Smarty Pants Teaching at Twist and Shout 2010
The Best Balloon Twister’s Convention is coming to Chicago (Oakbrook to be exact) from Feb 17th – 21th, 2010 – and Smarty Pants will be teaching as an official instructor at this annual event! Twist and Shout is the world’s …
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Balloon Twisting in the Wall Street Journal
Balloon Twisting as an industry got a great boost this week as the Wall Street Journal ran an extensive article on the rising success of the full-time balloon twisting professional. Back in the day, most balloon sculpture was associated with …
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Smarty Pants in Pizza Magazine Quarterly
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 on WGN-TV
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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Smarty Pants in the Daily Herald
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.
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Smarty Pants in the Pioneer Press
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
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Smarty Pants Summer Reading Schedule
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 at the Berwyn Public Library
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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Smash Cake Grand Opening
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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Smarty Pants Octopus Hat
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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