Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

That's a sweet family portrait. Beautiful.

Congrats to all the finalists...I'm on my way to vote.

Your Panda is so striking, but they are all just beautiful, Paula, as usual.

So cute! She looks so real. Love her little sleeping pose.

Look at those little faces.

Very cool. I saw her turning counter-clockwise first. When I looked again it was clockwise. I tried to focus to make her change and couldn't...so I tried looking away and then back at her and each time when I looked back again she was going in the opposite direction. So I could see her both ways, but only if I looked away first. Very strange.

We have DSL, Shelli, and it loaded really quickly. I checked all pages. It does look great, but I liked your old site.

He's so very, very cute.

      Very cute, Lisa.

Thank you everyone. He really is a sweetheart. I've always thought that little boy Scotties have a better personality and are more affectionate. This little guy is just that. We love him to bits.

        It looks like they just dropped in the middle of play time just were they were. So sweet.

I love these, too, Tami. Would it be okay with you if I saved a copy of the photo?

Wow! Selling a yard for less than $30 + postage must have made you just sick. I'm like you, I'd rather give it to someone who can use it than sell it for nothing.

I'd like to know what you have available, too.

Thank you, thank you, thank you all very much.

Great photos, Christine. Babysitting sounded like so much fun. I took a particular liking to the black/white/gray guy, too, as I went through the photos, but they were all very cute.

A very big congratulations, Peta. You must be thrilled.

Beautiful, Paula. I've been wanting to make a purple bear for a friend. Her mother just loved purple. It's a beautiful mohair. Would you share the quality/color with me?

Not a problem, Peta. Actually, I had forgotten about it. I understand busy.

Amazing. She must be a sweet mama cat to be so good with the little guy.    

They are darling, Edie. I just don't know how you make those tiny, tiny one.

I've been so anxious  :dance: to tell you all about our new puppy but I was so busy trying to get bears done, photos taken and everything to Sandi by her deadline for the Be My Valentine Show.

It really, really wasn't my fault.  I hadn't been in touch with Maisie's breeder for several month and so a few days before Christmas I sent her an update and photo of Maisie. She wrote right back, thanked me for the photo, and said she had three puppies left and she'd really like us to have one. I wrote back and told her as much as I would love to have one of the pups, it wasn't financially feasible for us right now...and his name is Joseph. Anyway, we went back and forth like this for several days and I kept telling her we really coudn't take him right now. She wrote me back and said to make her an offer because she really wanted one to go to us because she knew he would have a good home. She also told me she wasn't going to be breeding again for at least 18 months.

Well, you can see that she was practically forcing  me to take one of these pups and I explained that to Allyn. Unbelievably, she accepted our offer and we picked the little guy up on Saturday after Christmas. She had 3 puppies, two boys and a girl. One little boy was a full brother to Maisie, though not littermates, and the other little boy was the same age but smaller and so very sweet. They both have the same father but different mothers. We didn't think we could handle another Maisie so we picked the sweet little boy. He and Maisie are half siblings but his mother is much calmer and so is he.

We named him "Scotch on the Rocks" and we call him Rocco. He is so adorably cute and so sweet and he's been a good influence on Maisie. He's 5 months old now and there's 7 months difference in age between he two.

Forgot to mention that they were both groomed just before these photos and it was Rocco's first big boy haircut. Lisa's son did the grooming.

Thanks, Peta. I appreciate the reminder.