Back on Bearpile...

After a short break, I've just listed some more bears on Bearpile.. I do hope you pop by and take a peek.

My workbench is busy hopping with new pattern designs and new bears for upcoming shows- the fabulous Gold Coast show and a local Doll and Bear show here in Melbourne.... Right now, Melbourne is having a cold snap which even includes snow and sleet not too far away, so its a lovely time to be indoors working with the soft fluffy furs. It's making the sunny Gold Coast look very enticing!

A wonderful Day...

Well yesterday was the big day- the Melbourne Teddy Bear Fair! As always Melissa did a fabulous job organising, and it was wonderful to be back in Berwick... So nice and close to home:)
It was great to see the line of early bird ticket holders outside the door at 10 am! As always I was running late and wasn't able to get much of. Look around before it started, though I did manage to grab a few bits of lace and some old flowers from my lovely friend Di, and later on a lovely pair of pointe shoes from another lovely friend Adella. I love picking little things up at shows and feeling the ideas brewing to use them!
Another lovely part of shows is catching up with people, artists and visitors,
Judging by the many shopping bags being carried around, more than a few bears found new homes- I know I had quite a bit less to pack for the trip home. Now the dreaded unpacking! Specially since the white stands I use usually do duty in my studio to hold little bits and pieces such as beaded handbags, flowers, shoes etc.... Not to mention the tidying up that's waiting for me in said studio lol..... Ah well, better get to it!
special thanks to the lovely Carol for the above photo.. As usual I fell down on the job with show photos- thank you for snapping the pics for me Carol!

Another countdown!

I've been reminded this evening that I haven't written a blog post in quite a while.. So here we go!:) Another show is looming- this time nice and close to home.. The Melbourne Teddybear Fair, May 1st in Berwick.
Of course, it's a mad rush to get new pieces done for the big day- if I ever said it wasn't a mad rush who would believe me? Everyone knows me better than that!
I've been working on new 4-piece head designs, which I'm finding lots of fun. While they are simpler to sew without a head gusset, they require a bit of extra care in stuffing to get the just-right look to the little nose. I'm enjoying the new shape and having fun experimenting with them.
In the photo is two of my newer designs, Zinnia the Zebra, and Geranium the Giraffe. They will be coming along to the fair.. I hope you will be too! See you there....

Counting down.....

Don't forget, the Blooming Bears show hosted by Teddies Worldwide starts soon. 8am US eastern time... Which happens to be midnight here in my part of Australia, so it may be a late night for me!
75 fabulous artists are contributing their work, I do hope by and take a look... Maybe you will even find a creation you just cant live without..
Just click on the Blooming Bears show banner on this page and you'll be taken straight to it... See you there!


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Working Away!

Well, I've managed yet again to end up in a frantic rush, getting things finished for the first show of the year, the Sydney Teddy Bear Fair on the 6th of March. Yes... it's very close! Not to mention designing 4 new patterns for Gerrys- yep thats them up above. The four new pieces are an elephant, a panda baby, a swan and a standing bear. It took forever to stuff that big round head of the Panda Baby! Reminded me why I really prefer to make smaller bears hehe.

Back to the grindstone again.... lots of noses to embroider, then airbrushing, hats, trimming..... etc etc etc......

A sigh of relief.....

Well, I had a small panic yesterday.. I was working on my laptop, booking a plane ticket for the Sydney show. Mind you I SHOULD have done this weeks ago! So here I am, going from window to window, tab to tab, comparing prices and times etc etc, being that it's Sydney-Melbourne there was so many choices! Then, all of a sudden.... the dreaded blue screen.... then the incomprehensible words flashing across something about boot something something unable to find something something, hard drive something something.... press this press that- I am sure you all know the story! hehe... Well it looked bad, it refused to restart again- twice- so I thought my poor baby had bitten the dust.

Fortunately my trusty Computer Technician (also known as Mum lol) was able to take a look at it yesterday afternoon, and of course it started perfectly for her, and there was no sign of anything wrong....... I think the worst thing (aside from thinking of spending the money on a new laptop lol) was worrying about all the photos I might have lost if the hard drive was gone... so now, my laptop is backed up on an external hard drive and I am crossing my fingers it was just a glitch.....

Yes, I am also doing some work, frantically trying to finish new bears for the Sydney Teddy Bear Fair on March 6th, as well as a couple of new patterns. These will mostly be critters other than bears, which was very exciting. More to come on that soon!

Photo- just a few little girlies on hand... for some reason I don't think a post is complete without a photo... maybe thats just me, who likes looking at pretty pictures hehe...

Bye for now!

Exciting start to today...

I made time again this year to have another try at entering the Teddy Bear and Friends magazine TOBY awards, after giving last year a miss. I was thrilled this morning to wake up and see my little "BonBon" got an Industry's Choice award in the Miniature category. What a nice start to the day! Of course, it's forever until the People's choice is announced, but I'm just happy to have her get this far!

So now I have to decide if I will enter the Golden Teddies and the Bear Creations competition, and whether I enter the same pieces? Ahhh, I am so bad with decisions!:)