You know you’ve hit the big time when your balloons are featured in the world’s most famous pizza industry magazine, Pizza Monthly Quarterly. Yes, mom would be so proud! Seriously, about two months ago PMQ traveled from their home base …
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Smarty Pants and Miss Dena were featured this morning on WGN-TV as back of their annual Back to School Kids Fest. Enjoy the video courtesy of WGN! To have a look, click on over to WGN’s website where they have …
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Miss Dena’s mom recently passed along a clipping of us performing at the Lake Villa District Library. The newspaper featured two nice photos from our show, courtesy of photographer Steve Lundy.

We recently got a nice writeup in the pages of the Pioneer Press regarding our performance of the Big Balloon Show at the Park Ridge Public Library for the 2009 Summer Reading Season. Here’s the link: http://www.pioneerlocal.com/parkridge/entertainment/1609438,entertainment-cook-famfriendly-061109-s1.article

Greetings from Smarty Pants! The Lovely Miss Dena and I will be performing an all-new edition of the Big Balloon Show at libraries across Illinois all summer long! This new show takes audiences on a whirlwind tour of the world’s …
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Smarty Pants and the Lovely Miss Dena recently performed an all-new edition of the Big Balloon Show at the Berwyn Public Library to kick off our 2009 summer reading season at Illinois area libraries. You can see a great selection …
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Smarty Pants and Miss Dena recently entertained at the grand opening of the fantastic bakery SMASH CAKE here in Chicago and received a sweet mention in the Gapersblock e-newspapper. Click HERE to have a look at what Lori Barrett had …
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This is an Octopus hat I’ve been designing in preparation for our all new Big Balloon Show for libraries in 2009. Thanks to Miss Dena for modelling it this afternoon. For more information on our library show schedule, please see …
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Miss Dena and I recently entertained at the Barn of Barrington for their annual Easter Sunday brunch. Here’s a photo of the large-scale Easter Bunny (over four feet tall!) that I created as a lobby sculpture for the brunch patrons …
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Smarty Pants is an award-winning balloon artist, and producer of the Big Balloon Show. His innovative work with balloons has been featured multiple times on WGN-TV. He performs all over Chicago with his wife, The Lovely Miss Dena. Check us …
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