It's a Life

This is my life. This is their lives. Here we are - all together in this life. Gotta be amused:









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Retail

I love to work at Parties. No haggling - just get there and get INvolved. But there's also something nice about working Retail. Since nobody is paying me by the hour, nobody cares how much time I spend with each customer. A lot of time? A little time? It can evolve naturally - depending on what I want to do and what the customer wants to do. Look at these unique balloons that I created recently:



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The boy who got everything

I think this is a quote from the end of "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory": "And you know what happened to the boy who got everything he wanted, don't you?" "Yes - He lived happily every after." "Of course".

Sometime's it's just fun to play with the kids. To give them whatever they can think of in the moment. Look at how cute this boy is. Can you imagine how satisfied he must have felt? He really wanted that half-skull, so I painted this:



But, just like those other boys, he still wanted that Spiderman. I didn't think it would look good to break the face up into two halves - One half skeleton and one half Spiderman. So I made a balloon. I love boys:



And while I'm at it, look at what I created for this little girl. Pearls and pretty, girls are pretty wonderful too:



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Spiderman

Three different boys. They all wanted it, but they each have their own minds. Their own personalities. Their own sense of self. Three different boys - all thinking they're asking for the same thing. "Paint me like Spiderman." But I had to approach them all differently. Here's the basic:



And this boy wasn't sitting still enough for me to paint too closely to his eyes, so I did this:



And this boy didn't want it on his face, so I did this:



Three different boys, all thinking they're asking for the same thing, all playing Spiderman. And they were all happy with their face-painting.

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Expanding my Horizons

Looks like a standard heart-balloon-wand. I make lots of them. Can you tell that this one is so very special? I was Sooo Excited when I made it!!! Wow! I did it! Magnificent!



Lol - what it was that I did - doesn't look all That much better than the usual beautiful balloon-wands. But can you see that there is a balloon Inside a balloon?? There is a pink heart Inside a clear heart. That was Sooo hard to do! There I was, standing alone in the very middle of New York City - just me grappling with these here balloons - and Voila! Victory! If I can get a better handle (hahaha)- I mean, the handle was easy for me - If I can get better at doing a balloon Inside a balloon, there's no telling where this will lead.

Oh - and here is a picture of David. A juggler who was not too far away while I was making the balloons that day. Here he is holding a dog-balloon that I made - a little more complicated than the ones made from just one balloon.



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Each Person - Unique

Look at this litl girl - Oh my goodness - what she brings to the beautiful face-painting that I did:





Oh - I remember. She came by, adorable herself - said she wanted a butterfly. "I'll make one just for you", I told her and her mother. This one was made to match the flowers on her dress.

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