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Whenever I do a fair I get home and I am itching to make another bear, despite the fact that I have been working flat out for weeks to get ready in time for the show. I tell myself to take a break but I HAVE to start sewing straight away. I think maybe I am worried if I don't keep going I'll lose my enthusiasm.
Does anyone else do that...or do you take time out after a fair/ web show etc? If find it hard to get back into it if I stop for any length of time.. so I just keep going...anyone else have that problem?
I have two targets for September so I've already cut out and started sewing. I'm definitely a front end person I prefer to be ahead of the game.
I am excited about my next range though, so it's not a chore at all...................................BUT was I tired yesterday after the show. I virtually sat down and did nothing all day !!!!
On wards and upwards... I hope ! 
Back Road BearsI'm usually itching to get sewing again right after a show. After talking with the collectors, selling, getting ideas for new designs, etc. I'm full of renewed enthusiasm.
If its a show I've organized however... I have to take a break. I work soooo hard for months leading up to a show that I'm completely exhausted after and have had enough of thinking about bears. It usually takes about a month to get into bear making again.
Little Bear GuyUsually we take a day off or two off and then we are right back to work. We are the same as Daphne, I feel so alive and enthused after a show and so full of energy that I don't want to lose that and we start designing and sewing. Of course we usually have another show right on the horizon so we have to keep going. I think we have three shows within four weeks of one another this fall so we have been working all along getting bears and bunnies done up so we don't have a big rush at the end. We use to do that and then found it was no fun and was to stressful, so now we set a goal of x number of bears per week to be done and set aside for shows.
big hugs
Shane
Wilmslow CheshireMe too Jenny ,
I always want to rush home and start afresh with lots of new ideas .I usualy take the next day off to catch up on housework and go to the bank etc and then back to it ! x
Nikkel BearsWhat a great thread - I too usually find myself inspired by what I've seen at a show and want to rush home and dig out the mohair and start again! However, I usually find I physically need to 'wind down' after the big 'rush' getting ready and making sure everything has been finished.
A big difference between what I 'want' to do, and what actually happens!!!!! :crackup:
Marg 
Yep....I usually find I am buzzing with ideas at times like this.....I just think the exhilaration and adrenaline rush of having done a fair pokes the old brain cells into action. I spent yesterday working on a bear ..and this morning I have been drawing a brand new , totally different pattern...which...when I am in the creative mode I find I can understand shape and form more readily....Maybe when you are in that 'driven' mode you are more receptive. If I ever get into the doldrums I find I have to FORCE myself to do anything away from my safety zone.
It's interesting how our creativity is stimulated ..sometimes my mind is a total blank 
and at others I have ideas popping every where!!!
"a bear by kim"iv been buzzing to get sewing since sunday... but i havent, my ironings done and the house is alomost semi tidy so i can relax this evening and get going in the knowledge that the house isnt a complete dump!
im also oozing new ideas a the moment, there just arent enough hours in the day, ill have to write them down so i dont forget them!
I'm the opposite! I usually take a break for a week and use the week to catch up with admin etc instead. I always feel a bit burned out straight after a show and need a few days to recharge my batteries, before I can start creating again.
I did take Monday off.....and decided to tidy my workroom yesterday which had got so untidy leading up to the show! 
......but I too come back from a show full of new ideas.....and new fabrics usually, that I want to get started on!....and some commissions that need finishing....and planning for September Hugglets....and a Winter collection.....oh well no time to lose! 
Bear-Handsyou guys are so luckly to have shows to go to here in portugal we have no shows at all..... but i am going to the uk to the kensington show in september and cant wait and i know i will be totally itching to get bearing when i get back home.
hope to see some of you there xxxx
