Progress

Updated the puppet gallery with some images of a shadow puppet I’ve just put together (but is still unfinished). I’m playing with the intention of maybe actually having it in a show this Saturday. Challenges are fun.

(11-15-03: Show performed. Left the audience wanting more and learned quite a few things about technique. Good experience.)

… she was in pieces.

However, it’s been a while since I last blogged and she is now almost finished.

The other 3-dimensional puppet for this particular show is in need of clothes and some inner contraptions; the latter aspect I’m looking forward to working on but not so the former. Sewing does not come easily to me, at least not to the standards that I’d like, so instead I’m hunting for appropriate doll clothes. My keyword-googling skills have failed me in my hunt for doll business attire so I’m going to hunt through local toy stores, second hand stores, etc.

Another item for which I’m on the prowl is a doll sized computer. Non-functional, of course. The poor, frazzled puppet is going to have her fingers glued to the keyboard. After a suggestion from Joe, I checked out the possibilities of computer-shaped, promotional items. Scary stuff. I had no idea you could get stress balls in so many shapes, but I guess that’s because I’d never really thought about stress balls that much… Maybe that’s a good thing.