Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

thanks guys you have been so much help, I dont have aproblem buying growlers. I have a cjoice of cardboard or plastic. I may buy both and see which sounds most like my bears voice, I can allready hear how it should sound in my head ( now whose crazy)   

but the really uplifting ones can make all the difference  :clap:

I thought you might find this interesting it is a canal club only for bears to join. Humans not allowd 
http://www.lhcrt.org.uk/bearsclub.htm

poor Jack Wild who strarred in it cant speek now after having throat caner. I saw him on the stage in London in Olliver he was so tallented

Biba dresses fetch a fortune at auctions now I didnt keep any of mine  :doh:

Oh I watched fraggle rock wasnt ther one called travelling mac?

I was a girl in the 50s I was twenty something in the 70s all long hair platforms and Biba cloths false eyelashes top and bottom with more painted on for good luck. 
Hung out roand Sloan Square and the Kings Road in the Orange Julios and Granny takes a Trip. I didnt know you had the goodies in Aus did you do the funky gibbon? 

thanks for all your feed back. I have just found how to resize my photos to websize, and discoverded my camera had got altered to up to size five somehow. When I redo my site I shall change it all so I hope then it will load faster. I am new to computers and am finding it slow to learn now I'm sixty*****  :doh: but I shall keep going thanks again for the feed back it helps a lot  :hug:

thanks guys I dont really understand but I shall try to change it I dont want it to be slow.
when i go on through my bookmark it is instantanius, so I didnt realize I had a problem.
I am hoping to change the whole layout soon.

I am working on my site a bit at a time I have just added a web counter I should like to know if it is working properly , could some of you kind teddy friends try it for me  :redface:

And may I say very well deserved I love your bears( whos a clever girl then) :clap:   :dance: :clap:   :dance: :clap:  :dance:  :clap: :dance:   :clap:  :dance:  :clap:  :clap:  :dance:  :clap:  :dance:  :clap:  :dance:  :clap:

the name bablefish came from a british sci-fy comedy Hitchikers guide to the galaxy I think they must be trying to keep the comedy going  :doh:  It is a shame though for others not as good at English as Sophie some websites must be very funny

Hi sophie here is my logo for a link

I have put yours on my site I think your banner is great  :dance:

I have used acrylics succesfuly and they dry fast 

thanks Patsy thats geat

Pippa I had this problem a lot when I was in interior design.  What you need is another piece of velvet placed pile up, place the piece you are going to iron on this face down,
( pile to pile) then press on the back with a steam iron, the pile of the piece underneath stops the pile on your piece from getting crushed or flattened and prevents iron marks.
I used this method many times. hope this helps I lewarned it from the national trust furniture restorers

have been asked to make a bear with a growler, I dont have a clue where to put it for maximum effect should I fix it some way so it cant move, help please 

maybe we would need two swap pages one for bears and one for bits.
I know there are things available in the USA that I cant get in the UK and I am sure it works the other way as well so swapping bits and bobs would be useful and fun.
I wouldnt swap bears I know mine arent yet up to the standard of other makers on here
maybe one day  :hug:

I aggree with Nettie, I was thinking of small pieces of fabric, magazines, maybe eyes small items that can be posted easily at little cost that, way the ocean inbetween wouldnt be a problem  :hug:

one day my bears will look as good   :clap:

its great to swap at the mill where I have a studio we have a corner anything unwanted is put there, and if someone wants it they take it. I works well and saves all of us money
I have given photographic bits and aquierd a vacume cleaner  and table.

What a super idea it is so difficult to buy mags, small amounts of fabrics etc and everyone has bits put away waiting to be useful, when others might need that very item.
a "swop shop" would be just the job  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:

I n the UK you can get in most hard ware stores so you could try them in the US

reading the thread about pattern draping reminded me of a piecs in the Lymingtin paper.
I was taking my bears to a charity fair in the town and the local paper ran an ad: for it when it cme to me they wrote Estelle's Beans I made a jopke out of it by making a fake bean can and putting a bear inside with the label "beans means bears".
I then pulped the paper and turne it into a bear broach which I wear to every show or fair I go to,

I know someone who keeps alpacers and has their wool made up into yarn and socks and jumpers etc, would her just carded alpacer or yarn work needle felting