Re: More good stuff!
Had two of the performers I work with for our Halloween season at the park tell me about the number of compliments they get each night about how awesome their makeup and costumes are. While I'm not responsible for every aspect of all of that, I did come up with and okay the initial concepts for makeup...helped put together all the costumes (and in at least one case, built a significant portion of the costume from scratch, including making my own modifications to a pattern so it looked right).
When park patrons are favorably comparing your work to the stuff they see at Disney and Knott's, etc, you're doing something right. I knew the performers liked the makeup stuff...but it's nice to hear that the park patrons are impressed by it, as well.
(Now, if only the guy who actually signs off on everyone's pay rates was hearing all this praise...my rent went up this summer, I need a raise!)