Valley Homeschoolers' 4th Annual Cyber School Fair

Holly Balog of K12/Agora - 2009 Cyber School Fair

Creating Exciting Balloon Memories (Miss Balloon Heart) is pleased to have the opportunity to participate, once again, in the Valley Homeschoolers Cyber School Fair. I found pictures from the event two years ago, online, (click here to view them). It is hard to believe that these were taken only 4 months into my balloon twisting career. As a homeschooler, at the time, I had attended the fair the year before and noticed that I really had wanted to talk to the schools but my daughter needed my attention sooner than I would have liked. This is one event I am THRILLED to donate my time to to help parents with their educational decisions. By the way, Tamara, who runs the event, is super cool. If you have the teeniest, tiniest curiosity about cyber schools - this is the BEST place to check them out and it is free!

Below are the details shared by Tamara this week.

Christine Maziarz,
Certified Balloon Artist
Creating Exciting Balloon Memories, LLC
Yep, I'm on Facebook!
Twitter, too! @balloonheart
Serving Southeastern PA

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It's time for
Valley Homeschoolers'
4th Annual Cyber School Fair

Friday, April 29th
10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Schwenkfelder library & museum

Cost of admission: free!

If you have any questions about cyber schools, this is the only place – anywhere – that you have all the schools in the same place at the same time. Have all your questions answered, get a peek at what you'll actually see when you log on to the virtual school, and find out what additional academic help they offer (including, in some cases, college courses for free).

Here's the list of the schools that are attending:

 PA Cyber
K12/Agora
PALCS
PAVCS
PA Distance Learning
Connections Academy
21st CCCS
Upper Perkiomen School District
Quakertown School District

There will be refreshments and schools will be giving away pens & other assorted stuff. The Schwenkfelder and other museums will display what they have to offer to homeschoolers, too!


Miss Balloon Heart, will be there twisting balloon sculptures for the little ones from 10AM -1PM.

Elyse Kells, homeschool graduate & professional photographer, will be taking school portraits of your minions for only $20.00!

Spread the news!

I'm looking forward to seeing you there!

Tamara Kells
Free Lance Columnist, The Patch
"The Brunette Lucy"

The Week Ahead..

Hello, all!

This week, Miss Balloon Heart will be appearing at two public events.

The first is her usual, Red Robin, Exeter appearance on Tuesday evening. Then on Thursday, she will be at Pottstown's annual FamilyFest. Here are the details...

Tuesday evening,  Miss Balloon Heart will be twisting balloons table-side from 5:30-7:00pm at Red Robin, Exeter, PA for Kid's Night. Come on out and join the fun. Hope to see you there!






Thursday Evening Miss Balloon Heart will be at Pottstown's Annual FamilyFest, with over 500 attendees, if you want a balloon, you should arrive early! ; ) She will be twisting balloons the entire time, from 5PM-7PM. Rather than repost information about the event, we are going to send you to the Positively!Pottstown Blog for more details:

http://positivelyptown.com/2011/02/24/pottstowns-annual-familyfest-on-march-17/

Thanks, all for reading!

Have a wonderful week!

Christine Maziarz,
Certified Balloon Artist
Creating Exciting Balloon Memories, LLC
Yep! I'm on Facebook!
Twitter, too! @balloonheart
Serving Southeastern PA

The Unpoppables

Hello, all!

I've been meaning to write a little bit about the TLC show, The Unpoppables, for weeks now but life has a way of getting in the way. TLC, debuted The Unpoppables back in February for six episodes and it ran for three weeks (two episodes a night).



From TLC's website: "The Unpoppables follows the quirky daredevils of New Balloon Art as they wow clients with the most innovative balloon sculptures ever. In each half-hour episode, they’ll travel to a new city, plan the week’s event and scramble to get everything done. "

The show did just that. They created large amazing balloon sculptures under stressful circumstances and with the added pressure of a TV production crew by their side. I can't even begin to imagine creating a sculpture with limited time and then having someone say..."could you stop and say that differently?" or "Ya know what, I need you to do that again but hold the balloon lower as your talking."

Really?

Are they talented? You betcha. Put all of their talent aside for just a moment and you have really brave, brave folk.

The conversations, discussions and gossip about this show in the balloon world has been just as entertaining as well. The discussion boards lit up the first two weeks. Larry Moss, posted this article, from the Washington City Paper, on BalloonHQ. The article, by Erin Petty,  gives us a taste of the reality that has become Katie Balloons life. 

Why do I write this now? Well, guess what... the first season is over and TLC is in the process of figuring out if there will be a second season. Take a minute to let TLC know that you would like to see a second season. If you saw the show and enjoyed it - let them know. If you missed it - tell them the season was too short! Thanks all!

Click here to tell TLC "I want more of The Unpoppables!" ---> http://corporate.discovery.com/contact/viewer-relations/



Christine Maziarz,
Certified Balloon Artist
Creating Exciting Balloon Memories, LLC
Serving Southeastern PA