We make no secret of the fact that we LOVE getting pictures back from each of you showing your JET puppets in some form of activity. What we don’t get to see much of is group photos of our puppets. Usually the biggest group photos that we get to see are the pictures that we take before opening night at Vent Haven ConVENTion. Usually, we don’t have more than 22 puppets at most at ConVENTion, so that is about the biggest single gathering of our work that we get to see.
We were honored recently to get several pictures from a dear customer friend that stunned even us. Joni Haag has in fact ordered several puppets from us, but she also watches other market sources and gets some of our puppets from others as they become available. I must say that Joni is NOT just a collector, but is a working vent with great taste in puppets with personality.
These puppets are not all that she has, because there are still several more that have been ordered that we have not even gotten made yet, but this is a great start on her own private Dummy Shoppe museum. Each and every one of these puppets has been used in performances at either Joni’s church or other functions in her area.
Here is an astounding collection of JET’s work now living in Illinois.
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The first time that we have the opportunity to get up to Joni’s part of the country, we are going to take her out to dinner where we will award her the “W.S. HAMberger award”
Thanks for sharing the picture Joni. You are a great and valued friend.
Steve and JET