Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

OH I LOVE her! Beautiful colors. I am really loving your newest bears--here and on your website! 
Beth

Such an adorable expression! And I love her peach color!
Beth

WOW!!! He is marvelous! I love his face!
Beth

Hi everyone! Here is my third Puppy Bug--"Darby" the Dalmation / Butterfly cross. He is made from white alpaca with airbrushed markings. His wings are a sheer material over wire and handpainted in a real butterfly design. The butterfly I modeled them after is called a "Paper Kite" Butterfly or AKA a "Tree Nymph" butterfly. A beautiful black and white butterfly that matched little Darby's spots just right.
Here is his ebay link. Hope you can take a peek at him.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi … %3DSelling

Beth

SOOO Adorable! It even looks as if your German Shepherd is looking back at the camera and saying "AWWW he is so cute!"
Beth

These are beautiful photos! Great reference but nice to look at too. I wouldn't mind having the Alaska Grizzly photo on my wall!
Beth

Hope you and Tiffani were able to get some rest today! So glad she got through the surgery with no problems!
Beth

Wonderful color! so cheerfull and soo cute!
Beth

oh what a sweetie!! I love everything about Bashful--including the name!
Beth

Thank you one and all!!! I really am enjoying making these puppy bugs. Can't wait to make a  cubby bug either. they are such fun.
Bubble-Up Bears said:

He he-if you do find one make sure you have a good size butterfly net to catch one. It helps if you have some yummy doggy treats too as they love them.
Beth

She is absolutly precious!! She really does look like your adorable Doogles!
Hope all goes well with her surgery tomorrow. How long will she be expected to have to stay at the vet's?
Beth

An adorable puppy!!! Great expression!
Beth

Another wonderful creation Melissa!!!!! I always love to see your work.
Beth

They are all simply adorable. I especially like Mikey and Darwin. So so cute!
Beth

I have listed Bosco on ebay this evening. He is the second of my Puppy Bugs and Cubby Bugs. (I was going to have a ladybug be my second bug but it didn't work as I had planned so it is being revamped as a different bug.) 
Meanwhile Bosco is ready to flutter and float his way to a new home. He is made from white alpaca with all colors and markings airbrushed on.
I feel he has very soulfull eyes.
Here is his link if you care to take a peek at him.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi … 0318109559

Beth

OH sooooo Adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can imagine how long the upcoming weeks are going to be waiting for that little cutie!
Beth

Poor Tiffani! I hope she recovers quickly from her surgery so she can run and play!
Beth

Dakota is a Bernese Mountain Dog right? They SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And not just in the spring. It's worse then but they shed big time all the time. I work in a store that has a self service dog wash and Bernese always leave tons of hair behind.
Though Berners make up for it by being such sweet loving dogs!
Dakota is a beauty!
One of my dogs sheds quite a bit too. She is a Leonberger. I can sit and brush her hind end for over an hour and the hair still comes out. Here are a few pics of her.

Beth

Look at the difference in size between the front claws and the hind!
Great photo!
Beth

Daphne, Thanks for the PM!
Just reading some of the questions can be helpful as some of them are things you might not have even considered. Like the liability insurance.
Daphne also asked us:

I have found that Nancy Tillberg's book 101 Bears to Make is very helpful to a newbie. I also love Alicia Merrett & Ann Stephens book "The Encyclopedia of Teddy Bear Making Techniques". This is a wonderful book on showing how to make a teddy and how to design a basic pattern.
Beth

This is a great topic--for whatever your project is.
I am fairly new to this myself and find it very interesting.
I  would like to add that as a newbie it would be nice to know how to find a good show to do. I did one last year (my first and only thus far) and it turned out to be basically a garage sale of people trying to get rid of their doll collections. I was the only one offering artist bears--Though it was billed as a Doll and Teddy bear show. the only other person selling bears was right next to me selling off their inventory of their World Of Miniature Bears at cheap cheap prices. Hard to compete with that! I didn't sell anything though people said they would have liked to but instead bought loads of the cheap cheap bears. Or else they tried to get me to go down in  my prices which weren't really all that high to begin with.
Then another question is how many bears should you bring to a show? What would be too few? What would be too much? Also what ALL should you bring to a show? Lots to think about on that score as it is very easy to forget to bring something or wish you had something you never thought of bringing til you are there.
Something I have wondered about is if you are traveling long distances to a show and you are flying there how do you get all your bears and paraphanelia to the show? Do you pack it all and check it in to baggage on the plane? Seems that could be very costly these days. Do you mail them all to ahead? That could be costly as well.
If you do a show do you need to accept credit cards? If you don't accept them are you going to lose lots of sales?

Hope this is helpful to your project. I still would like to know the answers to some of these questions myself.
Beth

Thank You everyone for all the nice comments. I am soooooo glad to have it finished . Now I can spend more time building bears and dogs as opposed to the website. (Much more fun and much less frustrating).
Beth

I finally have my website up! I am sooo excited it actually (finally) worked. I am a computer dum dum so it took me ages to get it going. I used a program where you don't have to know any html and I still had troubles getting it published. Not sure how to change things but I'll deal with that when I need to. Let me know what you think of it.
scaliwaggrrs.com

Beth

This one is one of your best I think! Well worth the trouble you had to go through. I bet your customer is very happy!
Beth

Maltezer is great! I love your work!
Beth