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Watch this video to find out who won the Silly Farm Competition for March…(sorry if I end up babbling on a whole lot, I didn’t want to miss anything) 

To get all the info on the competition click on this link: Silly Farm Competition.

To ask questions, and/or congratulate the winners click here!

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s. Want face paint designs with step by step photos and instructions? Check out: www.FacePaintingTips.com

My opinion and all your questions answered about the P2 Pro Practice Pad in a video review that I just recorded! Find out about this cool little practice tool that you might want to have in your face painting kit.

Enjoy

Links mentioned in the video:

* Watch How-to Paint an Easter Egg Video (on a Practice Pad) Here

* Buy P2 Pro Practice Pad from Silly Farm Supplies Here 

* Buy P2 Pro Practice Pad from ProKnows Here

* Buy Mr Clean Eraser Cleaning Here

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Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli 
P.S Don’t have any designs to practice yet? Get our step-by-step face painting designs by clicking here.

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“My Love for Painting”
Sent in by Maykao Fredericks

I have always enjoyed painting on canvas and took a couple of classes in high school and college.  As my life moved forward it got harder and harder to find time to take painting classes.  Before I knew it I was married and had two babies now 1 and 3.  My husband tried to help me find time to paint by offering to care for the kids in the evenings but the only painting class logistically possible was on the one day he had Bible study. 

Life got more complicated when we heard news last Christmas that 8 siblings had been abandoned by their parents and was living in a homeless shelter.  Long story short we decided to take all the kids home with us and are now raising them as legal guardians.  We hope to adopt them if after a year the mothers makes no attempt  to get them back. 

It has not been easy and many sacrifices had to be made but the rewards of being part of divine intervention makes it all worth it. 

Because foster care would only allow us to care for 3 kids we chose to raise these kids without foster care support.  I knew I would need to get second job.  But because life is too short to be a workaholic, it would have to be enjoyable, flexible and include my kids in the process. 

Face Painting came to mind. 

I did extensive research, purchased your online manual, studied it and was soon ready to invest $150 worth of snazaroo paint, brushes and a pound of glitter (okay maybe I spend a little more than that).   I paint my kids faces on a regular basis and if I never get paid it’s okay, I’ve finally found a way to be reunited with my brushes and my creative self. 

I look forward to painting at my kids’ school fund raisers and I hope to get a few corporate contracts for community events.  It’s not always easy to get my kids to let me paint on them, but when I’m done, they don’t want to wash it off. 

Also, Many Many Many thanks for your blog on websites:  I followed your advice and viola, take a look (totally free and still professional): http://mulanmagicandfacepainting.googlepages.com  

Who would have thought that at the most hectic time of my life, it would be the one opportunity to get back to my love for painting.

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Thanks for sending this in Maykao, truly inspirational and very moving - I wish your family all the best, and hope that you continue to have fun face painting. I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of March when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

Please leave a comment below if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Learn how to face paint, with our step-by-step face paint designs  photos and instructions now!

Hello my face painting friends! This is a little off topic but….I found these photos of the Zodiac sign body paintings on the net, and I thought you would find them interesting to look at. Since the sign of Aries just began, I thought I’d share the Aries body painting today (this is also my star sign, my birthday is coming up soon..yay!), and show you the rest of these throughout the year when each sign begins. 

Pretty amazing stuff hey? What do you think? Click here to Leave a Comment. 

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
www.FacePaintingTips.com 

Here’s an easy design just in time for Easter! Watch the video below to learn how to paint a cute Easter Egg Cheek Art design in less than 2 minutes!  

If you want to ask questions, or want to tell me what you think then click here to leave a comment, and we can all have a conversation on the blog! 

Happy Easter and Happy Face Painting Everybody,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Want to become a face painter asap? Learn how to face paint with our step-by-step face paint designs by clicking here! 

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Lines, Dots and Determination!”
Sent in by Harmony Roth Shabtai

My name is Harmony Roth Shabtai and I am a makeup artist and face & body painter from Israel.

I began body painting and face painting on 2004 and before that never drew.

If anything, I thought I have no talent.

All that changed for me when in 2005 I went to do body paintings in a festival named boombamela (http://www.boombamela.co.il/site/gallery.php?g=12 ) where the atmosphere is so light and relaxed- and fell in love with face and body paintings.

Since then I took some private painting lessons, added face painting to my makeup artistry, and in 2007 went to the amazing body painting festival (http://www.bodypainting-festival.com/ ) in Austria to have fun, meet people and compete.I came in the middle and enjoyed myself so much!!!!

