May 20 - Geo Babies

Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart.

~ Winnie the Pooh

I was browsing images in the balloon forums recently when I stumbled across some images posted by ‎Rosaleen Burkholder.  Probably because of this recent geo-playing I've been doing, I recognized them as inverted geos.

Rosaleen does a great job at making these into cute little quick creations, yet they are probably the easiest balloon I've ever made, there is not one twist!  Yet still, being a geo it has an interesting abnormal shape, and the ears add to the effect. The only bit of struggle is that it's more difficult to draw on such an under-filled balloon as it tends to move with the sharpie.

Rosaleen credits Jeanine Von Essen Sharpen.  I have used a couple of her designs on this site already (link), so I did a little digging through her photo archives.  These are attributed to a mini-jam in San Jose around November 2012.  Jeanine does sell some PDFs on her website (link) but it's a bit hard to tell if these are currently part of any collection.

I'm now down to the last few of these extra green (and I still have bags of emerald green and whites!).  I guess I sort of stumbled into "geos" being the second balloon concept for May - I will need to go back through time and see if I can correctly label any previous geo based creations.  Though it's not a concept in itself, the unique balloon shape really gives an interesting workspace to create with.

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February 27 - Crab

Googly eyes = +5 cuteness

"Under the sea, Under the sea
 Darlin', it's better, Down where it's wetter
 Take it from me.
 Up on the shore they work all day
 Out in the sun they slave away
 While we devotin', Full time to floating
 Under the sea!" - Sebastian



Jeanine Von Essen Sharpen has some very good PDFs, so good that instead of choosing one - I decided to get them all numerically, and had already bought the first 4 when she posted something in a balloon group to the effect of "if you ask between now and midnight I'll send you some designs".

I was one of the lucky ones who happened to be around at that time!  This is one of those designs - all of them are very quick to build, this guy is perfect for line work, the basic form is done in moments.

And then .... link

January 12 - Hula girls

Hula Girl design by Jeannine Von Essen.  Jeanine's PDFs are fantastically detailed and full of fun designs - this one is from "Jeanine's Stuff Volume 2" (Etsy Shop)

In hindsight I should have put the skirt starting above the waist... now that I've thought of it as a front-butt, I can't unsee.

Purple Pig enjoying the pre-Luau

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