A little Bunny girl

Her name is Zoe and she is the result of a new class I followed.
Our Master, Elena, is such a talented artist with a lot of patience.
Thanks Elena !!!!

Christmas in July Online Show progress 2

Kelsey found a new home, Thank You.  She is so glad !!!!

Jennel, one of the teddy bear in Christmas in July Online Show

Jennel is reserved for Jill, thank you.

The show is still open until Sunday !!!!!

http://www.bearhugs4u.com/

A Bunny for a Commission

Here are pictures of the Bunny.  His new Mom would like a plain Bunny, no accessories.
And there he is :

Upcoming Online Show

I'm very pleased to present

"Fluff", a One of a Kind teddy Bear Girl, I created for my Show preview bear for the

2014 March Madness Online Show

 

 

 March 7-9, 2014

 

 

I would like to introduce you to "Fluff", my preview bear for the show, decorated this time.

She is a 8.7" (22 cm) teddy bear girl. One of a Kind.

I created her from super dense beige faux fur imported from Germany.

The preview for the show was a  Bare Bear, but for the show on Friday, Fluff will be decorated.

She will be there with 5 others new bears, and bear friend, as a very cute bunny.

The link for the show is  http://www.bearhugs4u.com .

Chantal Bears Available Bears

This post to let you know that I have a new page for teddy bears ready to be adopted.

You can visit them any time and I will regularly add more.
http://2014availablebears.weebly.com/


Mon blog pour vous informer qu'une nouvelle page a été publiée pour vous donner l'opportunité d'adopter mes ours de collection.
Vous pouvez leur rendre visite ici :  http://2014availablebears.weebly.com/

Amethyst

Lauren

Olivia

Jackalyn

Teddy Bears looking for a new home

Britta, a mini cute little teddy bear girl, with her romper is here

http://chantalbearsbearsforsale.weebly.com/

Tresha, another little girl, with lovely eyes is here

http://chantalbearsbearsforsale.weebly.com/tresha.html

I relisted Crystal on Ebay, a mini Thread Crochet Bear ;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crystal-Mini-OOAK-Teddy-Bear-by-Chantal-Bears-/321137706592?pt=US_Dolls_Bears_Toys&hash=item4ac54c8660

Crystal and Tresha are looking for a new home

Hello,

I hope that better weather arrived in your area.
Here, Spring is here, very shy, but we must have patience with Mother Nature.


Crystal is on Ebay and wait your visit :






http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321113578400&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT


Tresha, with her lovely eyes.





http://chantalbearsbearsforsale.weebly.com/tresha.html

And....a new Teddy Bear Girl, Odelia

I spent 6 weeks to complete Odelia.
I had a design in my mind and until I did not reach what I wanted, I redesign body and the other teddy bear parts.
A long long process, but now, I think that she is beautiful.
Here a few pictures of her

    

She is born on January 24th

Brittany is born ; I like her a lot, difficult however for an artist to like her work... but this one.... it took 2 weeks ..but the result is so good.
Brittany is a commission for a bithday gift..
Here the pictures, I took today ; tomorrow I will have more, but they are on my husband camera...

 

Happy New Year !!!!! (long)

To all my blog readers, my fellow artists, Chantal Bears Collectors, and my friends, I wish you a peaceful and a very happy  New Year.

I want to end my 2011 blog with a collection of events that touched me a lot this year.

I have been very lucky to meet a teddy bear artist Elena Nikitina ; in August we decided to do a bears exchange.

When the parcel arrived in Russia, she sent me a lovely picture ;

I did the same thing when a parcel arrived in Canada :

Later, I received a surprise message from Jan Nethercut; Verena, my teddy bear girl arrived in US and all the bears had a party together.

Jan allowed me to publish the picture on my blog.

That's what she wrote : 

"Verena is a precious little girl-cub and was welcomed in my Hug by a party given by the bears.   Attached is a picture of Hitty taking charge of Verena, Crackers (by me), Janet (by Yvonne) with Lily (Mary R.) standing in back with balloons.  Of course, I didn't get pictures of all the fun.  You know how bears are, they don't stay still very long.  It was a great party and I think she enjoyed it all."

 

Thanks Jan for the lovely moment in my teddy bear life.

This year, Julie received an TBAAF award, a third place in miniatures category ;

And here is Julie

For my teddy bears, I decided to increase the size of my teddy bears ; I added knitted accessories to my miniatures bears ; a challenge I wanted to achieve and I did it.

I wrote a pattern for a knitted teddy bear.

The last challenge has been a 6 inches knitted teddy bear ; Aurelie was the last teddy bear  of the year.

For 2012, I still have new challenges and new projects in my head.

Thanks to you all ; I'm spoiled to have such great people around me and I am who I am because of you !!!

Now I must share with you some reactions from my family following me and the creation part of my life in the last 9 years :

When I complete a teddy bear, the first critic is Alain, my husband : "This one, for sure, he will find a new home !!!"

My daughters now :

Laura : she talks to the new bear : "Hi ..., you are so nice, such beautiful eyes.... you are such a cutie !!!"

Johannie in Belgium : "Mom, how can you do it? so detailed ? All teddies you make are more and more alive !!!!"

My sister Danielle, in Balgium : Chan, every time you sent me a picture of your teddies, they become more beautiful"

And now, I have new "fans", my grandchildren : Lola (5) who always ask me to show her my new creation (on Skype).

Darren (6) who is so proud to tell people that his grandma can design teddy bears !!!

As you see, my life is filled of love and teddy bears lovers !!!

 

Frustrated.....

Since a few days now, we don't have any mail ; the Canadian Posts decided a lock out last Wednesday ; my fear, I shipped 2 teddy bears just before the lock out and I had to stop to put bears on Ebay....
However, it looks that Harper voted a new law and the employees will have to go back work on next Monday.
I continue my work and my passion ; 3 teddy bears will be ready very soon.
But, somewhere, I'm feeling that I'm so dependent of their services... and I don't like it....
I'm crossing fingers for a fast restart of Canada Posts.
I checked prices with other mail companies ; it's very expansive.
I have another solution ; going to US and bring my parcels there...
We will see....

A new Cutie ....

You can see the diaporama here :
http://www.go2album.com/album2/c/h/a/n/t/chantalbears/4df0551714a/fs_aux.html

Julie is on Ebay now

Julie is on Ebay right now ; her link is :

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-OOAK-Bear-Artist-Chantal-Bears-/320658191420?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa8b7b43c#ht_4826wt_1139

Thanks for reading my blog post.
Chantal

On Ebay, this week

I relisted Amanda : http://cgi.ebay.com/Amanda-Mini-OOAK-Teddy-Bear-Artist-Chantal-Bears-/320645253496?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa7f24978



The perfect Valentine Gift, Adalia : http://cgi.ebay.com/Adalia-Mini-OOAK-Teddy-Bear-Artist-Chantal-Bears-/320645645014?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa7f842d6



A mohair bear : Ailsa : http://cgi.ebay.com/Ailsa-Mini-OOAK-Teddy-Bear-Artist-Chantal-Bears-/320645256202?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa7f2540a

New Paintings on Redbubble.com

Here is my little teddy bear girl, Adalia



I love fuschias and I painted them.



and birds,....