“Bubbles are nothing but spheres of happiness,” said Lotus Davis, as she and her family released a series of massive bubbles into the air on the edge of the Safeway Plaza in Sequim last week.
They used cotton rope, wooden dowels, and a homemade bubble formula — heavy on dish soap — to create the diaphanous shapes.
The Davis family were spreading cheer while hoping for contributions to fill the propane tank of their motorhome. They are working on applications to find a permanent place in Port Angeles to park their home. A $50 tank of propane keeps the motorhome operational for at least a week, with heat and a working shower.
Family members are proficient at producing bubbles within bubbles, which the Davis’s son Jasper said are called galaxies.
Davis said she researched and tested bubble recipes for six months before settling on the perfect one. The solution is blue before blown, and is strong and colorful when in bubble form, producing a multitude of unusual forms before popping slowly with fine strings.
“Bubbles make everyone happy,” Davis said.
Passersby confirmed this sentiment, as one person after another stopped to exchange greetings.
It took the Davises a year to pay the installments on the 2001 motorhome in Astoria, Ore.
“Every penny we made went into that,” said Davis. “It’s home and it runs.”
Both parents are currently working; Davis said she hopes in the future to “do this for a living.”
Davis said that their bubble business will soon have a website, bountifulbubbles.com, and they hope to be hired for parties and other events.
“We’ve been having fun at parks and farmers markets,” she said.
Les Davis said that soon they will have a bubble machine that will produce 4,200 smoke-filled bubbles a minute. He explained this is good for parties because children tend to crowd towards bubbles, which makes it more difficult to make the giant bubbles using rope and dowels.
“There are ups and downs to life,” said Davis, reflecting on the path that brought her family to Sequim that gray day.
“You have to keep moving forward, taking the good with the bad.
“Life is fleeting, like a bubble.”
Sequim Gazette photos by Emily Matthiessen
The Davis family, Lotus, Les and Jasper produce a colorful display of bubbles at the Sequim Safeway plaza. Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen
A bubble like a manatee swims across the sky along Washington Street in Sequim. Lotus Davis and family share their bubble skills with citizens at the Safeway plaza. Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen
Lotus Davis releases giant bubbles to the winds of Sequim on a gray drizzly day in early spring.
The Davis family produces giant bubbles with homemade bubble solution at the Sequim Safeway plaza on March 21. Sequim Gazette photo by Emily Matthiessen
Above: An enormous bubble snakes through the air across from Tootsies in Sequim. Right: Jasper Davis attempts to blow a smaller bubble into the big bubble his father Les has just produced. Jasper says the bubbles inside bubbles his family creates are called galaxies.
Above: An enormous bubble snakes through the air across from Tootsies in Sequim. Right: Jasper Davis attempts to blow a smaller bubble into the big bubble his father Les has just produced. Jasper says the bubbles inside bubbles his family creates are called galaxies.
