Face Painting

I'm trying to get this blog rolling again (hello lonely 2008 post...sorry you were waiting for me all that time!)

 

I figured I could start up again with some pictures from a birthday party I did for my good friend Alysha (who is an amazing photographer...check her out! Alysha Mccooe Photography)

 

It was a Star Wars themed party but I had my entire book of face painting items to choose from. This little doll chose a unicorn/rainbow combination (my kind of girl!)

 

I blurred out her face because I didn't get permission from her parents to post this picture on the interwebs!

 

 

This little guy's face paint was so much fun to do. He kept falling asleep though, so I was holding his little head up with one hand. It was adorable:

 

Birthday BOY!!!

 

The adults got in on the action!

 

 

(not pictured: yoda (I thought I had a picture of this one! He was so cute!) and some scary adult face painting!)  

 

 

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As a side note: This girl knows how to throw a party!

Death Star watermelon

 

Yoda Soda

 

Grape Light Sabers

 

AMAZING goodie bags!

 

 

A Darth Vader Pinata

 

 

An obstacle course (yes, she even made them little jedi outfits) complete with silly string and a Darth Vader to defeat!

 

I MAY or MAY NOT have gotten in on that (leaning more towards MAY)

 

 

I made the cake and mini cupcakes! (that is supposed to be tataouine)

 

 

 

(also not pictured: a snow cone AND cotton candy machine were involved in the shenanigans!!!)

 

 

 









Savannah's Avril inspired cake!

My inspiration for the cake was given to me by my niece who showed me this On Avril's website:

 

So the two main colors were black and hot pink.

I sketched out the layout. I knew I wanted the skull and Savannah's name in the same writing as this:

I went to Michael's and picked up some gel food coloring because everywhere I searched on how to make true colors for frosting said to go with gel. Alas, I got steel gray at the very most and it tasted like metal.

So I ended up having to get black frosting from the store (which sucked because I wanted to have all my own home made frosting. )

I made a regular cake in my huge sheet pan, waited for it to cool completely (which wasn't a problem since I had to go to the store and get black frosting ANYWAY and the stores are about 15 - 20 minutes away from me!)

I started with putting on the most frosting first. I alternated black and pink on the edges and filled in the background of the skull.

I used my pastry bag with the "grass" tip (using the flat side) and made the checked part of it.

It took me about 3 hours to complete everything and all the kids LOVED it! YEY!

I wasn't sure what I was thinking when I created this blog. Now I think I know. This blog will be about the things I create.

I LOVE creating things....anything. Taking things and making them into something interesting.

cakes, sculptures, photos, jewelry, crocheting, etc.....I'll write about it all here!

I think my first post will be about my nieces birthday cake! Stay tuned!