Wit's End Puppets

Puppets in Adams Morgan

Posted on December 4, 2012 by ccbooks

We had a blast at the TEDx Adams Morgan Women conference this weekend. From functioning as the volunteer hangout table, to luring in adults with questions like “Green nose or pink nose?” to getting OVERRUN with children asking to help, it was amazing. Adams Morgan now has three puppet inhabitants living at the Sitar Arts Center, who you will meet at the end of the post. Here are some photos of our day and the process of creating them. Enjoy!

Heads waiting for features.

Conference participants helping create puppets.

When the adults went to listen to speakers, the kids at the Sitar Center took over.

Our finished Adams Morgan Puppets! From the left, that’s Granny Smith, Professor Columbia and Juliet.

Favorite Tools: Cutting mat

Posted on December 2, 2012 by ccbooks

For a really long time, my cutting mats looked like this:

I resisted purchasing anything fancier, reasoning that a piece of cardboard did the job perfectly well. And yes, it is fine for quick cuts. But as we discovered when working on the first workshop of Kismet, cutting large amounts of foam core requires a more consistent cutting surface. So now we have this:

And it is wonderful.