Links to Favourite Artists and Friends
(some have no website at present)
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Links to Favourite Artists and Friends (some have no website at present) |
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Wellwood Bears - simply the BEST, Ruth just makes the kind of bears that speak to me . |
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Anna Bears (Australia) - Anna, you continue to be such an inspiration, thank you. Jesse, Candy and Snowdrop send their love in bucketsful ! See Anna's beautiful bears on eBay ( seller - *beaniekids* ).
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Back Road Bears (USA) - a delightful site and gorgeous bears by a truly lovely lady, Daphne Blau, talented bear artist and fellow diabetic ! |
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Baer and Co (Germany) - Rotraud Ilisch is an established international artist who has a wonderful CD-ROM about bearmaking and restoring (available through her site). |
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Barbara-Ann Bears - wonderfully wild, brilliantly colourful, my Dad loved these guys !
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Balfour Bears - little darlings, pocket sized parcels of complete and utter cuteness.
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Barebelly Bears (Canada) - Tina's tiny creations are big characters with gorgeous expressions. |
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Beani Bears - Just the most gorgeous faces, a wealth of talent and experience from this artist !
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Bears by Raglets (USA) - bears and cats to die for, Angie - if I get the eclairs in, will you give me lessons ? |
Bears by Teri (USA) - gorgeous expressions, Teri is so talented, go have a peek.
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Bear Treasures - It was truly refreshing to meet a newer artist so bursting with Melanie Jayne's range of professional skills. All the very best for a successful future Melanie. (Patch is safe and sound and loved by all who meet him !) |
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Blossom Teddies - Amanda's bears, cats and bunnies are BEAUTIFUL ! |
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Brewer's Bruins (USA) - Andrea, your work inspired me to make "little" bears and you provided me with the means to try. I can't thank you enough !
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Brotherwood Bears - Sue's teds are super and Sue herself is a truly inspirational lady.
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Carnaby Bears- Norman came to live with me and made me smile a lot, thank you Naomi, such lovely teds. |
Changle Bears (SA) - bears that say "hold me, cuddle me", so I'm going to !
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Susanne Winterberg's WinterBÄRger are truly precious creations, you won't be able to stop at just one, I promise ! (This is my little Marty, he's gorgeous). |
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Doodle Bears - Jane makes the happiest bears on the internet ! |
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Domi-Baren (Germany) - one of my very favourites, Doris is the best, I have 8 (so far) ! |
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Elizbet Bears - Aileen Terry lives just around the corner and makes bears to treasure, lovely expressions. |
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JAC-Q-LYN Bears - Jacqui's talents have produced a fantastic range of distinctive bears, LOVELY !
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Kajo Bears (no website yet) - In my opinion, my chum Carol's Jimmy Moon is one of the finest bears in the world, it's time to get your website up and running Carol Williams ! Let the rest of the world know just how talented you are !
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Laura Unrau (Canada)- little teds full of soul, beautiful, different, just WOW. |
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Lea Bears (Netherlands) - Lenie's bears are absolutely enchanting, I've adopted quite a few, can you blame me ! |
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Lovable Fellows (Germany) - Karin's beautiful teds with my favourite big noses and big feet ! |
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Madabout Bears - Lynn's bears are so cute, they ask to be picked up and hugged ! She also has a fab range of cats (I'm determined to make one mine !) |
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Mawspaws - I really adore Maureen's teds, rabbits and cats. They are CUTE, CUTE, CUTE.
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MiraBaer (Germany) - incredibly talented, I love these teds, I needed Joel !
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Nioka Bears (Australia) - Fabulous web site with such beautiful, characterful bears by artist Christine Welsh. (Nioka Bears means "Green Pastures"). |
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Pipkins Bears - Jane creates such gorgeous, well-crafted teds. Her talent has continued to build and explore new ideas, as the years have gone by. Ching sits happily on my dressing table.
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Richland Bears (Germany) - Richard Van Aalst is the BEST bear artist, and a truly lovely guy. Please do visit this site, it is such a super showcase for his exceptional talents with well-loved teds, clown bears and miniature to giant bears. FANTASTIC. |
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Rosey Day Bears (Australia) - Darling miniature bears from an award winning, published artist. |
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Samuel Bears (USA) - Needle-felting at it's VERY, VERY BEST ! Kristin Canney is a truly talented artist who creates bears, friends and forest folk with faces that tell stories - she really touches the inner child. Kris also trades on eBay under the name samuelbears. NOT TO BE MISSED ! |
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Sassy Bears and Fabrics (USA) - Steph is a talented mini bear artist. She has a fabulous site with the BEST range of mini bear fabrics I have seen ( and used ! ). The hand-dyed fabrics are to die for. You will never need another supplier ! |
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Threadbears (USA) - amazing, teeny-weeny, crocheted and needle-felted bears, animals and dolls by Sue, Emma and the family just beautiful. |
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ThReAdTeDs (Netherlands) - Berta can show you just how to make one of her tiny thread creations with the aid of one of her easy-to-follow patterns or kits. Why not have a go ! |
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Scruffie Bears - Unreservedly my favourite teds on eBay ! Susan sent me encouragement and an enormous pile of gorgeous mini-bear materials to help me build more little teds, I can't express how grateful I am. Her little Jimmy lives on my computer (along with a small crowd of my favourite teds), I love him ! Thank you for being such a generous person, Susan Pryce. See Susan's wonderful bears on eBay ( seller - glorious19 ), as well as this website. |
History of the Teddy bear
I was contacted by Ms S Knight, an Elementary school teacher, who suggested that I might like to include the history of the teddy bear on my site.
One of her students, Ashleigh, found an interesting site with a good deal of interesting information about teds.
Here is the link, and thank you Ashleigh ! -
Email Jane : 
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