Saga of the Chairs

Dear Reader,

The Trouble and Strife remains unconvinced by the cardboard stools. She's advocating Robin's pink chair, which I think is a great idea.

... That just leaves us with 18 chairs to find!

I'll report back soon. Sometime between preparations of, not one, but TWO beef Wellingtons, a turkey, sides .... And we've now set our target on the world's largest profiterole tower!

Wish us luck!

Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

Cardboard Furniture

Dear Reader,

With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away and a posse of people arriving for the culinary constellation that the Trouble and Strife has hatched ... we needed more chairs.





In true Squirrel King fashion, we're cutting cardboard. Rolling it. Taping it. And ....

Well let's just see where it takes us. Two days left to finish prototyping and execute the order!




Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

Shoot stills

Dear Reader,

As promised, here's a couple of stills from last Thursday's shoot.

I wish I could also share stills from yesterday's shoot too, but the LA rain gods gave us another deluge, so you, like me, will just have to wait a couple more weeks to see fifteen people running about, all clad in black.


Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

PS do you recognize the bricks from our earlier miniature of Ed's house?

Nesting Police

Dear Reader,

Alien Two has been ill, not that you'd know it from the smile and the energy, but the couple of days home have been very productive!

First we built the Nesting Police station, which required a little art supply shopping (Alien Two does love a little art supply shopping), and then yesterday we shot the station.

Stay tuned for some images from the shoot.


Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

The Mad-Cap Squirrel King Contest Grand Prize

Dear Reader,

The final voting has been tallied and we find ourselves taken back to where it all started ... without further ado, the Grand Prize winner in the Contest was Yvonne Topp for her masterful first entry of foil clad acorns to lure squirrels.

Stay tuned in coming weeks when we'll share Yvonne's Vlad-style portrait.

Thank you to everyone who partook in The Mad-Cap Squirrel King Contest!

Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

From Miniature to the Real Thing

Dear Reader,

We're shooting the front door of Ed's house in a couple of days and it recently occurred to me that Robin was too tall for our miniature!

How to shrink Robin?!

Fortunately Alien One noted that we have plenty of the brick material left over, and so, with the miniature as a guide she set about making bigger bricks.

While Alien One built the wall, Alien Two worked on the doorbell. And me? I coordinated costumes.

Chin chin
Ruthless Whims

A Fishy Situation

Dear Reader,

As we've built the world of The Squirrel King, another, underwater world has grown around our apartment. Fish have been a stabilizing, albeit ever-expanding, source of joy over the last year and their aquatic world has grown ...

.. so much so, that The Trouble and Strife has endorsed another tank!

Soon the kitchen-living room space will be joined by a river of happy little critters.

I just wanted to take a moment to alert you to this, so you too can share in the growth of what will certainly feature in the background of many production design stills to come.

Chin chin
Ruthless Whims