Tawnie ... a final farewell

Farewell dear little friend

Thank you for 19 years of love and loyalty

You will be dearly missed

Tawnie was our amazing little miniature poodle

She was "amazing" because she was born without eyes ...

but she never knew that she had a "handicap"

Tawnie was extremely smart and always sassy ... she ruled our house!

She was our Little Princess

She is now in Doggie Heaven

with Mika, who was her best buddy here on earth

and some of our other doggie-children that preceded her:

Beau and Penny.

Until we meet again dear friends...

Available in my Etsy shop

Sorry, Catober was quickly adopted

This adorable little mink kitten, "Catober"

was available for immediate adoption

through my 

Etsy Shop (click here to visit that page)

or 

if you would just like to see more photos and details (please click here)

ABI Auction-Competition event

Cat, Panda, and Puppy ... Oh my!!!

ALL are available for adoption!

This is a RARE event.

For those of you who have been patiently waiting to adopt one of my creations ...

you know how rare this is.

These are all One-Of-A-Kind creations

exclusively made for the 

Artist Bears International

October 24-26 Auction-Competition event

The event is over ... thank you to all that attended!
The panda and puppy were both adopted.
The panda was awarded "Most Luxurious" of the event

The Halloween Cat is still looking for a new home and
will be listed for adoption in my Etsy store.

My panda was used in the ABI promotion

for more photos of each creation

and details of the event

please follow the links under each photo

Please CLICK HERE to see more photos and details of cat and event

Please CLICK HERE to see more photos and details of panda and event

Please CLICK HERE for more photos and details of puppy and event

Thank you to everyone who attended the ABI online event.
As you can see, my panda was voted "Most Luxurious" of the event

Custom Brown Bear Set

Custom Teddy Bear Set for Paula

To see more photos of these beautiful teddies please CLICK HERE

This is a beautiful rich very very dark brown mink

for a Mother-Daughter teddy set

Two Custom Teddy Bears

Two Custom Heirloom Teddy Bears for Melody

To see more photos and details please click here

Custom Heirloom Puppy

I just completed another of my custom orders. I'm still running about a year behind

on my orders but I'm trying to get caught up ... so patience please if you sent me

your mink stole (or coat) to be transformed into teddies. 

Hopefully you will feel like it was worth the wait.

Terry waited over a year for this puppy and I think it turned out beautifully ... I hope she think so too.

This is a larger version of my Companion Puppy.

To see the details and lots (and lots) of photos

please CLICK HERE

Work in Progress:

 I am still trying to get caught up on my Custom Orders (where I was sent a family heirloom mink stole to turn into teddies). I am starting on Melody's order next. Melody sent me her mink stole last August which means that I am exactly one year behind on my orders. Well, considering that I have been accepting Custom Orders for the entire 25 years that I have been a Teddy Bear Artist, being only one year behind is not so bad because in the 1990s I had so many orders that I had a 3 year waiting time for my Custom Orders!

Of course, accepting so many custom orders has severely cut into my creative time. I just have not  had the time to design and create new mink creatures to offer for adoption. Starting next year I am considering limiting the number of Custom Teddies that I will create each year.

I love this puppy pattern so much that I want to make another using my own minks. In my supplies I found a lovely pale beige mink stole with nice long and fluffy hairs. I want to combine it with another color and I am considering a pretty brown mink that also has long and fluffy hairs for the puppy's spots. I will be working on my next custom order and the puppy at the same time. This spotted puppy may become my competition piece for the upcoming Artists Bears International competition so I want to play with the pattern and give it interesting details. After working on so many custom orders this is my much needed creative time!

Two Custom Teddy Bears

Two custom teddy bears for Karen

Click HERE to see photos and details of these two teddy bears

Work in Progress:

Now I am working on Terry's Custom Order.

There is a puppy hiding in her mink stole.

I'll find it!

For this Custom Ordered Puppy I've decided to enlarge

my puppy pattern by 30% because the mink stole that I am

working with has lovely long mink hair and wide pelts ... so 

this pelt needs a slightly larger puppy.

As you can see I designed the original smaller puppy pattern as a 

companion to my teddies. Since this puppy will not be paired 

with a teddy it just needs to be larger!