I'm very pleased to announce that Patty Sorell has agreed to answer the questions on balloon chat.
We are just sorting out the best time as she is very busy at the moment with the organisation and putting together of her own balloon convention in America; Twist & Shout.
More details can be found here about the event;
http://www.balloonconvention.com

and this weekend she is off to help out at Balloon Manor; http://www.balloonmanor.com

I'll be able to go next year for the first time to "Twist & Shout" as the dates have been changed, this was always on the same weekend as the Blackpool magic convention which is the biggest magic convention in the world, so I always needed to be there but now the date change & flying is not so much of a worry for me
I purchased from one of the first Millennium jam's that I went to Patty & Royal's balloon engineering DVD's, I'm sure Patty will plug these when answering the questions.

Patty will answer the usual questions but please ask away with anything else to do with organising one of the biggest twisting conventions in the world.

Graham Lee

Betallic in America who are the sister company with Sempertex used one of my designs that I entered for The Millennium Jam last year on there website & in the valentine edition of there brochure. Well this morning I received a goody parcel from America from them with a few samples etc + a framed picture of the page that my design appeared on from the brochure.
It was a nice gesture & surprise.
The design that's mine is the heart with uninflated roses in the centre of the page.
If you fancy having a nose at there website http://www.betallic.com
I think you need to register before you can get onto the design pages.

Graham Lee

Roger has kindly volunteered    to answer the questions next week for us, so will have the usual suspect questions for him but if you want to ask Roger anything else then please fire away........

Graham Lee

I was working at Guildord University in September & someone took a few pictures which I think came out well from an unusual angle;

Below is a list of items that we have in stock at the moment but are being withdrawn from the UK market. So if there is anything that you use & want to stock up on then please get in touch as I only have 4/5 bags of each item left.

Graham Lee
 
804071
 260 Modelling Premium Crystal 300 Assorted x100
 Withdrawn from sales
 
805078
 260 Modelling Neon 200 Assorted x100
 Withdrawn from sales
 
806075
 260 Modelling Metallic/Pearl Assorted x100
 Withdrawn from sales
 
910376
 160 Modelling Fashion Solid 011 Pink x100
 No longer Manufactured
 
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 160 Modelling Premium Crystal 300 Assorted x100
 Withdrawn from sales
 
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 160 Modelling Neon 200 Assorted x100
 Withdrawn from sales

Thought we may as well start a new thread with this as well;

We'll start with the ElephanT  that I posted on the old game;

Started the new thread/game as we seem to have muddled up the others;

I was entertaining for the local beaver/scouts today at there big yearly get together, had 230 little darlings to entertain.
I have been doing this for as many years as I can remember, I'm like a bit of the furniture there.
So we do a 45 min magic show that went very nicely with a couple of cracking helpers who just made the routines that bit extra special, if only we could choose the right helpers all the time
After the show they have 30 mins before I do a game show, as I'm getting ready for the second half I get talking to a helper & young lad called Sam who I'm guessing is 5/6 yrs old as I'd just brought in the star prize which was the monkey on a tree that I posted earlier in the week on here.

I was explaining that he could win it by taking part in the games in a few minutes, wow did his eyes light up  but there were a few others that would also be doing there best to win the prize, trying to bring him back down as what are the chances of him winning this..at a guess I'd say 230/1
We started off & each game has people eliminated, with the winner going through to the play off final, so who ends up being in the final, yes it's Sam  with another beaver & two adult helpers. The final is handicapped to take into account the varying ages etc to try & make it as fair as possible, well today there was no need to stagger it as the two young beavers won by miles, it was like a one horse race.
The first two past the post both win a prize with Callum coming second & getting the ride in horse & Sam, yes Sam who's eye's lit up at the beginning when we were discussing how to win the star prize being the overall winner, well when he realised he had won & that he had won the star prize....to say his face lit up would be an understatement, he was so chuffed. Hopefully he will remember the magic & gameshow inyears to come, but one thing I know is that todays experience is in the memory banks for ever and I will remember little Sam.
Andthen to cap it all I get paid, what more could you want

Graham Lee

Wed 22nd Oct is the date for the next care & share day. The day will run from 10.am till 6. pm
with 2 lectures by myself and Thelma doing the mystery lecture at lunchtime.
Still to book a venue but it will be hopefully be a working men's club nearish to Northampton.
To book on the day; http://sempertexballoons.co.uk/index.ph ... &parent=12

The night before I will be lecturing at the local magic club, waiting to get the venue details.
If anyone would like to attend, I'll pass on the details although there will be a charge to the magic club for this.

Spent the day at a photo shoot up in London today, this is what we made for them with a few variations that I didn't take pictures of;

I have the links page up & working so if anyone would like to swap links with us please get in touch.

http://www.balloonchat.co.uk/links.html

Graham Lee

People attempting to do some games while inside the big balloon;
http://video.yahoo.com:80/watch/2927680/8379557

Graham Lee

As the subject line says I thought this was interesting

http://www.jasonhackenwerth.com/pastprojects/index.html

This months challenge is for a horse, rocking horse or ride in horse. So any old horse really
Here are two to get us started although I have posted them on here before;

Decided on the poodle for this month, please have a go at the model & if any tips are required then just ask.

Have Thelma down with me for a few days & we were making things from hearts last night, will post our efforts later.
Today we are attempting to make a dress, struggling at the moment with the bust shape, damm tricky them busts :lol:
Will put some pictures up later. It seems that weve overcome the problem that the forum had for the past few days with no one being able to post pictures. We had to increase the size of the forum attachments from 50mb to 100mb?

Graham Lee

This looked good;

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=m ... oon&m=text

Looks like we have a problem adding pictures to the site  
with "Board Attachment Quota" popping up.
We are looking into this & hopefully will have the full service back ASAP

Graham Lee

I thought I'd posted this before but cant see anything. The magic convention starts on Wed 24th Sept with the dealer hall open from Thursday with approx 60 dealers worldwide attending.
They have some great acts on as well from all over the world so it may well be worth a visit.
More detalis can be found on the website;
http://www.britishring.org.uk

An article about Jimmy Leo in America;

http://www.tampabay.com:80/news/humanin ... 819016.ece