Critters Creations

Isabell Now on Bear Pile!

2012-01-19T09:00:00.000-08:00

This is Isabell another Vintage style panda bear.

http://www.bearpile.com/item/52035

I have them both on Bear Pile if you would like to stop by and take a peek!

Vintage bear available!

2012-01-13T08:40:00.000-08:00

This is Harold a vintage style bear that is now available!

Getting started for the new year!

2012-01-06T15:50:00.000-08:00

Well here it is a new year. I have had these two started for a while now and just getting back to them. I sold my first bear of the year, May the vintage style bear. I had cut out four different ones and have these two to finish. I more bears that are started but not finished and my plan is to get them finished this year! This is one of my goals for this year. I have a timless teddy that I will be posting for sale soon.

I hope everyone had a great New Year. My all you dreams and wishes come through for you in this New Year!

I Won!!!!

2011-12-25T15:33:00.000-08:00

I am so happy! I have been playing the contest Days of Christmas that was on Tracy Lee's website ThimbleBeary Orginals. http://www.thimblebearyoriginals.com/Days_of_Christmas.html I have won some ornaments for my tree and a bear pin and a pin cushion Plus the grand prize Snowflake that was drawn on christmas eve!!!!!

What a great christmas gift! Thanks Tracy for the cool contest!!!!
Now you know he will have a place on my tree for the years to come. I have always
loved Tracy's bears and I now have one of my own!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-23T05:23:00.000-08:00

101 Days of Christmas

2011-12-12T16:26:00.000-08:00

Here is a blog I found that I thought you might like. Go take a peek.

A peek at some of the things in my christmas tree!

2011-12-11T13:00:00.001-08:00

Here are a few of the critters that is sitting in my christmas tree!

The cat looking for the mouse......

Panda peeking around the tree......

Ploar bear playing in the tree.....

raccoon .... and O whats this I see....there is a black bear with a toy...

.......there you are little mouse hiding from Mr. Cat!

I have a couple of wooden suit cases that stack one on top of the other.
As you can see I added some friends with the bears for a
christmassy look by the fire place.

Starting to look a lot like Christmas!

2011-12-05T16:50:00.001-08:00

Well I don't know where the time has gone. Here it is Dec already and christmas knocking at the back door! I have my tree up and thought I would share it with you. I still have more to decorate around the house. Here goes......... I took different shoots of the tree so you can see most of the items.

See if you can find the critters in the tree. I love to put elfs and bears and such in my christmas tree. I had the lights off and the lights on the tree on and my flash really lit up the tree.

Mouse Ornamnet!

2011-11-21T06:59:00.001-08:00

I have been doing swap ornaments for the last 5 years. I just finished my ornament and thought I would share with you a couple of pictures be for I posted it in the mail.

I won a blog giveaway!

2011-11-14T06:50:00.001-08:00

I just found out I won one of the Old Road Primitives Blog's give away!

They are so cute. If you like Primitive you should take a peek at their blog. Lots of patterns to choose from.

http://www.oldroadprimitives.com/catalog.php?category=1

Stars for winter!!!

2011-11-10T09:34:00.001-08:00

I have been cleaning out my craft stuff and came across these stars and decided to add a few things to them. Here are a couple of them and I have a couple more to do. I just used up things I had around.

They were fun to do. I would find different things and take them apart to use like the snowman heads. They are made of tin. I didn't want to use the bodies as they were too big, so I took the heads off and just used them. A little bit of greenery and some snow, few berries and there you have it. Simple!

It seems I have a thing for snowmen. They are great to hang on the door that can be there all winter.

Resource list reference bears.

2011-10-25T04:56:00.000-07:00

Melissa Wenzel sent me this link reference bears and I want to share with you. A guide to Teddy Bear resources on the web. If you wish to be added to this list , please contact Melissa at, melissa@starcostumes.com

http://www.starcostumes.com/teddy-bear-guide/

More Mink Coats For Sale!

2011-10-19T15:57:00.001-07:00

I just up dated the mink coats for sale page. I have put two more on the website.

Mink coats up for sale!

2011-10-14T10:01:00.000-07:00

I am doing some cleaning up and I have more mink then I will ever use. I enjoy using mohair so it is time to let go of the mink. So if you are interested click on the available items to go have a peek!

