Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

I'm lucky to crank out 3 in a year.   

go shelli, go shelli, go shelli  :dance:

Well Miss Shelli, that's about the coolest thing I've ever heard of (the Best Buy thing)!  Thanks much!  :clap:

Ya gotta love a happy ending!

Helena ~

My current avatar is 1115 Navy Blue. 

I agree with the others; I would offer to take the bear back and sell to someone else since this is a good customer.  She hopefully will understand the risks of selecting a color online without actually having the product to look at.  Sometimes different monitors show colors differently too, so it might have even looked different to her than it did to you.

Don't cry.

Thanks Shelli.  These photos then, should be taken with a 35mm camera vs. digital, correct?

Judi ~

I'm thinking dressed ... but we didn't see a picture of naked Snow Bear WITH bunnies.  If you are going to auction, photograph both with and without.

With one bear I sold, the buyer wrote and said she had taken dress off and hoped I didn't mind.  So I think same as others have said here, it's the face that has the draw for most.

But if I were Snow Bear and bunnies new owner, I'd leave her dressed.

What Shantell said!  I know that for me whether or not to post is primarily a function of whether or not dinner is burning or Mother Nature is calling or Seinfeld is on or my daughter is on the phone or I’m late for whatever … you know.  I've been thinking the same thing Shantell; thanks.

Thanks all.  I'm feeling better now.  Didn't want to commit a serious bear blunder and offend the entire bear making/collecting community. 

She's adorable!

Hurray for Quy! 

I'm nowhere near a pair of scissors :angel:

Potential murder suspect ~ I like that!

OH ... because THEY'D make good police ... good grief! :)

Thanks for the chuckle about following your own directions.  I can't either most of the time.

Why?

Thanks everybody ... I think I try to over-analyze sometimes. :redface:

When's your birthday Eileen?  Maybe they'll ship!

I hear ya.  Just don't want to mislead anyone who would.

I read the following definitions in my recently procured book by Nancy Tillberg.

One-of-a-Kind:  A bear is created once from a pattern and then the pattern is discarded.

One-of-a-Kinda in a Series:  A bear is created from a pattern with a unique appearance.  The pattern is then re-used, but each bear is finished differently.

Open Edition: Bears are made from the pattern until the creator decides to stop using it and retires the design.

With the second item, do you need to decide in advance how many there will be in the series?

So … I’m confused again.  I was reading again the thread on preserving patterns, and got to thinking (uh oh).  If a true, OOAK bear is one where you throw the pattern away after you make him/her … then why would I save pattern pieces?  And more importantly, if I am saving an arm, leg, etc. to use again, what should I call the bear?  I really just want to understand … so that if I’m reusing a pattern or pattern piece, I’m not incorrectly calling a bear a OOAK.

Thoughts gals?

SueAnn ~ As Shelli said ... All women understand this <too>!

Lovely, and very impressive!  And now I'm in the mood to carve a pumpkin!

Funniest thing ~ last Halloween my sister and I stopped out for a beer.  The waitress brought us alcohol, and a pumpkin and sharp knife so we could enter the pumpkin carving contest ... now what's up with that? 

Matilda ~ I gotta know ~ what is gobsmacked?

Chocolate cake, buttercream frosting, shaved sweet chocolate or tiny chips

Repeat 2 x.  YUM!  There are lots of copycat recipes on-line.

Oh my gosh ... yuck.  Um ... it has to be said that we cannot blame this one on the Gollies.  It's all Dilu.  I understand though.  Take care of yourself!

Aww thanks.  That's our little mini dachshund/chihuahua mix.  She's great.  Except that now she's part devil, part angel.  Her name is Maybelline, for her "eyeliner".

Here are my three angels!

Wow, that IS good!  Very lifelike.