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What's
New:
Latest Designs,
recent events in our lives, and
other news |
| Feb
2005 |
The
Arizona Renaissance Festival
ran
9 weekends this year from Feb 5th until April 3! |
| Eric took digital
photographs the first weekend, you can see some of them here.
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| Mar
2005 |
Bloggers find our Costume
Accessories for your Bosom page and the hit counters go wild! |
Our BosomBuddies2005.htm
page gets 78,493 hits in one day - over 168,000 for the month. We
are being forced to move our website to a higher hosting level to avoid
thousands of dollars in bandwidth overage fees. It's exciting, but scary,
as no sales or inquiries have yet resulted from this onslaught.(August
of 2007 we had to remove the Bosom Buddies page
because it was considered Adult Content by Google and was causing "Safe
Searchers" to miss our site)
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Apr
2005 |
Blogs from all over the
world continue to feature photos of our bosom buddies and titmice. |
| On the first day
of April we used up 25% of our monthly allotted bandwidth.
Eric was forced to rename the bosom buddies page in an attempt to
block the hits until he can move the site to the new server. We
reduced the size of all the pictures of our helping hands and titmice - if
you would like to see larger photos we would gladly email them to you. |
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Mid Shore Mediation Center,
Easton, MD |
Eric and Debra
became stakeholders in a new community service for the residents of
Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties in MD. Both are volunteer
mediators and Eric is serving on the Board of Directors. |
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| Debra sculpted a
new Pig doll or
marionette puppet. |
The
pig doll's detail includes
tiny eye lashes. |
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June
2005 |
The Colorado Ren Fest from June 11 to
July 30 |
| Debra and Eric's
daughter, Liv Hathaway, graduated from High School. |
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July
2005 |
Eric and Debra each visited the
Colorado
Renaissance Festival. |
| We plan on posting
digital photos that we shot soon, please check back or email us to remind
Eric to build the page. |
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Debra unveils her newly
redesigned Unicorn and Pegasus Marionettes. |
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Aug
2005 |
The Maryland Renaissance Faire
runs
weekends from
Aug 27 through Oct 23 |
| Much work
was done
preparing for the opening of MD, our favorite Renaissance Festival. |
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| We've rebuilt our entrance ramp enhancing accessibility to our Shoppe, and
be sure to check out the new banners that Debra and Liv made for our
Axe Throw game! |
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Thurs, Aug 18 - Eric was interviewed
by Bud Poliquin of the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper about his
involvement with the creation of the Syracuse University Orange
mascot (back in 1982).
Friday, Aug 19 - Debra
gave an
interview with the Washington Times on about being longtime crafters at the
Maryland Ren Fest.
Sunday, Aug 21 -
The Syracuse Post-Standard article is published, titled "Peel away the fur
and Otto has feelings, you know" by Bud Poliquin.
He called Eric, "The Victor Frankenstein of the Syracuse mascot.
The mad designer of the bright, bulbous orb. The bizarre brains behind
the fake fruit."
Wednesday, August 24 -
we filmed a TV program for broadcast on public tv.
Sunday, August 28 -
the film crew shot
additional footage at the Maryland Ren Fest |
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Sept
2005 |
Debra Sculpted a new Bunny head, inspired by the March
Hare in Alice and Wonderland |
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Pirate Weekend at the Maryland Renaissance Faire
was a complete riot.
Thousands of patrons and participants shelved their traditional renaissance
dress and came bedecked from head to toe in black costumes and tall leather
boots. There were lady pirates, scraggily looking pirates and pyrate dandies
everywhere.Marionette maker Eric Heath and face
painter Bruce ran into each other near the joust and found they had both had
the same idea for a new pirate hat! Bruce built his own (it was very light),
Debra built Eric's, and Eric sewed huge buttons from underneath the hat to
the little brads that held the rigging of the wooden model (it weighed a
couple pounds). |
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That's King Henry VIII (second from left,
or fourth from left if you have good eye sight) seeming to be sneezing in
the background |
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Oct
2005 |
Arts Marketplace, Easton, MD |
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Dragon Wings' dolls and marionettes
are displayed
The Maryland Renaissance Faire
continued
on
weekends through Oct 23
Eric built a page
posting digital photos that he took during the festival at:
MDRenFestPhotos2005.htm Photo
below is from Aerial Angels performance in the Queen's Path right in front
of Dragon Wings' storefront (that's our roof in the background of the
photo). They were a hanging around the festival this year
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Nov
2005 |
We posted new photos of our
Super Large Feather Angel Wings
on our website |
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Modeled by our good friend, Leah
- Thanks Leah!Slightly different than our usual teardrop shape, Debra
built this pair with "fingers" of feathers hanging downwards
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Nov/Dec
2005 |
Maryland Life Magazine
featured our business
as representing Talbot County, Maryland
in their Holiday Gift Guide. |
They printed a photo of
our Frog Prince and Frog Princess Dolls
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Nov
2005/Jan 06 |
The
Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art
in
Salisbury, Maryland had five of our marionette puppets hanging in an
exhibit of DelMarVa Crafts from November 2005 until January 8, 2006. |
| On display
were an
Organ Grinder's Monkey, a jester Llama, a dapper Dog, a Dragon, and a Duck. |
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Dec
2005 |
The Museum of Rural Life in Denton,
MD |
| Dragon Wings
participated in the museum's first Christmas Craft show |
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