Balloon Class with Chris Horne and Eddie Heyland

What a great day we all had teaching at Anagram Balloon Day. My first time to co-teach with Chris Horne. I hope it wont be the last. We had a full house at burton +BURTON. There were many first time students as well as some seasoned pros!

Chris Horne and I took turns teaching different techniques on how to attach and assemble foil balloons. Together we showed over 15 designs.

If you use 14 Diamondz it makes a perfect circle.

Using foil curves to make giant air filled topiaries for the ceiling.

This is one of the few designs we made using helium. We used packing tape to attach magic arch balloons together on the sides and then attached the letter balloons through the center hole.

Chris Horne made this stunning chandelier out of one Orbz, some 6 point stars, crescents and heats. A very clever design that can also be turned upside down to float over a table.

Now…. I know what you are thinking…. “Dang I wish I had been at the class”. Fear Not!!!!

BalloonCoach.com has teamed up with Tommy Delorenzo and his partner Scott Hemphill of Balloons by Tommy to do Parade Promotions and PROFIT!!! A 3 day hands on workshop and as an optional bonus you will have the opportunity to be a Part of the Pride Parade! Walk the streets of Chicago in front of a Million cheering People waiting to see one of their Favorite entries.  This will be Balloons by Tommy’s 6th year in the Pride Parade, and they are a crowd favorite!  (you are not required to walk the parade to participate in the workshop)

But wait there’s more!!! Qualatex is sponsoring Dennis Scott!!!! The leader of Team USA at World Balloon Convention 2014!

But wait there is even more!!!! Anagram is sponsoring ME!!!! Yepper… How exciting is this gonna be???!!!! I’m teaming up with #Anagramballoons and Tommy to make foil backpacks!!! Yes you can use foils outside!!! and you are going to learn how!!!!

I have heard for years and years. “I just want to come hang out with you for a week and learn from you” Well at long last you have the opportunity. Plus 4 other world class balloon artists. This Parade Promotions and Profit is NOT to be missed. If you were wanting to go to WBC but didn’t have the money, don’t be sad you can be a part of this workshop for a fraction of the cost. Check it out… Sign up…. and I’ll see you there! http://ballooncoach.com/parade-promotions-profits-with-balloons-by-tommy/

It’s it Valentine’s day already? It sure feels like it after doing this booth for Aerial Bouquet.

The HEB grocery store chains were having their annual trade show the George Brown convention center in Houston.
After many weeks of phones calls and planning, I designed a booth shapes that was 30 x30. That was supposed to look like this.

Well I had my suspicion about a trade show booth that was 30 x 30. I asked over and over to everyone that was in change “are you sure this is not an island booth?”

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!!! When we got there guess what we found? That’s right a 30 x 30 Island not only was it an island it was first booth you saw when you entered! It was a great location and everyone would see it first think when they entered the show, BUT….. hello….. There was no way I could put a 30 x 10 solid balloon wall up. It would totally block the sight-line of all the other booths.

So after weeks of planning and 2 day of prepping we were back at square one!

I had spent 2 days assembling all the balloons. Taping balloon panels together to make the wall and cable tying and the curve balloons for the overlay. So now I had to think fast and make it work with the products we had.

After a few conversions with the show manager on what I could and could not do, I had Plan B. That idea soon morphed into plan C. We decided on making giant 3d columns to put in the back of each corner. This would give us the visual impact we were looking for without blocking all the other venders. We could also new use the new I “heart” U foil balloon on the top.

We also made short and tall pedestals out of silver panels.

Check out the new Valentines Day foil designs.