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23 Jan 2011

Personalised balloon caricatures – a step nearer

Last week we got a step closer to introducing our Personalised balloon caricatures by showcasing one of comedian Russell Kane on Twitter…. ……and then taking it down to wait for him in his dressing room at The Palace Theatre, Westcliff to see what sort of reaction it got. In a word – amazing! Russell Kane [...]

Category: New ideas, What have we been making? | Comments: none | Tags: balloon, balloon baboon, balloon gift, balloon gift delivery, birthday present, caricature, coming soon, Palace Theatre, personalised, Russell Kane, twitter, unique balloon gift, Westcliff

27 Sep 2010

Vroom Vroom

Today’s challenge came via Twitter and it was for a balloon motorbike. What do you think? Would love to know. As always we can already see some tweaks that we will make for version 2 but liking it so far.

Category: New ideas, What have we been making? | Comments: 2 | Tags: balloon, balloon baboon, balloon challenge, balloon gift delivery, motorbike, present, surprise gift, twitter, unique balloon gift

9 Mar 2010

What would you want to see at a fair?

We have a stand at the Essex Easter Craft and Gift Fair in Harlow on March 27th and 28th and are starting to write a list of things that we need to take with us to sell on the day. We would love to hear what you would want to see available – remember that [...]

Category: Chit Chat | Comments: 9 | Tags: balloon baboon, balloon delivery, competition, Craft Fair, Essex Easter Craft and Gift Fair, Harlow, poll, twitter

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

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 [...]

Category: General news | Comments: none | Tags: balloon, balloon baboon, balloon delivery, balloon gift, balloon gift delivery, Blog, Christmas, rachaelblogs, twitter, unique balloon gift

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 [...]

Category: What have we been making? | Comments: none | Tags: balloon, balloon baboon, balloon delivery, balloon gift, balloon gift delivery, competition, twitter, unique balloon gift

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 [...]

Category: What have we been making? | Comments: none | Tags: balloon baboon, balloon delivery, Balloon robot, new birthday balloon, twitter

5 Nov 2009