Hugglets and Crows

These are the pictures of my crows - Walpole and Bronwyn.  I finished them on Friday night; photographed them (very badly) on Saturday morning; went off to work; got home too late to take better photos; then off to Hugglets at 5am this morning, and they found homes!  So no super-perfect photos unfortunately.  Just a few with the cat scratching his bottom in the background.  But I'm very, very glad somebody liked the crows enough to take them home!

The show was good!  I sold nine items in all, and it was lovely to meet so many people enthusiastic about bears.  People cradling bears in their arms, wearing teddy bear jumpers, teddy bear brooches, carrying teddy bear handbags, lugging around multiple bags of bears…  It was really good to be there, and I really appreciate everyone who came over to say hello, and who took some of my bears (and crows) home with them.

The show also gave me a lot to think about.  It was very different from craft fairs, or the Art & Craft Centre where I have a cabinet - people were looking for different things.  So I guess I need to think about whether I should be presenting what I do differently to different audiences.  Hmmmm.  No doubt I'll be boring the pants off everyone with this subject for days to come.

Hugglets Winter BearFest 2014

I'm all of a jitter at the moment, because - due to a late cancellation - I have been offered a table at the Hugglets Winter BearFest on 23rd February, in Kensington Town Hall.

I was thinking about what I ought to be making between now and then.  I don't have very many small bears, so I could make some more of those.  But I haven't spent much time coming up with new bear designs recently, and I don't think - in terms of originality - mine really match up to some of the other bears out there.

I've been working on other creatures.  Hopefully the meerkats will go down well, and Mossy the moose.  And the little luck dragon.

I would absolutely love to have some crows on my stall - but I may not have enough time to get them finished.  They are still really in the early stages.  On the plus side though, I think they're looking really good, so far.  This is the prototype, and my first attempt at wire and paper mache feet!