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!!

Happy Easter

Please meet my latest creation -- Joshi the Rabbit

He is my first ever bunny rabbit, and he is one of "Easter Challenge" in Teddy Bear and Critters - Australaisa

He has hand-painted glass eyes

Wired ears & needle sculpted foot pad. He is also air-brushed to give him unique colours.

Here are some of his details:
EDITION: OOAK
SIZE: 10 inches (27cm) when sitting (include ears)
FABRIC: Mohair
PAW PADS: Ultrasuede
EYES: Painted crystal eyes
NOSE: Embroidered with perle cotton
JOINTS: 5 way locknut joints
FILLING: Wool filling & stainless steel shot in tummy
ACCESSORIES: Ribbon bow on neck
DETAILS: Airbrushing, needle sculpting, sculpted paw and footpads and horse hair whiskers

He is ready for adoption with price of AUS$120.

Behind the scene:
The photos that I took for him at Australasia Teddy Bear and Critters's website is really bad, because I finished him right on the deadline & didn't get chance to take photos at day time. So he ended of having photos done during the night, and my workroom is too dark to take professional photos.
I used cardboard to set up the place and have used flash mode, cause the shadow will just right behind the bunny without flash. However flash didn't work well too.
I think it's time to learn professional photography!
Don't want to end of horrible photos at all, because all of my photos can't really present my workmanship!!

Holding My Heart

I have created this big angel boy for long time.
He is a very special bear, because he was different before.

He had crystal tears on the face and his arms have armatures, so they are bendable.
Just looks like he is praying to God, hope the war can stop, there is no more fight or argument between people.

However this lovely bear still can't find someone loves him & take him home.
So I had a little change for him -- take off the tears, and give him a heart shape necklace.
He feels no more sadness and ready to bring his heart to you!