Decorating a pool area with balloons can transform an ordinary space into a vibrant and festive venue. However, it's crucial to choose the right balloons and follow best practices to ensure they remain buoyant and aesthetically pleasing throughout your event. Here are...
How Early Can I Inflate Balloons?
Balloons bring joy and color to any celebration, floating around gracefully, enlivening the environment. However, their longevity varies based on whether they are air-filled or helium-filled. The Lifespan of Air-Filled Balloons Air-filled balloons offer durability,...
Helium Tanks: Should You Rent or Buy
Floating balloons can add an extra touch of charm to your upcoming wedding, party, or special event. But before you start filling up those balloons, you need to decide whether you should rent or buy a helium tank. The truth is that there are pros and cons to both...
Protect Your Business with Affordable Balloon Twisting Insurance
Balloon twister insurance isn't just a nice-to-have - it's a must in the U.S., where legal action can strike out of nowhere. And when you're busy creating colorful wonders, the last thing you want is legal troubles raining on your parade. But in a world where the...
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Ultimate Guide to Adult Balloon Games
Balloons aren’t just for kids—they can be a fantastic way to add fun, laughter, and excitement to adult gatherings too. From competitive relays to creative challenges, here are 25 balloon games designed to keep your guests entertained and engaged. Whether you’re...
Your Ultimate Guide to Balloon Stuffing Machines
Have you ever seen a balloon that contained an adorable teddy bear and wondered how they got it inside? The answer lies in a device called a balloon-stuffing machine. These magical devices make it possible to create awe-inspiring designs that leave a lasting...
Drawings of Balloon Sculptures
Drawings of Balloon Sculptures The following are not photos, but drawings of balloon sculptures. These items will be moved to the Sculptures in Messages section of Balloon HQ. Robert Balchunas Standard One-Balloon Dog Kissing Mice Tom Brooks Teddy with Tulip...
Kissing Swans Centerpiece
Kissing Swans Centerpiece This is a simple, elegant and fast wedding centerpiece which features 260 swans as its focal point. The centerpiece shown uses accents of tulle, silk ivy and small flowers and underinflated 5" balloons. You can use you can use any accents you...
Balloon HQ New Years Featured Photographs
Balloon HQ Featured Photographs: Happy New Year, 2001! Access Photo Features from Year 2001, Year 2000, or Year 1999Want to get your photo on the front page of Balloon HQ? Be sure to submit your work to [email protected] Selected images are generally of...
Balloon HQ Halloween Featured Photographs
Balloon HQ Featured Photographs: Happy Halloween from Balloon HQ! You may view Featured Photographs and information from past months here!Photographs supplied by Troy Perry The Balloon HQ (llc) photo archives and the Guide to Balloons and Ballooning each house...
Balloon HQ Featured Photographs
Balloon HQ Featured Photographs: November Dance Floor Decor You may view Featured Photographs and information from past months here!Photograph supplied by Sandi Hankins This photograph shows Prom dance floor decor for a high school in Texas. Decor was created...
Essentials of textiles
AUTHOR: Joseph, Marjory L. TITLE: Essentials of textiles / Marjory L. Joseph. EDITION: 2d ed. PUBL.: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, FORMAT: x, 321 p., (4) leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. DATE: 1980 SUBJECT: Textile industry Textile fibers Textile...
The primary structures of fabrics
AUTHOR: Emery, Irene TITLE: The primary structures of fabrics : an illustrated classification / by Irene Emery. PUBL.: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications/Whitney Library of Design, FORMAT: xxvi, 341 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. DATE: 1995 SUBJECT: Textile...
A tubular fabric produced by spiral plaiting
A tubular fabric produced by a "circular" method but with parallel spokes A tubular fabric produced by spiral plaiting Here we describe a spiral plaiting method made popular by Patty and Royal Sorell. It is a bit faster than the circular method and is more convenient...
Stuffing balloons into frameworks
Stuffing balloons into frameworks We can often save time and create a different kind of texture in our sculptures, by creating very open patterns with 260's and then filling the holes with other balloons. What makes this fastest is that filling of holes doesn't...
Attack of the 50 foot demon
Attack of the 50 foot demon Balloon art - Japanese style Writeup and photos by Larry Moss Overview During the first week of December, 1998, I found myself in Tokyo, Japan leading a rather unusual, and rather challenging project. I spent a week training a team of...
Balloon twisting instruction featuring Larry Moss
Balloon twisting instruction featuring Larry Moss A one day balloon twisting seminar will be offered on Long Island, NY in just a few weeks. Classes will include beginning and advanced balloon twisting, entertaining with balloons, and balloon weaving. When:...
1000psi, how many balloons?
From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:32:08 EDT Subject: Re: 1000psi, how many balloons? To: [email protected] In a message dated 6/18/99 6:07:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << If my tank reads a bit...
Understanding proportion in design
Understanding proportion in design by Wynn Bell Heart and two Fantasy Clouds - Very good proportions of 4' heart and the Fantasy Clouds to the 12' ceiling, even with the table on a 2' riser. Why is it that when one is cooking, getting all the ingredients in the...
The Artist’s Corner
The Artist's Corner by Patrick Brown Welcome again. I hope everyone has had a successful month. I have just returned from the All Star Revue. I must say that Mark and Andrea put on a first class event. Their enthusiasm for balloon art and the manner in which...