Your Puppet and Posturing

We take a little bit of time almost everyday to watch videos of performances that are out in “the cyber zone”.

We love watching the many creative performers that make their living entertaining folks with puppets. We also get a kick out of watching some of them who are not quite as good. We are all at different levels of development, and therefore we should all be striving to perfect our art form and become just a little better. Of course the most important way to do that is to practice, practice, practice. Then we can watch others. We may see things when watching others that are obviously in need of improvement. Only when we see the problems in other can we sometimes realize that we are guilty of the same mistakes.

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Something You Might Want to Consider

A large part of our customers are ventriloquists. To those of you that also use “hard” figures or ventriloquist dummies, here’s an idea for you to consider.

We’ve been hearing horror stories about traveling vents and their luggage containing their ventriloquist figures get lost and they can’t perform or have to change their performance. Or with the added costs of extra luggage sure is putting a strain on the ole wallet.

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Working With Soft Puppets

Recently a Ventriloquist who has become a dear friend sent us an email and was explaining the she was having problems with her recently acquired soft puppet. She has spent many years working with hard puppets and has just in the last few days gotten her first soft puppet.

She went on to explain that her hand was getting very tired and that she was just not sure about the required dexterity for being able to use her new soft puppet. She loves the puppet and looks great with it, but she is troubled by the way it makes her hand feel.

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You can’t possible die – - if you stay outside the box!!!

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We are constantly thinking, trying to find something that is out of the box. We want to have things available that nobody else has. Even if you don’t like the item that we have, if it sparks your creative side and gives you ideas for something new then we have done our job.

Not long ago, we did a little Figmy named “Chubby”. Yep, he was weird. All he was is a talking shrunken head. We got several comments back from you as a group.

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Time to Maintain Your Soft Puppet

We wanted to take this time to remind you that it is probably time to maintain your soft puppet.

Go to your local “Lowes” or equivalent home center and buy a can of aerosol “Scotch Guard”. Lay out a few old newspapers on a table, then take some blue “Painters Masking Tape” to cover the eyes. Do NOT use regular masking tape as it is too strong and may do more damage than good.

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