Then...and Now!

Alrighty. So I was once a wee Faery in the hands of some humans who decided to give me a Face Painting.

It looked like this.

Nice tartan, Violet.

Yep. I mean...it's not terribly terrible, but it's a bit...um. Not what is expected of me nowadays.

So! I tried my hand at what is expected fo me nowadays! Yay!

If at all possible, my eyes might be even more alienesquely large here.

Slightly better view.

Okey dokey, so it's still not the very best face painting in the world? In fact, it sadly is not one of my personal favorites at all. Drat. This post may have to have a later addition - ooh! That would be very fun!

But meh-ness aside, I still say the new painting is a vast improvement, right! (Though I am particular to the face underneath that earlier example =D )

Time Warps and Tulips,
Violet

Another Magnificent Marvel from a Fellow Faery!

Wow!

When I got to visit Pixar with my hidden wings, I had the very lucky luck of getting bee-yoo-teaful Face Paint from fabulous Boss Faery! Oh, how gorgeously glitteriffic it was...I had started to miss it quite terribly, when a wonderful thing happened!

I was getting ready to fly in for a school celebration with three of my other Faery Friends, and Boss Faery agreed to paint my face again! Hooray! Hoorah! =D

Annnnd here it is! *smile*

Right Side! (Actually, there is no wrong side, it is so beautiful!)

Left Side!

Close Up! (Oopsie doodle. The glittery goodness looks a bit like sand...it's not! ) (Don't read that last sentence out loud, pretty please! *giggle*)

So, sadly, this silly bean took the pictures AFTER the 2.5 + hour performance...in the sun...with LOTS. and LOOOOTS of little friends (yippee!) so the colors are a bit smudged/subdued, but even with that misstep on my part - yep. Wow, right??

Curlicues and Snazzaroos,
Violet

Flights of Fancy

Well hello! While fluttering out and about on some adventures today, I flew into some very friendly fellow flying friends! *giggle* Have I ever mentioned the amazingly ample adoration I have for alliteration?!

I like it a lot :)

Anywho, my bumpings-into made me think that wow! Winged wonders abound in my land, and in many other lands as well! I decided that a collection of examples should be gathered immediately.

Of course as soon as wings come to mind, I immediately think of my dear butterfly buddies!

And then I realized, you can't have butterflies without...

Caterpillars! TWO caterpillars! That means lots of butterflies!

Hooray! We have caterpillars! Now for the flutterbyes...

Little yellow ones just love fuzzy dandelion fluff!

Pink Butterflies are always in style!

Blue Butterflies share my alliteration adoration!  ;)

And then I remembered wow! There are many other amiable chums who share my size (when I'm small, of course) AND my preferred mode of transportation!

Bumbly Bumblebees! Bzzz!

Ladybugs (or Ladybirds, if you're from my Daddy's land *smile*) are super sweet and have one of my other favorite attributes...polka dots!

Of course, our Hemiptera and Lepidoptera acquaintances are not the only ones zooming around the sky...although the next two friends I found prefer to land in water! *wink*

Quack quack! Life's just ducky for this puddly friend!

Tip of the top hat, Pink Flamingo! 

And there are even some metallic mates sharing the air! Although they miiiight be a bit farther in the stratosphere...

Rocketship! Yay!

I did find a few more examples - feathered, diaphanous, or made of steel - but we decided that they should make their debut a bit later...they have interesting stories of their own to tell that deserve a separate entry!

And that was the end!

Wait. I'm missing something....something that flies around, sometimes in a rather zig-zagging way...sparkles a lot...hmm...what could it be?

Ooh! I remember!

Butterflyish Faery Faaace!

It's me! Because I'm a Faery! *giggle* Hooray!

Um. I had to make myself big in order to show up well in the photo, and my wings didn't grow all the way - sorry about that! *blush*

Goodness gracious - I think it's time for me to land! *yawn* Have a lovely evening, everyone!

Shooting Stars and Soaring Skies,

Violet

Double Challenge? Accepted! Accepted!

I have a confession.