Vintage bear now available!

2011-10-12T10:23:00.000-07:00

I have a vintage style bear now available. This is may. Go to the available page for more information!

As promised Here is Griffiths!

2011-10-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

Here is the lt yorkie I made from Krista's pattern that I won. I used short mohair instead of long and he looks like he has a puppy cut. I named him after Krista Griffiths as it is her pattern. Ehat a totaly differnt look buy changing the lenght of the fur plus I used an all tan collor for the head. I hope you all like him and he was fun to make.To see more pictures and information on him go to my available page.

Wayne's Tutorial!

2011-10-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

I am so happy I found a post that Joanne did on linking her website to her blog. Her friend Wayne did a tutorial on how to do this. Here is the link to Wayne's tutorial . I hope you find it helpful. Thank you Joane and Wayne! Now I will be able to have pages for different things and link to my website.

A cool Blog!

2011-09-11T11:11:00.000-07:00

I came across this cool blog this morning that has some free toy patterns that you may like. So go on over an take a peek!

A Timeless Teddy Vintage Style

2011-09-09T15:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a Timeless Teddy vintage style! He has no name yet. He is made from mohair and about 10" tall. He wears a working pendent with a cloth bow tied to it. He has a bit of a different face then What May has. I have been trying out different designs I have created to see what I like the best.

I am working on the yorkie pattern I won from Krista and will have pictures to follow shortly. So don't forget to pop back to see what I have created.

I won the pattern of a K Pawz Creations!

2011-08-23T17:22:00.000-07:00

I won the pattern of a K Pawz Creations Yorkshire Terrier puppy pattern by Krista Griffiths. This is the first ever made public a pattern from Krista. I was so thrilled :) Krista is going to sell this pattern. If you click on the picture you will go to her blog and get more information. We have 4 Yorkies and two Chihuahuas. I will post a picture when I make this puppy.

A Vintage Style Bear/ Make over

2011-05-30T17:20:00.000-07:00

It has been awhile since I posted a bear. I have several on the go at different stages to be finished. Here is May. A vintage style bear. This is my first vintage style bear. She is about 10" tall, made from mohair. May has loose joints and stuffed with steel shot and poly filling. She has a nice weight to her. It took me awhile to age her as I have not done that to a bear before. It is a bit scary to make a bear look old when I make bears look new, if you know what I mean. The funny thing is I had a job with the nose to make it look old.

I have made so changes with May. Trimming back the fur as it was too long. Making her a simple dress out of a vintage hanky. I like the new May better.

I am back!

2011-05-30T11:09:00.000-07:00

The group at the table picture from our last night there.Me and my two bears and Joanne.

Well I am back from Philadelphia and had a blast! Met lots of wonderful people and got to meet Joanne Livington, Alison Mckee, Michell Lamb, Katherine Hallem and Bev White. I did bring home a couple of bears by Joanne. Here are a couple of pictures from the show. Everyone was so nice. If they have the show again next year I would go. It had dolls as well but not as many as there were bears. It is the biggest bear show I have been to. Joanne has posted more pictures here at TT. Thanks Joanne, click here

Giveaway from TS mini bears

2011-04-28T10:40:00.001-07:00

This is eye candy! what a great give away. The draw is May 7th. So click on the picture to take you to TS mini bears blog to get all the info.

Philadelphia bear show May 12 - 14

2011-04-26T15:54:00.000-07:00

I am so excited to go to the Philadelphia bear show in May. I we to the Toronto show a couple of weeks ago. This one is for bears and dolls. I won't have a table in the show but going to see what it is all about and may be bring home a furry friend. You should check out the site. Even better, why not just go and see all the great works of art. It should be good. I am going for the three days. Who knows what you may find to bring home.

Link to Bear History!

2011-01-13T12:15:00.000-08:00

I had a email for an Elementart school teacher that has
found the information on my web page What's in a bear useful. So one of her
students found this link to the history of the
teddy bear and thought that other readers may
be interested in reading the history of
teddy bears.
So thank you Ashleigh for the website:) What a sweet thing to do. Maybe you will be a bear artist some day:)
http://www.costumesupercenter.com/csc_inc/html/static/btarticles/historyoftheteddybear.html

Books For Sale!!!

