Kricket Caffery has taught circus skills like: stilt walking, trapeze, tumbling, and partner acrobatics classes and workshops to children and adults since about 2003. Kricket has helped add circus and movement skills to the lives of students at Do Jump! Physical Theater, Fulton Park, HIllside, 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 has also performed with the Girl Circus at Oregon Country Fair, seasonally at festivals throughout the West Coast, and she is a co-producer and co-creator of Circus Artemis - Portland's All-Women Circus.

When grounded, Kricket is also an artist, a contraptioneer, peg stilt manufacturer, puppet maker, fire safety goddess, peace and environmental activist, nature enthusiast, community builder, and an "I can do anything" kind of a person!

PegStilts.com History:

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 in Portland, OR. This was an opportunity for women and girls ages 8 and up 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.

The stilt making workshop gave the women (and girls) an opportunity to use power tools (some for the first time ever) in my workshop and to build their own stilts. Later, they would all learn to walk on on them. Our goal was to create animal costumes and to stilt walk in an Earth Day procession of the species parade.

After the stilt making workshop, I continued to build stilts on my own as a hobby, mostly selling them to my circus and gymnastics students in Portland, OR.

Over time though, I honed in my design to be the most sturdy, and most affordable stilts I could offer and started up a business PegStilts.com which has continued to grow slowly over the years.

Now PegStilts.com has peg stilts in nearly all of the US States and some in Canada, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, and New Zealand too!

Since 2008 Kricket Caffery has built each and every pair of stilts, they are all woman veteran handmade in Portland, OR. As of July 2016 PegStilts.com has moved from Portland, OR and is now located in a new tiny house and big shop in Lakeside OR on the Southern Oregon Coast, just north of Coos Bay/North Bend.