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Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)Seems I'm always late-to-the-party...
I just found about Glenn & Irene Jackman's 10,000 Bear Makers Project, to locate and enter the data on that many and more bear-makers over the 25+ years celebrating their time in the Teddy Bear world.
Did you all know?
Has it been discussed here & I missed it?
I found my name listed (by someone else - Thank You, anonymous soul, for thinking of me last May!) but no other info given, so I filled in a proper form and asked the Jackmans to delete the first entry.
I thought you'd all like to kick up their numbers: there's even a place to post 2 images of your work! There are 9582 entries listed now, if I'm remembering correctly.
Here's the url:http://www.hugglets.co.uk/
Click on Bear Makers and locate Add A Bear Maker in the middle of the next page or search by surname to see if you're already in there first.
Back Road BearsNews to me!
Past Time BearsDidn't hear of it either, but then I haven't been making bears for 25 years, either . . . only 15.
The Littlest ThistleI don't think it's over 25 years you have to be making, just that you've been making while they've been on the go, even if you've stopped again 
I did know about the project, and have even given them information about bear-makers that I saw were missing. What I didn't know until Daphne brought it up on FB was that we could upload photos and personal statements to our listings. Thanks, Daphne!
Becky
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)to locate and enter the data on that many and more bear-makers over the 25+ years celebrating their time in the Teddy Bear world.
Yes, what that meant was the 25 years of the Jackmans' years of involvement: I should have made more clear who my word 'their' was referring to.
Any length of time working during this period is accepted, because there are places to mark off beginning and ending dates of your 'business', both for Exact and for Approximate.
If you know of an artist who's not listed it's allowable to enter the basic information on them; it can always be corrected at a later time period by the person themselves or by some other person who knows more of the information.
There are enough of us here on TT to put them (the Jackmans!) well over their projected mark!!
The Littlest ThistleI corrected my listing yesterday and got an e-mail from Glenn to say he'd updated it and linked it to my selling acount too, which means you can edit more. I gave him a heads up a few more entries would probably be coming his way from here 
Past Time BearsDidn't hear of it either, but then I haven't been making bears for 25 years, either . . . only 15.
Alrighty then . . . my fuzzy thinking has been brought into focus now - thanks much for the clarification!
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)You're always welcome - just didn't want you to think you didn't qualify!!
After all, how many of us would, at the need for being involved for 25 years??
Only Beverley & Family and a select few others!!
I'm in there too - I found my name there, but I'm creating my bears for about 6 years (exactly - as I started in Jannuary 2005) - do we have to pay for this????? I can't understand how to change anything there or how to few the profile.
thanks for your help
hugs from Austria
Emo BearsI'm listed and have been for a while although it's very basic for me as you all know I'm a newbie/hobbyist. 
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)Hi Andrea and all, I've actually had several email conversations with Glenn over the weekend. I have to give him kudos for being a fast responder!! This is the latest from him just this morning:
Hi Bobbie,
Many thanks for your generous compliments and thanks too for mentioning us on Teddy Talk - I've had several people get in touch already as a result.
In case it's helpful for other Teddy Talkers, the focus of the project is to gather the stories of every bear maker/artist with sample photos. The style is like the feature many have on their websites 'About the Artist'. We created an entry for Hugglets to give the idea (we used to make bears in the 1980s).
The Hugglets system is designed to allow artists to be able to directly add their own story and pictures once they have registered a free site user account. It's also OK to use the form to 'Add a bear maker' although that is mainly for collectors to use to tell us about the makers represented in their collection.
If you get a chance to pass this info on that would be great.
Very best wishes,
Glenn
do we have to pay for this
?
As Glenn has said, it is free for anyone to post to, however to be able to view the Artist Sites/Views, one does pay a subscription fee equivalent to a magazine rate. One has access to the contact information about/for
(at this point) 10,000 Teddy Bear Artists but to get access to the 'website -looking' page, that would be the subscription fee.
This seems amazing to me: I look through the lists and after my 20 years here I recognize many many names, a number of which I'd forgotten about (or wondered if they were still in operation) and many which I'm 'meeting' for the first time. The numbers have literally exploded since the mid-2000s.
I can't understand how to change anything there or how to view the profile.
First, we are listed by our Company name, not our surnames.
To make additions, corrections or just to start an entry, here's how:
Here's the url - http://www.hugglets.co.uk/
Click on Bear Makers -
Click on Add a Bear Maker
Here's how to add a new entry not yet listed
I happen to be on Pg 46 - Creative Design Studio
This is my entry, another way to access data already entered:
Click on the button PREVIEW, to see the info already entered:
To change or Update, click on IMPROVE THIS KEY DATA
I'm going to go back in and change ('Approx' 1990 as I know I had ticked Exact the first time.)
Fill in here to correct or modify data:
