Getting closer and closer to having some puppets actually completed for the first Bear Town shoot, which is an encouraging thing. I've swore to myself that I won't be spending the night before the first day of shooting frantically finishing puppets and with about seven weeks left there's still a slim chance that's actually possible.

There seems to be puppetry stuff bursting out all over the `net this week. The Clintons went to visit Avenue Q recently; both Broadway.com and Rick Lyon's site have pics. Ryan reports that the first of the Whoopi's Littleburg pre-school specials just aired on Nick Jr. with two more coming in March and July. The puppets are by Toronto's talented Grogs Inc. and I've been anxious to see these shows ever since I first saw the characters being designed at the Grog shop a year ago.

Elsewhere in the puppet building world, Scott Radke recently finished these cool shoes for a special exhibit down in his neck of the woods.

Finally, I want to thank Melissa, who read that I was shopping at Bear City for some small costumes for Bear Town and wrote to tell me about Build-A-Bear Workshop in Mississauga, part of a chain of stores that sell customized Teddy Bears and Teddy Bear accessories. Their selection is vastly superior (sorry Bear City!!) and best of all they have locations in Canada, The U.S. and the UK too. Click here for a full list of store locations worldwide.

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