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    The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons: How To Wow Your Friends & Impress Your Relatives WIth Amazing Balloons
    The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons: How To Wow Your Friends & Impress Your Relatives WIth Amazing Balloons
    The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons: How To Wow Your Friends & Impress Your Relatives WIth Amazing Balloons
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    The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons: How To Wow Your Friends & Impress Your Relatives WIth Amazing Balloons

    By Sandi Masori, CBA and Rachel Porter, CBA

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    MAKE YOUR PARTIES STAND OUT Have you ever seen really cool balloon decorations and wondered, “How do they do that?” Or “Can I make this?”. With the help of this book, Yes, you can! The DIY Balloon Bible for All Seasons is chock full of tips, tricks and actual recipes on how to create over 25 designs. Sandi Masori, CBA and Rachel Porter, CBA have put together an all-star line up that is sure to make you the hit of every party. At the end of every recipe, there are links to watch Sandi, (America’s Top Balloon Expert, as seen on The Today Show, ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, Fox, etc.), make them in exclusive step-by-step videos. Impress your friends and family, embellish the balloon decorations according to your own style and blow everyone away with your craftiness!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 16, 2014
    ISBN9781483545592
    The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons: How To Wow Your Friends & Impress Your Relatives WIth Amazing Balloons

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      The DIY Balloon Bible For All Seasons - Sandi Masori, CBA

      Rachel

      THEORY AND STUFF TO KNOW

      5 Things to NEVER Do When Planning a Party Outdoors

      Some basic rules for using balloons outside.

      Don’t let foil balloons go. – When using foil balloons, always have them weighted down. Look at the chapter on California balloon laws, and follow them, even if you don’t live in California. A foil balloon that gets loose can short out an entire electrical grid.

      Don’t Do a Balloon Release without Talking to the FAA first.- Many municipalities have very strict rules about how many balloons you can release without notifying the FAA. A balloon release that gets in the way of a flight path can down a plane. Know the rules for your area.

      Don’t use dark colors – black, brown, purple, some blues and some greens absorb heat, so on a really hot day, these colors are more prone to popping than lighter colors might be.

      Don’t move cold to hot- Inflate the balloons in the environment in which they will be used, going from one temperature to another can cause the gas inside the balloons to contract or expand which can cause the balloon to pop.

      More weight, the better- it’s always better to have a heavier weight and a larger footprint. Stable decorations are happy decorations. Weight keeps the decoration in place, the footprint keeps it upright. So, in windy conditions, the footprint is just as important as extra weight.

      With balloons outside you want to be safe.

      You don’t want to use dark colors outdoors. These colors are not good for outdoors because when it heats up, when you go from cold to hot, they’re likely to pop when they expand as temperatures go up. So give the balloons room to expand by underinflating them. You want them to be squishy.

      To help you remember the rules for balloons outdoors, here’s The SUN formula:

      S – Secure them. Make sure that there’s adequate weight.

      U – Underinflate. Make them squishy.

      N – No helium necessary. If you inflate it with air you’re going to be able to do more. It will look better, and it’ll be better outside.

      What's The Deal With Helium Anyway?

      I'm sure that you've seen helium filled balloons before- in fact most people, when they think of balloons think of helium filled balloons. This lighter than air gas is what makes the balloons in arches and bouquets float. It's ironic that the most abundant element in the universe is currently in short supply. This is a complicated situation. What we have is a perfect storm, if you will.

      Helium is an inert, non-renewable noble gas. This means that it doesn't combine with anything, will not explode, and can't be artificially made. Helium is found trapped in natural gas mines. A special separation process is needed to extract the helium. If the technical information is interesting to you (as it is to Rachel), the internet has lots of great articles for you to learn all about helium and how it is extracted.

      Everyone knows that helium is used in balloons, but what most people don't know is that the larger uses are for the medical, industrial and technological industries. Because helium doesn't combine with anything and has a very low freezing point, it can be used in many ways. MRIs for example use helium to stay cool. Flat screen TVs and smart phones use helium as part of the manufacturing process. Welders use helium as part of the welding process. Deep sea divers use helium as part of the gas mix to help them ascend, as helium will not form bubbles in the blood- which is a problem with using nitrogen. And because it is one of the smallest molecules, helium is used to detect leaks in telecommunication lines.

      The helium used for balloons is not pure. We get the bottom of the barrel, the stuff that's not pure enough for the other industries to use. And that's fine, we don't need pure helium. But some people think that the balloon industry is taking helium away from the other industries. That's not the case.

      So why are we in a helium crisis then? In 1925, the United States government, wanting to explore defense uses for this lighter-than-air gas, started to collect and store massive amounts of helium. The federal helium reserve in Texas stored more than half of the helium used in the US, and one third of the helium used globally. Unfortunately they were running this reserve at a serious deficit and by 1996 had amassed a debt of $1.4 billion. So, in 1996 Congress passed an act, called the Helium Privatization Act that said the US had to get out of the helium business. So, they began selling off the helium at below market rates. According to a 2010 article in Popular Science, if the helium were sold for its full value, that party balloon would probably cost you about $100. Ouch!

      At the same time as all of this is happening in the US, there were some plants in the Middle East and Europe that went down for maintenance and remained off-line much longer than projected. This caused more demand for American helium.

      In 2013, trying not to fall off the helium cliff, congress passed the Helium Stewardship Act. This act said that the United States can continue selling helium at the current rate for one more year, but that come 2015, they need to sell it off at public auction for the highest bidder. Already people are feeling the results. At the time of this writing, some of my colleagues have been told that they can't get any more helium. Others have been rationed. As for me (Sandi), the price that I pay for helium has increased over 500% in the past two years.

      Luckily, there's another gas that we can use that will let us party on! That's air. Yep, everyday common air. Using framing and air-filled designs, we can get better looking, longer lasting decor. Yes, air-filled decorations take longer to make, so there is a bit more in labor, but instead of only lasting 6-18 hours, like a helium filled balloon would, it will last for a week or even two, (under the right

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