Rain - again

I am looking out and it is raining - again! This is winter now a days in my part of Denmark. It is not very encouraging, mostly because of lack of daylight.

Now comes the good part: I got mail today, a parcel from U.S.A. with materials for small teddy bears. It is so exciting to receive the material you order via the Internet. I love getting this kind of parcels, to be able to feel the ordered material and see the little things for real. I believe that it would be impossible to have the hobbies I have without the Internet. It is fantastic.

I am going away for about 10 days. I have grandchildren in Sweden whose parrents are going to London for some days, and Jorn and I are going to look after Mads (6 years) and Emilie (4 years) in the meantime. As our son and his family live so far away we do not see them that often which is really too bad. But we enjoy it so much more when we see them. We have an other son who lives in the Copenhagen area with his family. He as 3 children, Mathias (10), Philip (3) and Cecilie (1). Of course, we are also going to spend some days with them and we look very much forward to this. I am going to bring material so I can sew a little bear or two - if I get the time. I need to know that I at least have the possibility to make a bear. However, our grandchildren have first priority.

When we are back it will be March and hopefully the weather will know that March is the first month of spring.

Small teddies

It seems that I must make small teddy bears as they do not require so much cutting which I cannot do yet. I have started a new big bear, but my husband had to be the one to cut it all out. He doesn't like that part very much. He is all right when it comes to evaluate og sell the bears. Well, I am not quite fair because he also helps me stuff the big ones - and that really is a big help.

I have made a couple of little guysand they are quite cute I think.

Last Saturday I went to see a Teddy Bear and Doll Show in Aarhus (the second largest city in Denmark). When you go to these shows you realize that Denmark is a small country. There were 3 stalls with teddybears and 2 with dolls - both reborn dolls. There are simply not buyers in Denmark for large Teddy Bear shows or Doll shows. Well, fortunately, we can go abroad to show our bears and there is the Internet.

My first bear in 2009

Finally, I finished my first teddy bear this year. His name is "Hugo" and he is about 40 cm standing.

I shall make some more bears before he will be shown on my web-site.

For the moment I have one of my reborn-dolls, "Sara", for sale on http://www.qxl.dk/. She is a beautiful sleeping girl. Her hair is hand rooted with high quality American mohair and she is painted with Genesis Heat Set colours. Have a look:

Now I plan to make some mini-teddies. My hand is still not in order and using scissors is a problem. The small ones do not require so much cutting.

I have just been walking my dog and it is cold and windy outside - just the weater for bear making.