Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

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Shelli, we bought an HPC4180 a few months ago and I love it! I'm glad to know that you, the graphic artist person, got a similar machine. Mine does printing, scanning and copying and had three media slots as well and you can print from the memory card without downloading to your computer if you want. The only thing it doesn't do is fax and we'd had a fax for five or six years when I worked at home and I did not want to have another fax in the house. I'm very happy with mine, too, so if anyone not looking for a fax, this model is great and very reasonable priced.

Krista, you are amazing with your very generous heart. Strange how those two little orphans found their way to your door where you were already fostering Winnie and her brood. The kittens are cute as they can be and Winnie is a wonderful mother.

Ooohhh, me, too, Jodi. For 50 cents!!! No wonder you can't throw it out, but are you sure you won't be sorry when you give it away? You'll probably come up with just the right idea as soon as you drop it in the mail.

Ilze, sorry that you're going through a difficult time right now with your health. Please take care of yourself. Sending hugs and thoughts and prayers that you'll feel better soon.

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Feel better soon, Sarah. You're in my thoughts.

Jodi, how cute is he!

Dorothy, I know what ya mean. Several years ago I was telling my (former) hairdresser about my bears and she went on and on about how she loves the build a bear place. But she never really asked me about my bears. A few visits afterwards she began raving about the cutest bear she'd ever seen...blah, blah, blah...he was about 10 inches, cotton, unjointed, and she got him at the beauty supply store for FREE when she bought two shampoos!

Next time my husband went in for a haircut I made him take a bear I'd just finished for his Christmas gift exchange at his office. I was very happy with the way he turned out. He showed her, pointed out the mohair, joints, glass eyes, etc....She said, "uhhuh." Yeah, she's my former hairdresser.

I still can't get over that she was more impressed with a free cotton bear than she was with mine!

Adorable...she will be pleased.

Shantell, the kittie are darling; they have such open, innocent little faces. They've grown like little weeds!

Congratulations!!! A great accomplishment...you should be excited to share your news. :clap:  :clap:

Lynette, I'm so sorry for your loss. :hug:

Speaking of trademarks and copyrights and all, a very confusing subject, do many of you have your name protected by these laws? I've also wondered if you need to file a Fictitious Business Name statement before you actually set up your business?

And did you apply for a resale number before you actually sold any bears or after your bears had been selling for a while?

       
What a great picture. They are just perfect. And you must be as proud as a new mom!

Ouch 

Kimberly, he's just precious.  

Yes, these kids do put an interesting spin on things. Sometimes it's necessary for me to read it twice to know what they mean.

Continued from yesterday...

Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.

Johann Back wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present.

Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

France was in a serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio, and Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

The End

I hope you found this 5-part alternative history lesson interesting and fun. When you have a bad day, just pull out this story and give yourself a good laugh.

Wow, Daphne, you've really had a run of bad luck. Maybe you should just stay in your house for a few weeks and not try to see what else can happen. Your knee sounds painful so you should probably stay off it for long periods of time anyway.

Glad you parents are doing so much better and your mom will be home soon. I've wondered about your grandmother, though. Is her health still declining?

Take care?

Donna, that's really a great idea and I would never have thought of that! 

Judi: That's a great quote from Mother Theresa, and, unfortunately, many times true.

LemonWolf: Wow, that letter didn't even give you any backhanded, nasty compliments. Very hateful. I think this is the key:

Your bears certainly are unique. I've never seen anything like them before. This lady needs to get a hobby to keep her busy or a husband. She's got too much free time if she can write such nasty letters and write to a list of artists to "tell on you."

She sounds like she could be the lady that was on YouTube the other day talking to a telemarketer.

So, DebbieD...what was it that made you snort mint tea up your nose? Was it the
...ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures... or was it because Henry VIII had an abbess on his knee...?

Continued from yesterday...

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

During the Resaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.

Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.

Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamim Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin invented electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. His farewell address was Mount Vernon.

Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Lincoln said, "In onion there is strength."

Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.

On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving pictue show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

To be continued...

I just responded to this letter but on Kathy's post! Is this person a collector...another artist?

I can't believe another artist or a collector could be so narrow minded to think that you get to a point where you're good enough and then just turn off your creativity. That's when an artist's work would suffer, when they thought they were good enough and had nothing else to try, or to learn or to experience. 

And what'd she do...create a form letter and merge email addresses. It's the same letter! Wonder how many others got her e-mail.

We need a little "thumbs down" smiley for posts like this.

Is this person one of your collectors?

I thought you were a much more diplomatic in your response than she deserved. And certainly you shouldn't have to justify why you challenge yourself to make a particular animal or explain why you wanted to try something you hadn't tried before. If people limit themselves to what's comfortable and what they know right now, they stop growing and learning.

If you haven't already found this, check up top ony our menu bar (mine is on the same level as the TT tab)...

go to PAGE > Text Size > and you have five choices...Largest, larger, medium, smaller, smallest.
Enlarging text size is also available under the View menu.

I had to reset mine to "Larger" after downloading the update. I had a bit of trouble finding the solution, too. I hope this helps.

Matthew James is a beautiful little boy.
He certainly looks alert and healthy in spite of being early.
I just bet you are bursting with joy.

What a sweet picture of mom and babies. They are so tiny and cute. Winnie looks plenty comfortable with you. You are their angel, Krista, and for so many other animals.

I just don't know how people could abandon their animals without food and water. If they could do that without contacting a shelter or your rescue group, I doubt that Winnie was treated very well at all. You're going to keep Winnie and the kitties, aren't you.