Working for Cadbury's Easter Egg Hunt with The National Trust at Ham House, I was working with my great friend Karla and it was a beautiful sunny day, we had a long queue all day long so after a while we decided it was time to do fast designs and people were trilled with what we did and happy to wait.
We did lots of bunny's, butterflies and Easter themed designs all the kids were happy even the little boy who was adamant he wanted to be spider man in the end he got a spider bunny.
Back tomorrow for my face painting in the sun.

Things have been busy with the children off on Easter Holidays and I haven't had much time to add these pictures from the last day at Westfield Shopping Centre. I had a great time working there but I'm now ready for the next challenge Easter! I hope to get lots of pictures in the next few days.

Jewel from the film Rio



The staff from a perfume shop could not resist poping over on there breaks to have some face painting done.

Westfield again!

I had another quiet day today, I have not had this much before especially when the face painting is free, but I had a lovely surprise visit from my husband and children which was great as it is mothers day after all and I had to go to work.


I did loads of arm designs which was a great and a real change from the usual butterflies .

First Body Painting

So here it is my first ever Body painting! its been a long time coming but I finally managed to do it, it took me three hours to do and thanks to my very patient model Ana I think it did not turn out too bad for my first attempt.
I had the DVD of the fabulous Mark Reid on stand by to assist me when I needed to remember what to do next, his instructions are so clear and I would definitely recommend it to any one wanting to paint a pair of blue jeans.
We completely ran out of time towards the end so I had to rush things a bit which was a shame and we only had 20min to take pictures but I'm so happy to finally had a go.

Thank you to Ana Carvalho my model.

I have been wanting to get in to Body painting for a while but it just always seemed to be so much work and I never had enough time to do it, well I have now decided that I must make time,
I have the Mark Reid Blue Jeans DVD and have a model lined up for next Friday but I could not resist a quick practice on my leg, I know its not great but it is a start.

the weekend of the 16th and 27th of March

On Sunday 27th of Marc

h I was back in Westfield Shopping Centre, it started out slow but soon I had a queue, however at about 3pm the Wesfield Centre manager came pass and told us we could not face paint at the stand as we had not cleared it with the Centre managing office, long story but in the end had to pack up and hand around to see if the agency which contracted me could sort things out with the Centre manager. In the end I went home so didn't get many pictures from the day but I really liked the superman I did for this girls.

On Saturday 26th of March I had a great day I had two bookings and on my first one I was working for a Family project face painting at the Masbro Centre in West London a venue which I used to help my mum make carnival costumes for the Summer Play scheme project many years ago, it was really nice to be back there and it brought back many happy memories. I was working with Eva O'Brien who is a fantastic face painter and always a joy to work with.

On my second job I had to get from West London to East London trying to avoid the March which was taking place in Central London, I did eventually get to the venue on time. I was doing Balloon modeling so it was and nice and easy hour or so I thought, the children (all 4 and under) where completely out of control, the room had been decorated with a balloon arches and columns and the children where jumping on it kicking the balloons, I have never seen any thing like it before, so I was glad I was there only for one hour.

More Westfield Shopping Centre

A few more pictures from from today's Job at Westfield, lots of adults wanting there faces painted, I dint mind as it made time go by faster.

Lovely girls celebrating a birthday.



Gorgeous sisters at today's job, so polite and both sat very still when being painted, lots of smiles at the end.