Just in case you think I’ve disappeared: I haven’t. After the UNIMA Australia launch I got kind of swamped with requests, feedback, and problems to sort out. Although they’ve been minor and not too time-consuming, it has left me sick of looking at my computer. Yesterday I spent the whole day doing nothing, just as a break from it all.

Follow up:

In the meantime, today I tried to get some other things done. I’m still struggling with RSS for combining PIM and SOP together; apologies for any issues there to my RSS readers, I’ve been fiddling and it might have caused some issues with posts reappearing in your feeds.

But I’ve also finished my entry for Stacey Gordon’s (Staceyrebecca) puppet competition. You may recall I had a choc chip cookie finger puppet of hers and was going to enter a pic. Well, I sucked it up and sent in the pics that I wasn’t happy with. They’re not bad, just not terribly amazing.

In a totally selfish move, I thought to myself - “I’m advertising Stacey’s puppets for free. Seems silly not to get in on the action myself". From there, it was a hop, step and jump to coming up with the idea of one of my puppets attacking hers. And my mind, always loving the idea of subtle layers of contextualisation, came up with an even better idea: a shadow puppet version of the finger puppet. Eating the finger puppet. 

I know I’m not one for ‘replicas’ or ’spoofs’ in this case, so I wanted to check with Stacey before submitting them. Normally I wouldn’t even come close to doing a recreation of someone else’s puppet, but once I got the idea in my head, I knew I had to at least try it and see.

You can see all the other entries (so far) including mine here, personally I don’t think - with the quality of my photos especially - I have any chance of beating the Puppet Western Bar. That’s so very cute! I have three entries, each one slightly different. One you see above, another without the ‘eek!’, and the third is simply the shadow puppet towering over a scared finger puppet. You can see the quality of the photos aren’t that great, but hey, I tried.

Do go and vote on the entries, Stacey will be taking into account public response to the photos. More info about voting and deadlines is given at Stacey’s blog, linked above.