3
Mar
2010
Butterfly challenge Part 2 – final designs :)
Now that we had chosen the cutest butterfly design that we could come up with, below, we had to make a lovely big version for the Ally Cadence Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy dinner dance. Just using bigger balloons didn’t give us the elegance or size that we were after so a quick jiggle with [...]
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22
Feb
2010
Butterfly challenge Part one – what shape to use?
A few weeks ago we got an email from Karl at the Ally Cadence Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy who is organising a fundraising dinner dance for the Trust in March of this year. Having seen our balloons on Twitter Karl wondered if we could make some large floating blue butterflies (their logo) that would [...]
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15
Feb
2010
Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us…
It is our First Birthday today With everything going on I almost missed it!! Over the last year things have changed quite a lot but one thing has stayed the same – the level of support that people have shown us. It is great to know that so many people think that the idea behind [...]
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1
Feb
2010
Wow!
We found out today that www.Prezzybox.com had decided to include our large balloon rose bouquet on their national website. I can’t think of many better ways to start the week than seeing our balloons on another website but this really is a biggie for us. If you run a website or have a shop and [...]
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29
Jan
2010
What can we make for you?
We have an incredibly long list of balloons that we want to try to make and if they work out add to our balloonshop BUT what do you want to see included? We are often asked if we can make specific balloons – that is how this wonderful Mickey Mouse, Froggie, Buzzy Bee, Piggie and [...]
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21
Jan
2010
Never forget a birthday again.
Do you ever forget a birthday or anniversary? Do you wish you had a PA to remind you and maybe even suggest the perfect present to send, one that may even be discounted? We have set up a reminder service that will make sure you never forget a special event again. All you need to [...]
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18
Jan
2010
Don’t leave your Valentine Order to the last minute – like I do
I love Valentine’s Day to bits and always have. When I was at University my room looked out over the entrance to the campus reception and I would spend as much time as possible sitting on the windowsill on 14th Feb watching all the bouquets of roses arriving. It was bliss. The person who came [...]
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12
Jan
2010
A Dog isn’t just for Christmas
We just couldnt resist trying out a Pluto balloon and here he is. He will probably get a tweak here and a twist there but we already think he is a bit of a cutie pie. He has just joined , WallE, Bob the Builder and Marvin the Martian in our balloonshop so if you [...]
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10
Jan
2010
It is always a huge compliment…
….. to be featured in a blog so when we were contacted by Louise at Sew Scrumptious and told that us that she had written a piece on her blog, after finding us on Folksy we were thrilled to bits. It also means that we know where to go next time we need a gorgeous [...]
Category: General news | Comments: 1 | Tags: balloon, balloon baboon, balloon delivery, balloon gift, balloon gift delivery, Blog, sew scrumptious, unique balloon gift
8
Jan
2010
New bouquet idea – what do you think?
As well as offering standard bouquets of roses and mixed flowers we are also thinking of offering a ‘create your own bouquet’ service that will allow you to put the flowers that you want together – just like when you visit a real florist. That way you can personalise the bouquet and spend as much [...]
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2
Jan
2010
Argh!!!! Computers!
We have just tried to send out an email to everyone on our emailing list to let them know about our New Year Offer below. What could be easier? Well it seems that building a lifesize balloon replica of the Eiffel Tower would be easier because although our test emails look very pretty they seem [...]
Category: Chit Chat | Comments: none | Tags: 2010, ACT6, balloon, balloon baboon, balloon delivery, balloon gift, balloon gift delivery, Computers, email fail, Special offer, twitter
1
Jan
2010
One of life’s little pleasures.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! One of my favourite things about a New Year is starting a new diary. Fountain Pen in hand Birthday’s and Anniversaries are first to be added. As they are written in, in my very best handwriting, I start thinking about present ideas and they go into another little book of mine. That [...]
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30
Dec
2009
Hospitals ban fresh flowers
Our local hospital banned fresh flowers from wards earlier this year and it seems that more and more across the country are doing the same. They haven’t banned deliveries of balloon flowers though which gives us the perfect excuse to add more varieties to our collection. It has nothing to do with the fact that [...]
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27
Dec
2009
A little Christmas Cheer :)
We hope that you have had a wonderful Christmas full of smiles and laughter with the ones you love. We have sent out a lot of smiles in the form of balloons this Christmas, some from those serving abroad in the armed forces to the families that they are missing in the UK, some to [...]
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14
Dec
2009
Want to win our latest Creation?
We have been working on a brand new character to bring to our balloonshop this afternoon. It looked like it was going to be far trickier than it was and I really thought it would all ‘end in tears.’ If you follow us on Twitter you can enter the competition that we have just launched [...]
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14
Dec
2009
Do you do ‘normal’ heliums?
On Friday we were asked if we worked with ‘normal helium balloons’ for a party. Things like clusters of balloons, huge balloon numbers, that sort of thing. We can only do this sort of thing locally – around the Essex area but we certainly can supply them and I admit that I LOVE working with [...]
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24
Nov
2009
Post Office grumbles
Today a member of Post Office staff practically accused me of lying about the measurements of a box – twice! The boxes that we send our balloons out in are pretty big but are within the PO limits on size. I am used to PO counter staff saying “That box looks too big” then turning [...]
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20
Nov
2009
Balloon Handbags
Yep you read that right – I am working on a collection of Balloon Handbags for the website. Above is a sneak preview of one of the ideas that I have been playing about with although they are likely to be sold in single colours. Have to say so far I LOVE them but would [...]
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16
Nov
2009
It was just a 5 minute job….
What could be easier than filling 2 big silver foil balloon numbers with helium, attaching ribbon and tying them to pretty silver weights? It should take minutes especially when you have already been to the wholesaler and bought everything. The trickiest bit should be making sure that both numbers are the same height. So, helium [...]
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5
Nov
2009
So what balloon did we create yesterday?
We ran a competition on Twitter this week to win one of our newest additions to our balloonshop. It seemed easy enough - all you had to do was guess what we were going to make next which was the cute robot above, an homage to WALL E and was revealed yesterday. Answers during day [...]
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5
Nov
2009
The time has come…..
What will be in the Balloon Baboon blog
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