I had intended to pop out to the Post Office this afternoon, to return a pair of Cinderella shoes I'd decided against for my niece'...

When a shop asks me to create three lovely big bears to showcase, I am always delighted to oblige!  Robert at 'The Bear Shop' in N...

Thirty years ago on the 22nd March, this little bundle came into my world and changed my destiny forever ... 1983 She arrived at ...

I have my 'Guild Admin' hat on today (although still haven't managed to write this week's or last week's newsletters .....

Back to my roots this week with a bear of significant proportion. Sometimes a piece of mohair is simply so glorious, it would be criminal t...

Whenever I'm asked about my job, I always say I'm a bearmaker and have been for almost twenty years, which of course is true, but t...

Not that I don't enjoy the challenge of contemporary design, but traditional bears were my first love and they still know how to tug at...

Isn't it odd how memory works ... I've been working on this teddy all week and until this morning wasn't sure if I'd made a...

So what does a bear maker do on show day, when she can't go to the show?  Well, in my case I sat in my armchair glued to three back-to-...

It's Sunday morning and as you know, I should be in London at the Winter Bearfest show in Kensington Town Hall, but instead I'm hom...

So much for all my Spring hopes!   I came downstairs to a flurry of snow this morning; Winter it seems, is back to torment me, brrr!!! ...

Several episodes of Downton Abbey later and my little lilac girl bear is all ready for Spring, dressed her best hand knitted frock. 1...

I spy hyacinths and crocus peeking through the earth in my garden and the sun is shining ... could this mean Spring has at last arrived?  I...

Fifty was an unwelcome birthday, for all the wrong reasons.  It began nine days ago, in the usual manner of days, with a hot shower, but be...

After worrying my work was going nowhere fast throughout January, I now find I did actually manage to complete nine bears, not to mention t...

Still feeling somewhat fuggy, but perhaps ever-so slightly less now that I have managed to set aside two finished bears for the Winter Bear...

I've been in a bear-making fug for the past couple of weeks and yesterday, even dumped a bear head unceremoniously into the waste bin. ...

Because I know he won't be able to resist taking a peek today ... Happy Birthday to my ol' relic, With loads of love, f...

Only five weeks until 'The Winter Bearfest' and as usual at this stage, I seem to have bits 'n pieces all over the place - but ...