New Shadow Puppets!

Faust and Mephisto

Hansel and Gretel

The Sandman

Another series of hand-cut shadow puppets! Reproductions are soon for sale at my shop.

I hope you all like it!

Theater Decors

I decided to try something new for my shop... theater decors. I hope you all like it!

Reproductions are soon for sale at my shop!

DIY Shadow Theaters

I have been working on some new products for my shop for the last couple of weeks. One of these "experiments" resulted in a shadow theater which people can make themselves at home.

I would have loved to play with it myself when I was a kid.... Actually I love playing with it now as well!

More exciting shadow puppetry related news will follow soon!

Shop Update!

The new reproductions have arrived today and thus I am happy to announce my shop is once more filled with twenty new Shadow-Puppet reproductions. Enjoy!

LINK (my shop at Etsy)

LINK (my shop at Dawanda)

More Shadow Puppets!

The Good Fairy

Aladin and Djini

Mary Poppins

And again I have made another series of new (hand-cut) shadow puppet designs.

I hope you all like it!

Reproductions are soon for sale at my Etsy shop: LINK

Alice in Wonderland - Shadow Puppets

Again another series of new (hand-cut) shadow puppet designs!

This time I made puppets for my new Alice in Wonderland collection.

Reproductions are soon for sale at my Etsy shop: LINK

Saint George and the Dragon

Again, another series of new (hand-cut) shadow puppet designs !

I know I have made these puppets before, but I just love the story of Saint George and the Dragon. So, I decided to make them once more and try to improve them.

For those of you who are not familiar with the legend please check out the following LINK

Reproductions are soon for sale at my Etsy shop: LINK

Fairy Tale Shadow Puppets

Rumpelstiltskin

The snow queen

Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf

Another series of new (hand-cut) shadow puppet designs. Reproductions are soon for sale at my Etsy shop: LINK

I hope you all like it!

Angel Shadow Puppets

Reproductions will soon be for sale at my Etsy Shop: LINK

Biblical Shadow Puppets

Maria and Joseph

Ark of Noah

I decided to make a couple of shadow puppets based upon the Biblical stories I grew up with as a child.

The original hand-cut shadow puppets as well as the reproductions will soon be for sale at my Etsy Shop: LINK

New Shadow Puppets!

New reproductions and original hand-cut shadow puppets will arrive at my shop during next week. Here you can already have a glimpse of a couple of new designs!

Baba Yaga


Peter Pan


Fairy Coach


Dragon Rider

The Morskoi Tsar; A shadow puppet based upon a Russian folk tale

This weekend I finaly had some time left to work out one of the shadow puppets I had in mind for a very long time. Below you can see my version of the Morskoi Tsar, who was in former days known as the water king in the folklore of Russia.

He appears in many Russian folk tales and it is said that he lived underwater in beautiful crystal halls together with his daughters. They are the well known Rusulkas, maidens of extraordinary beauty who can shape shift in the form of an animal if they wish. They are mostly seen in the form of water birds such as swans , geese or ducks.

Most people were afraid of the Morskoi Tsar as it was believed he hunted on humans and drowned them if he managed to catch one. It is also said that sometimes he would seek for boys to marry his daughters.

What the Morskoi Tsar is doing here? Is he hunting for a groom or is he hunting humans? Well, you have to seek that out yourself.....


The original hand-cut puppet is now for sale at my Etsy Shop!

The Little Prince Shadow Puppet; A tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(Please, click picture for bigger and better view)

The hand-cut, shadow puppet shown above is my tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the writer of 'The Little Prince'. I carry this book with me, every day, in my handbag. Even more, I treasure it like some kind of crucifix, holding on to it whenever I am in need of consolation. This book has been part of my life for such a long time that it has become a true friend to me. And thus I wished to do something back for the little prince and his creator.

To show my appreciation and admiration, I thought there could not be a better scene to depict then the scene in which the little prince meets the fox. It is a story about true friendship as the following piece will show us....

It all starts when the fox, who is at first a stranger to the little prince, asks the boy to tame him. The little prince puzzled by these words asks the fox what 'tame' means, on which the fox answers:

"It is something which is too often forgotten, it means to establish ties....

To me, you are still just a little boy like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. To you, I am just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need one another. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you.....

If you tame me, my life will be full of sunshine. I shall recognize the sound of a step different from all others. The other steps send my hurrying underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like the sound of music. And look yonder!Do you see the cornfields? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. Those cornfields don't remind me of anything. And I find that rather sad! But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be marvellous when you have tamed me! Wheat, which is also golden, will remind me of you.And I shall love the sound of the wind in the wheat....

The fox became silent and gazed for a long time at the little prince. I beg of you..... tame me! he said."

The little prince, not aware of the important lesson he is about to learn, tells the fox he hasn't got time to tame him. As he has many things to discover and a lot of things to understand. But then the fox replied:

"One can only understand the things one tames"

Thus the little prince is tempted and finally agrees to tame the fox. From then they meet one another every day at the same spot and at the same time and through time they become close friends until eventually the day came for the little prince's departure.

But if you would like to know how the story continues, you should read the book for yourself. Trust me you won't regret it and it is most likely you will read the book over and over again.
I know I do, I must have read it about thirty times by now.

There is just one other thing I would like to say:

Thank you Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, thank you....

(Soon, this puppet will be for sale at my Etsy shop)