Happy Saturday!

I went to my brother's 50th birthday lunch today! Wow! 1/2 a century!
Stopped at my favourite antique barn for finding little treasures on my way out. Didn't find anything for the bears but enjoyed trying on hats, eyed some chandeliers for my dining area and then scooped a Double Bubble gum on my way out from a tray so I could practice some serious bubbles in the car on the way home! Took awhile to clean the mess off my face though!
I thought about settling down to work on a bear in my little balcony garden with Wilson (it really is worth paying the extra for Miracle Grow), but then I thought a bike ride might be in order since I ate so much at lunch!
Still the bears patiently wait...

Another Webshow Complete!

Six bears are on their way around the world! I'm posting a pic of the bears sitting in their various boxes just before they began their travels. The pink flying pig at the bottom is on her way to Finland! The pink and cream panda is on her way to Moscow, Russia! Wow! I've also posted a couple of elephants I've made and the two flying pigs I made for the show. Only one was adopted so I will be keeping the other one! Yay!

Another show!

Friday July 13, 2012 to Sunday July 15, 2012 is my next Teddies Worldwide Show at www.teddiesworldwide.com. A little preview can be found below: it's a pic of Twinkles the Flying Pig! She will be available for adoption at the show!

The show promises to be exciting because it's going to be filled with Teddy bears and their friends!! There will be bunnies, and oinkers and elephants and all manner of sweet little critters!!! It's sure to be lots of fun! As usual I am busy busy busy!!

Showtime!

Well the Teddies Online Show starts today at 4 pm EST. I have been eating, breathing and sleeping teddy bears for the past several weeks! (Well, not really eating them! Lol!)
I made it! I'm ready for the show! If you get a chance please stop by and have a look at my bears! There are so many bears to see from 90 bear artists around the world!!! It should be an amazing show!
Www.teddiesworldwide.com
I will be heading out very shortly for the 1/2 price sale at Fabricland! Yahoo!!!

Teddies Worldwide Show Coming Up!

As usual I'm frantic with my show coming up the weekend of March 23-25! Teddy bear parts are strewn everywhere and I'm feeling the tension build as time gets down to the wire. I've been dying fur and jotting ideas down for outfits, rushing out to pick up bits of fabric and ribbons and wrestling with my little cat, Jessie, to get back the spools of thread she seems to steal constantly!
I have four bears complete and would really like to have six more done, but we'll see! Here's a pic of my preview bear:

Finally my birthday bear!

I'm very busy with my upcoming move to the City of Barrie this week but I managed to squeeze in time to make a bear out of the 100 year old mohair I purchased from England a few months ago. I've decided to keep this little bear for myself since he has such a unique history! Goodness knows what he was before; a drapery in a Queen's palace maybe, or a couch sat upon by the likes of John F. Kennedy or Sir Winston Churchill?
I guess I'm just getting a little silly now, either way this little fellow is my new and very special birthday Teddy bear!
He's the rusty little bear on the right:

Another online show...

Well things were a little hectic over the holidays but I think I've regrouped and reorganized and it's all good!
I've just found out I've been accepted to the Teddy Bears online spring Teddy Bears Picnic show the weekend of March 22! So in order not to be overwhelmed, I'm going to start making bears asap as in now!
Just finishing up the Teddy I'm working on using the antique mohair I bought from England. I was recently inspired to complete a bear with it. He will be old-fashioned and wearing glasses!
My personal life is in somewhat of an upheaval and has cut into my creative life but I know things will settle down soon, what else is new?
Not to mention I've recently been rediagnosed with kidney stones, the kind that are too big to move along on their own so I have a bit of trepidation wondering if that's going to lay me up, I sure hope not!
I've had them before, and there were 3 operations in a month and a lot of pain and I'm not looking forward to a repeat! Seeing the specialist next week!
Onto brighter news; I made two bears so far in the new year, both adopted by a lovely longtime collector from the States!
(p.s. I was in Oakville last week and had a lovely visit with my son, Alex, and checked out his new digs!)