Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Here Here Jeremy!  Good Job,

Congrats to all of you! I wish each and everyone of you could win, and am rooting for all of you.

dilu and the gollies and the porcelains and the gollyporcelains

Fantabulous Samantha

wishing you the best 

dilu

Wow, you guys keep on stunning us with your imagination and growth as artists.....

Best wishes to all the nominees

dilu

Awww Judi, congrats, dear ladyfriend.  You deserve it, you have worked so hard at your art all your life......

Sorry about the funeral thing but I am glad the timing was so good......

love ya

dilu

absolutely wonderful Krista, and well ceserved, your little one is adorable! 

best wishes

dilu

fun to make!

probably cracking wise in my own philosophy courses, which was of my minor, Comparative Religions coming under philosophy.....

if we loose the ability to laugh at our selves and our own quirky systems of thought we never grasp logic.

which, oddly, I loved, and still do. 

go figure 

This has been one of the most thought provoking topics.  Thank you everyone for your exchange of ideas, now to get good enough to have a table at a show.....

dilu

:clap:  :clap:  :clap: Awww Anita  Fantastic news! :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

    Way to go Lisa!!! :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

To add to Chris's point;

If you are a good enough artist, you make something for your own amusement that cannot be mistaken for anything else but an illegal copy, what happens when you die?   

your pigmonkeybear might be passed down to a greedy gus great great gandchild who will then sell it on ebay for 5 million dollars and voila.....here comes the lawsuit.....and there goes the 5 million dollars that Jr. got from a hapless buyer on ebay who then is out his money and the pigmonkeybear is confiscated in the lawsuit.

Bummer-the truly innocent victim is the buyer who looses it all.

And then his marriage ends because his selfish wife is angry that he lost the pigmonkeybear and feels she should have married someone with more discretionary funds anyway....

BUT this doesn't count buying legitimate patterns from say McCalls for Raggedy Ann or the Dreamcycle Angels....you can make them from your legal pattern and Not sell them but give them away, after which you are not responsible for the break up of the marriage of your great great grandson and his evil wife.

at least in this scenario......

On the other hand.....

She has won the Industries Choice award for the Dotys....(Think Tobys only for dolls.....)

He is intirely sculpted and  he is tiny.....sure Michalngelo could get that kind of detail on a twice life size marble, and Michaelangelo is pretty darn hard to beat, but this guy is under 10" I think, I can't remember, and hopefully she will be up soon to correct my errors, but I think he is fantastic, and everything is hers....she sculpted and painted everything.

I am so proud of her, she has grown so very much since joining Teddy Talk, and that the Doll Industry would acknowledge this is simply the icing on the cake.

Way to go Kassie, You found your voice,

love
di

  way to go Judikins!

Yikes!!!!!  What a dilemma....ok joking aside....I have never experienced your situation but do think you ask the best questions and thank you, again, for such a thought provoking topic.  

Sounds to me like they deliberately take advantage of the situation they put you in.  and both sides of the coin to sell or not to sell have good reasons.  Its a pity the organizer doesn't have a rule about this sort of thing.

Don't we have some show managers/organizers?  I hope they weigh in with their thoughts, be interesting to see it from their point of view.  Do we have any of the trade buyers as well?

And nt to sound too ignorant, but what exactly is a trade buyer?  In case I am assuming the wrong thing?

thanks, Paula

hugs

dilu

:crackup: She will have lace and Batiste with heirloom sewing pintucks and all by the time she's done!  I keep telling her when that happens she will have to be a lady.

Hi Nina, 

check out the sales at Intercal, and they always always have stuff for us on sale:

http://www.intercaltg.com/weekly/emailer-1.html

The nice thing 'bout ordering from Intercal?  They always stand behind thir products, they are super fast, And bend over backwards to help you if you have questions or problems.

The other nice thing?  You KNOW what you bought, can't always say that about ebay....

You don't have to spend alot to get alot at Intercal.

