She looks like Groucho Marx.  I like the crown.

Nice, wish I could do that.

How is the job search, any luck yet? I am eligible to retire and looking to see if I can find another job. I put puppet team manager on my resume and that is what they said caught their eye.  Who knows maybe MAC skills you are getting will be the key to your opportunity.

If you don't use a seam ripper or go back and do a fix your puppet will suffer, we are seldom perfect on the first pass. It is a process and the more you work at it the better you will get.  You started very well so you should go far quick.  Thank you for sharing all your thoughts it will help the next new person who is having those same feelings.  We were all beginners once too.

Thanks for sharing that information.  I hope he had lots of apprentices who learned his secrets so his craft can go on.

You know if Pringles made a wider can that would fit more hands we could get to those yummy chips faster too.

Say those windows could double as puppet stages too.  Nice job, thanks for sharing.

My two cents:  My puppet team folks didn't like the feel of the foam.  If they don't like the foam touching their hand, if it is hot, mouth doesn't move freely, or it its so heavy that your arm aches, that puppet will stay in the cabinet and not be used no matter how exciting the outside is. A well made good functioning puppet with cool lining will encourage repeat sales.

http://www.bransontrilakesnews.com/entertainment/article_c217267c-e5a0-11e2-870c-0019bb2963f4.html?TNNoMobileI just saw that Ventriloquist Jim Barber stopped doing his show in Branson last December. I was sad to hear that, he is really good puppeteer and funny entertainer.  I especially liked his Baby puppet.  He was my favorite act in Branson.

Na is a "charged torch" a flash light? I was thinking welding torch when you said that.

I would take needles and thread, and scratch pads to draw or list ideas before I forgot them. Black sharpie, single blade razor, foam sheet scraps, rubber bands, and safety pins. 3M has some bright colored electric tape in lots of colors that is small size.