Quotes from our clients and pictures from recent events.

"I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to your team who attended the Dobbies Shepton Mallet opening yesterday. The feedback has been very positive and I was very impressed with your team. All the children looked fantastic and all very happy with their face paint and balloons.
It was a very busy store opening and your team handled the queue of children extremely well. Even after painting all those faces they were still smiling." Amanda Mason, PR & Events Assistant, Dobbies Garden Centres.

"Lovely work, Sharon. Thank you for emailing the photos over. It’s really nice to see the work that is done. I don’t get into the field much myself.
Some nice words from the client: 'Firstly can I just say how absolutely wonderful Sharon was (again!) Her face painting is wonderful and she is also the loveliest girl. An absolute pleasure to see her again and I hope we can use her again next year!" Nicole, Entertainment Manager, Sitech Creations

The photos are all from Sharon. Some are from a 21st birthday party and others are from a Bar-be-que at the Royal British Legion Long Ashton. :)

Enjoy the sunshine.

Helen

www.catswhiskers.biz

Too busy to write at the moment...

... so here are some pictures of what we've been up to and what others have been saying about us!

"Everyone was impressed and amazed by the quality of the work. Very impressive and one of our guests exclaimed it was the "best party ever" after being turned into Spiderman!" Mrs Rawle.

"Firstly thank you so much for the course last Monday, Not only did I learn a lot about face painting I picked up many other tips of the trade as well, Please give Tracey my love !!!!!!. you will be glad to know that I had a party for 12 girls this weekend and manage to beautifully paint them in about 15mins. Butterfly brush was a godsend.
Well thank you once again and I am sure I will be in touch very soon for an upgrade in my face painting repertoire.
Much love to you both
Donna
http://www.bejewelledparties.co.uk/ "

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Business Clinic Information

If you are woman running a business in or around Bristol, come along to the Business Inspired business clinics running on Thursday 21st May, Wednesday 24th June and Wednesday 22nd July at Playspace, Details are given in the poster attached to this post so click on it and have a read to help your business.

Helen

www.catswhiskers.biz

Dragon Dance Video from the Face & Body Art International Convention (FABAIC) 2008

Nearly a year ago I travelled over to Florida to be an instructor at FABAIC and part of the amazing experience I had over there involved taking part in Bodies Alive! This was a performance involving lots of body painting, dance, culture and much more.

I wrote about this soon after I got home: http://helen-at-cats-whiskers.blogspot.com/2008/06/body-painting-for-bodies-alive-at.html

The performance was filmed but soon after the film became lost and we thought we would never see it - however Christopher Agostino, whose idea the show was, has tracked it down and it is now available to see!!!

I was involved in the Dragon Dance team and we had to go onstage during the dance and transform our "peacock" into a dragon. (I'm the one painting the orange model on the left!) Here's the link to the video of the Dragon Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hua8L_tQoto

Some other clips from the show can be found here:

UV Action Painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WFUeJWMNk
Jinny's Singing Faces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2UTHVmrCc
Metamorphosis Models:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxalpMqqMog

The singing faces were utterly fantastic and ridiculously funny. :)

I hope you enjoy.
Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Cats Whiskers out & about this Saturday!

Let Sharon paint your face on Saturday from 10:30 - 4:30 at Cherry Lodge Farm, Bristol Road, Iron Acton for their first open day of the season. There will be lamb feeding at 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm, a bouncy castle and a really tasty BBQ!

Alternatively, if you'd rather have a balloon model, head on over to The Mall, Bristol (aka The Galleries) for their RewardMe Card launch day promotion. Len will be creating amazing balloon models for you to take home between 10am and 4pm.

Have a great weekend!
Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

Too busy face painting to take photos!!

We have had a fabulous couple of weeks working hard to entertain people and assist in promotions with face painting, balloon modelling, temporary tattoos, workshops and henna. So busy in fact that we've not been able to take many photographs to show you!

We have entertained at birthday parties with face painting, balloon modelling and even a casualty and wounds workshop!

We have face painted at promotional events for Clevedon Children's Centre, Tescos Metro Staple Hill and in Villa Park for the Aston Villa versus Hull match! The Villa Park football event was incredibly busy but really amazing fun!

We have partied with the students at the May Ball creating delicate eye masks for the girls and obviously painting one or two spidermen and tigers for the boys. ;)

We've undertaken a private Henna booking and private training workshops.

And we've had a slightly more cultural moment face painting at Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Here are the three pictures the team have managed to take that were in focus! LOL!


Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Henna at Sunnyhill

Last Friday night I had the opportunity to go back to my old Secondary school, Sunnyhill in Bruton, to provide Henna for their Bollywood themed sixth form party.


It was a really fun event with all the girls in good spirits! I was crazy busy for my whole time there and was a bit concerned that I hadn't taken enough Henna with me - but in the end it worked out just right!


I was that busy that I didn't get to take many pictures. In fact I only took a couple which were where I'd done the Henna design on shoulders! Taking a photo and showing them was the easiest way to let them see what their Henna design looked like!



This picture is of my hand design the next day with paste off. It developed a bit further into a lovely deep chocolate brown colour. The design is still looking good a week later. :)

I also got the chance to wander around school before the event started and revisit my old haunts. Strange how places look smaller over time! LOL!
Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz