Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

I love him.  I just love birds and your owl has such a real look to him that he makes me want to hold him.

Elsie

Here is a picture of him standing on all four feet.

Thank you Lynn, your post brightened my day.

I like birds more then the bears, but I am not a collector.  I like the blue herons the best.

I finally finished my Koala who is my second critter.  His name is Wallie Waldo.  My children love him. When he was half made I told my older boy that I might sell Wallie and next thing I knew Wallie's head was gone.  I searched everywhere and I could not find the koala head.  I questioned my boy and asked him if he knew where it was and he said nothing and so I asked him if Wallie was awake or asleep(I had the eyes open) and he told me asleep, so I thought me might know where it was.  Finally I said to my boy I promise I won't sell Wallie if you will get me his head.  A few minutes later he brought me the koala head.  So that is how Wallie got his middle name Waldo because I kept thinking of where's Waldo when I was looking for the head and not finding it.  Here are some pictures.  Wallie can sit and stand on all fours because he is armatured.  His claws are made of Apoxie sculpt and his nose is cotten/poly fabric that is waxed.  I didn't get the picture of Wallie waldo standing on all four feet yet, but can post one later.  Hope you love him as much as I do!

He is so cute.  I love the face and hair, and can just imajine how solt he is to be made out of silk plush .  Is silk plush made out of silk?

Thank you for the help.  I decided to get them.  My baby thought it was fun to play on them, and they are heavy to carry.  Two are rabbit fur, but one dosen't say.  I opened it up and and it had markings that said "N O" and lots of lines, and a tag that said lining 100% aceate.?  The unidenified fur is also softer then the rabbit fur coats.  I thought that the poor rabbits and what ever the third coat is made out of would be happy to be animals again.  What could I do with the fox tails?  Would the fox tails work on stuffed foxes?

I know the lady that words at the thrift store real well and even helped her at the thrift store when I was in high school.  She loved seeing me because it had been a long time and was glad that I bought the coats and would use them.  I think she was tired of them just not selling.  I also told her that I would show her what I make with the coats.  She also used to make the cutest stick horses, but sold all her stick horse stuff to one of her daughters that makes them now and they are just as cute. 

Elsie

Thank you Eva.  I live in Arizona too.  I will have to look at them closer when I go there again.  I was also wondering if the one with fox tails could have been fox fur because it had the tails and they felt simular to the fur on the coat.  I don't want to get them if they have dry backing making then useless for what I would use them for, so I will have to look at them real well. 

Elsie

I was at my local thrift store and saw three fur coats, and the first thing I though was what would those look way better as stuffed animals.  there was a black, white and white with brown tips and fox tails.  would it be worth getting them for making animals?  They were $25.00 each.  The lady at the store told me that they were rabbit fur, but I couldn't see on the tags what the fur wasjust that they were acrylic lined.  She also told me they have been there a long time, so if I decided to get them and when I had enough money they would must likely still be there.  I don't like the idea that the animals were skined to make the coats, but mabe it would be a good idea to put the fur to good use.  Anyone know if it would be a good buy or a bad buy?