2011-01-09T16:02:00.000-08:00

Here is the list of books I have for sale; The price does not include the shipping. You will be charged the acual shipping cost.

Making Teddy Bears- $10.00 SOLD

Easy-To-Make Teddy Bears & All The Trimmings- $10.00

The Bear Canvas ( guide to fabric painting and teddy-bear making)- $20.00

Teddy Bear Craft Book (hard cover, Thirty five projects)- $10.00

Two - Hour Teddy bears- (hard cover)- $6.00

2 books - Collecting Teddy Bears- (hard cover)- $10.00 each

Teddy Bears- (hard cover)( This delightfully illustrated book provides the ideal introduction to the world of the Teddy bear)- $10.00

Ultimate Teddy Bear Book- (hard cover)(The essential guide for all bear enthusiasts)- $10.00

The Teddy Bear Encyclopedia- (hard cover)- $10.00 SOLD

If you are interest in buying a book, please email me;

hearnlinda@hotmail.com

Clean Sweep!!!

2011-01-09T15:56:00.000-08:00

Well here it is 2011 and it is time to get rid of stuff I no longer need. Some where along the way I seem to have lost this post so I am entering it again. This is not the way to start 2011 having things disappear. Lol I have a dozen bear books I am going to try and post here in the next few days for sale. So pop back and see whats up for grabs!

TT Christmas Tree!

2010-12-15T09:35:00.000-08:00

Well here it is less then two weeks away and Christmas will be here. Also it is that time of year that TT has their tree up for the ornament swap. It is well on it's way. So go take a peek at the tree. You will have to keep checking it as the ornaments arrive they will be placed on the tree. This is the starting of the Annual TT Christmas Tree!

This is the first tree all done and now working on a second tree!

Teddies Worldwide Holiday Bear Show!

2010-11-20T17:14:00.000-08:00

Here is a great online bear show to check out.

Out of the Loop!

2010-11-18T05:58:00.000-08:00

It has been some time since I have been posting. It has been crazy. Here it is middle of November and christmas is just around the corner. The weather here has been great and it doesn't seem like winter. No snow let. I like to see some snow for christmas and then it can go away. I am not much for the cold weather. We are going to have christmas with my kids this year. They live out west. Well I know there will be snow as they are having it now. BRR!!!!

Hurricane Earl going to hit Atlantic Canada

2010-09-02T07:44:00.000-07:00

Batten down the hatches as it looks like it is going to be a rough one! I have family and friends down there and hope they weather the storm coming. I have the say the weather has been crazy every where. Out west in Albera has had the colder weather and we have been having some hot weather and high humidity in Ontario. The long weekend is approching so hope you all have a great weekend!

Blog give away!!!!

2010-08-05T09:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a bolg give away from Emm'a Bears. They are so cute. So go oon over and enter to win one of these cuties!

Still here!

2010-07-11T16:40:00.000-07:00

I am still here. It has been a long time since I have posted here. Lets see.......I was out west visting my grandchildren for a month. Having the basement renovated has been taking up alot of time and now that summer is here there is yard work. There just seems that there is not enought hours in a day. I just said to my hubby the other day that I need to get making bears again. I hope you are all having a great summer!

I won!!!!

2010-05-13T06:36:00.000-07:00

I am so excited!. I entered Joanne Livingston of Desertmountainbears blog give away and I won. Her blog give away is a sweet bear Ruth. She will fit in nicely with my bear collection. She is a reproduction of an early American bear. Joanne did such a great job. Here is a picture of her. She is all dressed up in a cute vintage dress.

Other Bloggers give aways!

2010-04-30T16:51:00.000-07:00

I was checking out other bloggers and came across a blog give-away from Ann-Marie Dodd of Bearmetoo Bears. What a cute flower ornament!

Blog give away by Shantock Bears!

2010-04-17T17:08:00.001-07:00

Here is another blog give away by Shantock Bears. It is a mouse ornament! So cute! Click on the picture to go to the link. Good luck everyone!

Another Artist blog give away!

2010-04-13T16:38:00.000-07:00

Here is a blog give away from Joanne Livingston of Desertmountainbears. Click on the picture to go her blog.

