Winter Wonderland Tomorrow....

Well, ready or not Winter Wonderland Bear and Doll Show starts tomorrow :0)

The bears and I are packed, my practise table set up has been done and I am leaving for Brisbane in about an hour.

If I have forgotten anything or anyone it is too late now :)

I realised on Tuesday afternoon that I did not have a green bear to take with me..... so of course on Wednesday I decided I couldn't go without one and quickly dyed some gorgeous white mohair green.

After 2 days sewing and ignoring the housework (no housework fairies here sadly) I have a green bear to take with me :0) 
In person she is quite.... bright !! 
I also have lots of dust.....

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to wrestle  get out my light tent and take proper photos as I was busy sewing but I snapped some quick pics as I was doing my practise table layout this afternoon.

Alpaca Panda with open mouth

 

I also have some more pink, red, lavender and orange bears as well as some brown ones :0)

I will try to come home with lots of photos from the show..... can't wait to see everything !!

Here I am again as promised yesterday :) 

I have been looking at the photos I took and I don't think any of them are very good !!   It has been a dark miserable rainy day here today and all my preview photos are either way too dark or way too light.... so I think I will try again tomorrow.

Normally I use a light tent and daylight bulbs to take photos, but I had to pack everything up last week as our oldest son Dan came home from Uni and needed his room back lol.   After wrestling the light tent back into its' tiny little bag ( would it kill them to give us a bigger bag !), I was a bit reluctant to set it free again.

Unfortunately, the photos were not good so this time I will do it properly and get out the light tent and the lights :) 

Here is one photo anyway and I'll be back tomorrow .....

1.30am .....

Hi :)
Once again, I am apologising for not posting sooner but I am back again :)

It is 1.30am on Monday morning here as I write this and I am finally finished sewing and stuffing etc for  the Winter Wonderland Bear show that is on in Brisbane next week *Yay me*  I have a little bit of accessorising to do for a few bears but I am mostly done :) 

I am the Queen of "the last minute"  and I am usually still sewing the night before the show but here it is the week before and I am on the home stretch  - how grown up I feel *grins*

This weekend I was in a hurry to get my competition bear finished so she could be posted off on Monday morning (today, technically LOL)  but a few hours ago I realised that it is a Long weekend for the Queens Birthday so no posting out first thing for me :( 

 I will have to send her via Express on Tuesday morning and hope the PO is working at top speed to get her there for Wednesday. I was feeling so organised too .....

I will be posting some preview pictures later today, after the rest of the night asleep :)

See you in a couple of hours.....

Happy Mothers Day and Finished Last Week ...

I hope everyone had a Happy Mothers Day yesterday where ever you are and who ever you were with.

I had a lovely quiet day, sitting on the bed (also known as my "workbench") making bears for Brisbanes Winter Wonderland. I had a whole rainbow of bears in progress including blue, pink, red, lemon, lavender, coffee and a brown an white panda.

I saw my Mum on Saturday when my family came for a visit.

I was having awful trouble finding the "right" present while shopping for Mothers Day and then I remembered that Mum said she quite liked an Owl pattern at a Bear show.

Unluckily for me, I had waited until Wednesday to go shopping and Mum, Dad and Grandmama were visiting on Saturday and I didn't have an Owl pattern. So I spent Thursday designing and sewing up the owl and then Friday sewing and stuffing. After a minor setback with the eyes I had chosen breaking off the wire, it all went quite well and I had a great time making a Fimo beak. The first one looked like a budgie beak, so we consulted Google images and found some pictures (thank goodness). Then by Saturday morning I just had to stuff him into the bag :)

Anyway here he is -

He is made in a lovely Tissavel Chinchilla Fur that I really enjoyed using  :)

Also finished last week, were 2 pink bears so with no long story ;) Here they are

Fingers crossed, there will be a few more completions this week so I can get moving on the Teddies Friends Show Animals :)



Busy, Busy, Busy.....

Hi again,

I hope everyone had a great Easter. I had some lovely chocolate and have spent the past two weeks wishing I had some left :)  Son #3 still has his largest Cadbury egg and I swear it is calling to me every time I am awake walk into the kitchen. I've told him if he leaves it there much longer I will eat it find a new home for it *grins*

On the Bear front I have been super busy. I have dyed some mohair in pinks/yellows/blues/reds and I have been making it up into all sorts of bear designs for the Winter Wonderland Bear show (Brisbane on the 16 and 17th June) So I thought I would share some progress photos. These were actually taken a while ago so the bears are much further forward than the photos show....

I've also been designing the animals for the Teddys Friends  Show  (see link on the sidebar) and I am just about to start cutting out and sewing them up. I also dyed some mohair for these and I have a gorgeous blue/purple colour (wisteria??)  I can't wait to see how they turn out and it really burns I can't tell anyone what they will be !!!

Hopefully I'll be back with some finished photos by the end of the week :)

Stephanie....

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone

We had a lovely Easter Sunday with the family and lots of chocolate - hope everyone elses Easter Sunday was lovely too !!

Tea Party, Pincushion, Ferret and Friends....

Hi, yes ... it's been a little while :)
This is a "bits and pieces" post - a little info about a few different things 

Tea Party 

The Teddy Bears Tea Party wrapped up. Final stats included over 5000  individual visitors  and over 300 bears finding new homes.  I had a great time  and I'd like to thank  everyone that came for a look at the bears  and especially the lovely people tht chose to take one home :) 

I have a couple of bears still waiting for  their new home  - Emma is on Bear Pile already and Lipton will be joining her as soon as I have five spare minutes.

Pincushion

About ten days ago, I went to a pincushion class at Craft Haven. We sewed a mushroom and then made little faces/bums to go inside gumnuts and fur and then hot glue gunned everything all together. We all had a ball and here is my pin cushion - the stem has garnet inside to sharpen your needles and the top is a pincushion.

Ferret

 We have a cute little ferret called Nog. As Crash (our big dog with a bad leg) couldn't go outside, we had to confine Nog to running in the one room. As Crash isn't with us anymore, we put the other dogs outside and let Nog have the run of the whole house. Both Nog and Angus enjoyed it !!!

 and Friends....

Last but not least, I have been accepted into the Friends of Teddy On Line Show to be held between the 13th and 15th of July. This show will feature the Teddy Bears "Friends " ie:  dogs,cats, rabbits, dragons and lions :) and also some bears as well.

 Please click on the link on the sidebar to visit the website for more info :)
Back again soon ....... no really !!