Face painting at our parish's annual fair
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 11:08AM Wife makes several dozen cheesecakes which they sell for $3 a slice (actually a deal given how world-class her cakes are - people come to the fair just to buy her stuff) while daughter and I face paint. When we publish the Emily Updates in the fall, you'll learn that I started face painting when my sister Maggie sent me a book/kit (still got the original book and used it this weekend) in 1994 and I began painting Em's face to divert her attention before going to the Lombardi Cancer Clinic for her chemo rounds. Em was only two but sat very well for the paintings and she loved dressing up to complete the part. Em now outclasses me as a painter by a ways, but it's something to be painting other kids with her 17 years later.
Emily has this Depp thing - bad. I always paint myself as Darth Maul, because it pushes the squirming little kids to Em (I scare them) and it makes the bigger one sit still when I paint them.
Emily did this one on Vonne Mei.
I did both of these on Abebu (left) and Metsu (right).
I did Jerome up big time on Saturday. He was the top parish kid finisher at the 5K in the rain early that morning. I finished about a minute behind him, and was grateful to be that close.
Reader Comments (3)
You make a good Darth Maul, Tom...
I had come by twice earlier in the day.....on the third time, saw this and wanted to congratulate you on being that good Father I've read about here previously. got wrapped up in phone calls from my own and missed until this 3 AM....
best work you'll ever do. always nice to see.
Adorable kids. Seemed like great fun. :)