With a few twists of bright-colored balloons, Steve Solis makes more than animals and flowers, he creates smiles. A roofer and roofing salesman by trade, the Northern Colorado man is what many refer ...

Balloon animals have some pretty firm associations — birthdays, fairs, zoos, Alison Brie on the Tonight Show, and that book and pump that you bought in sixth grade so that you could make your own ...