Happy Easter!

2010-04-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day and the Easter Bunny was good to you ! We are having such great weather and I hope it stays. I think spring has sprung and summer is around the corner. The trees are all in bud and the flowers are poping up in the garden. What a wonderful day!

My Yorkie from EBearz University Class

2010-03-28T07:43:00.000-07:00

I wanted to show you the Yorkie I make taking Nancy's class. The one picture I tried to take with Luck sitting beside it but he did not fully cooperate with me......Lucky that is. LOL

This Yorkie I made is called Andy after the one that passed away.

The yorkie is a non jointed dog with wire amature in side. This is the first non jointed one I have made.

2010-03-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

Wow it's been awhile sine I posted any thing here. I had been surfing the net and went to EbearZ to check out on the courses and found that Nancy has a free video tutorial on Scissor and Razor Sculpting the face of a teddy bear. I thought some of you might be interested in it. She has different online courses that you might like to take. So go and take a peek to see what is all there. She also has a free bear pattern as well.
I have take several of the courses there and found them to be very good. Right now I am doing one on making a Yorkie as we have five and one is a tea-cup puppy. The great thing with taking online courses is you can do it any time of the day or night and even in your PJ's. Lol I think it is nice to be able to have the online courses because they are all over the world and if you don't live where they are offered ...... well you can't attend. One of the wonderful things about computers and the Internet. Now here is a picture of Luckymy little boy!

Mink Bear Angel found a home!

2010-01-22T14:40:00.000-08:00

Years ago when I started out making bears I use to make bears from others real fur coats. I did that for a few years. The shop that was in town at the time carried mohair. At first I was a bit hesitant to use it as it was a bit expensive and did not want to cut into the fabric in case I made a mistake. Well That did not last long and I was making mohair bears. It had been sometime now since I made a bear from real fur and gave it a try .... Of course when I started making real fur bears I knew nothing on working with real fur so I bought the book Teddy Bears With a Past by Nancy Tillberg. It had all the information in it I needed to get started in making real fur bears. I am glad I had the book for reference. You should check it out if you are wanting to make real fur bears. It is a very good book. I am going to continue to offer real fur bears a long with mohair bears. Here is a picture of Angel. I hope you like her.

Angel has gone to Alberta Canada to live with her new mom Who happens to be a dear friend. She seen Angel on my web site and email me to say she wanted her.

If you would like to be notified of future bears coming available just go to my web site and join my mailing list. You can also follow my Blog as I post it here as well.

Live web cam on Black Bear Lily!

2010-01-22T06:34:00.000-08:00

I don't know if any of you have been watching Lily a Black Bear who they have on live web cam getting ready to give birth. I just checked in this morning and still no babies yet. This is so amazing. Click here; Lily
Don't miss out on this wonderful experience. It's not every day you get to see a wild bear give birth. The babies look so cute when they are little but I would not want to mess with them as they get bigger, if you know what I mean!

Bear - Hands by Susan Rayner Blog Give Away!

2010-01-21T15:13:00.001-08:00

It seems that I am adding blog give aways a lot lately. There must be a bug going around.

Bear - Hands by Susan Rayner a Bear Artist. Click on the bear picture below to go to the blog give away!

So don't for get to go and enter to win a wonderful bear! It is great to enter these give aways as you never know you could be the next lucky winner! Have fun!

Another great Blog Give Away!

2010-01-11T21:51:00.000-08:00

Here is another great Blog by Linda Of Benson Bears.
Her blog is Bears In The Bush! She also has great bears. :)
So go take a peek and enter the draw.

Blog giveaway by Sweet Souls Teddy Bears!

2010-01-08T14:13:00.000-08:00

Hi there, just want to let you in on a fellow blogger has a giveaway By Louise of Sweet Soulds Teddy Bears on her blog mousetails! Click on the picture below to go there.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2010-01-01T18:28:00.000-08:00

Well I hope you all have a Happy New Year and may 2010 be better and great year for all! It is hard to believe another year has gone by and a new one to begin.

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-24T06:41:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-11-25T06:36:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-11-20T16:17:00.000-08:00

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!!!

2009-11-18T05:25:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-31T13:35:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-28T10:23:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

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.