Sue Bowler: The Balloon Expert

It gives me great pleasure to share Keren Fridman Braha's ballooning journey as part of my International Balloon Month - featuring Balloon Artists from around the World. Keren Fridman Braha Here is Keren's incredible story... Hi, my name is Keren Fridman Braha, CBA from ISRAEL, a 37-year-old balloon artist. I have been the owner of the business called “Balloons” since 2004. I never thought my profession would be a balloon artist. I knew that art was a part of me: from a young age I loved painting, drawing, sculpting, building models in different materials, and even designing and calculating the works I created.   I studied architecture and art in high school and college. This was my direction, to combine my design vision in the field of real practice. In order to finance my architecture studies in college, I continued to perform with children at various events. Another hobby I always pursued was working with children: I was a summer camp instructor, organizing children's bi...

  There has been much talk in the press regarding whether or not  Halloween  or other favourite activities such as Trick or Treating and Halloween parties and events, will be cancelled. All this discussion is due to the current pandemic, and the fear of not being able to do this safely. But just because we need to remain socially distanced this year doesn't mean Halloween is cancelled — it just means we need to consider creative and safe Halloween ideas. As balloon professionals, I think we can definitely create some Halloween fun with exciting ballooning and gift ideas.  So what can we offer? After a little research, I discovered a relatively new idea called Ghosting, or Boo-ing, and thought it could be an exciting new Halloween opportunity that we could promote and market to our customers. For those of you who are new to this tradition, I have added an explanation below. 18" Emoticon Ghost #58153 Ghosting a.k.a Boo-ing?  Ghosting is a popular Ha...

September marks the start of International Balloon Month, so I felt that this would be a great time to feature a few of our very talented Certified Balloon Artists (CBA's) from around the world! It gives me great pleasure to welcome Zahraa Jawad, CBA , of Forever Balloons Boutique in Beirut, Lebanon.   I first met Zahraa at MEBAC - the Middle East Balloon Art Convention 2018 in Beirut and then again one month later at the Qualatex Balloon School in Dubai. I have always admired her style, her choice of colours and of course her  meticulous attention to detail! I hope that you enjoy viewing her ballooning journey as much as I have!  Zahraa Jawad,  CBA , of Forever Balloons Boutique in Beirut, Lebanon. Firstly, thank you to Zahraa for taking the time to talk to me and sharing her story... How did you discover balloons? In 2005, during college I started a part-time job with an event planner who did balloon decoration service at his shop. I was responsible for the b...