Olympic Events - BMW

BMW are one of our corporate customers along with BMW MINI.

We get the chance to decorate their showrooms in Stevenage, Tring and Luton whenever they have special events and new car launches.

Recently we were asked to come up with some ideas for the Olypic Event they were holding in their showroom in Tring and Stevenage.  Tring requested the olympic colours while Stevenage decided to stick with red, white and blue.



3 foot balloons at Tring Showroom

Little bubble trees for the workers!



School Proms

School Proms are becoming ever popular now - in our days it was an end of school disco and nowhere near as glam!

We get asked to do several school proms throughout the year and we love them!

Here are a few that we have decorated.



An Archway to welcome the Glam people in their chosen colours




Sweet Heart Frame - perfect for photo back drops



Sylvia Young Theatre School - foil letters and numbers

 




Sylvia Young Theatre School - London

 





Columns with Jumbo Foils





Man Greeter - a must at every door entrance!

Hertford Mayor Ball - Hertford

Another great event - supporting Herts Air Ambulance along with the Mayor's Ball.  Capturing the red/white colours - the balloons gave this ball some atmosphere.

large columns to frame the dancefloor

Helicopter Wall

At the County Herts Show and Stevenage Day Show, we tried something a bit different.  It was a big old slog! But wow!! what an achievement - even if we do say so ourselves!  We worked through the night to get this enormous wall completed.   It had to be completed in sections and put together onsite!



Balloons all lined up in their 6ft panels!



next to the real thing!

The End Wall

Herts Air Ambulance - Fire & Ice Ball

We were asked to come up with some ideas for Herts Air Ambulance's Fire & Ice Ball to raise some money.  At the impressive Hanbury Manor, we had some ideas....



Personalised Ribbons for the centre pieces



Some firey columns using these fabulous flame like balloons, topped with a jumbo 3 foot balloon on top



Some snowflakes - all made out of balloons



Some columns leading into the conservatory

Some ice cool columns

A firey staircase

Firey poles

Balloon Event - November 2011

In November 2011, we were lucky enough to be able to attend a recognsied balloon event, amongst balloon professionals from all over the world.  The event took place in a grand hotel in Oxfordshire.  The whole weekend was taken over by balloonatics from all over the world - building balloon sculptures and competing in balloon competitions.  

The whole event was one of the best we have attended to date and we came back with ooodles of creativity.  We rubbed shoulders with some of the best balloon artists from all over the world all sharing our balloon experiences.  We made loads of new friends at this event.

While we were there, we also sat a very important exam called CBA (Certified Balloon Artist) - where we had to take a 4 hour practical exam.  We had already passed the theory examination and in this final part of the test, we had to demonstrate our creativity and also confirm that we understood the balloon design curriculum.  We were amongst 29 other balloon professionals who qualified that weekend and when we had our name read out, there wasn't a dry eye in sight!

We are so proud of our achievement and we worked very hard for it.

The training workshops and training we attended at this event was absolutely mind blowing and an experience that we will never forget.

We also had the priviledge of working with Jo Uddin on her sculpture piece - which came an impressive 3rd place!  We were chuffed to bits!





Impressive Entrance to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Oxford - Created by Luc Betrand CBA

Winning Balloon Sculpture - Jo Uddin - helped by us.  We had a fab time working with Jo.



Large Sculpture Workshop - May 2011



The finished display

In May, we attended a 2 day advanced workshop in Balloon Sculptures with fantastic trainer Luc Betrand. We learnt oodles of tip and techniques to build large sculptures like the one attached.  This sculpture took 2 days with a team of 12 fellow balloonies.  We had a ball!   Below are some photos as we made the individual pieces.



The body - a lot of accurate measuring required!



The hat being weaved with balloons - happy memories of this singing "don't stop the weaving"  (I guess you had to be there to find that funny!)

Working on the legs

Working on the dress