There were tearful scenes around the bear trunk yesterday as the corduroy bear waved goodbye to the others. He is on his way to Massachusetts to join the little knitted bear who is now called Eddie and having a lovely time in his new life in the New World.
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With a cheery wink and an Elvis Presley karate move, he was ready to leave.
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There's a sneak preview in these photos of two new bears. I've been working on re-designing the classic bear paw shape so that the hockey stick becomes more downturned for Ursine verisimilitude. The old-fashioned, Steiff-style bears which i have been attempting to emulate
are lovely but i think teddy-bears should resemble real bears even more closely. I suppose i knew teddys before i knew about real bears (the first real bears i came across were probably from illustrations in a Ladybird copy of Goldilocks), and there could be a case for real bears and teddy bears being cousins of the same genus. However, besides personally finding the protuberant muzzled, jointed teds more attractive than the flat-faced, paralyzed, amputee type (absolutely no offence whatsoever meant to humans with these conditions), i think that it can never to be too early to teach children (or remind adults) about endangered species, why they are endangered (perhaps keeping baiting descriptions from the the under-5's) and generally making the link between the bears in their cots to the relationships we have with real animals as we grow up.
New bears showing here soon!
And some painting if i ever get a moment!!
Many, many thanks and good wishes to Anja from Massachusetts who is my very valuable and delightful customer!
