Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Hello every one its been a while as I am/have been redoing the room where I work and apart from it taking forever I am seriously missing my fluff. My house is just too small to decamp to another room as they are all cluttered up with the furniture and boxes from the make over room. I am living with a bed upended in the kitchen at the moment. Yep it's driving me insane    Anyway .... I thought I would open a topic regarding commissions.
So far I haven't really started doing commissions mainly due to the fact that I haven't settled into a definitive style yet so would be a bit of a loose cannon for collectors to take a chance on. I would be crushed to disappoint anyone. Bears are very personal and in my mind made purely to be loved. So it's a lack of confidence that I could produce exactly what they had in mind holding me back. As we all know even using the same pattern a bear can end up completely differently. Plus in addition to my concerns regarding ability to fulfil I really enjoy letting a bear turn out how he wants to be without having to deal with the extra pressure of worrying how he needs to look. However every time someone takes the time to ask me I feel extremely ungrateful letting them down. It's truly a compliment to be asked and consequently end up feeling damned if I do damned if I don't. I am planning on opening a small order book this summer just to see how it goes  I have heard horror stories of collectors who like to micro manage every stage and loads of other nightmare scenarios.
We don't often hear of the positive sides of which there must be loads as so many bear artists undertake them. I would be really interested to know why collectors like to commission a bear in the first place. There are so many varied wonderful bears available every day on the likes of Bearpile/Artist Bears International that could surely make someone happy to own them. What motivates you to commission in the first place? and what happens if you are unhappy with the results?
Over to you
michelle

Another batch of beauties! What a treat to see! 
michelle

All wonderful and that little Sophie has the most adorable monkey face!   
michelle

Very pretty beautiful eyes and gorgeous soft colours! 
michelle

Gorgeous! 
michelle

Oh yes a great face and beautiful fur! 
michelle

Just adorable sweetest face and that little tail is cute cute cute 
michelle

  Lovely bear amazing work!
michelle

Great monkey! Perfect shape, those feet are amazing 
michelle

This cracks me up! The cat has that slightly bored expression 'tich  ' Very funny 
michelle

   
michelle

Oh My! This cat looks the spit of my dear departed Suki      She was the most affectionate and loving puss who made our life richer. Sometimes she was so elegant and other times just looked like a pool of fluff poured on the sofa  Happy memories!
michelle

Two lovely teds 

I think the new style TT was still being finished off when I happened to look in and left my comment about no links. I would still prefer the whole gamit of links but am happy that the websites are back on. I have gotten use to the new style and I must say I do love the the new large pictures in the profile galleries if you have noticed these check them out they are loads better than before. The little 'porthole' profile picture is quite funny it makes me think the bears are looking out at us rather than we looking at them . It would be nice to have the same lovely slide show gallery of the collectors corner bears too as I do enjoy looking at every ones bears. It was a bit of a shock to the system - it was like coming home to find someone had redecorated your house but overall thank you I think you did a great job 

Very cute!
michelle

Sweet and so tiny! 
michelle

  Stunning cat amazing face!
michelle

That sky blue mohair is  beautiful what a clever idea with the frozen link 
michelle

What a character he is. Wonderful bear and I love Barry too 
michelle

Your bears are always a joy! 
michelle

Stunning as ever - Cappy makes me smile and Walden is one handsome guy!
michelle

beautiful fur and I love Crumble too!
michelle

gorgeous 
michelle