Ever since I was a kid I have loved musicals. Not the cheesy musicals such as High School Musical where people just randomly break out in song, and suddenly everybody knows the dance, but the real kind...BROADWAY!
CATS, the Broadway musical, became one of my favorite movies at a young age. My mom's best friend made my sister and I watch it one day while she was babysitting us. We were instantly hooked. Dancing cats?! What kid wouldn't be into that?
Now that I'm older I still love the musical. I watch it still, and sing along to all the songs. I was always, and still am mesmerized by the dancing and the makeup done by these performers.
As the pictures may show I did makeup like two of the cats in the musical and my sister did another. Like I have said before I am never bored...
As, I mentioned earlier, I hate the word bored, and I've been looking for a way to get glitter to stick to my face for months, add those two together and you finally get a solution...
LIP GLOSS!!!
I smothered my face in lip gloss, dumped glitter into my hands, and POOF, I was suddenly covered in a million little shiny pieces.
...Just letting you guys all know though, lip gloss holds glitter a little too well...it took about an hour to scrub all the glitter off of my face, and during the washing process glitter was everywhere...it was definitely one of my more messy projects, but
there is something special about seeing your face as a beautiful, glittery masterpiece that makes the whole project worth while.
On a day when one has nothing to do, the word bored usually becomes a key word, and watching T.V. becomes an all day activity. Call me weird, but T.V. is boring in itself if you watch for too long of a time, and the word bored is not even a word in my dictionary. When there is nothing to do you simply make something to do...
So this white headboard has been sitting in our upstairs hallway for months, and like any worthless piece of furniture it did nothing but collect things that had no real spot to be. It made the hall look cluttered, and the headboard really just needed to disappear.
Well suddenly there was a day where I was not working and needed to do something to keep myself busy. I was standing in the hall, and so was the headboard, so I decided I would paint. I went to Walmart and bought some acrylic paint and brushes and went to work on my masterpiece.
I never expected to like the piece, and I never expected it would take so long. I never painted much before, but this was like opening a whole new world, where all I wanted to do was continue. I was automatically mesmerized by the strokes made by the brush, and I could't believe it was my hand that was in control.
I worked on this piece for about 4 hours before it was finished and unfortunately its still a headboard, and will be covered if anyone decides to use it again.
Currently I am trying to cut the headboard to where its just the starry night piece and I can hang it in my bedroom. I am starting to think that was not the best place to paint a picture but at least, for now, the headboard is still in the hallway for people to see.
