The ears doth make the bear...

The position of the ears can make such a difference to the look of a bear!

3 Faces of Finley:

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Bears in Berwick!

Today was the Melbourne Teddy Bear Fair in Berwick (pronounced, appropriately, Bear-wick) which was great fun!

I got to meet some good friends and fabulous artists in person, and just as importantly meet their bears in the fur! It was brilliant! I even made a few new friends :) I was very good and didn't adopt any bears (although a few were very tempting!) but I did buy a couple of patterns and some small pieces of upholstery velvet for my little bears...

They are fabulous colours - midnight blue, honey gold, maroon, dark green... some cute bears to come! And with a couple of free patterns in the showbag, my goodie bag was full of goodies!

Yay for a fun day & a huge thanks to Di for driving!!!

This week I'm grateful for... Bearmaking

My passion is bearmaking - as most of you know - but recently I simply haven't had the time to do any bearmaking, or any crafts at all for that matter, and in addition to it being my passion I find it a great source of stress relief. Tonight I have finally found a snippet of time in which to do some bearmaking.

I have finished of the basic prototype of a new design - a little 5" bear...

And I have finally had a chance to sew the ears on my fluffy bear with needle felted paws and nose. I then started scissor sculpting his face and paws, but it has become a little extreme...

So now I'm thinking he needs a little pair of overalls... We'll see when I'm finished "sculpting" lol!

Pop over to Maxabella Loves to see what other people are grateful for!

 

The last eggs of Easter...

My kids got so many Easter Eggs that I never did get a chance to count them all! We are having a lazy Saturday morning and finishing off the last of the pile of eggs. Leah was generous enough to give me one of her eggs - and it was a very cute one...

It got a bit boring looking without the wrapper... But still intersting because it is chocolate after all!

And after all was consumed, the traditional smoothing out of the wrapper occurred...

And while I was savouring my single yummy Easter Egg, Leah was enjoying a lot more!

My Creative Space... Take it away Leah!

Once again I have been too busy to be creative - how utterly depressing... I have mohair calling out to me to be made into little bears; yarn yelling at me to be crocheted into all sorts of different creatures, and felt screaming at me to be released from it's boring rectangles and made into something pretty!

On the other hand, my baby munchkin, Leah, has been very creative putting stickers on my laptop...

And arranging different shaped blocks in all sorts of patterns...

Pop over to Kootoyoo to see how everyone else is being creative this Thursday!

Wordless Wednesday: Toby

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