From: "Norm Carpenter" <norm@isc-br.isc-br.com>
To: "balloon" <balloon@fooledya.com>
Subject: Valentines Day Twist
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:45:55 -0800

Hi All,

Karen, my wife, and I are decorating for a wedding this weekend. In the
process of getting our materials together Karen came across one of those
fold out paper displays that had a heart shape with two love birds in the
middle. She asked me if I could do something like that out of balloons to
add to the wedding decoration. I promptly responded "No". But then I
started thinking about it and thought of how I would put it together. The
upshot of this is that when I woke up this morning I tried it and it works
good. Not just for weddings but a great valentines day balloon.

Here's the process:

Build the braided heart as described by John Holmes earlier in this list (6
260Q balloons; 3 in each braid; twisted together at each end to form a
heart).

Take a length of 2Lb. fishing line and fix it where each braid is twisted
to the other braid. The net result is that you have the fishing line
bisecting the heart through the vertical center. I did this heart in red.

Now take one 260Q (I used white) and begin making the love birds (these
must be on the list as well). Make the tail, foot, bird body, head, head,
bird body, foot, tail and before you twist the feet together wrap the twist
between the bird heads once around the fishing line.  Next twist the feet
together around the fishing line as well. 

You end up with a braided heart and two love birds 'floating' in the middle
of the heart.

It looked good enough to tell you guys about it right away!

Norm