31st March - Goat

Its Florrie's birthday today, she recently requested that I make her a guinea pig or a goat, I made a guinea pig the other day so today I have made a goat.

This Goat is made from 5 balloons, there are 2 x brown 260s, 1 x grey 160, 1 tiny bit of black and a tiny bit of white. I actually use left over scraps of balloon instead of a whole balloon for some of the parts so although I did need 5 balloons to make this model, I actually only used 3 and 2 scraps.

Happy Birthday Florrie x

30th March - Patches the Bunny

I promised another Easter Bunny so here he is, this is Patches the Bunny with his basket of Easter eggs.

I am not going to say too much about how I made Patches the Bunny because he was designed by Dylan Gelinas from Slightly Twisted Balloons, you can purchase the instructions to make him from the Slightly twisted website (link) and it is well worth the effort as I think he looks excellent.

He is made from 23 balloons (I think) and the ears are just genius as they are NOT round but flat just like bunny ears, "how on earth do you do that?" I hear you ask, well you will have to buy the instructions to find out.

I will be featuring some more of Dylan's designs in the near future so keep watching, Happy Easter everyone.

29th March - Lamb

Its the Easter weekend and usually this means its lambing time, so I made a little lamp and set him free to bounce around my garden.

He is made from 4 balloons, 2 black 260s, 1 white 260 and a little tiny bit of a 160 for the eyes. I started by making 4 ear twists for his nose and mouth, then 3 standard bubbles which get twisted together, then 2 ears. next I make a body and neck, then I added the 2 pairs of legs. The final thing was to add the eyes and draw little dots on them.

28th March - Bunny Two

I last made a bunny on January 8th (link) and as its Easter I thought it was a perfect opportunity to make another one, This bunny is similar to one I have made for a few years but I recently attended a balloon day in Somerset where I learnt some variations and additions to make it better so thanks for those Graham.

Bunny here is made from 4 balloons plus a lot of scraps (so 8 balloons in total). There are 3 pink 260s, 1 white 260, an orange 260 for the carrot and then some scraps for the nose, teeth and carrot leaves.

Keep watching as there may just be another bunny coming before Easter Sunday.

27th March - Guinea Pig

Its Florrie's birthday on Sunday, she recently made a request for a balloon and gave me a choice of 2 things to make, I am saving 1 of the requests for her actual birthday but I thought I would have a go at the other one as well, a guinea pig. Now the problem with making a guinea pig is the fact that they are essentially a blob, I could if I wanted to just blow up a short balloon and draw a face on it as that is what a guinea pig looks like so it was difficult to work out what to do with this one, I think he looks OK tho.

I actually used 6 balloons to make this guinea pig but now I have made it once I know I could make it with just 4 balloons, in this one I used 4 x brown 260s, 1 x white 260 and 1 x dark brown 160.

26th March - Tiki Tiki Bird

A couple of weeks ago Graham posted a photo onto the balloon chat forum of a balloon model made by someone who attended Twist and Shout, the annual Balloon twister Convention in the USA, I loved the model so much I just had to have a go at making him. I have no idea who made the original balloon and I cant even find the photo in the forum now but if it was you who came up with the design then let me know and I will credit you.

This Tiki bird is made from 6 balloons, I started with the blue 260 for the head feathers and wings, then added the beak and feet from another 260, next I added the chest from a white round balloon and then added in the eyes from a white 260 and a black 160, finally the branch is a 260 with a raisin twist to attach the birds feet to.

25th March - Little Elephant

Time for another model made out of a single 260 balloon, this elephant starts with an elongated tulip/apple twist for the trunk, and then you twist a further 8 bubbles and you have your elephant.