¹1 (3), February—March 2008. A new cycle.
“A cold snow drift, a whining February snowstorm, snowy frozen silence — it is the peak of winter. Suddenly everything gets changed: all-size-and-form hearts are everywhere. They glow from facades, shopwindows and in the hands of passers-by. It is St. Valentine’s Day, a holiday when declarations of love are made and people try to please their beloved and to astonish as well”.
These words of Tatyana Martynova, a decorator, became the leading-motive of the third issue. Almost every article speaks about love and presents for the nearest and dearest. It is not accidental that we talk a lot about flowers and floral composition. Being a part of decoration for the forthcoming holidays, they create bright accents of a merry holiday atmosphere, thus giving our customers the indispensable sense of love, harmony and serenity.
The Ice Figure Festival might seem a bit out of place here but if you think deeply about it, the “cold” ice art will unveil some philosophical truth, being the datum point of another time.
We wish our readers love and happiness!
Contents
 | Dates. Events. Facts. |  | Ice marvel. The Ice Figure Festival |
 | Gift composition. Master-class of Tatyana Martinova, “Europe uno trade” |
 | Linkoloones geometry. À contest |
 | Heart in a gift. A heart balloon — in compositions and alone |
 | A blink of an eye... “Aerodisplay” team from Moscow tell about themselves |
 | Love for successful business. Abstracts from Balloon Images magazine |
 | Test-laboratory. Testing balloon endurance and elasticity |
 | On the origin of baloon Antonina Maraeva (Moscow) tells about balloon production in Russia |
 | Nautilus. A Michael Gjerek sculpture (Belbal, Belgium). Photoinstruction |
 | Marvel Marbles. Origin and points of sale. |
 | A new-scale help. Ivan Buchonin of Europe uno trade, about regional market development |
 | Karelia: balloons instead of ice. “Decorator” (Petrozavodsk) tells about its place at the market |
 | Floral mood. About modern floristics |
 | The tree of desires. The Archangelsk flower and gift shop “Grand Prix” and the St. Valentine’s Day |
 | Decoration magic. A do-all Elena Zhabchikova (Perm) tells about decoration art |
 | Every time is the fisrt time. Lev Harlamov (Nizhny Novgorod) — on holiday arrangement |
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The issue has been worked at by:
Chief Editor: Tatiana LevinaResponsible secretary: Victoria Azarova
Journalists: Zlata Balica, Victoria Nosova, Tatiana Busalova
Designers: Danil Kulicov, Maxim Perlmutter
Photographer: Maria Lutskaya
Buildeditor: Vladimir Ryzhkov
Proofreader: Marina Belyakova
Distribution department: Tatiana Fazulova