Balloon Animals

Building the show – part 9 “To entertain for the purpose of temporarily taking someone from their cares and worries in the world is noble…but to recognize an entertainer’s ability to REACH an audience and UTILIZE that gift for an educational purpose…holds FAR greater value”                       [...]

Growing a business is a daunting task and too often bad economic decision-making are responsible for putting a company into financial jeopardy. Some bad decision can put a small company out of business.  Rapid growth can be disastrous to a small company in bad economic times. Equipment, talent, expense, budgeting are just some of the [...]

Building the show – Part 8 – Enter the Dragon “To entertain for the purpose of temporarily taking someone from their cares and worries in the world is noble…but to recognize an entertainer’s ability to REACH an audience and UTILIZE that gift for an educational purpose…holds FAR greater value”               [...]

Top 10 Resource for Balloon Entertainers Over the past year I have been compiling  resource information for the mbd2.com resource center and after reviewing that list, I have complied my top 10 list of balloon entertainers resources that entertainers should checkout. The list consists of balloon forum, manufactures, and educational resources. mbd2.com Forum – A free forum [...]

My livelihood  has been balloon twisting at private and corporate parties and I have been working around balloons since 1985 and have seen many arrangements.  Let us start out with the basic balloon types that people use at birthday parties. Latex Balloon These balloons are not rubber balloons, but are latex balloons.  Therefore, you need to be [...]

Dragon Fire and Cobwebs I first saw this technique used with a Spiderman balloon figure and I thought it would be cool for the fire on a fire breathing dragon.  You just cannot make a dragon without a child asking for the fire. I was working side-by-side with Lester McNeely this past summer when I saw him [...]

Problems with Theme Parties and Solutions to Make them Better Over the past 25 years, I have been at many 1st birthday theme parties and seen many problems with the planning of the event.  I will explain some of the main problems that occur when having a themed party.  These problems occur both in the private [...]

10 Planning Tips for Mothers and Event Coordinators on Insuring your Entertainers Shows up Nothing is more frustrating to an entertainer then trying to get to an event on time, just to find out that the address is wrong or there is no parking for miles around.  I have been entertaining for birthday parties and corporate events [...]

Theming – different ideas for different directions (part 7) “To entertain for the purpose of temporarily taking someone from their cares and worries in the world is noble…but to recognize an entertainer’s ability to REACH an audience and UTILIZE that gift for an educational purpose…holds FAR greater value”                 [...]

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