Hello, I’m Nadia, the creator behind Bluebirds and Blackberries. This journey all started when I was 11. We were studying King Lear , and couldn’t find any puppets to keep track of all the characters, so I decided to create my own. Even though I never finished that set, I ended up creating sets of puppets for 16 different plays: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Henry IV part 1, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. I also created a versatile 3-way play set that you can use for 3 different plays: The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and The Comedy of Errors. And in the works is King Lear!
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Profits from my Shakespeare puppets go towards my dance training. My dream is to be a professional ballerina, and the training I need to get there is very expensive. By purchasing puppets, you not only get a helpful and whimsical way to act out the plays, but you’re also supporting my dream.
If you have any play you would particularly like me to do, send me a message on Instagram or email me at admin@bluebirdsandblackberries.com! And I love seeing how families are using my puppets, so please tag me if you share how you’re using them!
What I’m currently up to:
- reading Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost & Emile Zola’s The Paradise after watching the show
- baking a frangipane apple tart
- getting back into my ballet routine now that school has started!