Balloon Animals

How long can it last? While entertaining at a local business expo I was approached by a Mom who told me that I made her daughter a balloon cake prior to Christmas 2011. Her daughter refuses to toss it out and still has it on her dresser.  The mom kindly emailed me the photo so I can share it with you. The cake was made from 260 balloons A picture of the two princesses wearing their crowns. Taken at the [...]

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Online Advertises Seeks Free Entertainers ChicagoFun.com an online directory for entertainers has secured the rights to be the “Official Entertainment Company” for a minor league baseball team, in exchange for this Chicagofun.com will be providing free entertainment to the ballpark. For several years, the baseball team contracted with an entertainment agency, but dropped the Agency because they feel that the “free entertainment” deal in exchange for giving away a title was best in their interest and Chicagofun.com must have thought [...]

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Getting sucked into the planning Just days before by son’s 5th birthday party for the family, I  was in the car going to lunch and my son Carter asked if he could play games at his birthday party? My wife asked, “What type of games”? Carter, “Stick the tail on the animal.” “You mean, pin the tail on the donkey”, replied my wife. Carter, “Yes, can we play that?” Then out of nowhere my wife says, “How about daddy makes [...]

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Every year the Chicago Bulls put on a family clinic, where athletes and families get together for an evening of fun in the guy.  This year I had the opportunity to participate in the event. I didn’t do the balloon decorations, I was their to entertain.               Inside the Berto Center the players are introduced. You forget that the player are kids too, just in their 20′s. The evil balloon entertainer appeared and had [...]

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What am I going to do today? The best part of my job is that I get to choose what I want to do. I can work efficiently, swiftly, and pick the jobs I want to do.  Other days, I can take on the world, tackling completed jobs that require planning, work, and perseverance.  Doesn’t matter what it is, I get to choose. It’s hard to be crabby when you control your life. You can go with the flow or [...]

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2012, The Year of the Fickle Customer The phone rings and at the other end is an inquisitive customer excited to hear about my entertainment services.  They laugh, listen, excepting all information given, and in many cases booking right on the spot.  There are those who seek more information and discuss it over with their spouse before making a decision. Great news, they are going to hire me for the party and want a contract.  Thirty minutes later, the contract [...]

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Cute Little Teddy Bear Every balloon entertainer has experience in making a teddy bear and I have done  thousands of them over my career.  After time, I can craft a teddy bear in a way that all dimensions are perfect in size and the details are speck on. The world’s smallest balloon teddy bear came about as I was working on a viral video and thought, what I can do to show off my craft and draw attention to balloon [...]

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I Want A Video Game It may seam a wacky for me to be ranting about not having a video game, but the truth is when you’re trying to market something you have to look at all the angles.  I first I need to tie in my career – Comedic Balloon Entertaining with some wacky topic that people may find interesting. My boys are fans of Angry Birds, but when I was a child, it was the Mattel Electronic Basketball [...]

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Resistance is futile, I will shape it Writers ideas bend, contort, and transforms concepts and beliefs before my eyes. I stand before an audience transforming the ordinary balloon in to the extraordinary. A balloon may resist me, but I will prevail and transformation it in to a doll. My brain resists new ideas that the author vows will make me better. In the book , The War of Art,  I’ve learned not to give in to resistance, but to beat [...]

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I like to arrive early for a birthday party and as I was sitting in my car outside the house. I could not help notice a big forest green truck drive past.  In the back cab window, on the right side, was a sticker saying, “Bad Ass!” and on the left side was an outline of a boy giving the middle finger. I did not think much of it until I saw a bright pink neon wig pop out of [...]

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