Athelas

Meet 'Athelas' - 17" of hand-dyed rainbow alpaca goodness. She is made from one of our pieces of recently dyed fur (the rest of which can be found here). Athelas is available for adoption at the moment, but we have only JUST listed her so I don't know how long that will be the case!

Elephants - Fern and Norah

Last week, in between dyeing up mountains of rainbow mohair, we got to work on a couple of elephants! This little lady is 'Fern', and she is made up in our hand-dyed viscose in two shades of green. We gave her a sweet baby-blue satin ruffle (which is hard to see in the photos thanks to her generous nose!) and a little 'hair clip' of flower buttons!

Fern is now adopted. But the pattern for her is just our 'Fizz the Elephant' pattern reduced to 80% before printing it out, and you could try making her in some of our other viscose colours - they all come from the same dye batch so would work quite well together I imagine :)

And then we had this little lady. Would you believe that she is made from the exact same version of our elephant pattern as Fern?! This too is our 'Fizz the Elephant' design at an 80% reduction. She looks so different because her mohair is quite a bit longer and we've set her ears up nice and high. Just playing with the position of the ears on this design gives a totally different look - it is so versatile!

We don't have any more of this exact mohair left, but the closest pieces in stock right now would be either our soft gold 'Bodie' mohair, our white 'Bianca' mohair, or even a piece like this hand-dyed 'Unicorn Candy' mohair would work to give a similar tufty/curly look.

Norah is adopted, but if you do like the look of her and would like a creation of your own, let me know. (It can't be exactly the same, but if you're willing to be open minded there are endless possibilities out there, I am sure we could come up with something just right for you!).

Rainbow dyed mohair, alpaca and viscose.

This week I have been very busy making a lot of mess and dyeing up some STUNNING new pieces of rainbow mohair, alpaca and viscose. I won't go into individual details here to save time - but you can see all of the available pieces on our hand dyed store section.

Markets and shows

We have a rather full couple of weeks ahead of us here at Emma's Bears and Fur Addiction. 

This Sunday (2nd August), we will be trading at the Morayfield Handmade Expo from 9-2pm. This is a great market if you're interested in lots of variety. And it's all indoors so it's quite comfortable to take your time to walk around.

Then, on the 21st August, we will be taking part in the eBear online bear show. The theme is 'Weird and Wonderful'... so I'm quite excited to whip something a little different up! Only 3 weeks till then though, so I better hurry up.

And then the next day, Saturday the 22nd August, we will also be trading at the Wynnum Doll and Bear show at the Leisure Centre on Tingal road. We have done this show before a few years ago, and it really was quite a good one. Lots of variety in the stalls and some bargains to be had as well :)

If you're in the area and free on any of those dates, we would love to see you there :)

Mitzi

This is one of our latest custom bears named 'Mitzi'. She's a chunky big bear made from our now sold out 'Cherry Bomb' faux fur and our nearly sold out 'Ace of Spades' faux fur!

Rainbow Baby

We were recently asked to create a rainbow bear in remembrance of a beautiful little baby who had passed away.

I am sure it is not an easy thing for parents of a lost child to seek out something like this, so I am always blown away by their courage in even starting the process for a special custom bear. I could not imagine how I would be feeling in their situation, but I can see how a physical, tangible 'thing' that can be held and cuddled, could possibly bring a tiny glimmer of comfort. And I am honored beyond words to be entrusted to create this special bear.

For this special little teddy, we used our regular reborn style baby-bear design and a piece of our bright hand-dyed rainbow mohair in a short, velvety pile. We sourced a pair of newborn-sized white feather angel wings from the other side of the world and tried to keep the bear's expression as serene as possible. (Long-term followers of our work will know that our bears do have a tendency to look grumpy, which I didn't feel was appropriate here. So I am grateful that this sweet bear cooperated with me!)

We attached some ivory lace elastic so that the wings can be removed. But they really do look so pretty against the bright rainbow colours of the mohair. This stunning teddy is a very special, and hopefully meaningful, piece of soft sculpture art.

Baby Dragon

I had been meaning to make a new baby dragon soft sculpture piece for quite some time now - but just never had the time.

So I made time. And little Kindralth, Keeper of Spring was the result. He is currently available for adoption.