There will be a balloon day taking place on Wed 13th Nov in Helsby, the day will be from 12 noon till 10pm with balloon workshops and also some face painting demo's.
The facebook page is, https://www.facebook.com/events/1458963807661657/

A run down of the day so far but I'm sure things may move about a little,

Cheryl Whitfield from Cheektatz, Face paint demo 2PM
Face and body artist Erica Wafford. Face Paint Demo 4PM
Anne From Funtime Faces, balloon demo 6PM (Beginner)
Sara Burns Balloon Demo 8PM

I will be there doing a session, at the moment it's scheduled for 5pm and I will be bringing the shop with me. If there is anything you require please just say and we are happy to bring along but are unable to bring everything due to the large stock that we now have on the website and my small postman pat van  

If anyone is going to this and needs any balloon orders then please let us know by Tuesday morning as we are unable to bring the full stock with us due to the car not being big enough, thanks.

I sent you an order through Graham... hope it got to you in time.

Martin.

Yes I got it OK, thanks.

Got to my lovely Travelodge hotel on the motorway safe and sound ready for the balloon/face painting day tomorrow.

Had an amazing day. It was great to see so many people attending. Both Graham and Dan's demos were useful and a lot of good sharing going on around the room all day.

And, as if the day wasn't already good enough, our team won the competition under the 'guidance' of our captain Dan 'sit and talk to Graham while the team works' Catt!

Well done Colin on your win, you multi award winning balloon modeler you      
It was a fun day, a little tired now so will post some pictures and a few comments when I get home over the weekend.

Quote from: "BongoBalloons"our team won the competition under the 'guidance' of our captain Dan 'sit and talk to Graham while the team works' Catt!

Hey I did get up and help half way through. But was confident in the teams ability to get us over the line ;-)

Some pics

Gemma (our host) demonstrated a wearable Reindeer that jingled!

I had made my Christmas tree and had been asking Graham advice on improving the top with some sort of star effect.  Suddenly there were trees everywhere!

My daughter Megan took quite a liking to Dan... she has now started phoning him on her toy phone!

A few of the pictures to start with, I saw this in the car park and the person said, he was proud to be a member of the balloon artistes guild  
Made a nice start to the day, he also had a T-shirt with the logo on but I forgot to get a picture.
Dan relaxing before his session.

I liked the furry bits on the side of the stage  

My version of the model Dan showed, as you can see it looks like nearly everyone made the model successfully.
I made the one balloon plane, can you guess what someone else saw when I was making it?