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.