In the post about the balloon sculpture of orange dino, I mentioned that it began to lay golden eggs. This was the first one.
The Bryn Mawr School for girls is located near the one were the dinosaur was made. The principles had lunch together and the dino story was shared. So people from Bryn Mawr called me for decorations for a game on their field. What can be done on the side of a football field so that people would notice it?
Well, the team in the school was called the Martians, so that was an idea (needless to say that the first thing the people from the school said was “balloon arch”). I do not know about you, but I had never seen a martian in my life, so I have no idea how they look. The only thing that was a must was the color green – the school color. Green looks like the right color for Martians ( just sounds natural for them), but not very practical – the background for the balloon sculpture were green trees. But the school insisted.
I asked everybody I knew about the Martians. Yes, there were strange looks all right, but at some point someone said “sure!” and drew me a picture of a Martian on a napkin. It was exactly what I was looking for! I sat down with a ruler and pencil and measured the proportions carefully. And here you go – he is 30 feet tall and looks exactly the same! (Easy for me to say – where is that napkin?)
As I said, it was standing on the side of a football field, far away from any building, but the electricity for my compressor was available – they said… But what is enough to power a scoreboard is not for a commercial size compressor! No, I will not claim that we have blown the whole balloon sculpture by mouth (wait another 20 years and I will). We called back to our store and asked for the tiny machine we used to blow up balloons before. I am very proud we have finished on time – it took 4 times longer than we had planned. But we did it and it is not “it” anymore! We love him!
