One of our favourite charities – Ronald McDonald House in Birmingham – celebrated its third birthday on Tuesday 27th November 2012.

Found this whilst browsing the internet; it was captioned ‘Fruit Balloons Make Me Smile’, they certainly make us smile! It’s nice to see other people doing quirky things with balloons!

We provided some Giant balloons on half-Columns for Sandwell College’s stand at The Skills Show at the NEC, November 2012. Pride of place on the stand went to a Suzuki-engined grass racer, built by a member of staff.

We’ve recently carried out decor for another two ‘Great Britain’ themed events.

We provided red/white/blue Clusters for a corporate event where the event management team (Pretty Clever Events) had really gone to town with a ‘Best of British’ theme, bringing a double-decker bus, a tree, a phonebox, a giant backdrop of Buckingham Palace and much more to a Suite at the Villa Ground.

Only two days later we made the Queen and Prince Philip Greeters plus Clusters and Giant balloons for a Corporate Quiz Night.

One job over the weekend included supplying 50 Union Flag foil balloons. This photo shows a few of them! They look fabulous en masse. We also made some Royal Family Character Greeters for this patriotically-themed garden party in Datchet.

This Sunday saw the Skyride come to Birmingham. 18,000 cyclists took to the streets on a circuit of roads closed especially for the occasion. This gave us slight problems with a delivery to The Botanical Gardens for a 50th Anniversary party, but that was a small price to pay as we were also commissioned to provide some balloon decor for the start area at the University. And yes, that’s Olympic gold-medallist Laura signing hi-viz bibs at the event!

One of our jobs this weekend was to provide balloon décor at a wedding at The Granary, Shenstone. It’s the first time we have visited this venue, and what a fine venue it is, too.

The décor we provided was unusual in that it was all AIR-FILLED, which, in these times of worldwide helium shortages, is great to achieve. We supplied a balloon Bride and Groom, an Exploder which hung from the ceiling, and a Champagne Bottle Arch.

There are definite problems with helium supply, but we would like to stress to all our booked-in customers that we have sufficient for our needs. It may well be more problematic in the future, but we are a creative team and we know we can design viable alternatives. Indeed, the décor shown on the ‘Highbury’ venue page of our website is all air-filled, as helium-filled décor is not allowed there.

The world of balloon venue décor is undoubtedly changing, but we’re well equipped to adapt and we see ourselves as ‘staying ahead of the game’ thanks to our design capabilities.

What can we say? Next time you hear someone say ” yes, and pigs might fly…” point them in the direction of our blog!

We get to do some great stuff, it’s such a nice business to be in. Every job is unique, but they don’t come more unique than a ‘Punk Britannia’ theme for a birthday party.

Wow, that was a busy weekend…

We had Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Character Greeters on display in the Council House, balloon decor on display in the Waterhall Gallery and our Morris J-type van (made in Birmingham in 1959) outside in Victoria Square. Somehow we also managed to fit in wedding work and taking Abi to do balloon modelling for the children at The Ronald McDonald House Jubilee Party. Anyone not aware of the fantastic work that the charity does should visit http://www.rmhc.org.uk/where/rmhc_houses/birmingham_childrens, it’s a fantastic set-up which we’re happy to support in any way we can.