Custom Order 14 (finally) finished ... 4 Polar Bears

Custom Order for Diane ....

Four beautiful Polar Bears:

This is just a quick photo before I run off to check on my mom in the hospital.
 Their Photo Shoot with more detailed photos will be posted soon ...

Long over-due update ...

Some of you may have been wondering where I have been ... seems like I fell off the end of the earth ... just disappeared ...

Well, my friends who know me will not be surprised to know that as soon as Spring arrives I spend all of my time in my garden. This year is especially time consuming since I am converting my garden by removing the grass and replacing with pebbles and my plants are all succulents in containers. I live in Southern California where there is a perpetual drought. Besides that I love succulents! My plan is to make my garden look like a full sized Fairy Garden (I even plan on adding a few on my hand sculpted dragons).

That is the good reason that I temporarily "disappeared". The other reason is that my mother is now 95 years old and I somehow, being the middle child, became my mother's main caregiver during the day (my younger sister actually cares for her at night since she lives with her).

Unfortunately my mother recently suffered a small stroke so all of my days are spent in the hospital with her since her speech is difficult and I need to advocate for her. After spending up to 8 hours in the hospital each day I come home exhausted and my poor little unfinished teddies continue to patiently wait for their completion ...

These teddies are for my Custom Order for Diane.  Thank you Diane for your wonderful patience. As you can see your teddies are beautiful and they will be even more beautiful when I find the time to paint their lovely faces, then they will be complete ... finally.

My teddies are not only my creative passion but they are also my therapy so I hope to find time soon to spend time creating them once again. Other than that I hope my very patient collectors will continue to be very very very patient with waiting for me. Before my mother became ill I was actually planning on a new creation to offer to my collectors. I realized that while I've made mink cats I've never made a mink lion ... or a mink owl ... or a mink ????? I had more ideas, more ideas than I have time (at the moment). I have no plans on "retiring" from my teddies ... ever ... so patience please, I will be making more when I can.