Well I actually have my dream studio.....its a small but real house, used to be mom's and she only used it for 6 months.

there is one huge bedroom that has been outfitted with industrial shelving that holds the largest clear plastic bins full of fabric 2 bins deep.....then there is a huge window where the sewing table is and I get to watch bears and deer, and fox and all sorts of little forest kritters go meandering by, stopping for a drink at the horse watering thing my honey got, it keeps the water clean and full.

Then the bathroom is really a photography room; the huge special disabled shower has turned into a giant light tent The light bounces all around the small room-and I am actually taking pretty good piccys, finally

Then what was the kitchen now houses the baby kiln, tons of molds, but not the kind oregon is famous for, the plaster kind that I get to use to pour porcelain dolls

and the livingroom?  its the greenware cleaning, porcelain painting, put your feet up and ponder projects space.

and the island in-between?  the cutting table, and it also houses so many tools.

The windows show trees and kritters, the only sound is the wind,

and while I would have liked mom to live in the house longer, as it was built just for her, I do admidt that I love this space and live here during the day, and sometimes half the night.  There are artist bears and dolls hanging on the walls or sitting on the floors....its just big enough to have several things going at one time.  Which is good, as porcelain takes a long time to fire.....

I truly am grateful and have nothing to complain about

My hope is that all of us find our dream studio

Well,

Aren't we lucky to be living our dreams?  But even living our dream doesn't mean we don't need to recharge our batteries now and then.

Life,like bear making, like doll making, is a process. 

Sometimes just enjoying the process, and watching how our little minds work is enough for that day.

and sometimes one day runs into two runs onto three.......

If that happens go back and reread Party's message, and get off your little patootie and get back to work.....

I always tell myself: you could be cleaning toilets at a public school you know!

Thank you Patsy. :hug:

Well Bobbie, I think you win the award for the most unusual OT topic of the month.

Re:  Surgeries, it takes at the minimum one year for your body to completely return to normal.....and if i understand your original post you have had surgery the last three winters?  Poor baby, I am sorry.... :cry:

But you did liven up our day! 

and Kelly?  Best sleuth on Google, bijemini  :crackup:

What a good exercise Paula, and a great idea.  

I am seeing it from a business plan view point, it will help me be more realistic in what to expect and what to aspire to.

From stirring the porcelain to pouring the mold, firing, cleaning, firing, first paint, fire, second paint, fire, third paint, fire, hmmmmm..............

It can take a week just to finish one doll, and then she needs stringing, dressing, hair, shoes,  but while one is in the kiln another is on the sewing table complaining about not having knickers, or lace on her slip or whatever......

And then I have to analyze my mistakes, of which there are many, and also analyze how the slip behaved and how the pieces came out and what could have been better, what I can make better

does anyone miss the old 9 to 5 jobs?  Not me, I am living my dream, one I never thought had a chance of happening

Thanks Paula for a reminder that the process needs to be accounted for and analyzed as well.

dilu

Two thumbs up Paula, great post and you seem to have got quite a few Talkers thinking.  Thanks for doing this!

hugs
dilu

Hi Ann.....I thought about mittens, but my cashmere ones have me spoiled, so I am taking what is left and lining it and sewing it into a really simple cloche hat.....don't want to waste it.....

Gladys, good to see you again!

I am actually putting on a face tomarrow and will get a picture then.....I hate pictures.....

photophobic hugs

dilu

Its fun to wear, if you love moghair, and the whole project was simply tootoo easy.  Anyone who can make a bear can do this.  I'd be happy to talk you through it if you like......

This delicious mohair is the 610S/C (dont we all love that?!) 1 1/2 inches 528S from my favorite mohair supplier, Intercal, who, for you new kids, is the host of our board.  I love how the soft honey color sets off the yellows in the turquoise jacket.

You all would not believe how easy this was.......

Now come on you guys.....lets see somthing new!

softmohairhugs

dilu

Sorry I have been under the weather, which is good since the weather has been cold and snowy....ugh....

but I finished a mohair project that was easy and fun and different: