Wild Bird Landing, Aurora, CO

"The Frog (and Toad!) Days of Summer"
Sat-Sun, August 20-21, 2005

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shoppers enjoying the festivities of 'Frog and Toad Days' at Wild Bird Landing
shoppers enjoying the festivities of 'Frog and Toad Days' at Wild Bird Landing
    
What a fun event! The weekend started out sunny, cooled to overcast, but the rain held off until the very end of Sunday. We sent many wonderful frogs and toads to new homes, and we enjoyed frog cookies and "electric green froggy lemonade!"
But the highlight of the weekend had to be "The Balloon Man" and Cindy Loo's "Fabulous Face Painting." We had no idea just how fantastic they were going to be! To everyone who posed for pictures of your ballooned and face-painted selves, you can find them on this page as promised. A big thank-you to all who shared our "Frog Days" weekend with us!

Please note: We believe that we asked the parent or supervising adult accompanying each child for permission to post their pictures on our site.
If anyone whose photograph is posted here wishes to have their image removed, please email us, and we will remove it. Thank you.

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a great variety of frog and toad items displayed for sale
green frog-shaped cookies
two lovely ladies wearing their balloon hats
Frogs and toads, waiting to be adopted.
Green froggy cookies, yum!
Two lovely ladies with balloon hats!

face painter Cindy Loo working her art    face painter Cindy Loo working on another creation
face painter Cindy Loo shows her face
blue and green butterfly face painting
Cindy Loo working her magic.
Cindy Loo shows her face!
A beautiful blue and green butterfly.

blue butterfly face painting    blue butterfly face painting, and balloon hat
blue flower arm decoration
Painted and hatted!
This cutie had her arm painted.
Another work of arm-art.

pink butterfly face painting    pink butterfly face painting and balloon hat
balloon parrot and puppy, and pink face painting
another pink face painting work of art
Pink butterfly, with and without hat!
Balloon parrot, pup, and pretty pink face!
Another face transformed.

Wendy painted with raven    Wendy posing with balloon flower bouquet
Winter and Marduk in balloon collars   
Marduk being 'collared' by The Balloon Man    Kym and Marduk pose with their balloon creations
Even Wendy (usually behind the camera) couldn't resist being painted with her signature bird, the raven. The Balloon
Man made us a flower bouquet, too.
What would a Wild Bird Landing day be without the dogs?? Here are Marduk and Winter, in their balloon collars, with monkeys clinging to the balloon tails!
All The Balloon Man had to do was start to blow one up, and Marduk would
come running! Kym and Duk both got ballooned, and smiled about it!

Despite appearances, it wasn't only girls who had fun being painted and ballooned-- It's just that the boys didn't want to stand
still to be photographed! We had one young man painted into a frightful skull face. And another, whose mom hates snakes,
had his arm decorated with... what else, but a spiraling black serpent!
We also had a couple of folks inquire about bringing The Balloon Man and Cindy Loo to their own parties. We have no affiliation with these artists, but they added so much to our event that we are more than happy to provide them with an excellent reference. Contact us by phone, email us, or see us at the store if you're interested, and we will pass along their contact information.

Once again, a huge thanks to The Balloon Man and Cindy Loo, and to all of our Wild Bird Landing shoppers for making
"The Frog and Toad Days of Summer" a great success!

Wild Bird Landing, Arapahoe Crossings Center, 6616 S. Parker Rd. Ste. D-106, Aurora, CO 80016, 303-400-1977