Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

I saw a Tissavel fur coat on Ebay yesterday there were no bids so I thought I would try for it and ended up winning it for 0.99p plus £7.00 P+P.
I am hoping to cut it for bears and think I have a bargain there should be loads of fur in it. I was just wondering if any of you recycle Coats for your bears and if it is a good way to buy expensive faux furs at a reasonable price.????
I am excited and cant wait for it to arrive the only drawback with it is its Black, I tend to shy away from using black fur but maybe a panda could be on the cards for the future if it works out ok. :pray:

Just a thought though will I be able to take a scissors to a perfectly good snuggly warm fur coat

Hi Laurie :hug:
I would love to swap Blog links with you

Awwww he is adorable     and fantastic considering he is only your third bear.   :clap:

Hi Carolyn
Gorgeous Blog.
I have just started a blog as well not much there yet but would love to swap links with you.
http://japhesbears.blogspot.com/

awwww all your bears are soooo cute :hug:
The white one is actually the second bear I made :redface: . My first has no nose and looks more like an orangutan :redface: The little clown is the first bear I put on Ebay and he sold lol.

Very very sweet :clap:  :clap: what a cute little angel

Wow Brendan what a fabulous bear :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Awwww she will fall in love as soon as she sees him/her . so adorable :clap:  :clap:

Hi Samantha
Thank you :hug:  I will pick some up next time I am at the post office.
Huggies
Jackie
xx

I have sent a couple of bears to the USA and have never used a customs form, the post office has never said that I need one so my question is should I be using one??? I find it very confusing I am not a business, bear making is a hobby and selling my bears is just a way to fund the fur for my next bear. I want to make sure when I send a bear off it is going to arrive  and am scared that by not using a customs form the poor bear is going to end up lost or worse.
Thanks for any advise you can give.
Huggies
Jackie

Woweeee she is awesome :clap:  :clap:  :clap: I love her    

Awww he is sooo sweet and you can tell he is one of yours as soon as you look at him   :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

How wonderful and so nice to hear the story behind it  

Awwww Thank you so much everyone for your kind words
Huggies
Jackie
xxxxx

Awesome :clap:  :clap: Looks like much fun was had by all :dance:  :dance: .
Superb work Jane :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

I have to admit I had a couple of bad bear days with this little bear, But I think Dilly turned out ok Her new mummy is happy with her anyway.

Wow thats amazing :clap:  :clap:
you are so talented.

Awwwww she is so sweet   She has such a kind and gentle face.
Wonderful work  :clap:

OMG I am in love   they are soooooo soooooo soooooo amizingly cute

Congratulations  :clap: You must be so excited. :clap:  :clap:  :clap:
Lovely pictures of all the bears thank you for posting them Congratulations to all the winners :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Congratulations Hun :clap:  :clap:  Ryan is adorable a well deserved award. :clap:  :clap:

OH Gail I can certainly see why you won first prize with Mitchom he is adorable :clap:

Kathy How cute is she I love her to bits.    :clap: and so small

I absolutely adore Prim the grubbier the better, we dont see much of it here in the UK I have tried to do some myself Gingers and grubby fruit etc etc but just cant do prim Bears no matter how hard I try.

I just recently started doing this and slice mine as well, Although mine is a little more than just the muzzle. I have done only 3 bears like this so far but love the way they came so much I am going to do loads more.

Awesome work everyone :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  It has been lovely looking through all of your graphics It almost made me want to open psp again.

I dont know if this will help any of you you but there is a free filter for photoshop and psp called make a flake from Xero graphics.
 
http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/downloads.htm#plugins

I also have a snowflake font if anyone would like it. I can zip it and mail it to you.

You can also get some psp snowflake tubes from the links below.

http://www.hypergurl.com/sparklestubes.html

http://psptubes.jmc-designs.com/snowflakegallery.htm

Wow thats amazing especially for your first attempt. The face is just so cheeky I just want to pinch those chubby cheeks.    :clap: