Shopping!

Today I went shopping in the charity and pound shops to find the elements for my props from a list of possible items.

In one of the pound shops I found and bought a cheaply made string puppet who I have decided to adapt to make the clown doll rather than making all the separate parts as I think it will be cheaper to make it the way than buy all the parts separately. Also it has enough wood on the body parts to sand them into the Schoenhut clowns shape instead.

I also found Tesco sardine cans are the right size and shape to make the respirator for my gas mask I have bought 6 cans to stack together. I am very pleased with how they look stacked compared to my research images as they provide a very realistic base shape that won’t need to much work to be done on. I also found a skirt made of a thick cotton linen mix in a size 16 which should provide more than enough material to make the face mask on my sewing machine. It is also a khaki brown colour which means that it has a good base for aging and adapting.

In Oxfam I managed to find a small glass vase that I feel will be perfect for the hurricane lamp chimney. I did not manage to find any other elements of the lamp however so may have to construct this myself using other methods which will take up more time.