The Magical Moonshine Theatre

And also, at the end of the day we are too tired to write much.  Today is Saturday.  Tomorrow is one week until the parade.  We had great help today from Jessie (again!  Yay Jessie!  Loyal Puppet Builder!) and Ilona and her son, Tenzin, who is good with a hot glue gun! (photos below.)  Tomorrow in the morning, when the wind is low, we begin the costume!

Ilona works on the boat prototype here (below is Valerie demonstrating it.  Ilona's son, Tenzin, above, hot glues supports on the spikes.

Yet another day papier mache-ing (Jessie, who worked with us last year on the horse, is back, adding layers to the arms and head!)

New knowledge:  Not only does papier mache shrink when it dries, but as it shrinks over styrofoam, certain parts of the foam compress whereas others do not do so as much, so the arms that I so lovingly carved into nice rounded shapes have morphed back into to blocky shapes.  They will look fine on the puppet but are not how I envisioned them.