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Elves and The Shoemaker Morning at the Cobbler House The Morning After Wealth Increases Coat & Pocket Let Us Peek & See! They Will Freeze Their Toes Off! Dapper Boys are We! Little Red Cap Le's Smell the Flowers! Cake and Wine, Yum! Grandma! What big - uh, oh! What a Belly Cramp With Two of Us! Gathering Sones For The Fill! What! Not Another Wolf! Stage setting of Mr. & Mrs. Cobbler's house with shoeshop and door leading to outside. Red velvet curtain divides the shop from the living quarters. Kitchen/dinning area with chair and sewing basket next to fireplace. "We have only one egg between us to eat, how poor we are dear wife! Now to finish the shoes." Notice the pair of shoes the Elves left on the shoemaker's shelf. Puppets are approx. 19" made of silk and wool. All the shoes have been sold. Red velvet curtains adorn the windows, gold embroidered table cloth, gold plates and center piece dress their table, a smoking jacket is worn by the shoemaker and a gold bow with crystal pendent dress Mrs. Cobbler's shawl. "But who could have helped us to this great fortune?" What! Naked Elves! Notice they even have a decorated Christmas Tree in their shoeshop. Elves notice their new clothes. Elves adorned in their winter finery. The hand-dyed silk draped set consists of Little Red Cap & her mother's watercolor painted cottage on left with a silk curtain dividnig off the entrance to back-stage bedroom. The cottage contains table, two chairs, stove and wood/broom basket plus pot of bird-seed at the door. Then comes the woods. On the side near the grandmother's house is a well, at first covered in silk which is removed in a later scene, then comes Granny's cottage. The skirt of the stage is grey quilted cotton to look like stones. Wolf is totally needle-felted wool with rocks as weights & strung using a simple cross-bar. The puppets can go between the forground and background bushes and the tall one on the right, covered at first, is a well. Cottage furniture, is handmade from 1/4" plywood, watercolored and painted with design. Roof is covered with raindeer moss. There is a pot od bird seed at the door for the Turtle-dove, one chair in the cornor with a sewing/knitting basket, table & chair and bed plus silk curtain with entrance to backstage room. Wolf snooring with Granny's cap and glasses on covered in her shawl. Woodsman with a quiver and arrows on his back has released the wolf's meal. Woodsman standing by the Well made paper-mache with tree branches and well pot. The original story has two wolves that have to be overcome but this time they are ready and know just what to do without any outside help.
Elves and The Shoemaker Stage setting of Mr. & Mrs. Cobbler's house with shoeshop and door leading to outside. Red velvet curtain divides the shop from the living quarters. |
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