First of all, thank you Graham, for inviting me to take part in the members interview. I will answer to the best of my ability. This will be my first interview and surprisingly it's been very insightful to myself! Well here goes:

1, What road led you into balloon modelling?
I have been a face painter for over 8 years now. I found that people were asking for balloons... I said I couldn't for a while but I decided to I only did swords and puppy dogs.. I got rather frustrated that my hands would have paint on them and I would have to do a balloon inbetween the face painting. I,however, came home one day to find that my son had been having a play with the balloons and so I asked him if he was interested in doing balloons whilst I face painted. When he did join me (aged 10) his line was always bigger! Dare I say I wanted a piece of that action... So, I lived and breathed balloons for more than 2 months, watching any You Tube video available and bought many DVDs and became addicted! I was then ready to face the world! My first 'official' stand and deliver was really nerve wracking, but it went well and the buzz I got from it has propelled my need to keep learning this awesome industry!

2, when did you get started with balloons
I started 2 years ago and never looked back!

3, What's your best twisting experience?
Every booking that I do is a great experience! But my best would be creating a birthday sculpture for an 8 yer old and telling her its Princess Jasmine. Her name was Jasmine and the sculpture looked like her! It was done randomly. She absolutely loved it.

4, What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you during a ballooning/entertaining session?
I've never had any bad experiences whilst twisting in public but only at home.  I was pumping over 300 balloons for a workshop with the hand pump and as a result I had torn a ligament in my hand which stopped play for a few weeks. In the end I still twisted with a splint. I now have an electric pump!

5, What do you most enjoy about twisting & why?
I still can't believe what can be created with simple pencil balloons. The joy they bring is amazing! I love creating smiles at every booking. I can turn an event into one filled with laughter and giggles. I feel I have one of the best jobs in the world!

6, What's your favourite age to entertain?
I do love entertaining the children but the older generation, from 40 years onwards, are my favourite crowd. They appreciate the art of balloon modelling and really enjoy watching them being made. I love it when I make a piece and they are all holding some part and then I put the design together and get an awesome reaction!

7, Do you have the same act but vary the presentation for all ages or do you have set acts for different ages?
I don't have an act. I simply entertain with jokes and silliness.

I will answer some more questions  during the week. Until then keep smiling!

Thanks Graham!

I read this post in the middle of the night last night and I wondered how it's been done... So when I did finally get to sleep I'd dreamt that I'd cracked it! No such luck when I woke up though! LOL!

Sure Graham, I would love to! I'm in Brisbane, Australia.

Say No. If word gets out that you've worked for this sum of money... It's hard to recover sometimes.. Stick to your prices.

Hi, I'm due to work at Sexpo next week and have no idea what adult balloons to do! I'm helping out a friend. I think I've done about 47 posts and need to do an interview... Where do I go from here??

What about  bright and colourful flowers in a vase? Ken Stillman's design is awesome. I've given this to many oldies. They can see what it is straight away... Their eyesight is not too great sometimes.

Also.... Have a picture of the design... It just jolts the memory... I have lots of designs available for the kids to choose from and every time I have a new design I just add to it. I have a board with laminated pics of each design that has blu tack at the back and I can add on/take off depending how busy/quite it is. It works well.

Crazy idea I know .... But create the designs in your mind as well... And use your hands... Like a sportsman who visualizes a win. I do look silly but it does tend to work... Although, nothing beats a lot of practice!!

Gees.... These are soooooo awesome!!

I still have 1/2 a dress in my husbands bar fridge, waiting to be finished. Where ever I got the info - that they can go in the fridge, is awesome - its allowed me to create sculptures days in advance!

Ensure you allow enough balloon when tying.... You can tend to scrape the fingers if you don't allow enough balloon to tie with.

Have you heard of Matt Falloon and his trained Balloons from Sydney? He's built these very Ninjas! Huge they were! Check out his Facebook page. [ You are not allowed to view this attachment ] ImageUploadedByTapatalk1372867365.588843.jpg[/attachment:1bqi3tny] [ You are not allowed to view this attachment ] ImageUploadedByTapatalk1372867399.102293.jpg[/attachment:1bqi3tny]

Here's my quick bracelet version. [ You are not allowed to view this attachment ] ImageUploadedByTapatalk1372604609.212521.jpg[/attachment:2sbz96cc]

These look great... Can I ask, how do they 'shoot'?