Meet Zander Michael

For the last 9 months I have been 'cooking' a special little bub for another family. On Wednesday he was born, and he's just perfect. I've written a more detailed birth story over at the surrogacy blog if you're interested too. But the main stats are that he was born at 2:40pm on Wednesday the 26th March 2014, weighing 9lb, 9oz and 57cm long! His parents have named him Zander Michael.

There were some complications following his arrival, and his placenta would not detatch so I ended up being rushed to theatre (which is why I look like this in the above photo! I had just been wheeled back to the ward here!). But I'm home and back with my kids, and Zander is home with his family.

 I will be taking a few weeks out to recover, but Mark is still working on the mail orders from www.furaddiction.com and there are still a number of ready-made bears available for adoption over at our Emma's Bears etsy store. We won't be taking custom orders for a bit longer yet though.

We wanted to thank everyone who's contacted us with words of support too, it means so much.

Bear Collectors SUPER SALE event starting TODAY!

This is a little teaser/preview of our upcoming bear-collectors SUPER SALE event over at our Emma's Bears Facebook page! 

We have selected 21 of our Emma's Bears handmade, OOAK and limited Edition bears, bunnies and elephants, and will be listing ONE per day at HALF PRICE! 

The discounted price will only be available for 24hrs per bear, and it will be purely on a first-in, first choice basis (no laybys/lay-aways sorry). 

The first bear will be listed on our FB page later today - a gorgeous large (19") mohair panda bear! 

The sale will run from the 15th March until the 6th April 2014 with a different critter listed each day! 

New Release Rabbit Pattern

We are so excited to announce that we have a brand new Emma's Bears pattern to release! This cutie is our 'Real Rabbit' pattern, designed to be the approximate size of a pet bunny sitting on all fours. The pattern was designed for use with quality faux fur fabrics, but we have made it up in mohair and it works just as well.

You can instantly download the Rabbit pattern from our etsy store. This particular bunny 'Walter' was made using our 'Aurora Borealis' luxury faux fur with a very pretty cornflower blue base colour and a tipped effect in all shades of the rainbow! (Walter has been adopted)

This little lady is 'Lilah' - she is also made using our 'Real Rabbit' pattern, but this time using our 'Fluffy Cloud' white faux fur for the inner ears and our 'Husky Pup' luxury faux fur. I really loved the more natural/realistic look of these fabrics too.

Three gorgeous new Baby-Bears

Meet Baby Barnaby - The sweetest, chunkiest, fluffiest little baby boy bear ever! 

Name: Barnaby Basil 

Born: 5/2/14

Time: 11:12am 

Weight: 5 lb 6oz

Length: 45cm 

Barnaby didn't last long for adoption in our etsy store, and has already found a new home. I would say this this little guy has been my favourite baby-bear creation so far. We used our 'Golden' Kid mohair to create his face/limbs - and it just suits this style of bear beautifully.

Sadly we've sold out of the white (Polar) and pink (Sweetheart) versions of this mohair line already, so only have Golden, Milk Chocolate, Licorish and Pudding left. See the photo below. *** According to my hubby we're really low on Golden and Milk Chocolate too! ***

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This little lady is 'Baby Chloe'. She has been made in a mix of our deluxe white imported mohair and some buttery-gold distressed imported mohair for her 'bodysuit'. We've dressed her with some super cute accessories - a gorgeous plush pink teddy-hat and a soft lemon-daisy-print ruffle onesie.

Name: Chloe Marie 
Born: 13/2/14
Time: 3:28pm 
Weight: 4 lb 1oz
Length: 17" (45cm)

Baby Chloe is our newest baby-bear creation and currently still available in our esty store.

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And this little guy is 'Baby Fergus'. He too has been made in our lovely deluxe white imported mohair like Chloe, but this time paired with our dusky blue 'Bermuda' mohair for his 'bodysuit'.

Name: Fergus Toby 
Born: 7/2/14
Time: 8:51am 
Weight: 5 lb 1oz

Length: 45cm 

Baby Fergus is also still available for adoption. He comes with his gorgeous lion-applique newborn onesie and his cute little girrafe rattle.

Trio of pinkness

I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since I last posted here! Naughty Emma! Very naughty!

I've completed quite a few critters in that time too - so will start with this little trio in showing them off to you guys. These three ladies are 'Daisy', 'Petal' and 'Rose', and have been made in different variations of the same pattern (our 9" Willa/Attila pattern), using two of our newly imported mohair lines - pink is called 'Suzy' and is available in our store, and the white called is 'Emmett' - also available in our store (this one dyes up really nicely too!).

I had a lot of fun making each girl different, and choosing accessories to show off their different personalities. All three girls can currently be found for adoption in our etsy store as well.

'Daisy'

'Petal'

'Rose'