Busy Busy Busy!

This week has been nice for special orders as I haven't started doing them properly yet but I had 2 requests none the less. I also did some balloons for a birthday and my 1st wedding fair.

On Wednesday I was asked if I would be able to make a life-sized replica of a colleague who was leaving as a "replacement" for him. It is a bit of a running joke in that department that when someone leaves they get replaced by an inanimate object.  The last guy to leave was replaced with a pot plant! Anyway after some very strenuous wrestling with the larger balloons I made this guy.

As you can see he was very well received and not allowed to fill his new post! He also later appeared on Facebook as a replacement profile picture.

The next one was a request for "a not too big Dolphin" for a friends birthday at the weekend. I adapted the shark I posted in the very first blog and made this guy. The client was delighted and I hope her friend was just as pleased.

Then my last job of the week was a present from me to my youngest brother for his 30th Birthday on Saturday. As he was in Paris for the weekend I didn't make him anything out of modelling balloons instead I opted for the big statement! Whilst he and his girlfriend were enjoying themselves I installed a 3ft tall "30" in his living room in plain view of all who walked past the window.  Here is a picture from the inside:-

Then to top off an already busy week I helped a friend out with a wedding fair. I have personally avoided doing wedding fairs so far because selling myself and my services is about as much out of my comfort zone as you can get but having booked to do my first wedding show on the 27th March I was quite relieved when my friend Roger of iGlobo asked me to come along and help him out on Sunday. It was a really busy day and very hard work (surprisingly so) but I think we were a hit as we were twisting as well as showing what we can do as balloon decorators. Below are pictures of our stand and a lady from the Premier Inn stand modelling a hat made by Roger and a guy from the mobile bar the other side of us in a Guiness hat both Roger and I made for him. I am now getting excited for my wedding fair in 2 weeks time so if you are near Hatfield do pop in and see us!

Well that is my adventures over the last few days and I'm off now to catch up on all the other bits I've neglected recently and to start getting prepared for the wedding show on the 27th!!!