My favorite balloons to twist
Easy-intermediate
Penguin with flower
Jan 9th
Penguin with flower
Another penguin balloon to start off the new year! 🙂 Penguins are just the best.
Also, I have a lot of black and white balloons (but running low on orange.)
Happy birthday, Angela!
Penguin with Christmas tree
Dec 25th
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
I know it’s been another tough year, and things have been difficult.
Here’s a penguin with a Christmas tree, wishing you a wonderful holiday, filled with peace, rest, connection, and great joy! We will get through this together!
Penguin with Christmas tree
Thank you for hosting us, S&M, when we couldn’t do what we originally planned for Christmas. So wonderful to spend the evening with y’all! Our friend named this penguin, Wilbur! Doesn’t it kind of look like a Wilbur? 🙂
Anniversary heart
Nov 11th
Big heart balloon
We got to spend the weekend with our nephew and niece, and we put together this humungous heart for their parents’ anniversary! It was fun building the heart balloon together! Happy anniversary A&A! 🙂
I’ve made this one before, but this time we made it red with a pink border, which my niece picked. Check out the very talented Sue Bowler’s instructions for how to make this!
Birthday bouquet
Oct 1st
Birthday bouquet
A birthday bouquet for a good friend of mine! Happy birthday! 🙂
Poop (emoji) wand
Mar 29th
Poop wand
Introducing the newest poop emoji balloon – the poop wand! Everything it touches turns into magical poop! I’ve been making wands, scepters, and poop balloons, so I thought why not a poop wand? I added some ribbon for fun.
I think this one is a winner – I got some laughs out of it. But who doesn’t like poop?
Happy birthday, G!
Penguin
Dec 29th
Penguins are one of animals I have twisted so many different versions of. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of more penguin designs. Plus, I usually have so many black and white balloons to use up. This super cute penguin is designed by the super talented Lily Tan. Instead of giving it a bow, I gave it a heart balloon to hold.
Penguin
Christmas poop
Dec 25th
Merry Christmas to my peeps from my poops! After making Halloween poop, I started thinking about poop emoji balloons for Christmas. Who knew I’d be making so many of these in 2020. 😀
Hope you all have a restful holiday break!
Christmas poop emoji with holly
Snowman poop emoji
Christmas tree poop emoji
Alien poop
Oct 31st
Alien poop
Alien poop
This is “alien poop,” based on the aliens from “Toy Story.”
I put a short piece of pipe cleaner in the antenna so it could be bent.
Have a fun and safe Halloween everyone!
Unicorn poop
Oct 31st
Unicorn poop
I didn’t plan on it, but I’ve been making a lot of poop this week! 🙂
My niece suggested this one – unicorn poop!
I didn’t have a 160 balloon in gold chrome, so I stuffed a 160 inside a 260 gold chrome to get the size and color I wanted. It worked well! I think it helped to hold the twist better too.
Unicorn poop
Ghost poop
Oct 28th
Ghost Poop [emoji]
Since making the pumpkin poop, I’ve been thinking about all kinds of other poop. 🙂 This is ghost poop.
Pumpkin poop [emoji]
Oct 27th
Pumpkin poop [emoji]
Here’s another pumpkin; this time, pumpkin poop! Like the poop emoji, except the pumpkin version. 🙂
Whenever I make things like this, kids or people who are around kids recognize what it is supposed to be more easily than others.
Small pumpkin
Oct 15th
Small pumpkin
I’ve been seeing pumpkins and fall/Halloween decorations pretty much everywhere since the beginning of October!
Last year I made a really large pumpkin balloon, which I would love do again if I can find the time. Here’s a small pumpkin – I really like this cute pumpkin design by Graham Lee. He shows you two different ways to twist the stem – one faster/easier and the more intricate design shown here.
Happy fall!
Orderly Tangle
Aug 10th
Orderly tangle of triangles
I’ve posted about this orderly tangle of triangles before. But it’s a fun one to figure out how to put together, and it looks really cool in chrome, so here it is again! 🙂
Try putting it together yourself! You don’t need to use balloons; you could also use popsicle sticks. Whatever you use, just make sure they are the same length. If you’re interested in these types of structures, check out George Hart’s YouTube channel!
Flower bouquet
Jun 13th
Flower bouquet
It’s been a while since my last flower balloon bouquet. I hope to try making some new types of flowers soon.
I ran out of the glass vases I usually use for flower bouquets, but I found the wide mouth canning jars work great for this purpose. They will fit about 6 stems made out of size 160 balloons.
Happy birthday, Evelyn! Always great to meet new friends!
Lobster
Mar 1st
She found her lobster! 🙂
Lobster
To make this balloon, I used a few red 260s, one red 160, and one small white round. I used Michael Floyd’s video below to get started, but made some changes here and there, including having a larger body, different antennae, and white round eyes.
I enjoyed learning a new technique from Michael while making the tail.
Flower wand
Dec 31st
Flower wand
Happy birthday, K! You’re a super kid!
I had limited time to make a balloon; but I love this wand design from Balloon Sage and finally found an occasion to make it. Check out his video for all the variations.
Big heart
Oct 28th
Big heart
Happy Birthday to my friend, Carmen! Now you’ve got two big hearts!
Check out Sue Bowler’s instructions for how to make this. It took me about 2 hours. You’ll use 79 Quick Links/Link-O-Loons and 78 5″ balloons. I inflated the balloons to 7″ and 9″, and the resulting heart was humongous (though I was still able to squeeze the balloon into our SUV for transport.)
Graduation Owl
May 28th
Graduation Owl
Congratulations to my friend Pam on her graduation! I’m so excited for you and your future students!
This graduation owl is similar to the owl I twisted before, designed by TaylorAnnArt. I added a graduation cap to it, attached by twisting an extra pinch twist in the head and tying the cap to it with the other end of the balloon used to form the tassel.
Penguins (again!)
Dec 28th
Penguin with hair bow
This penguin balloon design is a pretty popular one and a design commonly found when you search YouTube (see the Twister Sister video link below.) I’ve twisted this one before. It’s a fun, easy, and quick design, and I’ve probably made over 20 of them this past month – just because it’s the Christmas/winter season and also for E’s birthday. (Happy birthday E!) I’m reposting to show what you can add to the design to make it just a little khooler. 🙂
In the original post, I added a bow tie. Above, I’ve add a hair bow to the penguin. Below, I’ve added a scarf. Each addition is pretty simple and fast, but adds a lot and gives you a way to personalize each penguin.
Penguin with scarf
More pictures of penguins on-the-move! From left to right:
(1) A waddle of penguins ready for transport.
(2) Mr. Penguin traveled with me through the airport on my suitcase.
(3) Mr. Penguin got a window seat next to me. (Free advertising for Southwest.)
Penguins on-the-move
Check out this video from Holly:
Flower bouquets
Aug 5th
Flower bouquets are great for all kinds of celebrations – here’s a couple I made for a baby shower (Congrats T&L!) and birthday (Happy birthday C!)
Flower bouquet in vase
Flower bouquet
