To: balloon@fooledya.com
Subject: My own Elmo
From: brit_anders@juno.com (Brit W Anders)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:21:05 EST

Well folks,

The response to my plea for the Elmo directions were slow in coming
(though I thank those of you who did respond).  I invented my own last
night while sitting at a Perkins surrounded by 25 high school and collage
age girls.  I sold my prototype for $10.00 to the manager.

I used 2 hearts (1 red and one clear), a scrap of black, an orange 350,
and two red 260s.  (AND it's an application of my{?} raisin twist).

I made 2 black seeds and inserted them into the clear heart, blew up the
clear till it had a rounded shape.  These became the eyes...

I put a raisin into the red heart and inflated until it was
head-shaped...

(Remember, I had a bunch of helpers to hold balloon pieces.)

I made a 3 inch bubble in the 350 and tore it off (thanks John, I use you
method about 75% of the time now) and tied it onto the raisin in the red
heart.  Then I took the "eyes" and twisted them to look like eyes and
took the result and twisted them onto the raisin, and wa-la...Elmos head.

I took the nozzle of Elmo's head and tulip twisted it onto a red 260 and
preceded to make the body. -  A bird body with legs - and then I made
arms out of the other red 260 and attached them at the junction of the
neck and body.  ELMO!

Ever have one of those times when your own creation impresses the
stuffing out of you?  This is one slick Elmo!
 
Merry Christmas, family!

Brit (who's very proud of himself at the moment) Anders
Brit the Balloonist
Cincinnati, Ohio
The more I learn, the less I know...
"I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it."
E.A.Poe