Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

OMG Lisa, you HAVE to start working on a piece for the teddies or the tobys! Competitions won't be the same without these guys, you're sooo good at critters!

Selling, lol!

Never really got a hold of that after my Lemonade Benefit Sloth sold   Ah well, that's what the holidays are for...

Wow, those eyes are AMAZING! How did you do those, are they felted in too?

Already have It's not too bad actually, you buy the entry fee, register, log in, and you can fill out a quota of paid for forms... It's $50 online.  You enter photos as digital images with a size limit

Jenny,  I got a mixed sample set from the faux throw people and it included a synthetic short pile (like... 2-3mm?) with an almost distressed swirly finish? Hard to explain... I think it was called Verboa

Ah, I can still remember it now... 'Mrs Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness'... honestly, she was the only fun bit in the whole thing!  Thankfully we had no Chaucer, just Hamlet (yey!) Emma (boo) Translations (mini-boo) Larkin (yey!) Othello (mini-boo and a shudder) and Pride and Prejudice (worth it for the BBC Colin Firth adaptation )  I miss English... Almost wish I'd picked it for my degree instead of Zoology!

I went to see the Northern Lights a few nights ago... and I was a bit disappointed They did somethings really well, but her reading the aleithiometer was weird, and they completely wrecked the ending and left far too few of the details out... still, it could have been worse!

  Aww thanks Shelly, that means a lot to me!  I was very new to this all then (and I'm not much better four months on!), so third means an awful lot to me, especially as i could not be there myself... anyone know anything about the second place entry at all?

Yeah, I was Hedgerow Bears until I finally accepted that, although I love love LOVE traditional bears like Wee Scones and Aletas and everone elese, I physically cannot create one   So yeah, all my pieces are Luglies now: ugly, lovely and PROUD!     

It LIGHTS UP!?!? *dies and floats off to her happy place*

Awww, look, there's Marmite I'm so proud, this is my first view of the table! Thanks a lot Samantha, and well done!

Yey, go you! What's your bear called? He's gorgeous!

Did all the trophies look like that?  I have to ask because it's really nice and I (yey!) came third in my catargory, the beginners section   I can't wait until Marmite and the trophy are home!

Well done again!

Well done! I knew you'd win when I saw your entry   My bear Marmite came Third in the same category, which I'm pretty pleased with as I'd only been making bears for five months at that point!

Yep Samantha... it was like 'And then Mog fell asleep for a long long time, and climbed the sky' *picture of Mog rising as an angel*

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goodbye-Mog-Jud … 0007149689

And we all know that was just to keep certain people happy too!     I didn't like the way that JK did the whole 'teenager' thing, or the excessive use of the word 'snogging'   But I found the story lines easier to follow, and the writing style less simple than hers: each to his own of course! I've read both series MANY (too many) times and each has its place for me... guess I'm still a little bitter about one of the deaths in HP though! (And the terrible epilogue of course)

I've never read Paddington, but I did like the old 'Jolly Tall' books when I was little. I wonder why they died out? I found a 'Mog the Cat' book a while back called 'Goodbye Mog' in which Mog DIES!  It was horrifying!

The Northern Lights (Golden Compass to all you Americans) is AMAZING, and so much better than the Harry Potter series even though I don't mind those.  Definitely worth a read!  The beauty of it is that it is an HONEST children's book, not one where 'everyone lives happily ever after', and it's not afraid to include controversial issues like religion and homosexuality either.  It's much more representative of a modern society than the Harry Potters are.

My personal favourite is 'The Crimson Petal and the White', which is one of those rare books where a man has written about a female protagonist and has got it right!    (Also like 'Memoirs of a Geisha' for the same reason.)  I love the early Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles (before they went strangely religious) and things like Discworld and a few classics like 'The Great Gatsby'.

I have to say, I HATE Jane Austen   Had to read 'Emma' and 'Pride and Prejudice' for my A Levels and I couldn't even read Emma I hated her so much...  and it doesn't really say much for the books that I got near full marks on the exams and hadn't read one of them!

Jenny- try The Crimson Petal... it's a similar basis to Memoirs (about a 19th C prostitute called Sugar and her rise through society via a wealthy man).  I think you'd like it, as i can't put Memoirs down either: in fact it's next to me right now!

Lol, back to the revision...

Looks like it'll be 'Evolution: a Biological and Palaentological Approach' for a while...

Thanks! I may enter Poke... not sure yet...

Out of interest, are the Golden Teddy Awards photo based or face-to-face?  Photo is better for me!

Those ears make him look like a peacock, I think you should consider making it permanent  :crackup:

Awww, shoot Ah well, a good bear, a good cause, and a really nice decision you've made there Aleta I'm glad I could be a part of the donation   Well done Jenny!

Try these :)

I like Bear Basics:

http://shop.bearbasics.co.uk/default.asp

It's a very friendly servie, very personal too :)

There's also Christie Bars, which has a slightly wider range but is less 'one-to-one'

http://www.christiebears.co.uk/acatalog/home.html

And for mohair have you tried Loubear? They're South African and it's pretty much just the mohair, but it's cheap and free shipping! Nice people too, check the newsleter as there's sometimes offers if you spend a certain amount...

Have fun browsing!

http://www.loubear.com/

You've probably scrolled whilst holding 'ctrl': this resizes website text   Hope it sorts it!

Now that is a FUNKY CHICKEN (*cough*turkey*cough*)    I didn't know you had turkeys?  His feathers look amazing!

The Garlic thing is to od with the level of the skins absorption: it happens pretty much anywhere, but i guess it's less easy for a child to ingest anything you put on their feet!  Aromatherapists use the garlic thing as an example to show haw essential oils taken in through the skin can do so much for our inner health, even though you're not actually ingesting the oils :)

As a relatively new veggie, I can tell you I find the whole 'garlic thing' MUCH stronger now I don't eat meat: I have to wash my hands like crazy after chopping onions1

Thanks guys, I'm glad it made you laugh! 

Tami, the original pattern had a clown, but we though it was only fair that Dumbo got a look in, seeing as that's probably what I'd have gone as!

Thanks guys   I have o say, I'm pretty chuffed with the Toyota, it's not died once now I've worked out the tension control thingy!  Maybe a sewing machine will speed me up, now I have one!

Bless him, our welfare officer Robyn told me she danced with him for an hour just because he looked so hilarious!

LOL!  Thanks Ruth   I've actually seen this photo before, but the text fits it perfectly  :crackup: Lookit that teeny face.... awwwwwww....

How about somewhere for them all to sleep?!?

So, luckily my new Toyota arrived on Tuesday and it's FABBY.  I mean, it's no Pfaff or whatever, but it SEWS, which is more than the last two did!  Anyhoo, yesterday was our annual Informal Ball, which sadly I did not get tickets for, under the impression that 'Circus' was a pretty hard theme. NOT FOR CHRIS!  I think you'll agree he makes a very convincing circus tent  :crackup:  Took about 7 hours, start to finish Lol, I guess I sohuld make some bears now!