Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Well just to let you all know my car is back and the sum total was £698......urgh

Hubby wants to know how many bears I will have to sell to pay for it :crackup:  :crackup:  :crackup: At the rate I am going I suggested about 100

I then proceeded to read him the post about the Cab Driver just to put everything in perspective

It really great, WELL DONE YOU,  :clap: love the template, must have missed that one

Also I like the web store that a really new addition to freewebs and it looks fab, I am partially set up with my store but its not live yet :hug:

Thanks Michelle, no news yet, the parts weren't arriving til lunch time, so I will just have to cross fingers that they arrive in time to be done this afternoon, otherwise..................??? Monday?? which would really mess things up

Daphne you are one spirited lady, I would have loved to see the garages face when you told him to keep the car :crackup:  :crackup:

To be fair to the garage he has rang me every step of the way to let me know whats happening and it was my choice to have him look at the rear brakes. I am glad I did because they were completely siezed

Anyway here is said material, The Teaberry on the left is 24mm and the Aubergine is 27mm

YUMMY  

Awe you guys THANK YOU

I have just been reading a few of the most recent posts and there is two ladies posts who has just reminded me that it is only money (which I haven't really got) and a few months from now it will be just a urgh moment in my life. I have my Husband and Daughter who are both ok (touch wood), thank god and thats all that matters

Yes Ruth I have my new fur, as well and all morning I have been MAKING myself finish a baby blue cardi for a new 6 inch bear.....debut this weekend..........so s*d it I am getting out my new fur and a pair of scissors  

Ta to you all  :hug:  :hug:  :hug: and lots of love

Nina, what a precious moment, and what a beautiful daughter you have for knowing that she needed to say those words to you :hug:  :hug:

That was beautiful

Hi everyone, this is not really a bearhug thingy and it is very trivial compared to fellow TT'rs trials at the moment but.......

I am really cheesed off, just before we went away the brakes on my car started to squeal a little, so on wednesday I took the car to the garage to be looked at, as it appeared to be getting worse.

Hubby said it was the front brakes and as he has a lot to do to the house (a mohair cupboard :crackup: ) I said I would get the garage to do it, to save him time...............little did I know it would a rollar coaster

I left the car for an hour and when I got back it was to find that they were still making a noise, it appears that they had gone hard and warped the front disks, so my £82 fee had now gone to £209.

I took the car back yesterday morning to be done and was due to pick it up at dinner-time, when I get a call to tell me that the rear brakes are doing the same, they had probably been on the car from new as well.

At this point my garage man was just going to have a peak to see what was going on, so ok I was now facing a possible £418 bill.

2 Hours later he rang to let me know that the calipers had completely siezed and he had a real job to remove the bolt and HE COULD NOT PUT IT BACK TOGETHER and could not get the parts til today (he was really sorry)

We live in the middle of nowhere so I went into cool calm mode to sort it, get home etc and arrange the day off today, work were fantastic and one of the accountants offered to take me home even though it was completely in the opposite direction and my boss just kept saying don't worry about work we will see you when you can........................they are great that way

BUT OMG £620

now, from £82 to that, I know it is better to be safe than sorry and I do drive on a fast busy road where there is an accident every other week BUT....................

Anyway every cloud has a silver etc and luckily I had just ordered from Bear Basics for the first time, their samples and windswept Teaberry and Aubergine     arrived in the nick of time for me to spend the day drooling over it :crackup:

Oh how awful, I have been bought up to do unto other as you would have done to yourself.

