Face Painting as a business
Rotary meeting March 20, 2015
Announcements and Reminders
A few tickets are left for Warriors game. Al has tickets.
Rotary District meeting will be Apr 17th– Apr 19th. For more information go to District Website.
Doug Deaver spoke about the Monterey Mexico trip. 42 Rotarians from all over the U.S. delivered wheelchairs. He encouraged members to participate in these projects as the opportunities arise because the experience is excellent.
Oliver Borg, senior at Santa Cruz High School and Interact district governor, announced that his chapter has been invited to the Rotary International Convention (RICON) at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Oliver will be a keynote speaker. In order to raise money for the trip they are having raffle drawing to raise money. Make checks out to Interact district 5170. Tickets are from $5 - $20 and there are many good prizes, including a weekend in Carmel!
Art reminded us the Human Race is coming up May 9th. We are signed up and ready to go. More information next week.
Stan will be honored at Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust on May20th at the Trust. He’d invited club members to be present. The ceremony is at the Trust at 5:30 or so till 7.
Sandy said eleven RYLA students have applied and we will choose seven. In addition she still has spots for volunteers American Blues Festival.
Claire said March 31st is the deadline for community grants. We have received many applications but there is still time for more.
Beach cleanup March 28th and everything will be supplied that you need. Sign up!!
The Interact annual fundraiser is on April 18th.
The very cute little Tyler Burke (Pam Goodman’s son) introduced our speaker, Lisa Smiley. She’s a professional face painter who has been doing it for almost 20 years. She started off with nothing then ended up hiring her whole family to work for her, as well as twelve employees during the season (she is hiring now!) In Monterey, she worked on Cannery Row and the Wharf as well as many festivals. Now she is at Boardwalk seven days a week from spring break until Labor Day. She will be opening a henna booth there this season also.
She demonstrated on Keith how she did a tiger mask which won her first place in a national competition in 2008. She has also won awards for body painting. She works on contracts for parties, generally charging around $150 with 18-20 children per party. At the Boardwalk she charges by the face. It costs from $5- $20. She uses vegan paint, the best she can get on market which is hypoallergenic.
We were all impressed with her business acumen. On the proceeds from her business she bought and paid off the mortgage for her house in Santa Cruz and is booked up as much as a year in advance for special occasions like Halloween.
She passed around a sample of all of her designs. There were lots of varied designs as well as henna designs to choose from. (And Keith looked amazing! See photo!!)