Addie tagged me to post the sixth photo in the sixth folder on my laptop photo album. I call this, "Oodly painted face with baby in tow".
The story behind this photo begins with my good friend Venessa. She and her husb, Olie were hosting a birthday party for their son Brody. The baby is my friends' Amy and John's little girl, June. As we all know, kids love a good face-painting. Venessa is a fabulous artist and has developed quite a niche in this genre of kiddie face-painting. The party goers lined up for the chance to request whatever they wished to be painted on their face. One of the kids requested a 'tire mark across my face, like burned rubber. Um...okay nothing can stump my gal, Venessa!
Venessa and Olie's friend Kelly made the cake, which as you can clearly see is within the Star Wars motif.
Funny, as a child of the 70's all I can remember about birthday parties as a kid was swinging lightsabers and girls drooling over Han Solo. Nothing changes, I swear.
(ahem, he was not at the party, fyi)
So, My 6th photo had quite a bit of history attached.
Later as we were driving home from the festivities, traffic was horrible on I 85--it was stop and go at best. The other drivers in my vicinity kept slowing down to stare while mouth-breathing at our car. Annoyed, I stared to get a bit paranoid and began to flip the other drivers off, I mean, the nerve! Unfortunately I forgot about Venessa's latest work; I too had my face painted and must have looked like some sort of nut-ball cult member with my demon-style red and yellow face. Ha! (no photo available.)
Okay blogger pals, you are tagged to represent!
2 comments:
Are you SURE there's no picture of you with your face painted?
You're right, it's not entirely true that there's isn't a photo out there of my face painted. I actually took a snapshot of myself with my phone to serve as a good prop when I tell this story in person. However, as technically savvy as I seem to be, I still can't figure out how to get photos off my phone. I need to take some sort of tween workshop to operate all this technology!
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