what a fun show!  sold lots of puppets!  the best part was seeing everyone’s reactions and watching people play with them.  aw, y’all are pretty great.

there’s a couple left though!  somebody take them home!  your new friend is waiting for you!

http://puppetsforsale.tumblr.com/

thanks again and a huge thanks to fictilis for letting us sell our work in their cute space! 

pics here:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjx32wHK

well, im pretty burnt out.  i dont recommend making 10 puppets at one go ahead.  here is today:

got all the arms sewed on.

then everyone got ready for their eyes:

got their eyes!  now just in line for teeth…

teeth for some!

and then i had enough.  the rest of the tweaks will take place tomorrow and tuesday.  need to see how i react to them after a day of not looking at them.  so far, i like where they ended up.  i positioned the eyes in a few different places to give them character and some have mean teeth and some are just plain goofy.  here’s hoping someone is drawn to each of them.  they’d all love a good home.

hope you’re excusing the phone camera…it sure does love making everything just a little bit yellow.

my hands are starting to hurt.  i think they’re just raw from the glue gun burns today and then later stabbing them accidentally over and over with the needle.  i’ve watched/listened to so many documentaries and episodes of intervention this weekend.  helps me not focus on the boring repetition.  anyway here’s today:

started with some heads needing their felt mouths.  i picked out some colors for everyone and got to sewing.

after i sewed the felt in, the heads sat and waited patiently.

i worked with foam today to make their mouthplates and foam skulls which will go in tomorrow.

after a little break i figured i’d see how many heads i could attach to the bodies.  turns out all of them!

i decided i didnt want to get the hot glue going again for the night, so i’ll give them their mouths and skulls tomorrow.  in the meantime, i got started on the paws.  i got half of them done before calling it a night.  and that’s where i ended up.  hopefully, tomorrow i’ll get the rest of the arms on, install all the foam and get to work on the face and character traits.  i should have some finished puppets tomorrow!  woohoo!

http://www.fictilis.com/events/white-elephant-artcraft-fair

come on down.  5-10pm.

holy crap that was a long day of sewing, but it was the one i was dreading the most, so hopefully it’ll go a lot quicker from here on out.  20 arms sewn and stuffed.  woo.  first they looked like this all inside out:

then i had to turn them right side out and fill em full of soft stuff.

then i sewed in all the soft stuff and ended up with a pile of paws.  whew.  tomorrow will be mouths and hopefully all the foam skull work.

end of day 2 and ive got 10 heads and 10 bodies (all inside out, dont worry).  next step:  twenty paws.  woo, im gonna need some more good docs.  that pearl jam one suprisingly was good.  got me through the heads!

that’s the goal anyway.  i thought i’d document the process and see how close i can come to this goal.  it started out with over 2 hours of cutting all different colored furs and then last night and this morning i ended up with 10 new bodies (all inside out) plus i got a head start on all the heads!  hoping to get the other six heads done by tonight or tomorrow morning.

this is just crazy trying to fit it in between a full time job and the holidays!  eeee! hopefully they come out cute and somebody wants to take them home.

i’ll be at a table sellin puppets at first thursday in pioneer square (seattle).  will post more details later, but it’s comin up real quick.  better start sewing…

so im in the middle of this contest.  voting ends in a few days (but you can vote more than once!). 

anyway, im currently barely in third, no shot of catching up to the other 2 dudes but i’d love if you voted and kept me hangin on to where im at!!  voting is super easy.  one little click.

little fyi.  contest is for a company called goal0.  check em out.  really great solar gear.  took it to nepal and charged a bunch of sherpa’s cell phones.  :)

thanks tons!

http://bit.ly/vYELKT

it was a pretty cool show, it’s still up if you wanna check it out.  pretty neat to see all these critters from all over the world.  it was hard not to squeeze everything!

a very awesome lady bought toof.  im glad he’s going to such a great home.  check her out if you get a chance!  http://www.madebymoxie.com/

it was nice to see the puppets getting played with.  they looked like giants compared to everyone else though.  not sure if the other two will get new homes, but you never know.  its so funny to not know where they’ll end up.

OH!  and i bought something AWESOME from the beast peddler.  LOVE LOVE LOVE.  i’ll post a pic when it gets here!

plush you! show opens tomorrow at 5pm.  right next to the moore theater at schmancy toys.  alrighty?  ive seen a few pictures and this stuff is definitely worth checking out.  come meet my puppets!

hooray!

guess what?  i got chosen to participate in a video contest for goal0!   they’re a super awesome solar powered gear company.  there’s only 10 of us (im the only girl!) and they’re sending us a free kit that we get to use to make the video.  of course im insanely excited about this.  you’ll have to vote for me when the time comes!  i think voting starts the end of october.  the turn around time for this video is intense, especially because i want to animate it.  woo!  so wish me luck!

he’s grown whiskers since this photo…

he’s got a big toof!