Happy Halloween!

It looks like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers has already been here! Look at all the heads, hands, and feet in the box! It looks like a total slaughter!

New resin

So I was trying to find a lighter, cheaper way to make the puppet heads and hands instead of magic sculpt so I decided to try a smooth on product called free-form sculpt. Not too sure if I like it! It looks like magic school except for the hardener is brown instead of a dark gray! In the original resin is almost like Goo! It's really super soft and even when you mix it with The hardener it still doesn't harden up like magic sculpt! I went on and filled one of my molds with it though just to see how it would work. It says on the container that it turns into a plastic like when it's dried after 24 hours! Here's a picture of The containers. Tomorrow I'll show you what the product looks like whenever straight out of the mold. After it's in the mold it looks just like magic sculpt though! 

Sleep! Aw!

Normally I have a horrible case of insomnia, but here lately I've had the opposite of insomnia! It feels good to get some sleep, but then again since I'm not used to sleep I'm tired all day! It's kind of like I'm tired but you just don't feel like doing anything! Oops! I could just be being lazy! LOL! I've actually been working a lot of my full-time job so I don't have much time to work on the puppets. I have a couple of puppets in mind that I'm going to go ahead and start tomorrow though. I hope that they work out good. Also I've noticed a couple of my customers I had bought puppets that their friends (on several customers), are calling me the shiny puppet man! LMAO! It's really funny actually I like it! I've seen some of the other puppet makers where their customers called her puppets junk! So to be called the shiny puppet man is not so bad! LOL 

A puppet building book!

I've been asked many times how to build a puppet and I can tell a lot of people, but if they are like I am, i'm a hands-on person. The number one suggestion that I do have for people is how I learned how to build puppets. If you go to puppets and props.com The site is owned by Mike Brose. He wrote the book called "puppet making can be fun"! It is a really good book to learn by. I highly recommend this book, for this is how I got started on making puppets. And if you have any questions, Mike Brose or myself will be more than happy to answer any questions. Any of the puppet makers for that matter would probably help you out with any questions. But don't sell the puppets to make a living, I tried that and it did not work! You got to make the puppets for the love of the art of ventriloquism! I did it to start off because I love ventriloquist puppet's. I got my first puppet when I was a young kid at probably around five years old. I have been collecting them every sense! So I originally started off just making puppets that I wanted for my collection. But then I got really sick and in a financial crisis and the only thing of any value that I knew I had was the puppets. So now I make puppets to sell only so I can get the money to buy more products to Buy and build more puppets mainly for my collection! But if you're really interested in making puppets I would highly recommend you go to the site at puppetsandprops.com and buy the book from Mike Brose and get started on step by step instructions today!

Sorry no post here lately

Sorry I have not posted for a while. Normally I work some long hours 3 days a week at my full-time job. But they've had a lot going on. Lots of private parties, which means extra hours for me! Yay! Bad thing about this is, it takes away from my puppet building times. I am painting jingles today and tomorrow he's being shipped out. He should be there within a week! Also for the others reading the post awaiting new puppets; sorry I have not got the Egyptian out yet! This is the busy time of season for my full-time job, but I will work on him as much as I can to get The Egyptian puppet done. I do have a lot of ideas for new puppets and I am looking forward to building them when I get the time. Thank you so much for your patience and I will be writing you soon! Have a wonderful day.

Progress on jingles

I have been working a lot at my full-time job. Plus I've been sick lately! I had to work yesterday but after work I came home and I put the brass rod in the top of the head,The cup hooks to hold the springs to help with the self-centered eyes, his hands were they had gloves on, and today I put the board on the back of the springs of the eyes to make them self-centering! The weathers only been getting in the high of 60's magic sculpt doesn't dry quick unless it's at least 70 so I've been doing the waiting thing as it dries. Below is a picture of the hands with the gloves before they get painted, and the inside of jingle head with all the inner mechanics. I just have to let the magic scult on the boards dry, and I can go ahead and put the strings in the springs in and connect to hang control stick. Then it's to the paint room which won't take over two days!

Dr's X-rays and ct scans!

Here lately I have been going to a lot of dr appointments because of my broken back. I did work on jingles yesterday though! I got his ears and filled in beside his mouth. Tomorrow I have to put the eyes in and the cup hooks for the strings and springs! I'm trying my best to get jingles done this week though.