Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Hi Renae

Thanks so much for the tips :hug:  A lovely lady from here kindly scanned in some pictures and instructions for me which i can adapt :clap: , I will post the pics when i have made them

thanks

Hi all

I am hoping someone can help me out with this one, I am going to make some wedding bears for my husbands Aunty who is getting married, she is 80 :dance:  :clap:

I want to do one wearing a lilac 2 peice suit- skirt and short sleeved jacket, probably no collar, and a mans suit - jacket , trousers, shirt and tie but have no idea how to do the mans suit and shirt   could anyone possibly please point me in the direction of a pattern suitable for a 6" bear, or a bigger one so i can see how it's done and i can hopefully adapt it.

Many thanks

oh Sonya, thanks :hug:  just had a quick play but will learn how to use it properly now I know where to start 

:dance:  wooohoooo, just managed to add my reply by editing my earlier post :dance:   tried 3 times to put it all in a new one this morning but still wouldn't let me :doh:  where theres  a will theres a way :clap:

Hi Dilu

I have Corels paintshop pro x but can't find those types of effects on it, my hubbie has Adobes photos shop so i will ask him to put it on my pc so i can ahve a play with that, i'm not very technical with this sort of thing  :doh:

Thanks Dilu 

Hi all

I have seen some wonderful photos done by many artists but I am a bit stuck on how to add effects to my pictures. Softened edges, bubbles etc etc,  I have tried looking in paint shop pro but can't find anything there, could anyone please tell me which programmes they use or how it's done?

many thanks

Have tried 4 times to post a reply but it won't let me??

I copied the original questions, put them into a word doc where i did the replies, pasted it back in here, highlighted my answers and clicked colour, did preview which looked  fine, clicked submit and nothing? just keep getting an empty reply box come back up?  what am i doing wrong :cry:

lets see if i can use the edit option and put my replies in here cos it's still not working

here goes

1. What time is it? ------------------11am , 12 hrs after i first tried to do this :crackup:

2. What's your full name? --------------wendi walker

3. What are you most afraid of? --------Wasps   eeyuk!  Something bad happening to any of my family

4. What is the most recent movie that you've seen in a theatre? ------------The last star wars film

5. What was the most recent book you read:---------------am reading Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance

6. Place of birth? ------------sussex UK

7. Favorite new food?  -------------Honey roast salmon from Sainsburys

8. What's your natural hair color.  ------------just brown, apart from the natural grey highlights 

9. Ever been to Alaska? ------------eeerrm nope

10. Ever been toilet roll papering?   -------------pardon me! sounds a bit personal   

11. Love someone so much it made you cry?------------yea my hubbie and my son, and of course Michael Flatley

12. Been in a car accident? ------------thankfully no

13. Croutons or bacon bits? ----------croutons

14. Favorite day of the week? ------------sunday my chill out day

15. Favorite Restaurant? ------------not got a fav but love french food

16. Favorite Flower?-----------------luv them all, especially the scent of the lily

17. Favorite sport to watch?  ----------------ice skating, ballet, wimbledon

18. Favorite Drink? ------------------sweet white wine

19. Favorite ice cream?  ----------------oooh no, set my teeth on edge

20. Disney or Warner Brothers?  ----------------don't know, who did the cartoon droopy

21. Favorite fast food restaurant?  ---------------pizza hut

22. Color of your bedroom carpet? ---------------oooh don't! i know it needs changing, blue

23. How many times did you fail your driving test?------once

24. Before you filled out this, who filled it out before you? Put the name of the person who filled this out before you. ------well 12 hrs ago it was Edie, not going back to look incase i mess it up again   :crackup:

25. What do you do most often when you are bored? ------------watch tv, and play with this thing :crackup:

26. Who will respond to this the quickest? ------------no idea, depends if it shows up or not   

27. Who is the person you enjoyed reading their responses most? -------------all of them

28. Who is the person most likely to respond?---------------still have no idea

29. Who are you are most curious to see responses from? ----------------anyone

30. Favorite TV show -------------i enjoy soaps like corronation st, eastenders

31. Ford or Chevy? --------------are they cars then  lol

32. What are you listening to right now? -------------next door neighbours lawn mower

33. What is your favorite color? --------------natural colours, greens, browns, creams etc

34. How many tattoos do you have? -------------none last time i looked

35. How many pets do you have?  ----------------two guinea pigs, scruff and pickles

36. Which came first the chicken or the egg?  -----------------scrambled egg of course

37. What would you like to accomplish before you die?  -------------------just to be happy in life and my family to be happy too

38. Who's answers did you enjoy the most? ----------give me a chance i have not had chance to read 'em all yet, taken me 12 hrs to get this far 

am i done now :dance:

testing

Oh Penny   I hope you can retrieve everything :hug:  Hubbie backs ours up every night onto the server, but then one day that good go poooof and stop, its always a worry isn't it 

Good luck, not sure how long i can cope without seeing your moonlings pics

oh wow, i re-joined just in time for this thread   I have a show in just over a week it has helped me put my list of to do's together

Thanks girls, this is fab

i have tried my hair clippers today for the first time and they seem to work ok on short mohair but not so good on long, but need more practice i think, i normally use scissors.

anyway, it's way past my bed time and my eyes are drooping, off to have more beary dreams.

hugs

wow some of you are so quick, it takes me on average 3-4 days to complete a bear, not including design, i find the stuffing takes the longest time, that in itself can take a day, but then in that time i am doing all the other chores too, but i guess it's one per week for me, ...ooh isn't life busy:)

Hi Dilu

I have only been making mohair bears for a year and have done 36, so not sure what my average would be, with family life and having Endometriosis I can't spend as much time as i would like on them.

The first thing i do is design a pattern or at least have an idea and then look for the mohair i think would suit it, or sometimes the other way round if i go to a fair and get tempted to buy lots of mohair:lol:  as for all the other bits, i have a good supply and then top up when i need to, and spend hrs on the net looking for new bits and bobs which is all part of the fun of it.