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what a cutie! 
what a sweety!
very sweet looking bear!
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what a cutie! 
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what a cute little mouse!
what whismical teddies!
i can understand why you really like the golden one. ^^ there's something about him that a really adore.
what a sweety!
what a cutie!
what a cutie! lots of detail work, i see. very impressive. 
this is one of the cutest pandas i have ever seen.
Hello bearyfun,
I can't help with the needle felting questions as I've only made one small needle felted bear and have never felted onto fabric or mohair.
I have a little experience in clay although i'm not very good. I find really working in the clay so its soft and pliable is good but, worked against me as I have hot hands. If you get a basic shape in clay and then, Freeze it for a little while (an hour or so in a zip lock bag) I find it easy to work as it's harder and wont budge as easy. Well it helped me anyways. I could never get my finger prints out of them, I sanded mine with a high grit sand paper (1500 Grit) it is very very fine and only needed a little to make it smooth and then I varnished it. For shaping I guess its practice and I never got a hang of it.
For puffy cheeks as most call them, I had trouble trying to figure it out. I'm not much of a scissor sculptor and messed up a few heads doing it wrong. I took a class on Ebear University in extreme Sculpting. It taught me the right hardness too stuff bears for sculpting (I stuff Mega hard) Needle sculpting, How to do puffy cheeks, A little needle felting If i remember right. It was a very enjoying class and I haven't tried it out yet but it was explained very well and I'm sure I won't have any problems doing it. Also you could try putting darts in the side head piece to make it rounder. I think you would need to scissor sculpt and needle sculpt behind the cheeks even if you do add darts.
Link to the bear University lessons http://www.kranbearys.com/EbearZ/Extreme.htmI'm sure you will get more people helping you out
Take care,
Richy~
Hello Richy, and Thanks for the advice, however, when freezing clay, does it have to be a specific type of clay? I don't know if it has any affect on whether or not the clay will become the way you have explained when using different types of clay. Thanks!
i love this little girl in pink
what a sweety!
what a sweet little bird! in New Jersey we have ones that look just like these except with a light brown shading. They visit gardens frequently and I had the lucky chance to see a group of small robins grow from babies to adults this year.
Thanks Joanne, I shall experiment with what I have learned.
Hello everyone!
There has been a few questions I have been meaning to ask for quite some time..so I decided to put them all into this one post so that maybe all you TTers out there can help me out.
-Firstly, for those of you who make clay noses and eye outlinings, how do you make them so perfect and flawless looking?
-When needlefelting, what exactly is "carding" and what affects does it make on the final product?
-How do you sculpt muzzles that appear to have that "round" affect?
-Lastly, how do you needlefelt around glass eyes without them snapping or breaking?
Thanks, 
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what a cutie!
how cute!
what a precious girl!
