Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:06:29 -0500
From: Stacey <stacey@krulewich.com>
To: balloon@balloonhq.com, sirtwistalot@juno.com
Subject: Re: My say so

>>  I Truely wish one of the balloon companies would come out with a
certified twisters program, so as people could tell the professional
from
the one balloon dog wonders.   <<

Hey don't knock the dog!  It neve fails that I have at least one kid
(usually a girl between the ages of 7 - 10) who wants nothing more than
a Weiner dog.  No matter what fancy things you try to show them, they
want that dog.  :-)

Dogs aside, I think it would be cool to have a certification program for
twisting.  I think it would be a lot harder to set up than the CBA
program.  After all, there are only so many ways to make an arch and
have it look right, but there are often as many ways to twist an  animal
as there are twisters willing to try.

Attitude will never be regulated, and that often plays a HUGE part in
how good a twister is, or at least how good he/she is perceived to be..
When I started I was an AWFUL twister, but I was having a blast, so the
audience had fun too.  I'm not awful anymore although I am many bags of
balloons away from being an expert.  I'm still having a blast and I hope
that still comes across to everyone I twist for.  When I'm not having
fun anymore, I won't be doing this anymore.  You can ask any employer I
have ever had for verification of that fact.  LOL  Thankfully I've only
run into a couple of sour twisters, and I like to think they were just
having a bad day.  You know the kind, when the parents let the kids dig
through your balloons and then the little angels stomp on everything you
have made and demand more.   And if they weren't having one of those
kinds of days then shame on them.  No need to be a sourpuss when you can
just wring some balloon's neck and get all the frustration out.

Stacey Krulewich
Oh Wow!! Parties & Balloons
Grandview, MO