Saturday 22 June 2013

Silly Bears Mid-summers Event

These 5 bears will be available at Silly Bears at 3pm follow this link for details
they are all gorgeous!!


Friday 21 June 2013

Duffy...a sweet girl available

This sweet 14 inch bear is called DUFFY. She is 13 inches tall and is made from blonde wavy mohair with hazel tips. She has wool felt sculpted paw pads and a very sweet face which I have hand shaded. She has an embroidered nose in a rusty brown shade which I have sealed with satiny varnish
DUFFY AS BEEN ADOPTED... HUGE THANKS!!








Tuesday 18 June 2013

Breast Cancer Fundraiser

My good friend Melanie Jane from BEAR TREASURES is running a fund raiser for BREAST CANCER CARE. She is doing this to commemorate the sad death of her own mum from this terrible disease that affects many families.
There is a group of artists who are all donating bears to this cause. I am not involved this year but I do hope to be next year.
Please pop over the the website and buy a few tickets for this great cause.

http://www.facebook.com/PawsInPinkForBreastCancerCare

There is also a blog which has been set up so you can see how its all going
http://pawsinpink.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Monday 17 June 2013

Buying a bear....

Every now and again I feel the urge to reiterate the issues I have with supply and demand for my bears. I am eternally grateful that after coming up 12 years of making my bears that people still want to buy them . 
I do have ongoing concerns about the best way to make bears available so that everyone who wants a bear gets a fair chance. So in the interests of fairness I have for some time put a PayPal button on the page for each bear. This means that when the bear is still available if you hit the 'pay now ' button first you will get the bear. That is fair and gives everyone an even chance. I always state the time the bear will be 'going live' on my Facebook page  and if you are on my mailing list you will get an email with a picture of the bear giving notice of the imminent bear being revealed and the time.

However , in the interests of absolute fairness I just cannot presell the bears. I cannot accept payments before the bear goes live and I cannot let anyone jump the queue. 
Very occasionally I will offer a first option on a bear to a person who has missed out on several bears. If I do send you photos its on the understanding that if I don't hear from you within a certain timescale, taking into account time differences I will sell the bear. 

Being fair is part of running an online business and I cannot break the law. If you are unsure of anything I have all my legal obligations clearly visible on my terms and conditions page. 

What has prompted me to write this is that I have for some time had an uncomfortable sense that things are not as crystal clear to everyone as they should be. Yet I have always operated fairly. 

Also I do get asked for layaway, and I understand why, my bears are not a cheap item and people like them. That said with layaway comes problems and I do not want to engage in those problems. 

The problems are collection of instalments, many people do not keep to the instalments and I end up chasing them, the I have a bear who needs to be resold months after I made it. Then people have a habit of seeing another newer bear they would like to own and they want to swap. This causes problems and in that case I have the right to refuse and that causes bad feeling. 

So in the interest of my sanity and my cash flow I am not offering layaway in any form. It sounds mean spirited and not what people want but I know that teddy bears can be bought on a whim at times ..and layaway can be taken on lightly and impulsively only to realise a month down the line that actually, that bear isn't going to fit into the hug..and I can't afford it. Leaving me to have to deal with it or chase people for money when I haven't the will or the wherewithal to do it.

I really hope you understand this! 

Sunday 16 June 2013

Cupcake...available for adoption

This sweet little 6 inch bears is called CUPCAKE. He is so sweet and is a tiny handful made of lovely tipped blonde Schulte mohair.
He is 5 way jointed and has sculpted foot wool felt foot pads, lots of hand detailing to his face and a nice neat stitched nose.

Please get in touch if you want any more details.
CupCake has been adopted ...many thanks