Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Hello everybody!
Look who likes to share my bed with me:-))
Magda

gee...thatś  tough..I´d take them both, if I were the girl:-)))

..and these two are my comission bears - I made them for a young gentleman who wanted them as a gift for his gf for their anniversary. But he wanted me to make them in a week!!! :-O It was realy hard work, but it was worth it..he is happy, the girl is happy, I have my cash:-)))
What more could I wish for? Ha, Ha, ha.

WOW..this is just breathtaking....so creative..so new..so COOOOOL!!!

Hello,
this is one of my newest creations - Joseph - he´s colorful, he´s cheerful...and so am I these days:-))

Hi everybody,
I know I still have some time, but I wanna make sure each of my Jewish/Israeli friends get one special Independence Day bear..lotta work huh?
Hope you like the first baby - bear:-)
Magda

Hello!
I loooove Krakow. I´ll PM you in the evening and tell you a little about it. It´s a cool place. i don´t live far from there, so I get to go every now adn then:-)

Don´t give up!!!!! Your bears rock!!!!

Hi Krista,
I also workin animal rescue and I know how it feels.   But you gave the boy a wonderful rest of his kitty life. May G-d bless you for that!!!!

You´re in my thoughts and prayers.Keep us posted!!

Hello!
I decided to post this just for kicks - it´s a song - or let´s say lyrics -by a famous Czech songwriter Jarek Nohavica - and the translation into English is mine, that´s why it´s so lousy... If you also had heaps..and heaps..and heaps of snow last winter, you´ll know what I´m talking about. So Enjoy..if you wanna hear the original, you can find it here http://nohavica.rfc1925.org/blog/mp3/ladovska_zima.mp3
Enjoy!!!
Picturesque Winter

Feathery snowflakes
drifting and sifting
waiting a second
then quickly melting
Old Mr.Lada (= a famous Czech naivist known by his winter sceneries)
Silently sitting
winter scenery
that´s what he´s painting

Picturesque winter
so crisp and bright
nostalgic feelings
quiet and white
Picturesque winter
horses and sleigh
with kids I´m going
to church to pray

It´s fallin´ on my collar
That wet white mess called snow
a cold December outside
four months in a row
I shovel it off in the evening
and then salve my back
I wake up in the morning
more snow – What the heck!!
Look at the kids
What a frozen beauty
sleding just out of
pure duty
It´s so freakin´ cold
thirty below
the car won´t make a sound
anti freezer? There it goes!
long lines of cars
step by step
cause the road maintenance folks
have the rep
of being surprised
- how were they to know
that the roads are covered in snow
Even the Pendolino (=a train - joy and pride of the Czech railways:-))) had to stop
its CD drives are frozen up
- And the cops?
they´re securing it from afar
Munching on their donuts somewhere warm

Picturesque winter
so crisp and bright
nostalgic feelings
quiet and white
Picturesque winter
horses and sleigh
with kids I´m going
to church to pray

ding dong ding dong

In the Highlands they closed up the D1
the trucks had a real nice run
the so called rally Winter Tires
the drivers with their loaded trucks
were in a hurry
and now they´re...
well you know what
Channel 1 – Snow Report´s what we get
Reporters are sitting on a sled
And in Prague? A siberian calamity!
Two inches of snow
and by the Museum three
As I can see
snow covered mountains stretching far
I´m thinkin´Forefather Czech
what a dumbass you are!
If you´d settled
a few more miles down south
I´d be walkin´ in my swimsuit
all year round
Instead – I´m frightened to go to the mall
seeing the heaps of snow that might fall
And as my face and my hands
are freezing
I can hear on the radio
that provocateur Nohavica teasing

Picturesque winter
so crisp and bright
nostalgic feelings
quiet and white
Picturesque winter
horses and sleigh
with kids I´m going
to church to pray

Hi everybody!!! I´m back. I know I haven´t been here for a while,but I´m still alive and kicking and back withmy newest creation - nameless, so far (waiting for your ideas:-)). It´s my biggest bear ever - I usually do smaller bears.
How do you like that boy?

Hi! yes, we had a pretty windy night..it knocked over a couple of trees, but nobody was hurt as far as I know. but it sure was scary:-) My poor dog spent the whole night under the bed.

hmmm...how about that gel candle material? If you find the right color, it might be just it..(?)

Hello..so it´s here - my very first show. My stuff is packed, I´m ready..and nervous at the same time..will I manage to sell any? Won´t I look like a poor neighbor among all those local artists? Will my table be good enough. You see, I´m  going alone by train, so I have to carry everything ony my back, so my table won´t probably be as fancy as the other ones.
I´m excited, but at the same time - scared.
Please wish me luck.
Magda

Both are great, but I´d go for the polar bear!

I wanted to go soo bad, since I live only 3 hours (ok, some 4 by train) from there..but I´m stuck at wokr :-( :-( :-(
Gaby, by the way, if there is some other kind of "teddy event" going on in Vienna, please let me know - I was looking if there were any, but I couldn´t find any..at least I´d have a reason to visit my auntie and my uncle who live there:-)

OH NOOOO!! I just read it today and I´m late for the fun:-((

OMG!!! I just don´t get it..he must´ve been NUTS! I hope the police get him and BUST him or something. But don´t worry, we have this saying that there´s water boiling for every pig..if you know what I mean...It´ll get back to him!