I have not always been the fastest face painter. Correction. I am sometimes snail-worthy slooooow at face painting. Not with kiddos, usually - but when I am sitting alone in my Treehouse it can take me ages to paint even a simple curly swirly design. I just like them to look pretty :)

However! I realize that maybe that's NOT the very bestest practice for real-life application. There's noooo way I'm ever getting a 3 year old to sit still for 7 minutes while I painstakingly apply consummate v's to replicate scales on a two-inch dragon. (Even if it's Trogdor replica, which is rather speedy ! )

Sooo...enter CHALLENGE NUMBER ONE! the Go Go Speed Racer Challenge! *trumpets*

In this challenge, timers were set and stuck to, and no design took over 2 minutes. Some even less. Wow! 

But wait! There's more!

My go-to designs tend to be rainbows, unicorns, dolphins, faeries, mermaids, flowers, and all sorts of feminine ephemeral et cetera. But I meet lots of boys who want paintings, and would prefer they be of the snips and snails variety. Enter thusly....

CHALLENGE NUMBER TWOOOOOO! the Snips, Snails, and Puppydog Tails Challenge! (ahem. *disclaimer* No puppydogs were harmed in the attempting of this challenge! *phew*)

In the second part of this challenge, designs had to be masculocentric. Or, if you want to sound less like a theorist, they had to be boy-friendly! Hooray! *giggle*

Alrighty. Ready? Set?? Wait! Night-time juice?!? YAY! GOOOO!

Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forest of the niiiiight! Um. It's a tiger face! On my leg!

Arr, mateys! I be Cap'n Baldbeard! (I drew the face outside of the time limits, and mainly as a template for doing this on a full person face. Boyfriend doesn't like getting his face painted.)

This is a fiery dragon. He needs more white paint.

This dragon's teeth are scary! Ahh!

Dueling Dragons?

Yes, please!

Yikes. Today we learned that night-time juice and dragon paintings can make terrifying angler-fish looking dragons. Yeesh. Not sure about that one. Okey dokey - do we have time for one more? We do?? HOORAY!

AHH! FIRE-BREATHING SHARK!

Yes. It is a shark that breathes fire. If it has a bear with an axe strapped to its tail, it would be the deadliest catch in the sea. It also would have taken more than 2 minutes to paint. 

Well, that would have finished it up but then! But then! A Faery friend of mine emailed me a photo of a different shark than I usually paint and I had to try! But I had a challenge to maintain - which was scary because I usually paint a new design veeerrrryyy slloooooowwwllly the first few times - annnnd here's how it turned out!

Ok. So it took me more than 2 minutes. About 3 or 4. But I think I kind of like it! It's a little scary - I may have to tone down the teeth - and I'm not sure having him chase after mini-Nemos is the very best thing to do. 

Huzzah! Challenges accomplished! :D Happy Faery! 

Oh no! Realization! Now challenge-less! Well, dear readers, if you have any boy face paint suggestions (or super duper speedy fast face paint suggestions!) pretty please leave them in the comments section!

Shark Fins and Gator Grins,

Violet

Technologic...technologic...

It's June!

Wow!

It seems like May was just yesterday! *giggle*

Ah, June...the month where Spring blossoms into Summer! Tons of flowers, fauna, naturiffic oudoorsiness and the like!

Sadly, it has been rainy in my forest! I do love the rain, but it seems rather opposed to the warm embrace of June!

Because I haven't been able to get into the sunny naturiffic groove of the month, I thought I'd go in the opposite direction...and while acquainting myself with the electronic eyes of indoor occupations, I stumbled across this guy!

- - - i am a robot sent to make you *squee* - - -

*squeeeeeee* !!!!

I just love his robot adorableness. I don't usually feel that way about my paintings, but I feel like he is Rosie from The Jetsons' cute-yet-mischievous nephew. (I mean I don't usually squee over my own paintings, not I don't usually think they're related to the Jetsons' housekeeping robot. Although I almost never think that, either.)

Anywho.

I think he needs friends.

I can try to give him friends...but does anyone else want to help?!

Yay!


Telescopic Arms and Tin Man Charms,
Violet