You will fall off your chair when I say I wasn't paid a penny. I do regular events at the stadium (Christmas parties, close up magic etc) and now have a relationship with the club where I get to see the home games for free, meet the players etc. Not that exciting to me but my 12 year old son thinks it is wonderful.

So it pays back in other ways.

:-)

Did you at least get any photos of the stand covered with your balloons?
It would look good as a publicity shot.
 

Danny

lol. I can relate. One of my first jobs, several years ago, I did my best to impress and did several (50) balloons to take as they were expecting about 400 kids. Now it is expected every year. I don't do good with marketing myself or negotiating prices so I just comply. One year for the Christmas party, I had an assembly line - with my mother and father. I did the snowmen & reindeer heads, mom did the art work and dad did the twisty wands to put them on. Then we stored them in the back porch in the cold (it was -35). I usually store premades in the freezer, but this time there wasn't room. Unfortunately, -35 is too cold. As I was driving to the event, in my very heated car, the balloons must of warmed up too fast and they began popping...........
p.s I have a parafin wax heater and soak my hands regularily after an event.