Recent content by Ruben

I've made teeth out of hot glue that have worked great I usually use this method when making single teeth (buck teeth for example, or the one-tooth back woods kind of puppet) lay out wax paper and using a hotglue gun lay down a layer of hot glue, place two pins side by side in the hot glue, and...

I like the idea of waxing. I've never done it because this is the first time I have heard of it. I'll try anthing to reduce my thread from wearing out when sewing.

I wish I had a workspace that I didn't have to share with other activities. Right now I have to put every thing away and then get it out again when I want to work. How time consuming

I do what I call the baseball stitch it is the one they use to sew a baseball. This stitch is easier for me than the ladder stitch, I can go faster but at the sametime being carefull it is virtuely invisble. Another thing that makes stitchesivisible is how you cut your fleece. If the fleece is...

wow! that is a great puppet.

Wow! that is a great puppet! live hand ones are so neat. :o)

ok heres a doctor and a blonde joke in one. a blonde goes into the doctors office with second degree burns on both ears, the doc' says to her, "what happened?" "well" says the blonde, "I was doing the ironing when the phone rang, and I picked up the iron by mistake", "Ok" says the doctor...

knock knock whos there? doris doris who? doris locked, why'd ya' think i'm knocking?

What do you call a broken boom-a-rang? .a stick! hee hee.

This is another Texin joke: ok so this texin walks into a bar and asks for a drink, the bartender says to him, "Do you have any ID?" and the Texin answers, "any id' about what?"

I hope it's alright to do blonde jokes 'cause this one is like my all time favorite. okeydoke....how do you know when a blonde has been making chocolate chip cookies? all the M&M shells on the floor. :D

Wow! your kermit looks really awsome!:cool:

i used to store my puppets in sutecases but they would get squished if left in there to long. So I'm in the process of building storage cases for my puppet. they are farly simple to build all i do is cut a peice of plywood in two circle the diameter of the puppet and then i have a peice of pvc...

For clothes and such, second hand clothes store are really great, go down the kids clothes isle and you can find alot of stuff:eek:.

I've never done permanate rods but I came up with a methode that is sort of both permanate and removable at the same time. Before I start building my hands I make the rod which is made of 1/8in rod with a handle, which can be any way you like, on the end that goes into the hand I take the right...