Winter slow down

[GaFacepainter]

Well, it's getting cold here: mid 40's. Hey, thats cold for south Georgia! Anyway, I was wondering how much of a slow down other people have when winter sets in, or if there is any at all. The resturant and company parties are still there, but I have noticed a marked decrease in Birthday parties. Is anyone marketing differently because of the weather?

[fancy]

Starting in November, I go out as an elf or Mrs. Santa.  These jobs don't always involve face painting, but sometimes they do.  I did one job this past weekend where I did balloons and just goofed off doing silly stuff with the kids in the morning as an elf and then I did a face painting job as an elf in the afternoon.  I have only face painted one time as Mrs. Santa and the rest of the time I just sit and talk with the children, help Santa pass out gifts, have photo taken (one time for 2 1/2 hours, one right after the other), tell stories, etc.

[Sherry]

Hi Fancy... Do you charge the same as Mrs. Claus and Elf as you do for your normal face painting?  Just Curious.

[fancy]

Normally when I am working those jobs, I am working for someone else and I get about $25.00 less per job than I normally charge.  Sometimes, though they will put in a trip charge so it comes out to be the same as I would normally charge.  The first year that I worked for them, they were paying me more than what I was charging, but then I increased my rate, so now we are about the same.

[Shannon Fennell]

December is usually pretty busy with the corporate parties.  Then usually there is a Jan/Feb slump for face painting, but, it is busy season for theatre then, so I am always working on something.

And... cold... It was the "mid 40s" here yesterday too........ MINUS 44C!!!!!!!!!  and is -39C right now... and I was out in it yesterday going to a party... unloading the car in that cold was HORRID!!  It burns!

I posted a screen shot of the weather stats on my blog...

[Alison]

I'm so sorry you were so Cold, Shannon.
Earning a living, real important in the cold winter months for sure,
isn't always a party.