Fun at the Bristol Harbour Festival 2009

On the 1st & 2nd August 2009 the Cats Whiskers face painting team participated in the Bristol Harbour Festival in the children's area on Queen's Square. Although the weather looked a little suspect for the Saturday the crowds still came and we all had great fun painting the children's and adults faces during the weekend as well as doing some temporary tattoos. Here are some of the pictures taken at the event showing the team at work and play and some of the lovely people we met:

Helen

http://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.

A promotion in Bristol City Centre

Pants in the Park event at Ashton Court.

This is my favourite picture!! We did a balloon modelling workshop for our friends at Frampton Cotterell WI and they loved it! Much amusement. :)

"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/ "

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Cabot Circus - Opening Day!!

After months of traffic chaos and watching the development rise from the ground at the bottom of the M32, Cabot Circus was opened today!

Cats Whiskers were there working alongside the staff of Fat Face which is based in the Quakers Friars area of the new development. A member of the team will also be there on Saturday providing Fat Face tattoos for all the customers!





So come along and check it out. The architecture alone is amazing - and then there's the shopping!!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Fake Tattoos for Fancy Dress

We get a surprisingly large number of calls from people wanting to be a personality at Fancy Dress events and needing a tattoo to complete the image!

I had one from a gentleman at the weekend wanting to be the Hit Man (Agent 47) for a Heroes and Villains party. This was the final result!

Other fake tattoos I've done for Fancy Dress have included a collection of Mel C tattoos and Rhianna!

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Festivals, Funerals and Christenings

I had a first at the weekend! I was booked to balloon model at a funeral!! Ironically, I was booked to face paint at a Christening the next day, so I experienced both ends of the spectrum.



Actually, as parties go, this celebration of the life of a loved one lost to cancer was amazing! It really was a celebration of her life bringing together all the aspects of life that she loved. There was flamenco dancing & Scottish dancing, singing and an open mic to share stories of her adventures. Nobody was dressed in black and there were loads of family and friends there. She must have been an amazing person.



The girls, meanwhile were at several other events in the area enjoying the Summer weather!! The team that went to Keynsham Music Festival on Sunday had a great time but were swamped under the gazebo when the heavens opened!!



Here are some of Sharon's pictures from Keynsham.

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Crazy weekend! Lots of fun face painting. :o)

This weekend we were all out and about working hard doing a variety of events and bookings.

I started with a pregnant tummy painting on Friday and then did several other jobs across the weekend including a private booking to do temporary tattoos for ladies going on holiday, glitter tattoos at a company fun day and balloon modelling at an exhibition. Other members of the team were also out at Fun Days, birthday parties and events.

I've created a short video of images from the weekend to illustrate the variety of the work that we enjoy doing!!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Wet Weather and Face Paints

With another damp and dreary weekend forecast, a number of the Cats Whiskers team will be enjoying themselves out and about under our bright orange gazebos, hopefully in some sunshine but more likely in the rain!!

This weekend we are at the following public events, so you can come along to get your face painted or arm tattooed! On Saturday Cats Whiskers face painting artists will be set up on New Cheltenham Road, Kingswood for a Community Flat Open Day and on Sunday there will be a team in Bath at the Holburne Museum for their Summer Fair.

Lets hope it's not as cold and wet as the last Bank Holiday in May!! Here is a picture of Michelle working on that weekend, under cover in the rain - but still happily face painting! LOL!


Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Sparkling with Glitter Tattoos

Friday night I did a job for an agency at a Graduate Ball. The description for what I was supposed to be doing was a little "loose", so I took face paints, temporary tattoos and glitter tattoos just to be on the safe side.

In the end, I spent the whole evening doing Glitter Tattoos. I don't think that I've ever had a job where they have been so popular!! Even better than that, they wanted freehand designs - which are by far my favourite way to work.

A team of us did a festival yesterday. Finally the UK weather was fantastic and there was a great turnout. We were offering face painting, temporary tattoos and henna and were constantly busy the whole time we were there! Hence there are no photographs - I didn't get to look up once! Shame really because I did some lovely henna work that I would have liked a record of.

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/