Face Paint

my moustache is very amusing to me but I had to shave it off

I was in charge of the face paint at the school carnival. So I made facepaint.

Today was the carnival and it feels like I worked for hours. I got there at about two fortyfive.

Then I set up my table & chairs. Then I shaved four ice-chests full of sno-cone ice with the most amazing ice grinding machine. Loved that. Then I filled a wading pool with ice and about a ton of different canned carbonated beverages. Then finally it started and the facepaint marathon began.

I think it was over at seven thirty and then we cleaned up, then it was about nine when I made the boyzies finish eating and showering and put them to bed. And so now I am waiting for the Claritin to kick in so I can get to sleep. I didn't do a whole lot of face painting myself, I had several helpers and they all did a fine job. Next year I will buy some white and some black face paint since I couldn't get the plain stuff to look white. Adding more cornstarch just made it into paste. If I had some titanium.... OOh, maybe the diaper ointment, but it is sort of an oily base while my paints were a corn syrup base. I'm not sure it would matter. I would like to get some real face paints but they were prohibitively expensive, and since my time is more plentiful than my money, making them seemed the way to go, since I already had all the ingredients. My goal would be an easier to handle paint. Some of the helpers seemed to be under the impression that water was needed. So it got kinda gooey towards the end, even though they each had their own container of colors. I used those seven day pill boxes to distribute each batch of color into.

None of the girls would do the octopus, so I did about ten octopi... and I was regretting it because it takes so long. I didn't realize it would take that long, and counting up the eight legs was tedious. But the kids were great. I did a bunch of flowers. There were several kitty faces and a very cute monkey face (I didn't get to see the finished monkey) The eyeliner moustaches were very very popular with the boys and some of the girls got them too. One kid had a monobrow penciled between his eyebrows, a very curly moustache, and also one of those little triangular patches under his bottom lip. They just sort of decorated eachother with the eyeliner and I thought it was really funny. Next year I'll try to find some other colored lip liners and eyeliners for cheap. Maybe that dollar store place where every thing really is just a dollar.

I brought wipes and had them wipe their skin clean before I started. Invariably I would had the little ones a wipe, say "wipe your face" and they'd clean off their lips and under their nose. It was so funny.

We stayed to help clean up and the kids were very helpful. Then my friend gave us about fifteen Chic-fil-a sandwiches to take home. I thought she gave us five, but then I turned around and two of my boys also had sacks full of sandwiches. So now they're in the freezer for next week or something.

Ugh I think the Claritin is kicking in now. Goodnight!