Tis the season to be jolly... I love Christmas!

I wanted to have this post ready yesterday, that's when I posted last year but it's so busy now and the Christmas bear hadn't been photographed.  "God bless us everyone" as Tina my tiny new pink bear would say. 

Thank you blog friends for your support and kind words.  I saw some of the most outstanding work from your websites and blogs.  Wow and I praise the Lord for you all, the inspiration, it helps me so with my own bears and what a fun year of teddys it was. I finally saw the end to the green bear phase only to see the black bear phase emerge. 

   

Sadly, I lost a bear to the Grand Canyon this year. Rest in peace Travis, we will always love and remember you (hopefully he won't turn up in the gut of every one's favorite condor in the Canyon...that would be bad for business).  What a great year! Merry Christmas.  Here's Joy Noel, a bear for Mom, one more to go with the other seven.  She's my biggest fan.  It's nice to have a fan.

P.S.  Godspeed Downton Abbey season three!

a summer post I missed until now......oops!!

Donna's Bear

It’s nice to make little bears with such spirit.  Sadly my newly made sweetie would not heed warnings nor take advice.  She was determined to climb a tree.    “not at all afraid” she shouted and made for the forest (our house sits on the corner and the corner area is heavily treed with fur and pine trees and rocks so I call it the forest but it’s not a real forest just a suburban one).  Well I guess the combination of squirrels and dove wings flipping got the best of her and she lost her grip and she fell clocking her head on my stone rabbit and then there was some tumbling I guess…,she was sobbing quite a bit telling the story. 

 

 

 

 

Well, it could have been worst. Some bruising, a black eye, stitches' and a busted front paw but she’ll live.

 

 

With luck, she’ll be adopted by my dear friend Donna who just passed nursing school with flying colors.  She’ll see to sweet thing’s ailments and make her well again!

Poor little thing.  The pain meds make her hallucinate giant bees but she’s eating good and even laughs talking about it to the other bears. 

    LONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL CRAFT SHOW 2012

(from left to right) Debralynne (SOLD), Luna Moon (SOLD), Stomper the rabbit (SOLD), Emery (standing) and Charolette (SOLD)  Thank you everyone . I hope you enjoy them!

 Emery is tradition old style grizzly with a pocket watch and bee time keeper, Luna Moon decorated for halloween, mohair head and paws and carries a rusty jack-o-lartern pail to be filled with candy, Debralynne (named after a nice lady at the doctor's office) smells wonderful stuffed with mistaken scented sawdust in her nose she wears a prim dress, tea stained everything and pearls, Stomper my rabbit had a rather scary looking carrot doll called "root", Charolette is dressed for bed wearing jammies and has her teddy in tow.

 come by and see us pick us up
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Auntie Zee's Bear......finally

...seems a  little over dressed for Arizona but it will be winter there soon and he can't swim.....yet!

Lucy

Lucy



tried lids and lashes...I like it.




Lucy... day dreaming about the Fair




...with the coin purse I was able to make from her from this WAY cool tutorial





She'll be in a pink and yellow dress and jacket for the Boulder County Fair



Disasters... rarely seen on blogs, but I'm all about it.

What a disaster… but only because the catastrophe waited until I’d completed this bear.  Waited until I finished the last stitch, letting me think that I had made a good, solid bear for my Auntie Zee.   While the outcome of this bear didn’t exceed my expectations, at least he was send’able.

He fit into the vintage silk baby boy shirt that has been waiting for a bear for almost 3 years now and the shoes, the baby brown and white oxfords that I’d spent and hour painting out the scuffs with vintage shoe dye, buffing and polishing to a hi shine this teddy could see his face in …oh well. His body split open at the arms right next to the joint and wouldn’t take the repair stitching that would allow the arm to still be movable.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!  I HATE, hate “do-overs” but sadly Buster Brown (named for my husband’s baby shoes he now is wearing) is a “do-over.”   maybe some day I can repair him but now too many things stand in my way and the theddy bear schedule is a bit out-of hand.

So, he becomes my porch sitter bear. A bear of no consequence and low value given the ripped body next to the arm (one good yank and arm is yours) to sit on my porch. I found a real cute antique baby boy outfit that fits he like a dream, my husbands baby shoes until I can find others not so cherished and he has on my favorite embellishments, ribbons, bells and a locket with my picture in it …of course, his own chair to sit in and a nice soft pillow under his bum.  I try to use up everything even disasters.

Mr. Bates

I didn't think I would ever want to make a rabbit. I thought learning to makes bears and good wine at this stage in life would take up until the end. After seeing all your wonderful bunnies on blogs, being sent some gorgeous pictures of your rabbits I thought I would try one.  We have seen a rabbit that frequents and naps in our yard. He also harasses the squirrels which means he's my favorite rabbit. I hope he stays my favorite when the gardens starts...if he keeps away the raccoons, I'm having him over for dinner, I'll make a supper delicious carrot soup!

So thanks to you super talented rabbit makers (thanks Michelle for the pattern...her rabbits ROCK!), my favorite yard bunny and oh Downton Abby, I'm a HUGH fan so thanks to all of you and Downton Abby too I have a rabbit that  I named after one of my favorite characters from the show, Mr Bates (yard bunny doesn't have a name yet, maybe Mrs Hughes or Anna).

Mr Bates