Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow (19 September), so I hope to have the pirate marionette finished today. I have a long way to go, and I am further frustrated by a desire to make a new head, since I made a mistake with the armature. I also need to shop for string — I hope to find Spiderwire.
I have finished painting three glove puppet heads and am in the midst of finishing a fourth. The hardest part for me is coming up: sewing the bodies.
There is so much to do, but I already want to work on several other things immediately, such as making a Judy puppet, making half of the puppets for the Halloween play, making new Wicked Witch of the West and Flying Monkey puppets, revising the Harry Potter puppet play, and writing several new puppet plays. In addition to the Halloween play, Daniel and I are discussing plans for a Mayan marionette play, and I’m still devising a plot for a science fiction parody that I hope to present at some conventions by next summer.
So, why am I sitting here writing this when I ought to be working on puppets?
Be seeing you… :-?