Thursday, May 13, 2010

New Bear - Ted



This little guy is the product of a bear I drew up years ago at the same time as i was making Alfie, but I kind of forgot about him, and he was left in the bottom of my fabric box... until now! lol.

I've called him simply 'Ted', because he just looks like such a cheeky, classic teddy bear to me. He's 9.5" (24cm) tall, fully jointed, made from a super soft chocolate brown faux fur, firmly stuffed with polyfill and glass beads in his belly, and looks out through super shiny big black deluxe glass eyes. He is a one of a kind, and his adoption fee is AUD$110 (postage inclusive).



Wednesday, May 12, 2010

New Bear - Cecil the Mini Panda




















So this is Cecil. As I think I might have mentioned in one of the last postings, he looks rather sad and a touch grumpy to me. I tried really hard to cheer him up and get him looking a little more 'cuddly', but he is just not happy about something!

But that's ok, he's so tiny that he can't get into too much trouble. Would be a lot worse if he was a massive, imposing 20" bear with an attitude like that.

I've currently got him listed on bearpile with a SUPER SPECIAL DEAL on offer. Purchase ANY other Emma's Bears Bear, and Cecil will travel with them for FREE. No extra adoption fees - he'll just jump in the box and head on over! (Maybe this will cheer him up ;))

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Re-Addicted to eBay...

Hmmm... what was i saying about not visiting/listing on eBay for months and months... perhaps that was a blessing in disguise?! I have just spent the better part of the last hour trawling through the hundreds of awesome bears available... I really want a new bear for myself now!

These are a few of my FAVOURITES that i found tonight:

This is 'Chano'. The one I like the most. But the one I can afford the least! (always the way!)

This is 'Jilly'. Words don't do her justice!

And this is 'Chika'. I'm not usually captured by faux fur bears, but how sweet is that little face!

Panda in Progress


Finished a sad looking little 4" brown and white panda this evening. Mark (my hubby) has named him 'Cecil', but I won't have photos for you until the morning - so stay tuned!

In other news, Chelsea has her second tooth coming through. Which is kind of exciting for me. All of her other baby 'friends' seems to have mouths full of shiny white teeth. And up until this point Chels has just had one little chomper. But soon she'll have a sweet little pair!

(if you click on this photo, then click on it again when it opens in a new window, you can JUST see her little white toothy sticking out!)

Monday, May 10, 2010

Wyatt is on eBay


I haven't listed a bear on eBay in months. Months and Months actually! So long that I've actually lost my selling template, which is annoying! :P

Nevermind - I've decided to reduce Wyatt's price and give him a go. If I remember correctly, I stopped using eBay because bears weren't selling well, and heaps of other bear artists seemed to disappear from it too. But maybe that was just a temporary glitch?

We'll see i suppose!

Day Trip


Mark had the day off today, so we had made plans to go for a drive up to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland (for those of you not local to Brisbane, this is the rainforesty-mountainy area about an hour north of the city, just inland from the gorgeous beaches).

We entrusted our trusty sat-nav to tell us where to go and set off. We took the long way there - which ended up taking about 3 hours, because we stopped at a lookout at one point so I could give Chelsea a feed (which lasted about 3secs because she was too interested in what was happening around her). We took the opportunity to take some photos and visit the cows that were lying about.





(Have I ever mentioned how much i love cows. I think they are so gorgeous. There was one SUPER fat one lying really close to the fence. She wasn't bothered by us at all, and I am assuming that she must have been heavily pregnant because that just wasn't 'normal' cow fatness!)


We eventually got to Montville just after midday, and had lunch at a really cute little restaurant. The owner gave us a little bottle of bubble mix for Chelsea. It was actually the first time she'd ever seen bubbles and she loved them. A little too much. (we had to stop blowing them because her squeals got a bit loud!) She also made a HUGE mess of the charming wooden highchair they supplied. So after trying to clean up as much as I could, we made a hasty exit!



A few more stunning arts and crafts stores later, and it was time for Chelsea's afternoon sleep, and our cue to head home.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

New Bear - Muscari



She's finished!

While Chelsea had her extra long Mothers Day morning sleep for me this morning, i finally managed to get the latest bear finished. I've called her 'Muscari' because she is almost the exact same colour as the muscari (hyacinth) flower