{"id":802,"date":"2019-04-18T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2019-04-18T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T23:12:09","slug":"super-late-2018-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/super-late-2018-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Super late 2018 recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is never too late to give you all a recap of how 2018 went for Paisley’s Puppets, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sold many, many puppets last year at events like Treasure Fest<\/a>, Maker Faire<\/a>, Oakland Patchwork Show, and several holiday pop-ups. I also had a number of commissions and made some fabulous custom puppets! As a last minute Christmas gift, I was commissioned to make a fabulous dragon puppet. The mother was super thankful to have a hardworking elf make their kid so happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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March was a major highlight for me because I traveled to Santa Barbara for PuppetPalooza and the Pacific Southwest Puppet Conference. This exciting 3 day event included classes on puppetry, puppet enthusiast gatherings, shows, and meeting the new Muppeteers! I learned a lot about their story and how they are taking over the reigns of their childhood heroes. Of course I brought my Deaner puppet and got the optional photo opportunity with Miss Piggy, Pepe the Prawn, Kermit, and Walter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having that puppet playtime really pushed me to plot more puppet pastimes. I got busy bringing more puppets to life. I did have a minor setback when I broke my hand in May, but I still did Makers Faire as well as some fun travels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course Ween was on tour again in 2018, so I packed up the Ween Puppet Boys and traveled to Colorado, Oregon, Tennessee, and Atlanta throughout the summer and fall. I met so many fun Ween fans who truly appreciated the Ween Puppet Boys. Yet again, I was floored by Ween playing their awesome sound. I got another shout out from Gener at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, and he was pleased to see the puppets once again. My little fan heart grew a bunch that night! See more photos on my Ween Puppets<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In September I participated in Figment Oakland<\/a> again with my Lost Sock Puppet Productions. Figment is a free interactive art festival. I have so much fun bringing the supplies and offering instruction to make your very own sock puppet. I really enjoy interactive art that is free because it heps encourage everyone that they can be creative!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October I did the Puppet-a-Day challenge for the third year in a row. Even with a week vacation in Nashville and Atlanta, I still managed to make a puppet almost every day. In Atlanta we visited the Center for Puppetry Arts. They recently updated it with a permanent Jim Henson exhibit so we had to go. I had a blast learning about Henson and world puppetry, and thoroughly enjoyed the visiting Dark Crystal exhibit. I brought some of my Ween puppets and of course they had to unforgettable experience as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the year came to a close I was exhausted, elated, entertained, energized, and encouraged to continue my quest to provide puppetry to the masses. Now for plotting even more puppet pleasantries for 2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is never too late to give you all a recap of how 2018 went for Paisley’s Puppets, right? I sold many, many puppets last year at events like Treasure Fest, Maker Faire, Oakland Patchwork Show, and several holiday pop-ups. I also had a number of commissions and made some fabulous custom puppets! As a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paisleyspuppets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}