Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:44:01 -0700
From: Lorna Paris <balloonchick@home.com>
Subject: Betallatex balloons
To: balloon@balloonhq.com

Sandi WAS NOT kidding when she talkied about the AMAZING smaple packs--
they made the huge Tjam Betallic sample packs paled by comparison. WOO
HOOOO talk about amazing!

Yeah . . . yeah. . . yeah. . .I kissed the peach 260. . . I was also
quite happy with their roooonze balloon-- yeah I know it is metallic,
but it is a great color for people. . . not IF they can come up with it
is an opaque, I will have yeat another people colored balloon.  There
were no brown balloons in my pack, but I remember the brown from a while
ago.  :-D

OK-- Sandi loved Flash's helicopter BUT PERSONALLY, I adored the HORSE
he did.  I THINK that he must have scavenged yellow to gold clownoses
and 260's from the others to make this wonderful creation.  I HAD taken
a picture of it. . .then the balloon left THEN i discovered that I had
no film in my camera *sigh*  I think I'm gonna cry.

The new mixture of Betallic's balloons made them EVEN better to work
with. . . sooo easy to mouth inflate without having to deal with a
fragile balloon.  Even the metallic's felt like I was dealing with BSA's
old silver and gold,except EASIER to inflate.

THEY HAVE TEAL!!!!!!. . . In my sample pack there was a bag of solid
metallic teal. . a little transparent, BUT somehow there was a fashiob
tone that I could not figure out the shade of, BUT IT WAS TEAL.. 
GORGEOUS! (I feel like the Crocodile Hunter when I saw that)

Betallic has had me convince for a long time. . now the straw that will
break the camel's back and switch me over is SOLID BAGS!!!!!! (Sine i
saw a few at the Betallic sponosored San Diego Balloon jam, I think
thayt it is NOT far behind.  WOO HOO!!  YAYYY! (Can you tell I'm
excited?)

> Anyway, it was a lot of fun to get so many creative minds together to play
> with some really neat new balloons.

yeah.. . . there were afew of us from San DIego, but it seemed as though
a lot of folks came down from LA and Orange County! It was a GREAT mix
of people and levels (there were a few kids who twisted their very first
balloon and a bunch of expert folks! 

hrmmm. . . there were SO many great things at the jam. . . since
Betallic was generous enough to supply EVERYONE with HUGE bags of
samples, a lot of the entries were made with B's balloons. . . We had 2
prize levels for each category (3 of em).  I won for the alrge balloon
sculpture (a 3 1/2 ft tall Parody of Harry Potter with his lightning
bolt broom and the Golder Snitch.  REMEMBER the next book AND the movie
are both coming out in November, and they're gonna be good AND
POPULAR!!!! (I even had a table full of teachers taking pictures. . they
knew without asking what it was.

There were a lot of things!. . . casey got 2nd in two categories. . .and
now my mind is feelling muddled. . .so since Chris wrote it all down
I'll let his post it. (oh yeah, Chris got first in the 2 balloon
category.  .a guy riding a motorcycle.)

IT WAS GREAT!!!! GREAT GREAT GREAT!

Lorna