Wishing everyone a happy and blessed Easter weekend.

We have been so busy stitching bears for orders and shows and finally everything is finished.

Aurora is one of the bears made for the Teddy Bear Extravaganz Online Show.
The preview is under way and to see all the fantastic bears and vote for your favourite, please visit www.teddiesworldwide.com

 This group of tinies are on their way to the Miniatura show in Birmingham. The two smaller ones are 2" tall and the other three 2.5" tall, perfect for putting in a dollshouse.

I will share more photos of the bears for the online show once it has started.

It has been so long since a blog update, thank you for staying around and visiting. It seems to have been even crazier around here than normal and the days have slipped past, I can't believe that it is half way through February already.

We have had so much snow, lots of rain and freezing temperatures, I am starting to feel as if winter is never going to end.

 Valentine

Lots of bears have been made, mostly orders and a few for ebay. I am sharing a couple of photos of recent bears that where on ebay.

Lizzie

Hugglets Bear Fair is a week away and I am so behind with the bear making. 

This will be a very short post, I am trying to get back into the habit of blogging and will have some new bears to show you all soon.

Happy Christmas

 Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas.

Our Christmas tree all decorated, not an easy photo to take, the light is very bad here at the moment, no sun, no snow, just lots and lots of rain and mud.

Hope everyone has a safe, dry and warm Christmas day spent celebrating with family and friends.

 It has been busy the last few weeks, nothing changes, I seem to start each blog post with that news. I finished my Christmas Santa and he is now on his way to Australia. Holly was made as a special order, a little girl dressed, ready for Christmas. I love how she has turned out, the embroidering of the holly leaves was challenging.

We went to the French Market in St. Ives last weekend and found some lovely old tart tins and wooden spools. Wendy has already turned one into an adorable pincushion. We also came home with a selection of cheese which were eaten very quickly and I was so tempted with a bunch of mistletoe but decided to be good and leave that behind.

It has been bitterly cold here for the last few weeks, daytime temperature of -2 degrees, only a little bit of snow one morning but a lot of frost and last night the trees were painted white. It looks like a winter wonderland but it is not fun to be outside for too long.
I am very slowly getting on top of the orders for bears and am working on some new ones for eBay, so I should have photos to share soon. I have also been doing my cross stitch, progress is slow but I have things waiting to be finished and might get around to completing them before Christmas.

It has been awhile since my last blog post, I have been very busy stitching bears and just never seem to get on top of my schedule.
I have also been having learning problems with my photo storage and editing system on my computer, I use Linux on my computer and after the latest update I have got some new programs and just can't seem to find the time, energy or brain power to learn them so have been ignoring the whole problem, most probably not the best way to handle it but at the moment it works for me.

A work in progress photo, one of the anniversary bear sets ready to be posted off, a production line of little leather suitcases, a new bear for eBay and a blue bear that has been waiting around  for two years to be accessorized. I found blue boy in a box where I had put him for safe keeping and now I just have to think of an outfit for him.

Pushkin is on the web page at the moment looking for a new home, he is made of the loveliest soft, red velvet. 

Our Christmas show is coming up soon and we will each have a couple  of special bears available.

I hope all my American friends and collectors had a lovely Thanksgiving, we on the other hand are staying at home, keeping inside away from the rain and the rising flood waters.

Happy Halloween

Wishing everyone a happy Halloween. I only managed to cut out the face on my lovely pumpkin today and he looks so cute.

We found these lovely ceramic pumpkins at the pound shop, of course now I wish we had brought more of them. I didn't get a good photo of the window as the light coming through blurs the image, we have lots of spider web, some of it real but I am telling myself that we left them there for added effect, a few hanging skeletons and lovely police tape saying 'danger do not cross'

I hope all my friends on the east coast of America are okay and keeping safe after the dreadful superstorm Sandy, we are all thinking about you. Take care and hopefully life will be back to normal very soon.