Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

AMAZING!! absolutely brilliant Judy, you are soooo talented :clap:   :dance: :clap:

Well Done Shelly, fabulous news  :clap:  and to everyone else  :clap:  well done all  :dance:

Wow what a wonderful selection    Congratulations Samantha and to everyone else who won or took part  :clap:  fantastic work :dance:

I would love to take part in this one year but as you have to actually attend the show to enter it makes it a bit tricky 

:clap: Huge congratulations Andrea, very well done to you   :clap:  I just love classical ballet, I used to do ballet at school and was lucky enough  to watch Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in the 70's, they were fantastic 

oh Jenny what are you like not going to the docs sooner   can't believe you managed 3 weeks with it   hope it heals soon, you take it easy   

Hi Jacqui

Just tried it 4 times and getting "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"  Hope you get it sorted soon  :pray:

How embarrassing is this going to be    :crackup:  Looking forward to see all the pics 

Ok here goes, this is my very first bear in 2004 'Frankin' made from very cheap synthetic, and yes he is Frankenstein's monster  :crackup:

This is Wallnut my first mohair bear from 2004 

And this is one of my latest 

:clap: Huge congratulations Samantha,  :clap:  I thought he would win and he desrves it too :dance:  he's such a cutie :clap: 

Sorry to hear about your job but good luck in finding another very soon

:dance: Congratulations Jane and so deserved :dance: he is fantastic  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

:clap: I meant to say congratulations to everyone else too, they were all wonderful creations  :dance:

Congratulations Ed, very well done to you  :clap:

This is great news Samantha :dance:  the online form is coming up with an error when I try to send so I have emailed you. 

WOW! great photos Jane, thanks for posting      The bears look fantastic  , glad everyone had a good day  :clap:

Looks like you had a great time Kerren, you bought back some memories for me, atayed in a caravan nr there a few yrs back and it rained everyday   so we went on the Ffestiniog Railway    :doh: ..maybe it's more fun in the sun  :crackup:

Very well done Samantha and everyone else who won :clap:  :clap:  :dance:  Hope you managed to take some pics?

WOW well done everyone all the entries are just fantastic, good luck to all :clap:

This is my first year too and I was so excited this morning when the mag came through the door, i am so chuffed to be nominated 
This is Serenity and she is in the miniature bear section.

I'm sure they won't mind at all Samantha, I would offer my shower if i was closer   We have escaped in Derbyshire this time although some flooding a few weeks back when Sheffield got it. Chin up  :hug:  and I really hope they get the water back on soon or at the very least keep those tanks on the streets filled up for you.

:crackup:  you just wait 'till they get to ya knees, they inject fatty deposits in 'em so they match ya upper arms....then ya need knee hammocks to support 'em  :crackup:  :crackup:

Hi Sue

Thanks for replying,    the post office told me Airsure would take about a week so thanks for letting me know it may take longer, I think as long as the customer knows it will be fine

Could anyone please give me any tips on posting from the UK to Australia? which service is best to use and how to avoid customs charges etc?

Many thanks 

oooh I wish   I think there are very few who make a complete living from it but those who do, hats off to them, they do fantastic work :clap:

I started making bears because I love them but also because i needed to find something to do from home to stop me going insane. I can't hold down a job due to having Endometriosis and i was getting isolated from the outside world. Having run a support group and website I had been seaching for years to find something to do from home to connect me to the real world,  and after looking at my own collection one day i thought..I wonder if I could make one of those? you should see what i created in those first few months :crackup:

Anyway, I am now at the point where I am extremly lucky to have a hubbie who works very hard and has a well paid job so my bear making can add to the little extras we need, which is great for me, it makes me feel i am contributing too which is important to me   It's not a huge amount per year but it helps 

Absolutely fantastic :clap:    now I know what to do for the next party

Hi Lisa

Mine are always low, i think they suit my style of bear better that way and it's sort of become my trademark I guess, but I think you have to play around and find what look right on the particular bear you are working on.

The ears on your gingerbread witch look great to me :clap:  She has given me some ideas for christmas pressies for a group of witches i know   well, they are not real witches just a bunch of craft peeps who fly around on broomsticks...so they say  :crackup:

Thanks so much for all the replies they really helped  

I think I was looking at it all wrong looking at it as a loss when it really isn't, thanks again for making it clearer for me

Hi Krista

Thanks for replying   I registered as a business a while back but am not really sure how to incorporate this into a tax return, I just took it as a loss last year, these forms confuse the hell out of me anyway :crackup: