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Thanks guys. The mirror trick is probably exactly what happened with the photograph. Good tip! I was using a mirror for the hair, but not for the eyes! I always do the eyes last...and I always take a lot of time. I pinned things in place (as best as you can pin glass eyes..) did the tape, etc...

Thanks guys....The iris is actually the same size. I saw that it looks like that as well, but when the eyes are off and in my hand they're the same. I wonder if its the glare that's doing that. As far as the heat-gun/hair dryer....I've been using a heat gun a lot on this project and have come...

Also......if I mess with it...will it mess it up more-so?

*ahem* its a half-spherical hollow glass eye. its backed with polyfoam and glued to the face with hot glue.

Also, secretly I hope everyone says "what lazy eye? i see no lazy eye? not on *that* puppet for sure!" .....

I glued the eyes to the face....its a half spherical hollow glass eye. I backed it with polyfoam to give it something to grip & glued it to her face with hot glue. http://www.flickr.com/photos/staceyrebecca/3347575579/ there's a pic.

What's the best way to fix horrible focus on a puppet that's not going to destroy the puppet's face? stitching? more glue? *sigh* I'm extremely frustrated with myself. I didn't notice the bad focus until I'd packed away the puppet (getting it out is going to be a pain) & looked at the photos...

Our puppet theater has an amazingly extensive library that has hundreds of books...probably about 1/3 are on marionettes, so I've been looking at those for awhile. Joints are the things I'm wondering how I'll do...

out of what are you making it? I'm toying with the ideas of either paperclay or cloth. If I do it next week, it will likely be cloth.

Next week... My son is back in school from Spring Break and I'm not teaching because my kids are on Spring Break... I will make a Marionette...at least the body! Hold me to it, muppetcentral. That's your new job.

Have any of you ventured into this realm? I'm incredibly intimidated by them...but really want to start.

I was a character at Disneyworld in college...oh...a while ago.... I dont know about the mutations, but a few things that disney's costumers did was to take advantage of things like Winnie The Pooh's nose. They made it out of a super (opposite of dense--its late) foam that was dyed black. I...

Build a bear has nice ones. Although I think mainly girl wigs. If you're talking mouth puppet, michael's wigs are too small.

http://tinyurl.com/azyn3b try that.

if you know the circumference of your puppet's head, then you can search Doll Wigs or Doll Making Supplies.

Man, doesn't anyone want lead poisoning nowadays?

carve it out of styrofoam (like insulation styro) & then cover it in papier mache, seal it with some gesso & paint it? the theater where I work makes all of their puppets & props this way. You can also usually find fake veggies & fruit at local craft stores.

I'll have to watch it again. I didn't notice the cutting.

Good wow. did you improvise that whole thing? Are you just that crazy?

wow....just....wow.