Custom Black Bears

A sweet wonderful woman came to me via my online Etsy store asking about my black bears. Her grandparents LOVED black bears and she wanted to have some custom bears made that fit the grandparents personalities. We had the Grandfather bear who was a photographer and who loved is John Wayne style holster and pistol as well as his Tilley hat. Then there was the grandfather bear with the great granddaughter up on his shoulders coming from the garden with tomatoes and the little one eating one. Then we had the grandmother bear with a large straw hat and a Longaberger Basket with her favorite veggies from the garden...tomatoes and okra. Then last...we had the grandmother bear with the great granddaughter bear as they come with the basket of tomatoes and okra.

It was such a wonderfully creative idea to make these bears into persona of real people!!





I ran really late with the order due to my pregnancy related sickness, but the bears were shipped to Harvest, AL just in time for Christmas. Thank you SOOOO much Tori for your patience with me with my being sick. It was such a joy working with you! I hope that your grandparents loved them! You have such a sweet family and the love that you have for them is awesome!! Thank you for everything! Stay in touch and Merry Christmas!

Candy Dish Bear

This order come from my shop at Ecrater for a Christmas item.....



This adorable little Candy Dish bear was delivered to Port Orange, FL just in time for Christmas! Thanks Joe for your order! Please come again and Merry Christmas!

Candy Dish Bear

This was a new idea I had for my bears that I sell up in Pigeon Forge...a bear holding up a candy dish. Here are some pics...




This one was sold on Ebay and made his way to Turlock, California! Don't know if it was for a Christmas gift or not...but I hope that he brings joy to whoever gets him! Thanks Doris!

Tennessee Black Bear

Here are some bears that I recently sold. The first one is a concept I come up for my bears....a black bear cub fan pull. I have sold several of these in Pigeon Forge. Here are some pics....




Here is the next one. Yeah...I know...I am not suppose to do anything like this because of copyright for the Tennessee Vols. So instead of a Tennessee Vols Bear...its just a Tennessee bear! :-) Here are some pics......







They were sold on Ebay to a wonderful friend and customer of mine...Mrs. Jenny Cox. And the special thing about her is that she is not only a great friend and fellow sculptor...she is also my very 1st collector. She has SEVERAL of my items. So she is very special to me! So these little guys made their way to Pioneer, Ohio to Miss Jenny! Thanks girl! Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Okay...so today is my birthday. I have been dreading this day for over 6 months now. I am now 30! I don't know WHY I have dreaded this so bad. I just hate leaving my twenties! But it's not like I was going to stop it! So here I am, now 30, and I might as well embrace it right? yea. Can you hear the excitement? Hehehe!

Well, in honor of my birthday...I decided to be busy. Well, to keep my mind off it! And so I have been working the last couple of weeks on my inventory for my store in Pigeon Forge. Soooo...here is some pics of the new stuff that I just delivered....







So that should hold...for a while! :-) Well...off to make more stuff! Hope my feeble 30 year old bones hold up! Hehehe!