Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:18:39 -0800
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
From: Mike <mkenyon@starpower.net>
Subject: Re: 2 heart butterfly sculpting

Hi twisters and twista's:

>Not my invention as far as I can remember but I
>didn't get it from a book or tape.

This exact sculpture is shown on the Larry Moss CD - Attack of the 
50' Demon. It's not a book, and it's not a tape - but it's there in 
the bonus material. Larry has a whole section on working with hearts, 
which inspired the sculpture of the Belle of the Ball in the Totally 
WAY Cool Balloons book (a lovely skirt made from hearts. This rated a 
"wow" on my evaluation meter - namely, my wife.)

That little butterfly is my standard model now. I was twisting for a 
party and a child came up and asked for a butterfly. Yikes, I 
thought, running over the other model I'd been working on. This was 
not a successful model - usually one wing deflated due to a slow 
leak, or a pop. Then like a flash! the Moss butterfly came to mind, 
and saved me. To me, it's the one to make when you're making more 
than one.

Mike, who is getting ready to organize the next MD Jam for people in 
the quad state area



-- 
A four year-old girl was diligently banging away on her dad's old 
typewriter. She informed him that she was writing a story.
"What is your story about?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."