“A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.”
~ Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology
Irina Lobanova is an amazing a prolific Russian balloon artists that I have followed for a while on Instagram. She had been creating Instagram Live videos and then offering them for view/purchase later - I caught the tail end of this one and love the basket weave pattern so I contacted her back before Mother's Day.
The red flowers I made for my mother for Mother's Day and sent a photo.
The rainbow flowers were made for my wife for our quaranteenniversary.
Those flowers need special mention. Irina demonstrated making a 9-petal flower like it was the easy. 6 petals are typical, good pressure and flower shape - the amount of pressure between the petals of a 9-petal flower is so great you have to have a very precise amount of sizing/stretch/pressure. I tried throughout the red flowers and only succeeded in one lumpy one. More success in the rainbow flowers, but I cheated and used two balloons on each.
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