One fat, one short, one lean! These three guys helped kickstart over a decade's worth of puppet obsession. Built in 2008 for the Flowertown Players' production of Fantastic Mr. Fox in Summerville, South Carolina.

Built for the musical production, Smile.

A surprise gift for a family for Christmas.

Milo has a very unique white moustache and beard on his sweet little salt and pepper face!

A friend brought me a mostly finished, blue haired, featureless puppet for some sprucing up. So I gave him a makeover (and an orange Hawaiian shirt), and voila!

An onion with bite!

In 2018, I had the opportunity to hold a workshop on building a simple furry puppet in a nunnery in Spoleto, Italy. The workshop came out of a few weeks’ practice of committing to building one puppet per week.

Bruiser is a hand puppet with full working mouth, swivel head and wagging tail. Built for Legally Blonde, 2022.

Scraps got his start at the Snip Stitch Focus Workshop at the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts! Needing a sidekick/partner in crime, Marzipan came along soon thereafter. They can be seen on Instagram (@spicedpixie) in their Dog Days stories.

I wanted to experiment with mold making, and pouring the eyes for these two puppets was the perfect start! Once the eyes were set, I hollowed out and glued craft gemstones for their sparkly irises.

A commission of Terrence McKenna, December 2023

Willoughby was built for Asheville School's production of Mary Poppins February 2024