I was asked to do a sculpture for a 60th anniversary.  I got to practive my pinch twists!!!!!!

thelma you are very special.............i love it ..........actually i love all ur work:)

Thelma, that is delightful!!!

Lisa

Have to agree, that is very nice and the pinch twists are looking good as well.

Hi Thelma.

Very nicely executed.

I bet they loved it.

Kenny.

VERY NICE !
just one suggestion Thelma : perhaps you may wish to make the two folks good a bit younger... (give him some hair) ...it's only 60 ! (lol)

As if you NEED practice! You rock!

Graham gave me a talking to, so I've plucked up the courage to start posting!

Where do I start?  Well Normski I have been calles "special" before but I dont think it was a compliment
Nk It wasn't a 60th Birthday but a 60th wedding anniversary.  I was sent a photograph of the couple and did the models like the people.  But thanks for the suggestions.  I always like suggestions for improvement.  
Caroline, nice to see you posting!   Thanks to everyone who posted nice comments.  I am not going to confess how long it took me to make.  Put it like this - its embarassing.  

Now all we need is peopke to post some more numbers.  I have the ones I did for the 40th party so I suppose I should add them to this thread although I have posted them before.  Makes sence to have them on this thread though.  Now where is that 40 photo.........

very cool Thelma!  They both are awesome!

Nice work

Last Friday was my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary. We were staying there for a few days and I made this and left it in their lounge to find in the morning when they got up.
They liked it I am pleased to say, enough that they had various pics of themselves taken with it and then had it in pictures of them and all the grandchildren at a family get together on Sunday.

That is so effective and it looks like it would be a lot quicker to do as well.  I am not surprised they were pleased!!!!

I decided to have a to at a number (the same number actually) using this technique.  It was well received.

I also made a 40 (didnt take a photo before Vicky dashed off with it unfortunately)  But I used the same weave for it.  However, Instead of using round balloons to till it I used a 660 balloon.  I inserted the un-inflated balloon into the woven shape and then inflated it making sure the end was always going into the right place as it inflated.  It filled the weave beautifully.  I did use two round balloons for the up and down cross of the 4.  The rest of the filling was done with just two 660 balloons.  Very quick and I think cheaper than using rounds.

Great idea using the 660s instead.  How long did it take you to do the 50? I really like that design :-)