How Bad Do You Need to Win?

Another puppet maker whose name I won't mention came to Etsy chat to announce her felt finger puppet was entered into a blog contest.  She asked people in the room to come vote her up, since someone was beating her by a hair. I guess I don't have issues with that.

Then she went on to say she'd hopped onto every computer she could find to vote for herself.  Now that's just sad.

So I went to look at the entries, and there was another puppet maker in the contest.  She had entered two marionettes which take way more work than one tiny finger puppet. So I voted for her, even though she's way behind the leaders.  So I went to her blog and found this adorable witch puppet. I just had to share it.

http://bybido.blogspot.com/2010/09/little-witch-doll-puppet.html?showComment=1298075422965#c3331672184334002621

The other puppet maker from Etsy will probably win the contest, but the way she's doing it is suspect.  Just doesn't seem right.

Puppet Vendor at SCA event yesterday.

At an SCA event we were vending at there was a puppet booth. I saw the same booth at the Irvine Lake Ren. Faire. Here are some photos I got with permission of the vendor.

Penguin and Owl Finger Puppets

I made 2 new finger puppets today. One is a penguin and one is an owl. They are both made from acrylic felt, which is made from recycled soda bottles. Glad to know all those empties I returned turned into something useful.

Puppets at World Ren. Faire

Yesterday I went to the World Renaissance Faire by Irvine Lake and found a puppet booth. So I took a few photos of her amazing puppets. It's a shame the event didn't have more customers. She said business had been slow. It really takes an optomist to start a new faire in this economy. I hope the event had more visitors on Sunday.

Car Fox

Car Fax has a new commercial mascot which is a car Fox puppet. Always nice to spot a puppet in a TV commercial. When the customer asks for a Car Fax, the slippery salesman pulls out the Car Fox puppet instead.

Spoon Monster?

This isn't quite a puppet yet, but I think I can turn it into a rod puppet. I just need to figure out how to fasten a dowel to it, or maybe tuck a wooden spoon inside and crochet around the handle to secure it. Has potential.

Paper Bag Puppets

There sure are a lot of puppets on Flickr. So if you need some inspiration or just want to have some fun, go to http://www.flickr.com and type in puppet or puppetry or finger puppets into their search engine.

Or go to google and click on images and look at all the puppets. Try looking for handpuppet, marionette, fingerpuppet, and so on. Remember paper bag puppets? Those are still good fun for a rainy day. I like old school stuff anyway. I grew up in a family with five kids so we made a lot of paper bag puppets. Our hallway became an impromptu puppet theater and no cardboard box was safe from being turned into a television with puppets dancing inside.