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Lord, every day, of course, just also doing some family visits and also working on some stuff that I can't wait to share with you in the new year it twenty nineteen. Yet no, but it will be very soon or if you listen to twenty nineteen, you like yachtsman, twenty nineteen for a while we talk about well, regardless of when you're listening in today story and advertising executive discovers the world a puppet fabric and unlocks a new career. She turns her passion for puppets into Paypal's, or do you think we should say? Profit can went back and forth passion for puppet into people's passion for purposes of profit whichever you prefer say it three times fast and statement. Laurie Nigger sent an advertising art director No, she didn't wanna work behind a desk eight hours a day staring at a computer screen left her sad sore and searching. He wanted a job that was created.

Fulfilling, and allow me to share her love for arts and crafts with others and seeing as she couldn't find one she d say go out and make it, but there was a bit of a process. Lorry and urgent creative mother Cindy began renting studio space where they could teach classes and offer other services such as long arm, quoting Side note I did not know there was such a thing as long arm quilting. We'll say that for another episode,. And when she wasn't it work, lorry found she spent more and more every spare time at that studio. She also picked up an exciting side project puppet making. She loved the process of making puppets, because every stage of the process was done by hand. There was no puppet by number system knew how to do. Work from scratch, where the most fine yet challenging aspects for her was dying the puppet fabric. She thought it was like the perfect blend of science and art, trying to get the colors to stick properly and turn out just how she wanted. Many puppets are made from a fabric called Antiphon fleece. We purchase this place, it only comes in pure white and a puppet maker needs to diet the color they want, even in

nah quantities. This can be notoriously difficult to do, especially when working in your bathroom or kitchen, but at this time. Laurie had more than enough space to create all the puppet fabric she needed much to her surprise. She found at other people in the puppet making community such as, didn't enjoy diner fabrics anywhere near as much as sheet it for many people it was a burden on one point: really frustrating day at work. Lorries mind kept wandering to how she had the space annul over the process to solve this problem. For others, when she got home day. She decided to create a simple website which he called puppet pelts posting photos fabric in several different colours for sale. She should share the link with a couple: a puppet groups who was a member out to see if they were takers. There was an instant demand: puppeteers kept coming weeks and months later, to ask for more and that's when lorry knew she. New business on her hands now want to rush into quickly. Lorries tried small when creating the next run of the fabric she bought. Fifty yards were fleece distributor, Larry and use simple craft eyes to create or cut

This allowed her to keep costs low and focus on just a few options should actively distributor Larry and by the way, You wanna know more about him. You'll have to check out today's one fact statement the small production, enough for the initial growth of the business, but it came up some drawbacks. The die she used were tricky to work with and often didn't, bind or create the car she need it. Making smaller more frequent pieces was also time consent To start creating more pieces at scale, lorry and Cindy would need to use acid dies. Now these sound sinister, but they are not actually produce much less waste than what they were previously using but to use those dies. They would also need more specialised equipment, in particular a sixty gallon soup pot. They called Gertrude the soup pot or shall we say Gertrude allows them to create colorblind without any now He chemical reactions or damaging anything else in the studio lorry decided on price. For her fabric, based on how much she wanted to earn per hour after the cost of raw materials. She wanted professional puppet makers to get the highest quality products possible

but also wanted affordable options. Hobbyist could use as well where the most frustrating part of the business is that area they moved at a snail's pace. It can take for minds from wearing fabric to receiving it, but lawyers it might too much saying. Well, it's only puppets. Nobody dies. The ship is late. It's a good life lost before either on this Christmas, day, public now averages around nine thousand dollars a month in revenue and, more importantly, has freed. Laurie the shackles of her ninety five job. She now hopes to expand into offering a complete range of colors fabrics and accessories she's also recently moved from LAS Vegas two New England and is looking for the challenge of working from a bigger and better space. Hi, to check this out years. They fund fact, for you and by the way, there's a fine fact for every episode, because she did not know that it's always on the show. The more that, in a moment of first the fun fact about Larry the Fabric guy Larry is lorries fabric, just

and is also the only person in the world who distributes an fleece. He was approached by Jim hints and to create the fabric of them up. And then ran the world's only puppet fleece. Milk. Yes, no website only a phone number I am you can't order place invoke, sounds like a character from Seinfeld or perhaps a two step. We not. But presumably he is a real guy Larry the fabric. I so I guess, you want to get to know him. You need some kind of introduction I mention that we have a fund fact for every episode. Don't always mentioning on a programme itself, because we want to keep things really nice and tight just to be respectful of your time on the aforementioned shone out page. You can always see that fund fact you can see a quote from the feature person can see are linked website can see any other resources that we talked about in the episode and sometimes mother, step as well. You wanna check that offer today the notes are at satisfying school dot com, slash, seven, two three That is for episode of seven hundred and twenty three and actually could go the website. You can see notes for every single episode, it's crazy, their offering miracle

was even happy holidays to everyone we back again tomorrow, Don't take any days off, don't worry and also a great in December over the next few days so dont go. Any My name is critical about. This is side us for.