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Cat Gabriel Crafts
you have an original idea for a bear/creation only to do a search on the internet to find that it's been done before!! I'm not sure about anyone else but this happens to me all the time. I had a cool idea to make a cupcake bear - sitting in a little patty pan with a cherry on top of the head, did a search and found someone else is doing exactly the same thing, but in crochet. A lot better than what I would have been able to do it. Isn't it gorgeous!! 
BlondheartThat's really cute! I want one darnit!
Melbourne, AustraliaCheck these culinary delights out ... I first saw them in Teddy Bear Scene (November) and thought the concept was gorgeous!
http://www.teenybears.co.uk/morebears.htm
EDIT: you will need to scroll down the page
DoodlebearsIt looks good enough to eat .......but who could, it is sooooo cute.
Hugs Jane. 
LOL!!! That's OK... heck.... that's what happened with the original teddy bear! :crackup:
Hugz,
Laura
Posts: 3,540Oooh, now I'm hungry for cupcakes 
That's a seriously cute idea. And yep, it happens to me too. Get a good idea, and someone's beaten me to the punch 
Wild Thyme OriginalsHi Catherine... awwww... that's sweet! Get it, sweet! :crackup:
Seriously, I think that it happens to all of us all the time, even when we are completely unaware of it! After all, we ALL live in this same world... we are bound to ocassionally be inspired by the same things from time to time!
I made a mini named Mocha several years ago with a little handmade polymer coffee bean around his neck... obviously inspired ny by own supreme addiction to everything cafinated.... only to find that a major company had just come out with their own line of coffee inspired bears. I'm sure had I "Googled" it, I would have found those bears as well as a number of artist bears going back for years who had the same inspiration. But ya know... he was MY Mocha. No nefarious "copying" had taken place in any direction. We ALL love yummy things!
Kim Basta
Back Road BearsThis happened to me recently but it wasn't in regards to a bear design. I'd come up with this very helpful gadget for machine sewers ... in fact it was an idea I'd been brooding over for a couple of years. I'd researched it and there wasn't anything like it. Then just this summer my invention hit the market! Only I wasn't the one who invented it!
I want a cupcake now too! 
LuxembearsCatherine that is so cute...BUT..instead of researching to see if one has been done...why not just do one that comes into your own head? Then research it if you like. This way there is nothing to influence you and it will genuinely come from you. I think you should make one...and make it your own.
Hey wouldn't this be a nice challenge? Yummy bears... bear that look edible...but aren't of course. What do you think?
Dolls N DreamsThat is adorable, go ahead and do one of your own!
lol yup happens to me quite often Catherine... I get an idea sketch it out, collect odds and ends to complete it with- and someone beats me to it hehe.......
Melbourne, AustraliaThey say Great Minds Think Alike! 
Cat Gabriel CraftsOk, I might make one anyway and see how it turns out :)
I agree, I think it's a great idea for a challenge Judi!!
What gorgeous bears Sandi, thanks for posting the link
Chaska, MinnesotaCatherine, that is really sweet.....
