Today was the 5th annual Millcreek Venture Outdoors Festival. This was my 2nd year twisting balloons for the festival. Last year was pretty dreadful due to stormy weather. This year the weather was great. This year could have gone better, I was planning on it going better, but it was still a whole lot of fun. My balloons were great. My booth was great. There was a pretty fair crowd and they were all very friendly. I gave lots of balloons to smiling children and adults. That's what I love about balloon twisting...those smiles.

I am disappointed in the organizers and I have to really weigh out the pros and cons to see if I'll do it again next year. Both years I have been invited by the organizers .  I really love working with my contacts there. They are so friendly and so happy to see me, which feels great but from a business perspective, I've got to really look at the benefits. I've got a year to do that, though.

It really was such a fun day. I had my sisters with me and they make everything more fun. We had good food and good company and good weather...all in all it was a successful day. I am happy I had this gig.

I love yo-yo balloons. They are a super heavy-duty, round water balloon with an elastic string attached. They are filled 1/3 with water and 2/3 with air and you play with them like a yo-yo. They are very fun, colorful and quite entertaining.  You can see them in action here on You Tube.

When I do summer-time, outdoor gigs I like to bring yo-yo balloons. They are very good sellers and they're just so fun. The only bad thing about yo-yo balloons is filling them. It takes me about 2 hours to fill 100 yo-yo balloons and attach the strings. It's not hard work, it just takes time. It is time well spent and totally worth it but it is still time I have to set aside just for that.

Well, I'm sitting here blogging and I should be filling the balloons for the Millcreek Venture Outdoors Festival this weekend. Yep, I admit it.  I'm stalling. Time to get to work. They are not going to fill themselves.