Specialties
Peg Stilts for Kids and Adults, Stilt Walking Lessons, Unique and Custom Puppets and Creatures, and other Art too! Everything is woman veteran handmade by Kricket Caffery in Lakeside, OR USA
History
Established in 2008
Walking on stilts started out as a hobby. I really enjoyed being up tall, costuming, and performing. I also wanted to share the experience with more people in my community. In 2008, myself and some friends started an all-women stilt walking group when I was living in Portland, OR. This was an opportunity for women and girls of any age to learn to stilt walk in a supportive and safe environment. While establishing the group, I realized how hard it is to acquire affordable well made Peg Stilts in the USA, so I decided to offer a stilt making workshop to the women too. The stilt making workshop gave the women (and girls) an opportunity to use power tools in my workshop and to build their own stilts and to learn to walk on on them. Now I have customers in 45 US States and some in Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, and the Dominican Republic too! Since 2008 Kricket Caffery has built each and every product, they are all woman veteran handmade in Lakeside, OR USA. (PegStilts.com - Peg Stilts, Puppets, and Art moved to Lakeside Oregon in July 2016 from Portland, OR)
Meet the Business Owner: Kricket C.
Kricket Caffery teaches trapeze, stilt walking, juggling, tumbling, and partner acrobatics classes and workshops to children and adults. Kricket has helped add circus and movement skills to the lives of students at Do Jump! Physical Theater, Fulton Park and Mt. Scott Community Centers, Portland Waldorf School (Milwaukie), Buckman Elementary, Portland Juggling Festival, Portland Children's Museum, Camas library, and many, many festivals and private events. Kricket also performs with the Girl Circus at Oregon Country Fair, seasonally at festivals throughout the West Coast, and is a co-producer and co-creator of Circus Artemis - Portland's All-Women Circus.
When grounded, Kricket is also a contraptioneer, peg stilt manufacturer, puppet maker, fire safety goddess, peace and environmental activist, wooden toy builder, nature enthusiast, community builder, and artist, and an "I can do anything" kind of a person.