Planes, Trains & Funny Hats

Well once again it has been manic here at Loony HQ - not that I'm complaining!

I have been informed that this weekend I will be the lone balloon modeller at Twickenham for the Rugby 7's. Scary thought considering how big the stadium is. Although seeing as I am working with 6 of my face painter friends I am hoping that I may finally get some nice photos of me working ... it's very difficult to get a nice photo of me whilst I am working as it would seem I pull some very strange faces!  Anyway amongst working on other bits today (will tell you more in a second) I have made myself a nice delicate hat to wear. Do you think I will blend in with the crowds in this?

In addition to preparing for this weekend at the Rugby I've also had a couple of other projects that have kept me out of mischief. I can't let you know about one of them until after the weekend as it is still a surprise but I will do my best to share early next week.

The other project this week has been to make a Bi-Plane as a surprise 90th Birthday present for a gentleman who used to not only fly them in his younger days but also used to train other pilots too. Hopefully I will be getting a couple of photos of the Birthday boy with his balloon plane but in the meantime here it is before I delivered it today.

Well that's all for now as I've still got lots to do before tomorrow!

You're the Best Face Painter I have Ever Seen!

I worked a lovely party at the weekend where I was supposed to be doing face painting and balloon modelling. In these situations I usually start with the face painting and move onto the balloons about 3/4 of the way through.  However, at this party everyone was so impressed with my painting I was asked not to bother with the balloons because so many adults wanted to join in the fun!

I don't often take photos whilst working as I am too much of a perfectionist but I did take this one of a lovely little girl as I was particularly happy with the way it turned out.

 

 It has inspired me to pick up the brushes a bit more often and have a play. It also has me looking forward to a face painting only party I have coming up this weekend a lot more too.

Blog Envy

Well today I am ashamed to say I got blog envy! Sad but true.

A friend of mine spent hours working on her blog yesterday and to her credit it looks fabulous but it has made me realise I really need to up my game on here. So I am now off to (hopefully) create a lovely new blog to go with my lovely new website.

Oh that's right I've been so busy lately I've not updated my Balloony blog again! I'll do that now before I get side tracked.

Since I last left you I have buried myself away and got my basic new website up and running. If you are nosey you can take a peek here http://www.loonyballoony.co.uk. 

I started thinking about designing this website back at the end of 2009 not long after I started doing the décor. Back then I was running two separate websites - one for face painting (The Face Factory) and one for the balloon twisting (Loony Balloony) and really wanted to condense the business into one name, with one website. Since I was now doing more balloon orientated services I decided to stick with Loony Balloony and drop The Face Factory.

However, my old Loony Balloony was very much geared to balloon entertainment and I felt it did not show off my skills as either a balloon decorator or as a face painter. In addition I also felt the old look of the website would either put off brides and businesses looking for event décor or at best convince them they had arrived at the wrong website.

I began work on the site and as I did my ideas grew and grew until they were out of control and it became the elephant in the room.  However, after a meeting with Kerry Haynes, who is a consultant with Business Link, in April I decided to finally pull my finger out, strip the site back to the bare bones and get it launched!

There is still a lot of work to be done on the site so please do not think for one second it is the finished article. When I get time I will be tweaking and adding bits to make it better and better, however, in the meantime it is a significant improvement on the old site ... at least I hope you'll agree.