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Bear of the Show
National Teddy Bear
Festival, Christchurch, November 2002
I
could not let the year go by with out making a bear in honour
of the celebration of the 100th birthday of the Teddy Bear.
I
wanted a bear in a traditional design but with a modern twist.
After many hours of research Century was born.
He
is very traditional in shape but has alot of hand shading on
his face paws and feet and has pellets in is tummy. He is
18" standing and is a very heavy fellow.
Century
wears a 1902 around his neck to help symbolize the bringing
together of old and new.
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Photo to come
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Mini
Bear Professional
National Teddy Bear
Festival, Hamilton, October 2000
The first of my realistic open mouth
mini bears.
This bear is fully jointed and has a
double neck joint. He is made in Alpaca and is
2" to the shoulder and 4" long
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Best Designer Bear
Mid Winter Xmas Show,
Auckland , July 2000
An
experimental Bear. Shilo was the second open
mouth bear I had made. The first with teeth.
Shilo also
has tropunto paw pads and extra joints is his
wrist.
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Shilo
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Taffy
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Bear of
the show and
Judges choice
New
Zealand National Festival, Hamilton, September,
1999
Taffy was
very experimental when I made him.
He has
tropunto paw pads and is multi jointed, none of
which I had tried before.
A double
neck joint and joints in his wrist add to his poseability.
Taffy was
produced in a limited edition of 5 which has now
sold out.
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Grandma
2nd - 13" and over
original design
National Festival ,
Hamilton, September, 1999
Grandma finished 2nd behind Taffy in
this competition. She now lives in Auckland
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Felicity
1st - 6" to 13"
Original Design
National Festival, Hamilton,
September, 1999
Felicity won her section and was up
against Taffy for Bear of the Show.
She now lives in Wellington
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Little Sailor
2nd - Designer Mini Bear
National Festival, Hamilton
September, 1999
This little guy is one of the few
mini bears I make. I entered him to obtain
constructive critism on him and was totally
amazed to take out 2nd place
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Stanley
Best Designer Bear
Midwinter Show, Auckland,
July, 1999
Stanley is one of the few award
winning bears that I have sold and is now living
happily with his new Mum in the USA
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| Blue Best Original
Design
National
Festival 1997
Blue
will always be one of my favorite bears. He was
made in a limited edition of five which is now
sold out. There are Blue's living all around the
world.
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Shadow 2nd - Original
design
National
Festival 1997
Shadow
was unlucky to place second as he was only one
point behind Blue in this competition
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| Yoyo 3rd - Original
Design and
Judges
Choice
National
Festival 1997
Yo
Yo placed 3rd and also received the Judges choice
award. He proved to be so popular that I released
his design as a pattern and Kitset which is still
available.
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Esmeralda Best Original
Design
Midwinter
Show, Auckland, July 1997
Although
I had not sold any bears at this stage I entered
Esmeralda in the professional section as a trial
to see how I got on against the countries best.
To my amazement she won, setting the path for my
venture into the bear making business.
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Billy
2nd Novice Original design
National Festival 1996
Billy is the reason I am still
making bears today. It was a total shock to be
placed second as he was my first ever mohair bear
and the first original design. In
1998 I decided to make a limited edition of 5
Billy's which has sold out.
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