Our photos from Halloween

The October Half Term was a busy assortment of work. We worked under marquees in beautiful gardens, did special requests for individuals, entertained at parties for children and adults and did a big promotional event for our local shop - where we were mobbed! LOL!

But firstly we started off with a training night to refresh our memories of some of the Halloween designs that only get dusted off once a year.

This was the view from the marquee at Westenbirt Heritage Gardens:


And here are some of the people we met and painted there:


Sharon joined the UWE students for their Halloween Party:


I did some special one off designs for people having parties -
For a James Bond party:


A unicorn (before the finishing touches of the costume, fake eyelashes and lipstick)


and a Vampire:


Then on Halloween itself, Sharon and I worked in my local NISA store to entertain our friends in Frampton Cotterell:


Hope to see you soon!

Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

So much fun, so little time!

A big thank you to everyone who booked us during the summer! The Cats Whiskers team have had SO much fun!! :) We've been to parties, festivals, summer camps, fun days and open days all over the area in Bristol, Bath and the South West. So, my apologies for taking so long to update the blog - but there has just been way too much fun going on for me to catch up until now.

So, the children are back at school, the tree's are turning colour, nights are drawing in and we're really looking forward to Halloween!!

But before we get carried away with the witches and vampires, here are some of the highlights of the summer:

Camp Xtra workshop -

Private commission for a fancy dress party - quote from the client, "Thanks very much, it was a great success and was cool how realistic it looked. I'm sure that I'll be in touch again if another opportunity arises to be painted for some reason. It was great fun and just made the costume come alive."

Henna design for a holiday:

From South Gloucestershire library workshops:

A Ben 10 party:

Freshers welcome weekend:

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

http://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
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

UWE Freshers Weekend

At the beginning of January, as the students went back to University, the Cats Whiskers team of face painters and balloon modellers returned to UWE for the freshers party.

Len (the other Helen), our balloon modelling expert, excelled herself with a spectacular top hat for Aled - chief Angel - and Sharon was on form with henna and face paint as the pictures show!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Freshers arrival at UWE

For the past two weekends, we've enjoyed the company of the Angels at St Matts and Glenside campuses at UWE.

On 20th & 21st we were part of the welcoming celebrations as new students arrived, registered and found their way around campus. Here are some of the designs!










Then last weekend we rejoined them all and painted masks for their Freshers Masquerade Ball.


Great fun!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/