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Every now and then I stumble upon something magical that makes my heart soar – high up in the sky, diving and weaving through the clouds. This morning I came across the work of the stories from the ground<\/a> shadow puppetry, and I am enraptured, take a look…<\/p>\n

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The stories from the ground<\/a> shadow puppetry are a collective of talented people who specialise in ‘Micro-theatre’ shadow performances. In 2008 they performed two seasons of ‘The Baron in the trees<\/a>‘ -\u00c2\u00a0 a shadow adaption of Italo Calvino’s classic novel. And this year, they made the music clip for Lior’s<\/a> new song “I’ll forget you”, featuring Sia<\/a>. It’s a beautiful song, and the puppetry is breathtaking…<\/div>\n

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Here is a behind the scenes documentary of how they made the film. I love that they show how they made Lior’s character – from bits of cardboard, steel wool for his hair, tape, and bicycle spokes…<\/p>\n

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Incredibly inspiring, non<\/em>? It got me thinking about this upcoming holiday season (and yes, I will be posting my holiday gift guide and decorating ideas first thing on monday so be ready) As a kid, one of my all-time favourite things about Christmas day was our ‘performance’\u00c2\u00a0 – my cousin Simone and I would spend months in advance planning our Christmas day show. It included piano solos and duets, lip syncing stage shows, spectacular freak shows (which usually involved my brother and Simone’s brother, trying to do some circus act to shock our audience – being our grandparents and parents – but instead would have them laughing uncontrollably ), and detailed choreographed dances by Simone and I, to such songs as “locomotive” by Kylie Minogue. Simone and I would turn the living room into a lively theater, ushering our audience into their designated seats and handing out hand drawn programs. \u00c2\u00a0 They were fun fun times.<\/p>\n

What does this have to do with the above wonders? Well, I’m thinking, for the children (and the children at heart, that being us) how wonderful it would be to create a puppet show for your family day this year! You can use things from around the house – like steel wool for hair, and cardboard, and old bicycle spokes – to make a wonderful puppet show. To get that lovely paper drop-look the stories from the ground <\/a>have used, what about baking paper? I have a baking paper that I buy from my organic\/fair trade supermarket and because it’s made from recycled paper,\u00c2\u00a0 it has that lovely tea-dyed look to it, it would be perfect. Your children could choose one of their favourite songs to be the musical backdrop. What do you think? I think it would be a living-room-box-office hit!<\/p>\n

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