This art has given me so much pleasure. I enjoy it and enjoy teaching it. I came a long way from when I started- now folks are amazed with my ability.

I always say, though, that all paintings are composed from lines and dots, and with enough determination, anyone can do it.

Happy painting!
Harmony Roth- Shabtai
Israel

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Thanks for sending this in Harmony , beautiful story and beautiful designs, well done! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of March when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

Please leave a comment below if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Learn how to face paint, with our step-by-step face paint designs  photos and instructions now!

Today is St Patricks Day and to celebrate I’m going to show you how to paint a lucky four leaf clover! Just watch the video below:

Please tell us what you think of the video, or ask questions if you have any – just leave a comment by clicking here. 

Now who’s up for some irish coffee and some baked potatoes?!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Want to learn more face painting designs? Get Step-By-Step photos and instructions to our face painting designs by clicking here.

So, I wanted to write a product review on Detailz, but I though it would be even better if I did a video about it! So today I quickly put together a video to tell you what I think about this awesome face painting tool made by Mehron… I’ve also shown you a quick design that I made up on the spot, (I don’t think my best work) but its simple and will give you an example of how and when to use Detailz.

If you like the video, or want to ask a question… lets start a conversation – leave comments by clicking here 

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Learning face painting can be super easy when you’ve got someone to show you how… so let me help you! To find out more check out: http://www.facepaintingtips.com!

Okay, you’ve probably realised by now that having a website can be really important for building your face painting business. Face painting is visual, and unless they’ve seen you at a gig - potential customers always want to see examples of your face painting designs before they book.

But getting a website designed can be expensive, and when you’re just starting out you might just want to put up a free webpage.

Here are a couple of sites, that will let you create and host your own website on their’s for FREE!

http://www.weebly.com/
http://members.freewebs.com/
http://www.bravenet.com/

And don’t think that you have to know any crazy techy language. These websites give you easy to use templates, so if you’ve ever typed a word doc in your life, you should have no trouble putting up a pretty website with lots of pictures!

My favourite place to host your own free website is Google Pages. You can read about it here: http://pages.google.com/-/about.html (Firstly you need to sign up for a gmail account, when you do that, choose your username wisely, because your username will be part of your website name)

Why is it my favourite you ask? Well, I think you’d agree that having a website is pretty pointless, unless you’re getting traffic - getting other people to see it.

And how do you get traffic? Well, besides telling all your friends and family to go see it and printing your website address on your business cards etc you need your website to rank in the search engines like Google (Google is the most used search engine in the world!)

Now, do you think that if you used Google pages to put up your own site that maybe, just maybe, Google will favor your website… just a little…?? 

That’s why its my fav! Go check it out now, if you want a free and easy way to have your face painting business online!

And if you have any questions or have something to add, let’s strike up a converstion - just leave a comment to get the ball rollin’!

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Want to learn more face painting designs before putting up a website? No problems, let us teach you how to paint new and exciting face painting designs with step-by-step photos and instructions right here: http://www.facepaintingtips.com
 

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Face Painting for Military Families!”
Sent in by Lauren Kalal

I should preface this story by saying that I am the wife of an airman and we live overseas in Turkey. As most people know, military families move a LOT. The moving process is always long and never smooth. All of a family’s earthly belongings are packed up about a month before they leave, and it can be another month on the other end of a move before the family’s household goods are delivered.

My daughter’s friend, “Vicky”, was getting ready to move last month. Their household goods had already been picked up when Vicky’s mother invited my daughter to Vicky’s fourth birthday party. She asked us not to bring a present because they were already packed.The day of the party arrived and I brought my face paints as our present to Vicky. I painted all the children’s faces (Vicky was a clown, by the way) before relaxing and chatting it up with the grown-ups. Everyone loved the face paints and thought it had been a great present idea.

When the party was over, Vicky’s father pulled me aside. With tears in his eyes he thanked me for the present. “It’s been so boring at home for Vicky,” he told me. “All of her stuff is gone and she’s had nothing to do. I wanted to give her a really great party because of that, and your face painting made it better than I ever could have. Thank you.”

It touched me so much I almost started crying too!

Lauren Kalal
http://mrskalal.multiply.com
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Thanks for sending this in Lauren, beautiful story, good on you for creating such a special party for Vicky! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of March when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

And to leave a comment about this story or ask questions click here.

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Learn how to face paint, with our step-by-step face paint designs  photos and instructions now!