HEADS UP!!

Finally I can lift my head up from the large order of bears, which was increased to 150.  They were finally completed and delivered this week, and I am relieved and delighted to say they were well liked.  I did not have time to take pictures of them at different stages but here is a snap shot of a number of bodiless bears.

Today I am enjoying myself making a new chubby bear, this new range I have yet to show you as they have already all been sold, I do enjoy making these.  I will post some pictures for you to see to in the next couple of days.

This is Punchinello a 19 inch clown from my Arts & Crafts Range, who I had real fun ageing and distressing.  He is based on Punch from Punch and Judy.

Right I am off to get going on my new little chubby friend.

Wishing you all a really lovely weekend.

Hugs

Jacqui 

AFTER THE SHOW

We had a lovely day in London last Sunday.  After a very long drive we arrived at Kensington without the usual detours.  We arrived at 8.30am and there was already a queue forming.  As soon as the doors opened it was busy and stayed like that for most of the day.  We had a great day and met new and old friends (at this point I must mention my Revel friend...yes you know who you areLOL!!).  I am pleased to say a lot of our bears found new homes and my new range of bears was well received, can't wait to make more.  The next Hugglets is in September when we will be back in our usual place, I can highly recommend this show to any bear artist and to collectors who wish to be delighted by wonderful displays of bears from all over the world.

I have not had chance to recover from the show as it was back to work for me on the Monday morning wading through my orders.  I am not moaning as I much prefer to be busy than idle as my head is always spinning with bear ideas, too many at times as it makes me impatient as I want to get cracking straight away onto the next bear idea.

Thought you might like to see some of the bears I took to the show.

My stand at the show.

HUGGLETS PREVIEW No.1

I thought you might like to have a little peep at some of the Urchins who will be making the trip to London on Sunday.

Baby Dribble (8ins)

 

Dobbs (8ins)

Mobberley (10ins)

Elvin (10ins)

Fruitella (8ins)

I will also be introducing at the show a new design of bear.

Hopefully I will get chance to post again before the show some more preview pictures.

1 DOWN 109 TO GO!

Picture this!!

Mohair everywhere, bear body parts in boxes and special little box for all those precious little ears to make sure one does not escape, because if anything is going to do a runner it will surely be an ear LOL!!  Then the big decision is what type and colour eyes am I going to use, the noses are an easy choice either black or brown, each bear will be different.  Then the poor little bears have to go through the ageing process ouch!!!

Well the reason behind the need for so many boxes is we have been asked to make 110 bears for a very worthy cause (I will tell you more nearer the time for the event).  So we are not only busy preparing for Hugglets next weekend but also getting together this order.

Here are pictures of bear No.1

Well sadly I have no more time for blogging today, so better get back to my organised chaos.

Hugs

Jacqui

A TOUCH OF SHAKESPEARE!!!

ROMEO & JULIET

I thought with Valentine's Day approaching and a hint of romance is in the air, that I should make a couple of sweetheart Urchins.

After a rummage through my materials I found some beautiful deep red, curled mohair and a wonderful rich looking red cashmere fabric, so this was the start of my Valentine Urchins.

I just had to call them Romeo and Juliet!!

Romeo is an 8 inch straight legged Urchin.

Juliet is one of my new design of bent leg and arm Urchin.

I must have been bitten by the red bug as I just had to make a couple of Urchins with red noses.  So I have made one called Strawberry Shortcake (I think you will easily guess why she was named this LOL!!) and her little brother Trumble.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

TRUMBLE

 I just love doing bears with red noses  ( I have a large 20 inch black bear with a red nose I am finishing off tomorrow).

Wishing you a really lovely weekend.

Jacqui

LUCY

LUCY

What a miserable start to the weekend... Rain! and more Rain!

I have quite a few bears waiting to be finished, some need eyes, some need noses and others need to be stuffed, so my week ahead is going to be quite full catching up on the work I should have finished off last week, hopefully no more germs waiting to get me until after Hugglets :-)

Lucy is a 13 inch Toy-Box Treasure who is looking to find a loving home instead of going back to live in the Toy-Box.

This little girl bear is made from a pretty pale blue on a cream backing German mohair.  She has beautiful blue glass eyes and a big cheeky smile even though her nose is a little thread bare.

If you would like to see further information about Lucy and to find out her adoption fee please visit my website and click on the following link LUCY

Today I have finished two Sweetheart Urchins called Romeo & Juliet who I will be introducing tomorrow if I can manage to get better pictures than the ones I took today. Its been a bit of a dull day for any bear to have its picture taken, fingers crossed we get a bit of sunshine tomorrow :-)

Wishing you a great weekend.

Jacqui & Lucy

A NEW DESIGN OF URCHIN

DUMPLIN

For awhile now I have been contemplating making a new shaped Urchin, and have finally managed to create a shelf sitting 8 inch Urchin with chubby bent legs and chubby bent arms.  Harry and Dumplin are the first two to be created and both were snapped up very quickly so I am busy now trying to finish another pair called Romeo and Juliet.

Fingers crossed I will be introducing more of these shelf sitting Urchins at the Hugglets Bear Festival on the 27th February :-)

HARRY

It has been a little while since I have made an Urchin elephant so I have finished off a little boy called Trunks, I hope you like him and a little girl Urchin called Bettie.

TRUNKS

BETTIE

Sorry this was a short post but my daughter has kindly brought some germs home to visit from school to give to me,  so my bear making has been a little on the slow side since last.  I can tell I am starting to feel better as nice sweet goodies are starting to call my name again.