Sometimes, creativity can be entirely accidental.

My husband’s birthday was this last week, so I hit up my favorite party supply store (the Dollar Store) and grabbed a few decorations.  Among them was 1 helium balloon.  Yes…one balloon.  I claim duress of lots of people in line, and I didn’t want to hold up the line by making the lady blow up a bunch of balloons for me.  Besides, I was walking home with little man in the stroller and wasn’t sure how more than one helium balloon would do in the breeze-turning-wind on the way home.

The lonely balloon posed an interesting quandary…what on earth to do with it?  I tried tying it to the back of a dining chair, but that almost made the fact there was only one balloon even worse.  I tried just leaving it, but little man was grabbing it and I didn’t like the idea of him getting tangled in the string.  I had bought a banner that I hung in the window in the dining room, and while I was okay with the result, I wasn’t thrilled with it.

So, I tried tying the balloon to the banner.

I thought it turned out kind of nifty!  I didn’t take into account that the weight of the banner would help draw the balloon down into the window frame, and I didn’t expect the lift of the helium to make the banner curve a little more interesting.  Heck, next time, I might even buy a few more balloons and tie them along the banner.  If the line I’m in isn’t too long, that is…