Oooh, I spent about 2.5 hours on Saturday twisting skinny balloons into figures at the Harvest Festival at a local high school.
I'm kinda rusty at the whole balloon thing, and I went pretty low-profile (no costume, no colorful hat, nothing really except me and some balloons)... but Anna managed to attract a bunch of kids for me to twist for.
It was fun! But I was rusty -- lots of stuff I didn't remember how to do. Oooh, and twisting uses weird muscles in your hands. I had to stop a bit early when I could no longer do the ear-twist.
From there, we went to Richards for some play, and then to the Haunted Trails wrap-up dinner, where I twisted more balloons to the amusement of the people around me.
It was fun! Fun! I forgot how festive balloon twisting is, how magic it seems to the people watching it.
I should buy another thousand balloons or so and get my skills back up into order. And I could expand on my reference work, too -- put in some stuff for 160's, troll the lists and sites and books for new figures, so on and so forth. Oooh, and flowers. And hats! And sculptures...
... which is why I stopped. It's so easy to get totally absorbed in it!
Anyway, my twisting reference (an arcane piece of work if ever there was one) is here: Twist Reference The twists themselves are described in the back...
Posted by Edwin at November 21, 2005 02:44 PM