Monday, July 27, 2015

New Listings in my Etsy Store

A whimsical brown bear, wearing overalls.

I have 4 new listings in my etsy store. pop over if you would like to see more information on any of them.

A sweet pink Elephant.

A whimsical Worn bear wearing a vintage dolly dress.

A Little Red Cross Brown bear, wearing a vintage red cross pin badge and a light blue ribbon.


Sunday, July 12, 2015

Where bloggers Create Party 2015


Well it's that time of year again for Where Bloggers Create Party hosted by My Desert Cottage.

Thank you so much Karen for hosting the party again. I can't wait to go and visit everyone's studio's

The above photo
Just inside my door way you will find this cabinet. I love to take all my photo's on the small set of drawers. I really love vintage pink. Here are some of my props i use in my photo's.


Welcome to my studio, I am an Australian Teddy bear artist - I love to make vintage style teddy bears, elephants, bunny's, giraffes, Panda bears.

One of my old dress forms.

another one of my bottle drying racks with vintage bobbins and vintage lace.

Here is another one of my green birdcages.

Grumpy bear sits with one of my little watermelon pink elephants. I love the vintage sewing basket and i keep some of my vintage sewing supplies in it.

A gorgeous shadow box of vintage sewing notions.


I love collecting vintage toy cots.

They make great displays for my bears.

I love this vintage pink doll cradle

I just received this gorgeous vintage dolly travel trunk in the mail the other day, another purchase i made, I have a thing for vintage pink stuff!

large bird cage sits on my desk.


Here is another display cabinet in my room, This one holds a lot of vintage glass an old typewriter and some of my suitcases. On the top shelf i have a French bottle drying rack with a lot of bobbins with lace.

A tiny Panda Girl.

A new chair, I am going to love sitting in my studio stitching those bears.

This gorgeous display gets moved around a lot in the studio. This is a before i moved it yet again!

Here is one of my tiny giraffes that i make.

I love to collect vintage baby shoes and boots.

A sweet bear wearing bunny ears I made for her.

Some of my vintage lace and sewing supplies. I also love to collect vintage hats. You can see a couple in this photo.

Here is some of my work i did for a recent teddy bear show.


My sewing desk



A new vintage display, one of my large vintage style bears and a tiny Panda girl.

Close up of my vintage baby shoes and boots.

A tiny elephant wearing a crocheted hat


My beautiful french cabinet with blue glass i have had this one for many years and it is filled with my vintage lace and fabric.

A altered art doll I made earlier this year.

A tiny elephant in the making.

Beautiful vintage pink baby scales.


I love this little pink toy sewing machine, it is missing a lot of parts, but it does make a great display and i love that it is incomplete.

A tiny watermelon pink bear.

I hope you have loved looking around my little studio, I am very lucky to be able to work here everyday and some days it's hard to leave, I get lost in creating a new little bear or elephant.