Here is my a new gentlemen  - Albert.  He is quite a shy guy and a long time he didn’t tell to anybody that his eyes are not so good. He is myopic.  He’s got a lot of courage and finally he went to a doctor. Now he sees the world  very good through his new glasses  ;)

Albert is a 18 cm bear made from mohair, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets, shaded with oil paint. His arms are wired and he can stand with a very little help. Albert wears a papier-maché cap, cotton clothes aged with coffee. Also he wears glasses.

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Here it came time again for my new collection for lovely shop in UK – One More Bear. As before I liked to make all three bears somehow connected with each other, like The Gang, The Descendants and The Street Boys for Abracadabra  Teddy Bears, the shop in UK also, I made this collection of three girls and called  ”3E”. No, this is not an internet connection  This is three names of girls from the letter “E”: Eva, Elisa and Emma.

Here I present them one by one.

The first one – Emma – 25 cm bear girl made from cotton, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose, shaded with oil paint, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets. She is designed to sit and her arms are wired. Emma wears a cotton dress aged with coffee, a cotton hat with a silk ribbon. On the neck she has a bear made from FIMO clay (made by me )

 

The second  - Eva - 17cm bear girl made from mohair, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose, shaded with oil paint, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets. She is designed to stand and her arms are wired. She wears a cotton dress, a hat with a silk ribbon. On the neck she has a bear made from FIMO clay.

The third – Elisa – 19 cm bear girl made from mohair, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose, shaded with oil paint, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets. She is designed to sit and her arms are wired. She wears a cotton overall with vintage lace, on the head she has a silk ribbon, on the neck she has a bear made from FIMO clay.

The collection “3 E”

 

Recently I’ve bought a black sketch notebook. I needed one. For storeing my inspiration, sometimes emotions,drawings, sketches, sometimes some thoughts. I’ve never heard before about Moleskine. In fact I saw these notebooks before but never thought what it is. Who is familiar with Moleskine you don’t need to read further. I guess there are many of us who never heard of it.

Short history: Moleskine is the legendary notebook used by artist and thinkers over the past two centuries: among them Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin (the famous English novelist and travel writer). It was he who called it “moleskine”.  In the mid-1980′s, these notebooks became increasingly scarce and then entirely disappeared because of family owned company went out of business. Only in 1997, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life, selected this name. Since then the Moleskine notebook stores ideas, feelings, stories, sketches, notes.

Every notebook is hand made and has been carefully checked for quality.

And here it is: a simple black rectangle with rounded corners, an elastic page holder and an internal expanded pocket..and it is mine!!!

Here are few my drawings made on Moleskine

Moleskine Art

It’s not so offen happens that I like to keep a bear for myself.  While making myself bears I don’t have any bear for myself. Every time in a while I think I should have one. Of course I have bears in my collection from other artist but I mean my own, made by me, for me.

I love to make from special bear material cotton. Some years ago I even made a big pattern for a big bear to make from cotton for myself. But somehow I didn’t make it…it sill laying in a pattern…

Recently I made a bear and I like him so much. So, I decided to leave him for myself. He sits sometimes next to my bed or on my working table. He is very good for hugs ♥,  believe me  He has helped me on Easter  - he was an Easter Bear.

Here I present him :  BENJAMIN - 25 cm tall, very cheerful fellow, likes to accompany me, sometimes gives good ideas. We are big friends ♥ :)

BENJAMIN

Milo is a 19 cm bear made from mohair, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets, shaded with oil paint. His arms are wired and he can stand with a very little help. Milo wears a pilot cap aged with coffee, on the neck a silk scarf aged with coffee and a metal pendant. He is a wanna be future pilot

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This cute bear is 24 cm tall (standing) made especially for kids and it is very good for hugs. He is made totally by hands (machine used only for clothes) from best quality special for bears mohair, has got 5 safety joints (arms, legs and head are turning around), safety eyes, ears and paws from suedine, embroidered cotton nose, stuffed with fiberfill (head stuffed more hard and the rest – arms, legs, body – stuffed loosely) . The bear wears a cotton double sided overall with metal eyelets which is very easy to take off or to put on. On the neck he has a silk scarf and in hands – a biscuit made from felt. He also has a wooden dinosaur DINO on wooden buttons wheels.

NOT suitable for kids under 3 years old due to small.
Machine NOT washable. Can be handled with big care.

Waiting for a big HUG ♥
Now available on my Etsy shop.

More pics Kids BearIII

More pics Kids BearIII

Finally! I decided to make a bear – toy again. Bears remember us our safe,cozy childhood. Maybe because of that we love them and hug them while we are adults:) (who said we are???)

Here I present a Bear made  especially for kids: with safety joints, safety eyes, not shaded, not waxed, just very friendly to a kid.  This bear has no nome as usually my bears have because all kids give their beloved toys own names and I decided to leave it for a new small (middle, big) owner

Not suitable for kids under 3 years old due to small parts. You immediately get a set to play: a bear, a wooden horse on wooden button wheels, a felt bag with wooden buttons. Enjoy

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Zoe is a 20 cm rabbit girl made from mohair, has got 5 joints (double for the head), glass eyes, loosely embroidered nose, shaded with oil paint, stuffed with fiberfill and steel pallets. She is a dreamer and loves to spend days in meadows full of flowers, bugs and other small creatures. Not long time ago Zoe has found a dandelion fluff. She was so excited!!!! It was so soft, so airy, so light… But she is a small rabbit and doesn’t know yet that daldelion’s fluffs fly away…
On the neck Zoe has two colors silk ribbons, felted bag with her wooden toy Goose and, of course, in the arms – dandelion fluff made from styrofoam, rice paper and felt.

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