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Hi Everyone!
The "Spooktacular" October Bears&Buds' Webzine is ready for you to read. Packed full of new bears and some are even ready for Halloween!
In this issue we are announcing the 2008 URSA Awards winners and the spotlight is on the URSA Major Award winner! Who is it? Take a look and see if your favorite bear/bud won? Enjoy the online virtual URSA Awards Presentation too! It is inserted in our web pages and hosted on YouTube.com
We thank everyone who entered and applaud your marvelous creations! Entries were outstanding, creative and surpassed the meaning of the acronym "URSA." The competition was open to soft sculpture artists from around the world with 109 countries voting! Look for the 2009 URSA Awards application beginning the first of March. What will you be creating and entering next year?
Register to win Pattie Angel's sewing Etui - the perfect box to hold your sewing notions and to express your love of teddy bears at the same time. Nothing to buy, just register by October 22, 2008 as that evening the Sweepstakes Give-Away winner will be drawn.
Bearsandbuds.com is your MONTHLY online teddy bear magazine that is packed full of stories, exciting bear related articles, The Wish List, lots of artists' bear photographs, how-2 sections, the Kid's Corner, and so many other pages of interest all right on your computer's monitor. You'll return each month to see what's new!
Enjoy reading!
Bearhugs
Valerie Rogers
Publisher/Executive Editor
www.bearsandbuds.com