Happy Halloween

I know it's bit late to post this bear out, but I am really love him!
He is cutest bear that I have ever made!

He is also my first ever Halloween bear, he is about 38cm height without hat (50cm height includes hat).
As I want him can free stand, due to the huge wings. I add a lot of garnet powder in his both legs, so he is very heavy... about 1 kg!
He has huge black feather wings, black felt witch hat with pumkin Halloween decoration.
As Halloween in USA is about Autumn, so I gave him a scarf. Black & White scarf with ghost pieces around!



The cutest part is his fings! He is not looking scary without those fings! LOL
He is also carrying a pumkin candy basket, and he is ready for Trick or Treat!

Flower Fairy bear

I am really sorry that I haven't update my blog for LONG LONG.... time!!

I have gone back to my hometown, Tainan City, Taiwan on June.
We spent 5 weeks overthere, and I have bought my daughter Misha back home to see my parents.
My mum have seen Misha when she was born, but my dad didn't, so that was his first time to see his grand-daughter!
We really had a great time when my parents, and of course... a lot of shopping and eating! (LOL)

Then when we came back, I started REALLY busy to make bears for Who is Who in Bear making online bear show.
As well as this flower fairy bear for Spring Challenge on Teddy Bear and Critters -- Australiasia.

This flower fairy is very beautiful, she has velvet flowers decoration near her left ear, and a very special necklace to give her a nice touch!

When I took this Spring Challenge, I was thinking about a "tea bear" and a "cake bear", the "Morning tea in Spring morning" bear set.
But I wasn't have enough time to finish 2 bears, so I made this flower fairy instead.
I will still do that bear set in the future, because I love to do this idea for a very long time!

I am still very happy what I have done for this flower fairy bear,
as she is such a lovely girl! I am very prond what I achived for her! ^__^

Here is her details:
NAME: Flower Fairy
EDITION: OOAK SIZE: 9 inches (23 cm)
FABRIC: Hand dyed multi-colour mohair
PAW PADS: Ultrasuede
EYES: Black glass eyes
NOSE: Embroidered with nose shine
JOINTS: 5 way disk - locknut
FILLING: Wool stuffing with stainless steel shot
ACCESSORIES: Velvet flower head decoration, glass beads necklace
DETAILS: Light shading around nose and eyes, needle and scissor sculpted face, needle sculpted paw pads

She is available to adopt for AUS$150 on http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/springchallenge.htm

Black & White Ball Show

This is my second online bear show, and I have put a lot of hard works on those competition bears & show bears.

This is a fantastic online bear show, which will run for a week long.
Today is the first day, and we are showing all of The Australasian Creative Design Award bears. And they are open for public vote, please visit: http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/june1.htm Please also mark this URL: http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/ballopen.htm Because everyday is going to have some more new bears! HOW EXCITING!!!

Bringing You Up to Date

Less than 2 weeks to go until the
"BLACK AND WHITE BALL" ONLINE SHOW
LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA
8 am 1st June - 7th June, 2009

There will be many new bears and critters on offer exclusively at the "Black and White Ball" Online Show. This is a completely new concept in Online Shows where it runs over a week and the bears and critters for sale will be presented individually and not in Artist's Booths as before. It is a "Masked Ball", where you will not know who has made the bear or critter until you actually contact the artist during the show, so it should be a lot of fun!!

Please visit the official show website http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/blackandwhiteballvenue.htm and if you have any questions, please ask!

An Official Sneak Peek is available at http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=5413921 .
Most of the Artists have only 3 new pieces included in the official Sneak Peek, as The Australian Creative Design Awards will also be featured as part of the Online Show. There is also a Public Choice Competition and I encourage you to vote for your favourite piece. The competition pieces cannot be viewed at all until the Online Show officially opens, all I can tell you is that each entry is either a bear or critter, all the entries will also be available for sale and they are all black and white!!

As with previous online shows, my own new pieces will not be available to view on my website. These exclusive new creations will only be available to purchase at the official Online Show. You can check the starting time for your neck of the woods here http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

New pieces will be added daily, according to the daily "Dance Card" and for your convenience I will email the "Black & White Ball" Online Show link to you when it opens for business.

How to Purchase at the Online Show
To purchase though the official Online Show website just click on the email link provided on each bear/critters page.
The first person to contact me by email once the Online Show has officially opened will have the the first opportunity to secure each piece.
Please include - the NAME of the piece you would like to secure in the SUBJECT LINE of your email
- POSTAL ADDRESS for shipping and optional insurance calculations

Once the final cost has been calculated you have a choice of payment options -
PayPal - International/ Australian collectors
Direct Bank Deposit - Australian collectors only


Layaway/Layby
I will be offering a very convenient option to purchase your new piece.
A 35% deposit ( non-refundable) is all that is required to secure your new bear or critter and further installments are negotiable to suit your bear budget, please contact me to arrange details.
This option is also available for any other available pieces on my website!!


Please Note - In keeping with the Online Show rules, a piece cannot be marked as "ADOPTED" until Payment/Deposit has been confirmed!

If you have any questions or suggestions, I would love to hear from you,

Beary kind regards,

Bonnie

Sneak Peek for Black & White Ball show

This is the sneak peek of Cumai Bears for Black & White Ball show.

Don't forget to come to http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/blackandwhiteballvenue.htm
to visit the show from 1st of June.
This will be A WEEK LONG bear show!

Taking photos

My workroom is not only messy at the moment,
it is MESSY, MESSY AND MESSY.....
My workroom was made up by our garage, it's simple, but many bears have been made in this small room.

I was taking photos for my Black and White Ball show bears yesterday.
This is the first time that I use SLR digital camera to take bear photos.
Professional camera really made the bear looks very different..., as I always use simple digital camera to take bear photos.
But they always can't show the beauty of real bear!

So this time I asked my husband to teach me how to use SLR camera,
and found the result is very surprise me!
I have also used 2 flash at the sides and they give the bear really good lighting and effect!

Had a bad dream

It looks like I am going to make a panda..., but it will be a very different panda!

I had a bad dream last night,
it was about today is the last day before hand in Black & White ball show's deadline,
and I didn't finish any bear!!

After woke up, I start to sew the bear immediately.
Don't wanna this bad dream to come true!!