So in answer to your question NO you are not stupid I would have done the same and seen the collector as a friend and as such offered trust :hug:

Take heart I am a great believer in "what comes around goes around" :hug:  :hug:

I am so with you on this one, it is happening to me so often now 

AND names, geeeee I have lost count of names I have thought of and the next thing you know, someone has plucked it straight from my head :crackup:  :crackup:

WOW they are truly stunning photos

what a cracking punishment and it will last one whole year :crackup:

"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" Sir Issac Newton

Wow, they are stunning, the fabric is wonderful  

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH, oh I do dream one day to own such a beauty "whistful expression"

    She is perfect, good luck with the revision

Oh wish you lived near me, the place I bought my old singer from, is a sewing machine shop and still exists, repairing and selling old machines 

I am a 6 as well Gemma and [INVALID] is the last thing I feel right now but the rest is very spot on, I think the coldness bit is probably because I am miles away thinking of all the things I have got to do next:thumbsup:

:crackup:  :crackup:  :crackup: just picked out no 7 for hubby as I knew he would go for ice cream every time, this thing is sooooooooo truuuuuuuuuuuue :crackup:

Thanks you guys, I am really proud of him, he now has a name, Pudin

He has also jumped ship and has left me, for my daughter, who is thrilled

It is amazing that only a few days I was saying never ever again but the memory dims, so I am going to try 6 inches then when I feel comfortable I will try 5 inches

I have a 1940's Singer, I have hammered it too death, it has been carted from house to house, no maintenance at all and I bought it in 1982

It's the one with a bobbin not shuttle and has gold painted on it, my hubby has a pre war one with a shuttle that goes side to side and has no letters only numbers on the serial number at the front (thats how you date them)

I adore it, my first attempt was to sew a faux fur bear on it, the fur was from Mo at Honeysuckle Furs, very very dense, worked a treat, next was sparse then long hair, all fine no probs. I would not trade it for an electric ever, I feel more in control, when I stop the turning the handle, the needle stops I have tried an electric years ago but could not get on with it. The only hitch is getting the tension right but you just fiddle with 2 knobs , 1 for the under stitch tension and the other for the top tension, I got it in the end by trial and error and have it set the same regardless of the type of mohair I use

Please, each to his own and I am sure that some will say "Oh No", great idea to take a few bits to try. I think this will be a personal choice thingy

Added bonus, it looks fabulous sat on a table in the corner of a room

Thanks guys

You are so right Debbie, I think 4 inches was too ambitious so am going a little bigger, I bought a lovely bit of sassy at the bear fair, it's magenta with a smokey under, Ssshhh am taking this away on hols next week to give it a go, I have also semi design a potbellied troll type, oh and I am throwing in a few bits of off-cuts just in case, as well as a very very long haired piece for the new FenLand Troll, gotta go were the mood takes n all that

I actually turned him with a pair of forceps

I AM an artist so I keep telling the other half

You are all toooo kind, it was not the mohair that was a problem, I just found it very fiddley, I have short fat fingers and big palms..........in other words shovels, really and it just twisted and turned in my hands and I kept spliting the edge

The mohair was 23mm matted, the matted bit helped, I know I said never again but I am going to try around the 6 inches mark, I know I can do 8 very comfortablely.

But WOW am so impressed with the camera, literally took it from box, first time this morning, added batteries and sd card, switched to indoor and took piccie........................now whats that about workmen blaming tools

Oh yes he didn't half have a moan at me this morning for taking the pics with him having no ears, I had to make all sorts of promises :crackup:

Ok, this is the first picture with my new camera, I just changed to indoor setting and took the photo, so this is raw

But never again will I make something this small, OMG I did not enjoy I think I am a big bear girl. This little guy is 4 inches, yes 4 tiny inches

My hats of to you guys who do make this size and smaller, a medal is not enough

PS he had ears but did not like them so he is awaiting a new pair

thank you Wendy, I have to admit I do get down sometimes and I am not one of those annoying sunny people who tell you how great and wonderful life is all the time

I just LOVE bear making, the day after the show I had designed my first mini and cut him out, some may thats sad (hubby) but I say its love/obsession :crackup:

How is WA, its such a lovely place, I went to Perth back in 1986, and it so beautiful 

Except for the sport, my hubby has said every one of the above :crackup: Very true indeed

Skite away, that must have been a wonderful feeling