The other day, my older daughter was wrapped up in her world of new, cool electronic gadgetry that found purchase in our home over the holidays. It’s a tough balance as a parent trying to figure out how much screen time is “right” for an eleven year old. I am not in the camp that […]
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All About Felting
I have developed a passion for felting and natural fibers that my family, accurately, would likely describe as being borderline obsessive. My bookshelves are heaving from new purchases, my browser has bookmarked dozens of amazing sites, and I have been building up a stash of wool and felting materials…it just makes me giddy!
About Our Staff
Company members are talented, quirky, and unique. Within these pages, we will share our thoughts on all the branches that life within a touring puppet company takes: working in the arts, building puppets, working with weird materials, parenting while being a working artist, homeschooling young children while on the road, traveling in close quarters, eating […]
A Stinging Review
We had a great time last weekend at the Chesterfield Berry Farm where we performed puppet shows and ran a craft table. For the craft table, we had the children making their own unique chicken rod puppets. My youngest daughter was out (she is three), and even she made one of her very own chickens. […]
Puppets?
One of the first questions people ask me when they discover that I work with puppets is, “How did you get into that?” Well, here it is:I began puppet building back in fifth grade, the result of book report assignments requiring visual aids. At the time, I wanted to be either an archeologist, a cartoonist, […]