Too Much to Carry

[Alison]

I usually travel with one small container jam-packed with a lot of solid colors (and one section for Rainbow).  Now I want to make a lot of split cakes.  It will be real interesting to work with whatever combinations I land on.

But there's so much to carry. 
Do you travel with ALL your solids
PLUS ALL your splits?
Or do you manage EVERYTHING with just split cakes (even things like the Spiderman base)?

[reginanewsum]

OH MY GOD! can you believe the stuff that you gather up to go do a gig! Ahh everything in your kit is needed! And it just keeps growing and growing! Right now I have my material in two carrying bags, pretty large ones! And every thing has to go in just right and in it's place and packed back the same way! One half of the bag has all my books and pictures in it! I have a tall captains chair in it's case. and A fold up white table I carry in my car if needed, but I always ask the client to have a table for me! Don't want to make two trips! I am working on designing a box on wheels right now, I do wood craft, I don't think there is a tool I don't have! my hubby overthe past 30 years loved me doing wood! you know "what to get thewife for christmas thing" well he would buy me band saws, sanders, routers, bits, table saw! But my dad built homes for a living so I learnt alot from daddy! I think it is going to be great, everything will have a place and a drawer, my tall chair will attach to the base and off I will go, well I got off the subject!  chap! Yes I take all my solid cakes, all my split cakes, glitters, and what have ya! I don't take every thing out at a gig tho! I have a zip lock baggy with extra cake paints in it, do you know you can fit about 36 cake paints in a one gallon zip lock bag! HHAHAHAHA!

[sparklingfaces]

honestly I rare use split cakes.... I try to offer them more, but most of them only want the rainbow split cake

[Sherry]

I think I take way too much stuff.  I take mostly solids, but also have some specialized splits and rainbows I take along.  One for snakes, a sunset scene and the true rainbows for different designs.  Then I have a few palettes with different mini split cakes for butterflies, flowers, crowns, etc.

[Alison]

Oh It's amazing.  Like, you gotta be in the business to understand. 

But I read about your dream-box Regina, and I cringe.  It sounds so wonderful - a place for Every Thing, nice solid wood.....and I say, How would she get that into her car?  How would she get it up and down the subway stairs?

[reginanewsum]

it will be real light weight I assure you! I have a bad back! I'm working on the details now!

[Alison]

How can it be lightweight if it's wood?

[reginanewsum]

Balsic wood or poplar wood is very light weight, and  it doesn't have to be real thick! My hubby and I are working on it!

[Party Picassos Facepainting]

I have an old computer case with wheels and a handle that comes out. Great, but I broke the main zipper trying to squish my supplies and sample book in the main section. So until I get it fixed, I have been using a wicker picnic basket. Almost everything fits and I only need to carry my two large frames with my photos in them. Whatever works and isn't soooo heavy!

[reginanewsum]

un decided yet!  I have had my eye on this rolling tool box at Menards since Christmas! No one got the hint thou that I wanted it!  I look at it ever time I go there!  I check the newspaper every week, and it NEVER goes on sales!  It is made out of heave gauged plastic, hubby says it will be easier for me to lift in and out of the SUV.  All in all there is light weight wood balsum is really light weight, you know the kind of wood that the airplanes are made out of for hobbies, it can be done! I will master it!

[Sherry]

I used a computer case for my kit too, Wina.  I just recently had to trash it, because it had gotten so beat up looking.  I've used it ever since I started face painting.  It was a rolling suitcase, computer case and had all these nice pockets and storage compartments.  I'm in the market for a new case now and have been using a regular suitcase in the meantime.  Ugh!  Not as nice.

[Party Picassos Facepainting]

Maybe we should check out ebay!

[reginanewsum]

I did check E-BAY, wasn't to sure on using that site, I think I had only been on it once before!  But the rolling case I looked at was the same one at menards! My friend Anna Wininski,  I  team up with her and do a lot gigs with he, she goes by Clash the Clown, she also has jestpaints.com on the net, she purchased one of the rolling toolboxes that I am talking about and it works great! I am really yhinking of getting that one

[jubob]

Oh Gina you know Anna I really miss her youtube videos they were great I loved her style and my Little Scotty had a soft spot for Ocianna ( sorry not sure if I spelled that correctly ).

[MsMollie]

i just a rolling cart that i got from a friend and i know you can get them at Hobby Lobby...also have seen some that look really deep..sort of like a shopping cart...somehow, i managed to pack everything into my rolling cart which is slightly larger than a milk crate...it works really good. I also found a really cool fishing tackle box that has a flip lit on both sides...one side i carry business cards and brochures in it(shallow), and the other side is my glitter, and tattoo stuff...works very well...
You also have an extended handle to lean your table and poster board up against and if you take a bag, you can just hang it around the extended handle and off you go!...i manage to pack everything and even a couple of big bottles(the size of cranapple juice comes in..32oz. i think)...of water.


like Sheri said....i'm not a pack mule! lol...she cracks me up