Look A Like

Oct 16th after I twisted at Irish Green, my niece Karol was performing at the Eddy street block party. She sings with the band King Pao and does a fantastic job. I had let her know I was twisting just across the street and she asked that I bring her something. I had been wanting a chance to make a design called a lootle that I learned at a balloon workshop in Chicago. Here is the results.

ND Late Night Gig

I do 2 late night events at Notre Dame and I think they are some of my favorite gigs. The students are creative in their requests and really appreciate my twisting skills. These photos are from the event called Carnival End Zone that starts at 10:00pm and runs until 2:00am.

October Balloon Jam

We had our monthly meeting of the Michiana Balloon Twisters last night. Megan my Granddaughter, Chris my Son In Law, Michael a ND student, and I arrived at 6:30 to start the twisting fun! Of course with it being October we started with a Jack-O-Lantern and then some Ghosties. All 3 of the new twisters were jumping right in and making GREAT balloons!

I found my Perry the Platypus T-shirt at JC Pennys and thought it would be fun to try and make him out of ... Balloons of course !

Cats ! Sorry Sweetie

In all my years of twisting I have never been happy with any of the cat designs I've learned or created ... til now. A fellow twister had a DVD by Jack and on it he had this simple cat design. When learning and simplifying a design I usually make a few to lock it into my memory and here is the herd of cats that managed to survive.

My new apprentice balloon artist "Twister Megan" is doing great with 2 balloon gigs under her belt. I've managed to infect two more people with Latex Addiction, so stay tuned but BEWARE there is no cure for it ! Muaahahahaha

Wow ! Where did the time go ?

Ok ... it looks like I've got a LOT of catching up to do. August 6 I did Dog Days Of Summer Downtown South Bend. I was at the Colfax Cultural Center in the Art Gallery Area, so I decorated my area with At Size Balloons. This dog was about 2 ft tall and 3 ft long using 360 balloons. 360 balloons are 3" in diameter and 60" long.

Then August 27th I did IRISHenanigans which is a late night event at ND. I started at 10:00pm and finished up at 1:00am. I love this gig ! Lots creative ideas from the students and they also have the patients to let me design it as I go.

We are back twisting for ALL the Notre Dame home games. This Friday come see Twister Megan as she debuts her first ND Twisting Gig ... 4:00-6:00 in the Irish Green Area just South of DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Mishawaka Library Program

The South Bend Tribune was present at the class I taught for the Mishawaka Library and snapped a few photos and talked to a few people. I had a great time as usuall and the kids all seemed to enjoy it. I hope to have a few more pictures of the Make A Splash balloon display to post in a day or two.

That's all for now folks.
Twister Mike

Twisting at Lakeville Branch Library

This year The Lakeville Branch of the St Joesph Library asked if I would teach a summer program for them ... of course I said YES ! We had about 20 beginning Twisters including 5 parents. I started them out with a simple four pedal flower and then moved on the this cute little fish I found on the internet. Everyone had a great time including me ! I love teaching budding balloons artist.

Next Thursday I'm teaching the same class at the Mishawaka Downtown Library starting at 2:00. The Librarian of the Children's department said that the class is already full. Last year we ran a second class because their were a lot more kids wanting to sign up.