was very nervous about coming up in here
today so i brought me mum she’s my mom
to help me out okay she’s my mom and now
I was going to bring another puppet on
but then I saw me mum she helped me and
I’m sort of thinking about it really and
I mean I made this when I went up to
visit my mom and she was living in a
care home and the Orton is and my mom
was a dressmaker as you can see it’s got
really nice dress on and I my visits to
see my mom I just spent a lot of time up
there and make puppets do some sewing
and spend a bit of time together and
when I went to a new year I was looking
forward to doing some more puppets and
that with all their materials when I go
up there all the materials have gone
apart from very very little scraps so
it’s got nothing there was nothing up
there to make anything out of apart from
then I’ll take you through the puppy
some clay the clients was that an air
dry clay head and I dare started playing
around with clay again before Christmas
so they decided that I’d ordered some
clay to be delivered up to the care home
so that I could have something to do up
there with the residents so I got a clay
sent up there which we did and we all
made creatures are collected and crab
claws and made their interesting rhinos
and things with the clay but I still
wanted to make poop hair and I made some
more puppies over there as well to those
up and selectively really sort of scrape
around four bits of materials and things
like that inside here away I won’t show
you something a little bit decent but
they’re just my real nice that this big
sort of steel and staple or something
that found on the beach rusty staple
it’s got some sheep wool careers are
made out of shells well they are shells
and there’s got a brooch as well that
was my mom’s and chopsticks and a little
bit of wood here and wooden York this is
quite hard to find not a lot of trees up
there and so she is really a rubbish
prepare and but I kind of like her she’s
just kind of she moves well and I made I
made a while I was watching looking at
my mom while she was watching television
and this pipette and some of the puppets
that they residents the care home made
were made a big sort puppet show there a
new year and that went down really well
that was really nice I was really
and this is Elsa now Elsa really I don’t
know she said she’s bright clean bit
naughty colorful it’s pretty durable was
rather like that and that’s not just the
puppet that’s the materials and other
and then what I’m going to do this might
be a little bit cruel what I’m going to
do is take over here for an autopsy come
on come on be through this she’s done it
before she’s addresses yeah so it’s got
okay right okay it’s like coat hangers
so many coat hangers I don’t think I’m
quite low on there as a consumer but I
do collect quite likely hangers I’m also
because I do collect a lot of things
other people collect for me just quite
nice sometimes and now i’m going to take
yeah it just shows out how attached you
can get to these things go away ok so
like some of these parts you know like
this a chick forks and things like that
when I’m walking around I see it
scattered around everywhere and a lot of
them done being used there just just
there and Clinton cartridges some
squirting out of a soap dispenser a
curtain thing razors I’ve kind of
decided that I’ll stop shaving because I
got through so many razors and nearly
back and justifies by saving the razor
so they’ve got do something with them
then so it’s two of them of their legs
even up other things by Machine up think
a bit more active a piece of plumbing I
think that was I don’t know this starts
not like collect this I’m not gonna take
apart ourselves also mean that but it’s
bits of plastic and its really good what
I would really like that working with
rubbish is that it challenges the way
that I think and put things together so
even in make it a simple puppet get it
to where you don’t actually need a lot
of tools and find the things sort of fit
together and there’s just like a whole a
little bit of thread and I use a drill
sometimes make holes and thread things
through and then evenly like a lot of
puppets are gotta show use fishing wire
and I struggle with using fishing wire
wait why should i be using this and then
I popped him when I got my hair cut
Pop’s it friendly game his old phone
charger cable that broken so you started
using that swapping pieces and then I
realized that if a tear flexes apart
there’ll be at least four wires inside
there we know little bits of bling
jewelry PlayStation games so I’m not one
for computer games so I get great
delight in particular part their cat
shaped consoles I collect a lot
cigarette lighters throw a cigarette
lighters so I was kind of looking
forward to making something with
cigarette lighters back and work out how
to fit in then take it apart cigarette
lighters a little bits of plastic inside
like that which were great for the
whiskers and little bits of metal and I
didn’t even need to glue anything and
she needs to drill a hole poke it
through a fasten it with the method
piece so it’s really really good really
challenging all the time and I cut down
on take for granted using new materials
and our eyes a bottle top the beer
blu-tack there pull out that saw another
bottle top there and as I was making
this so start making this last week I
was making that was finding bits that I
adding to it I’d only got one bottle top
and it is somewhere I’ve got another
bottle top button match hit I couldn’t
find it I just find a water bottle top
and then a red bead on the floor mr.
it’s a spring I find this green nozzle
that’s great it matches her legs I want
to be a color coordination and then a
four year old friend found the feather
had stopped wetting the tail I thought
that was great let me echo that correct
to that so it’s really nice our sort
things to go that come together like
that it’s quite a few puppets around and
that puts up tonight some of them are
made some of them are made with with
other people and other people are made
as well and I run regular workshops
usually free might not get paid for any
of them so yeah the free forever the
oven and basically it’s like I’ve invite
people to come along and make puppets
and I call them rubbish puppets and part
of that is about just making use of any
free materials and bringing them along
and druish prepare to come out maybe
they are a bit rubbish but the process
of making something they’re trying to
get a puppet actually happening it can
be really quick and working like so like
I older people you’re really young
children friends and just get people
together and making puppets and a really
good fun so I’m going to be doing more
British puppet workshops at st. Mary’s
Church where I’ve been running them
previously and they’ll be starting on
the first of June when all mostly
evenings 629 anybody can come along
bring a bit of rubbish not too much you
know think about what you can make
something out of it and also like
looking to make films they worked really
well filmed don’t really like standing
up and perform that’s why it’s good to
have puppets because you can sort of
hide behind them so looking at making a
short film for the zero budget film
festival which Martin organizers and I’m
going to say a few more puppets that
we’ve done before for all right you