About Meyer's Briggs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Brig ... _Indicator

About Strength's Finder
http://strengths.gallup.com/114079/Full-Bucket.aspx

I have found these to be very useful in self understanding and understanding others better. The Strength's Finder has been very helpful especially in being more intentional in my life and helps me better navigate situations and projects and interactions that are better suited to me and my natural ways of thinking and processing.

That is awesome!

I love anything that helps with self understanding and awareness, lol.

I love Strength's Finder and Meyer's Briggs.

Just curious if anyone else is and even more curious to know what their results are.

For Meyers Briggs I am an INFJ.

My top five strength finders talent results are
Empathy, Input, Ideation, Connectedness and Activator.

aw, thank you guys so much! Warm Fuzzies and GREAT BIG HUGS TO YOU BOTH!

Does anyone else go through this here? I am curious as to how folks in the balloon community feel about this and relate to this and how you all deal with it.

I know that for me, if ever I make something super awesome or anything that I get a feeling of competence and accomplishment, I will get super excited and just be on cloud nine.

After I expend all that energy and excitement, I then totally crash and get real low and also very insecure,lol. Insecure about my abilities and if I can repeat the same level or rise a higher level. Now it is nothing major. I get over it after a day or 2. It is just something I have noticed with any kind of artistic endeavor I have partaken in. Part of it I think is just some kind of emotional law of gravity, you spend sooo much energy making something and if you like it or are proud of it or if it gets a big response from others, then you continue to spend energy flying high on positive emotions and excitement, so much so that you run out of gas as it were. Once out of gas you are simply exhausted and in a weakened state and perhaps fall a bit down. A friend has pointed out that the critical voice and insecurity actually helps to keep you humble and open for improvement. The up and downs an ever moving pendulum seeking for a balanced state of relishing victory and yet never being satisfied with yourself so much that you become stagnate and cease to grow.  

Is this simply the fartsiness that comes with artsiness? How do you deal with this if you can relate or what is your experience?

I would also like to add that one way that I know that I have truly found my passion, is that my passion for this endeavor trumps any emotional or confidence state I find myself in.

It is worth the artistic roller coaster and I find that the passion exceeds my ego, so even if I feel insecure or even if I fall on my face, I will get up because in the end it isn't about me, it is about how I just can't not do this, I simply have to do it, it self's me.

The self takes a back seat because the passion is more important, and ironically the passion will give more and more of a satisfying sense of self.

Sooo shiny! Love love love!

At these jams, do you have to bring these balloons yourself or do they supply you with them? If you bring your own, what do you recommend one brings?

That was fabulous!

I made an elephant themed number 1 for one birthday party and a sports themed number 5 for another birthday party.

I love making these things man! I of course incorporated Scott Tripp's baseball glove and Nifty Balloon Football helmet for the 5. For the 1 I made a smaller Nifty balloons elephant mask. More pictures on my blog.

I made a golf club and a golf ball going into a hole as well as some blades of grass accents for the 5.

More pics of my 5 here, http://patriciaballoona.wordpress.com/2 ... -number-5/.



More pics of elephant version here,
http://patriciaballoona.wordpress.com/?s=elephant+1

Love it! That tea pot is especially awesome!

Hello vickibrockwell1985 and welcome to the forum.

I used 260 balloons for the numbers with 5 inch rounds to fill up the gaps. I did not use helium. Everything is twisted and no glue was used.

Wow- thank you everyone. I can't recall how long he took to make, lol. I never really time myself and time seems to stop when I make balloon sculptures, lol.

Love this!

I made this for my daughter's speech therapist as a parting gift as she is moving on in her career.

More pictures on my blog, http://patriciaballoona.wordpress.com/2 ... oo-parody/.

Thank you sooo much guys!