I´m thankful for my great friends - the real family. I´m thankful for being able to create and to give. And of course, I´m thankful for my health, for having a place to stay, having a job..and TT:-))

I have only one wish for Christmas - but it should come a bit earlier - to sell at least one bear so that I have the cash to go to Germany to sell some more...thanks to my "lawyer adventure" I´m prettymuch broke and since I can´t sell on neither ebay nor bearpile, it makes my situation a lot harder. but I keep believing I will - other than that - what else can I ask for? I have so many wonderful friends, my won pad and two cool dogs...I mean,  I have everything one could ask for:-)

WOW!!!
I absolutely love the cheeks and the open mouth. He is CUTE:-)

Well, actually, the whole side of the family is pretty rotten - I mean my Dad´s side. First of all - they don´t like Jews - and my Mom is Jewish. That means that I´m Jewish, too and so is my brother. Then, since I have the house, they hate me. When Grandpa was still alive (he was a cool person), he gave my Dad´s two sisters each quite a nice amount of money, so that my Dad would get to keep the house for him and his family. The two girls were even not HIS kids and he still did that to keep peace in the family. But that was some 30 years ago and now they want MORE. when my Grandpa died ( 1996 - I was in 6th grade then), they all came like a bunch of wasps to get whatever they could - he was a known sculptor, so there was a lot to take. My Dad got 1/4 of the house and my Grandma got 3/4. Then, my Dad left us when I was 16 and married another woman and SHE wanted the house (you see, it has a very good location) - well, she actually wanted more than the house - she keeps wanting my Dad not to pay a dime for neither me nor my little brother (he has to pay child support while we´re still in school). That´s when my Grandma decided to sign the house over to me - she was afraid that my Dad´s new wife would get the house and also that her two daughter might want to sell it and get some cash (my Grandpa never wanted it to be sold). She knew I loved my Grandpa very much and that I wouldn´t sell it, so she signed it over to me. My Dad´s side of the family hasn´t been nice to me ever since then. So no wonder things are happening the way they are.
I talked to my other Grandma - the Jewish one - because she´s who I talk to when I need advice and she said not to sign it back -  I haven´t done anything bad to my Grandma besides trying to avoid her, while she´d call me names (slut is the nicest) for no reasons besides a couple of relationships of mine that just didn´t work out. So I´m gonna fight for it. I have a colleague who is a lawyer by day and English teacher by night, so she will help me.
Dman it, I´ve got enough of those people. Now it´s even my Dad who´s complicating my life, because he doesn´t want me to move. He came home today and threw all of my stuff off the shelves and out of my closets, he was just furious and aggressive - but that´s normal for him. My Mom is still in love with him, so she lets him have the keys - he can come and go anytime he wants and I just don´t wanna live ion permanent stress just waiting for unexpected visitors. It´s time to move on.
When he came today, he was yelling at me why I - a head surgeon´s daughter - am ruining his name working as a common shop assistant in a toy store and teaching English...He said he was ashamed I was his daughter. But he can´t see how tired I am, he can´t see that I don´t have any free weekends and any free afternoons, I just go to school and work and go to school and work and that´s it and I make bears at nights, because I like that and don´t have much free time. He just keeps yelling he won´t pay for me if I want to live on my own. But I don´t give a damn. I´d rather die a wokraholic than live a second longer here with his constant visits. the worst thing is I can´t trust him. Today he helped me carry my stuff to my pad, all smiles, saying stuff like "screw the old furniture, I´ll buy you everything brand new..." but then he came for a "visit" while I was still at work and told my Mom he wouldn´t pay a dime and all that other stuff and then I came home and he told me, too. I´m really confused about it all and I don´t know what to think. Maybe there´s something wrong with me - I sure know I disappointed my Dad - I guess he didn´t want a daughter like this, but he didn´t want any kids at all (he was forcing my Mom to go for abortion and when she refused and both me and my brother were born, he refused to even pick her up from the hospital). I really don´t know.
But there´s a positive side to it - I know who the real friends are. Like Helenka - she was my teacher in high school and we became friends after I graduated. She gave me her old couch and armchairs - na charge. She wants to give me her old washing machine, too. No charge. Then there is my friend Tesil - he said "hey want that closet? it´s yours.." And then there is one family I consider my adoptive family who gave me a huge beautiful mirror and a table and a lamp...How come people who are supposed to be strangers are more like a family?

Hello!
This is a bear made especially for my good friend Vilda (Willie)..This is the bear and the "original". What do you think, did I come close?

Hey!
I went to check on my appartment yesterday and the location is cool!!!! It´s a small 2+1, just enough for me and two dogs. Yooohoo!
There were more surprises.t hough, this time of an unpleasant kind - my Dad bought me the place when I was in junior high and let my cousin, who was in college then, live there for decent rent. Everytime we´d replace some old furniture with new one at my Mom´s place, we´d put the old pieces to my cousin´s so that I would have some basic furniture once I get to move in there.
I called my cousing three days ago asking if she´d leave the old furniture there..well, she said she would, but when I came there yesterday, I found only four walls and nothing else. She´s taken it ALL. She knows I´m a student, she knows I have to work hard, nights and weekends to make end meet and she still did this. and then she invited me over to her new place - a beautiful 2 storey appartment. And then she proudly showed me her little brother´s room (he came to the city to live with her because he´s in high school here) - and guess what - it was all furnished with MY furniture. And then she said "well, my little brother has to have two beds, one here and one up there, so that he wouldn´t have to go up and down the stairs just to take a nap..
I was just staring at her with my mouth open...I mean, what the heck??? And then she said "well, there are nice pieces in the stores now..why don´t you buy some?"
I just can´t believe it. It´s all because I have the house and they don´t.
Later that night my "jewish Grandma" called - and guess what she said - she´d give me this and that and she asked me if I wanted any cash to buy furniture. Of course, I didn´t ask for any. I´d rather live in those four walls than take my beloved Grandma´s and grandpa´s money - it just made me see the difference between family and "family".