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Amanda Pandy Potter Bears
Staffordshire, UK
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This got me thinking. (Thats twice in one month!  :P)  Although I don't really collect bears I have a few swap ones and see bears that I like. The thing is I really like vintage style ones, any size, but I don't make that kind of bear. I wondered if what you collect/like are similar or opposite to what you make.

baggaley bears Baggaley Bears
UK ( nottinghamshire )
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I am like you Amanda. I just adore the vintage style ones, i would love to try making a vintage style miniature one day but don't hold your breath lol as i don't think that would happen some time soon . I tend not to collect bears like the ones i make but rather something i know i would never make.

Hugs  :hug:
Vicki

Gantaeno Je Suis Lugly!
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Yep, I'd love to be able to make bears like the Wee Scones etc, but sadly I have no skill for that: just for weird creations with slightly perverse faces XD  Having said that I only have one artist bear which I bought at the age of 15 in Lincoln, and he's a fairly contemporary panda with big chunky limbs and body and a smallish head and a BIG nose: that's what I love about him the best! bear_laugh

Laurie Laurie Lou Bears
Norfolk
Posts: 3,246

I make a variety of styles of bears myself including vintage style bears and the vintage style are the ones that are my favourite to make and collect.I do buy a bear just because I like it though although there are so many nice bears it can be hard to choose bear_wub
Laurie :hug:

jenny Three O'clock Bears
warwickshire uk
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I have mainly mini bears and traditional style/tatty teds..and Steiffs...so no, the ones I make are different. I do have one or two sweet faced bears but I prefer the teeny ones and the scruffy forlorn souls for my collection..I have very few bears actually.

clare14 Country Bears
England
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I collect old bears, and I get hoards of inspiration for my creations!!   I just love old stuff in general really!! 

That said, I ADORE contemporary bears too, and if I had a lot of money......   bear_whistle  bear_whistle   Well, that and some more room in my little house!!   :crackup:  :crackup:

I'm loving your trains of thought at the mo Amanda, keep it up!!   bear_wub  bear_wub  :hug:

Amanda Pandy Potter Bears
Staffordshire, UK
Posts: 1,864

I'm loving your trains of thought at the mo Amanda, keep it up!!

Goodness help you Clare If you are on the same wavelength as me!!!!! bear_rolleyes  bear_whistle  bear_wacko  bear_wacko  bear_wacko  bear_wacko

Tami E Tami Eveslage Original Teddy Bears
Milford Ohio
Posts: 2,367
clare14 wrote:

I'm loving your trains of thought at the mo Amanda, keep it up!!   bear_wub  bear_wub  :hug:

Amanda, I was thinking that you have come up with some really good discussion questions lately too!!!

I sometimes collect big cuddlers like I make, but my collection leans toward more traditional bears which I make sometimes but not often. The main difference that I notice is that I rarely make girl bears and I often collect girl bears.

melissa Honeythorpe Bears
Wellington, New Zealand
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Hey Amanda

I just unpacked my collection of minis yesterday, after they've been packed away for the flood.  And I was pondering each one and thinking about why I bought it.   They look quite odd all together - a jumble of contemporary and traditional, animals and bears.  At the moment they're all together on a little wooden chest of drawers.  I need to find a better way to display them as the massed jumble doesn't allow each one to 'shine'.

I have a couple of bears that could be roughly construed as being similar to mine - that contemporary but not 'out there' look, but most are quite different.  I love traditional sad looking minis but they seem to be the most expensive kind there are, so I only own 2!!

melissa Honeythorpe Bears
Wellington, New Zealand
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The main thing difference that I notice is that I rarely make girl bears and I often collect girl bears

hee hee...I am just the same!  Every time I go to a show that karen alderson is at I am drawn to her table.  I adore my frou frou bears but I totally never could make one.  I do make a ballerina bear for every show I go to (it's just a thing I have to do) but they are always grumpy, never frou frou and girly!

I actually started a "from off the shelf" feature on my blog last year with good intentions of sharing a bear from my collection on a regular basis, and again, as I unpacked my bears yesterday, thought I really should do it again.   I would love to see what other artists collect and why they buy the bears they do.  I find it fascinating!!  This was my one and only post.  As you can see Jack is totally different to the bears I make big(ish) and traditional.

http://honeythorpe.wordpress.com/2007/0 … the-shelf/

Daphne Back Road Bears
Laconia, NH USA
Posts: 6,568

I LOVE old fashioned bears with that well-loved look. But I can't make them to save my life! So I collect them instead.

Same goes for minis..... I can't make those either but love and admire them and have quite a few... many are rather contemporary in style unlike the bigger bears I collect. Not sure why that is.

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