First Paid Balloon Gig.

When I was twisting a bunny for an indian family during the President Challenge event, the father of the family asked if we do parties as well. Referred him to Glen, and was delighted when the gig was allocated to me! The job was to entertain a crowd of kids during a birthday lunch @ Dempsey Hill, Vintage India, the following day, where the youngest daughter of the family was the birthday gal. Thankfully, Irene was free to assist me in the gig, and here are some photos of the party. Sadly we didn't manage to take many of them, as we were busy twisting for all the excited kids. =)

[A Puff Heart Wand for the Birthday girl]

[A finale big balloon hat for a lucky kid]

I'm very pleased with this balloon-ing experience. Had fun with the kids. =)

President's Challenge at Ngee Ann City

Headed down to Ngee Ann City to help out Glen and gang in their fund raising activities. Reached there a little late due to my tuition in the afternoon, but still managed to do contribute in some ways.

[Flower-weaved-heart]

[Me and Puff Heart using 260s]

Was happy to help out using these 2 items, as well as some other balloon sculptures.

Joel's Ex-sch Founder's Day Event.

Yesterday I went to an event of making table centrepieces, together with joel. It was his former school's Founder day, and they were celebrating it with a dinner in their hall.

So we met up the day before to buy the necessary balloons at the Balloon Baron. Got our stuff, of course after nearly a halfday 'workshop' under David, haha. Joel initial plan was to do a Bear with flowers for and '6 flower' flower bundles. I had the impression that it should be quite easy to complete the models, as i only pictured us making just 35 tables of stuff, moreover we had almost the entire day to do them. It took the actual doing of the balloons to knock some reality into me.

The next day, joel was there at his church before me, and had already done quite some geoblossoms for the bases. After doing some, I realised that making these stuff wasn't easy at all! Got ourselves very wet due to them constantly exploding. Bad quality huh, David. (I think he wouldn't deny that since those geos were qualatex balloons, and he already hates them so much.. =/) Ok, then the making of flowers. I actually thought we'll be making not much of those, but ended up having to do almost 200 of them, or at least we tried to. We ended up doing 2 laundry baskets full of flowers, and had to stop due to time constraints. Making the bears were quite successful though, although we didn't make a lot of them as they required more time to do. The bears were a better looking one as compared to the simple bear.

Assemble part of the process were quite tedious as well. Connecting the flowers to their stems, tying them together, trimming the length, and combining it with the geo bases, all these were little little things that took up so much of our time when done in bulk! Worst thing was that the balloons were constantly bursting, i suspect due to the hot temperature. It was till the final hours of the evening when things got clear that what we'd done wasn't enough. So joel thought of the idea of using the table number stand to do a simple 'flowers on vines' presentation, which i think was the best of the situation. Great thinking man. =)

So luckily, all the table were ready with at least a certain balloon scrupture on them before the dinner began.

I think this event provided me a great experience, and gave me an idea of how important it is to plan carefully. I think we made the mistake of underestimating the amount of time required to do the scruptures, esp the flower bundle. The distribution of the scruptures among the tables were rather messy too, due to the inability to make enough identical scruptures for all the tables.
Because of all this inperfections, I had a great time an learnt a lot. =)
Some of the photos are can found here:

Photos

That's all for now! Time to rest my poor fingers.. or not! =P