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Back Road BearsChrissie Baust at www.iloveteddies.com has been generous in featuring me as the artist of the month on her website which is just full of lots of great teddy stuff!!!
Click here to check out my interview and pictures!
Most of the photos will be familiar to many of you and some of the answers to the interview questions will be too... but I bet you don't know where I was born and raised..... or what my favorite part of bear making is! Stop by for a visit if you have a chance and check out all the other resources Chrissie's site has to offer both artists and collectors! Her site is fabulous and so is she!
Thanks Chrissie and thanks to all for having a peek at the interview! :hug:
Yay Daphne ~ it was a great interview and I enjoyed seeing some of your bears and finding out
more about you.
Hugs
Carolyn
q.D.paToOtieSHow exciting for you Daphne! Nice interview and wonderful photos! Congrats to you!
Past Time BearsWhat a terrific interview, Daphne, and great bears! Sounds like growing up in the mountains of New Hampshire was wonderful!
Waggle BearsGreat interview.
Congratulations!
Dolls N DreamsCongrats, great interview! :clap:
LuxembearsVery nice Daphne. I would love to have been raised in the mountains. Sounds wonderful.
It's such a thrill to be featured...ENJOY!! 
Patsy Lake BearsCongratultions Daphne it is a great interview :clap: :clap: :clap:
Cat Gabriel CraftsCongratulations Daphne :clap:
Zada CreationsDaphne-
Congratulations on being featured. I enjoyed reading your interview and seeing your bears. Great job!
~Patricia
Posts: 222that is so awesome daphne it is so cool that you are being honored for your hard work you deserve it hope you win best artist of the yearand im working on much better sketches of the plush toys too and ill color them hopefully.
puca bearsHi Daphne - slowcoach here, doing some catching up!
Great interview - I was particularly amused about the supposed connection between your Wheaten Terriers and your bear's faces.............when I started out a lot of people assumed that our (now departed ) Irish wolfhound was my particular "muse"!
Nice to be able to read more about you - and I'm another envious one - how lovely to be brought up in a mountain area!!!!!!!!!!
congratulations on the interview
big huggies
Maria
Back Road BearsThanks for the compliments, everyone! :hug:
Maria - one of my dogs was bitten by an Irish Wolf Hound last week... so I'm having a hard time relating that face to any inspiration for a teddy bear... unless it was a viscious grizzly with teeth! 
The mountains are great... I lived by the ocean for a number of years and it was nice.... walks on the beach when it wasn't tourist season were great, and collecting beach glass.... but there is something about walking on the nice solid earth of a forest floor, seeing the views from high a top a mountain, seeing the ever changing foliage, flowers, etc. and suddenly spotting a lynx or bob cat or a bluebird.... hearing the cry of an owl, howl of a coyote..... just so cool!
puca bearsOh - that's bad Daphne - normally, Wolfies are the sweetest and gentlest dogs ever..........hope your dog is O.k.!
huggies
Maria
Back Road BearsMaria - he's fine.... drew blood from his nose is all. Tucker is a very energetic and "in your face" kind of dog and thinks all other dogs are his bestest buddies. This wolfie doesn't like hyper active male dogs and put my Tucker in his place real quick!
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Whoa, I bet he would!!! What a wakeup call for Tucker. Thankfully it was only a bloody nose. I'm another who knows the breeds as very laid back and gentle. LOL...although someone hyper in your face is enough to bring out the grouch in all of us 
Blow some gentle healing kisses towards Tucker's nose from me 
Way cool interview Daphne!!! :clap: Congratulations!!! :clap: :clap:
Back Road BearsThanks, Debbie. Remember the cancer scare and the mass that I found in his nose..... wolfie got that same nostril..... Tuck's poor nose is never going to have a chance to heal and be normal!!
I should tell you that this irish wolf hound spends his day at his owner's grooming shop.... so its essentially 'his' territory and with the dogs that go in and out all day I think his tollerance of the over exhuberant has diminished.
puca bearsoh -poor Tucker........I'm glad it wasn't more serious!
Our daft Leonberger seems quite the opposite to this wolfie - she has so far been bitten THREE times on the nose by various small black dogs - just stupidly stands there while they fuss around her! Current bugbear is a four month old Manchester Terrier with a death wish - the owners seen to have realised that Nounours is a gentle soul and just stand there while their beloved runs yapping round and round and i have a devil of a time just hanging onto Nou's lead. never quite sure if she wants to play with her tormentor, or just LEAVE!
huggies
Maria
Posts: 3,540The Manchester Terrier has *no* clue how close it could be to death. 
Thank goodness your Nounours is a sweetheart
Oh Daphne! Poor Tucker!!! To get nailed right where he's been having troubles already ~ double OUCH! I wonder if he'll remember his nose exploded the next time he goes in? I sure hope he can curtail some of his bounce, or at least keep a bigger space from the Wolfie. 
Back Road BearsTuck is rarely tramautized by such incidents to make him cautious the next time around. After all the vet has done to him you'd think he'd refuse to go through the door when I bring him there. But no... he runs in there, tail wagging, full of kisses for the vet and the techs, bouncing all over. He's just nuts! But I love him to pieces!
Posts: 3,540 Ya gotta admire and love an attitude like that!! He certainly doesn't live in the past 
DENBY BEARS:clap: Great interview Daphne, I really liked hearing about your life among the bears and the shows. I especially love your heart foot pad on the bears, I wish I had thought of that since I am such a heart freak.
Mimzy was also a great thing to have accomplished. I hope to get where you are bear wise in a few years. If only!
Poor Tucker! Glad he's ok. thanks for the nice post, Daphne. I really enjoy doing these interviews because I love reading them too. I hope everyone enjoys the interviews.
