From: Choochclwn@aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:37:17 EST
Subject: Re: St. Patty's day
To: balloon@fooledya.com

For a simple St. Patty's day balloon which has the extra bonus of not using 
up all your green 260's, the leprechaun's pot of gold may be useful.

The Pot...
With an Enya album playing in the background, inflate a black 260, leaving 
about 3" uninflated. Make two 8" bubbles and lock-twist them, then make a 10" 
bubble and roll it through. Make a 1" bubble, and break off the excess using 
a safety bubble. After tying off the last 1" bubble, pinch twist it to make a 
neat finish. Do the same with the first 1" bubble.

The Gold...
Inflate a yellow or goldenrod 260, leaving about 10" uninflated. Start making 
1" bubbles, and don't stop till you run out of balloon. (A good way to keep 
the bubbles from untwisting as your making them is to make the first couple 
of bubbles, then clip the first twist between your pinkie and ring fingers 
while you make the rest.) When you've finished making bubbles, lock twist the 
first to the last, and you'll have something resembling a string of yellow or 
goldenrod pearls. Put them in the pot, arrange them to look like gold pieces, 
and viola! One genuine imitation pot of gold!

Another suggestion...
Captain Visual's first book has a heart princess hat, the one with the two 
loops in front which hold a heart, which you can get a lot of mileage out of 
by putting things other than a heart there...smiley faces, rounds with things 
drawn or written on them, etc. For St. Patty's Day, I think a green heart on 
a white base, or a white heart on a green base, would be useful.

Hope these are helpful...

Twistin' the night away (literally, at least at Twist & Shout)...
Bennett/Chooch
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Clown</A>