Any pirate party ideas?

[Sherry]

I have a pirate party coming up and I'm wondering if you have any ideas I haven't thought of for this theme?  I have the classic pirate face with the patch, skull and skull with crossbones.  Or possibly pictures to share?

[Party Picassos Facepainting]

• a treasure map over the face. Make dots leading to the X where the treasure lies, matey. Add lagoons, palm trees, rock etc on the island map. Put blue around it for the water!
• do the rows of eyes face like J. Depp in Pirates of the Carribean
• also check out the photos from the movie: one character (Bill - move #2) has a starfish on his face along with barnacles and such. Yuck
• Anchors
• compasses
• sharks
• ships
• cannons
• mermaids for girls
• half face pirate half face skull

Hope that helps. Have fun!

[Sherry]

Nice, thanks Wina!  Mermaids!  Why didn't I even think of that.   

[Alison]

Have you done your Pirate Gig yet?
Do you think Parrots would fit in with your repetoire?

[Sherry]

Yep, we did the pirate party.  Not a lot chose the pirate designs we offered.  And wouldn't you know, the ones that did went to the other artist that worked the gig with me.  She got to do a few parrots, but I didn't get one request.  I did get to do one treasure map and one pirate, but that was it.

I never thought I'd be saying this, but I'm starting to dread the Spiderman.  2 1/2 years and I think I've done it too many times.  I heard a boy chanting in line, "I'm getting a Spiderman, I'm getting a Spiderman, I'm getting a Spiderman."  And all I could think, was, "please Janet be finished with your face before me, so you can take this Spiderman request."  Of course, she wasn't, so I got him.   

[Party Picassos Facepainting]

We are just like rock stars who are tired of playing their #1 hit. If it keeps me in green; I'm smiling. Of course, we can think of different versions of the same request. Make it a bit more of a challenge and keep it interesting for us!

[Alison]

Figures that you didn't really need all your prep-practices.  But we feel so much more confident when we prepare properly.  And if you didn't......welll....you Know it would have been a gig of Pirate-Requests.

As far as the Spiderman, I do like the idea of playing with it when you're ready to go out of your mind.  But hey!  I was just going to write about focusing on the people instead of on  the painting, when I realized - THIS IS THE TIME THAT I COULD EXERCISE MY INTEREST IN MY EXERCISING.  I mean, when you know just what to slap onto that face - like lalalalala - then you can focus on sitting up properly, twisitng your abs when you turn to load your brush, breathe in and oooouuuuuut........