Product Review: Centerpieces 101 with Patty Sorell, CBA

Centerpieces 101 with Patty Sorell is a balloon centerpiece design and creating DVD guide that takes you step by step into the world of balloon arrangements. Centerpieces 101 explores the world of balloon entertaining by helping you design balloon centerpieces from start to finish with helpful hints and tips. As well as the actual balloon arrangement you also get practical tips and hints at using balloons in general, working with various materials and some of the tools for arranging.

Without any fanfare Patty Sorell dives right into the first arrangement and works her way through 12 great examples of balloon centerpieces with step by step instructions. There is also a chapter on using a pick machine and helpful guides for how to use the popular balloon and flower arranging tool for safe, simple and easy arrangement additions.

Another chapter shows additional examples to give you an idea of things you can create using the techniques in the video. Not only does the examples give you a great idea of some things you can do they also by inference tell you a great way to help your business with pictures of your work. As any professional in the balloon or flower arranging business should be doing you can also take pictures of your arrangements not only as a future reference but as a customer catalog.

You may get the idea that this video is for professionals in the balloon arranging field but it goes much beyond that. Using Centerpieces 101 as a hobbyists' guide anyone can begin creating great arrangements with simple tools and materials available from common craft stores or even stores like Wal-Mart. This is a great guide to show the techniques and how to create great party arrangements for any occasion that just about anyone could design and create.

Centerpieces 101 does a great job of describing exactly what you need to do as well as why they are doing it to give you specific reasons for many of their techniques. A great example of this is the use of a balloon filled with sand as a weight and how you should be tying a loop of ribbon onto this for any helium balloons attached to your arrangement.