Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas every one. I don't know about where you live but here in Ontario Canada we have no snow. Looks like we are going to have a green christmas this year! Going to have to go out and make some snow for christmas day!

Teddy Talk sponsored by Intercal we have been doing a christmas ornament swap since 2006. Those that want to take part has their name but in a hat and Mel this year organized it drew names to who we had to make an ornament for. Here is a picture of the one I sent to Tracey in New Zealand.

Tammy from Beckoning bears has been decorating the tree every year with the pictures of the ornaments that were made. Here are the pictures of the two trees for this year. Not all ornaments have been received yet.

I have bee doing this for the last four years. It has been alot of fun. It is great to see what ideas that eveyone comes up with to make an ornament. They come from all over the world.

Update .....Character Bear Boomer Available again!

Here is a real character. His name is Boomer. He is avialable on my website.

He was such fun to create. He has a needle felted face and waxed nose. This is the first time I have used doll eyes. He has double neck joint as well. I was happy with the way he turned out. It took some time to needle felt and wax is nose.

Sharing a chance to win a bear!

I was checking out other bear artist blogs and came across this blog by Ginger Brame (bearbits)who is giving away a sweet bear. I thought I would share this with you so you can enter to win a bear. Here is the link; http://bearbits.blogspot.com/2009/10/silver-anniversary-giveaway-4.html#comment-form

I enjoy reading the blogs to see what everyone is up to and what is new. Good luck everyone! Have a great week end!

Ki-Yan is here!!!

Well I thought I was never going to get this fellow done. But he is here, and to find out more about him and to see more pictures of him go to my web site.

So here is Ki-Yan. I needled felted his face and nose ,then put on layers of wax. It had been a while since I waxed a nose and wanted to give it a try again. I think it turned out not to bad. If you are interested in adopting Ki-Yan please email me.

New design

Well here is a panda I have been working on. I still have some finishing touches and he or she will be up for adoption. I was hoping to have him done by the end of this month, but will be done soon.

Lamb chop

Do you remember Shari Lewis who was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, was a host to a children's television show, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s. She passed away Aug 2, 1998 from cancer. Well my mom has been knitting a puppet lamb chops from a pattern she has had for years. I use to knit them at one time to. The orginal pattern did not have a legs ,so I made up the leg and foot pattern to add to the pattern that she already has and here is Lamb Chops!.

From some thing old to some thing new

I have recently been trying some thing new.... Pin Cushions! For some unknown reason I started looking at different things and pin cushions came to mind. These are a few I made. Do you ever look at some thing and think of another use for that item? They were so much fun to make.

A new blogger is born!

Welcome to my Blog

Happy Thanksgiving here in Canada!

Here it is fall already and don't know where summer went.

This is my frist post. Blogging is something that is very new for me. I have been looking at friends blogs and love reading to see whats new with them. So here goes. I guess I will begin to say I have been in arts and crafts for over 20 years. I guess you could say I have a creative side to me. I love to create different things from all kinds of different materials. I have been in the bear world for...... my gosh 11 years. Where has the time gone. I Create my own patterns for my bears to make them One-Of-A-Kind Adult collectable bears. They are so much fun to create. Somethimes these little guys decide on how they should look and they get their own way! So please do stop in again and see whats up and new in Critters Creations world.