tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51904410729464978182024-03-14T15:51:35.323+10:00Mima's Bear Talesfrom Far North Queensland, Australia.Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-67052815345628347392012-12-19T18:07:00.000+10:002012-12-19T18:11:54.609+10:00Santa Came Early<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Meet <a href="http://bensonbears.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="color: blue;">Linda Benson's</span></a> Holly, a fabulous little bear holding her special cat friend. She is 14 inches or 35cm from head to toe and fully poseable. With Linda's trademark leather nose and open mouth design she was a sweet bear I couldn't resist adding to my collection from the recent TWW Christmas Treasures on line show.<br />
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Here's Holly with my little Benson Family collection. The very cute little bear at the front wearing green handmade boots and a beautifully smocked play suit is one of Linda's from 1994 and Matilda the fantastic life like Bilby is from 2009. <br />
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We are busy picking mangoes from our tree again this year and have a good sized crop that will keep us in frozen mangoes for most of next year. We haven't lost many mangoes to the bats and bat numbers seem to be down compared with last year.<br />
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As Christmas day is almost here I'd like to take the opportunity to wish all my beary good blog friends every happiness for the holiday season and an inspired and creative new year. Cheers for now, Robyn. Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-26865962742434510492012-11-16T16:14:00.000+10:002012-12-19T18:14:12.910+10:00Show time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not long to go now ! The show opens on the 16th November 4pm New York time and you may still have time to vote for your favourite show preview bear. Just click on the banner above which will take you direct to Teddies Worldwide where you will find a stunning collection of Christmas Carol themed bears. Eighty five artists from eighteen countries are participating in this on line show over two days, so there is bound to be a treasure there for you. Enjoy!<br />
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Oh ... I almost forgot to show you my preview bear, Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum!</div>
Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-79069081667195077142012-10-02T20:06:00.000+10:002012-10-03T13:03:59.954+10:00A Beary Long Hibernation<div style="text-align: center;">
As it's almost mango time again I thought I'd better come out of hibernation!! Goodness gracious how time does fly but I must say I have enjoyed the break from bear making and with that came the chance to explore some new ideas and sort out some old stash that has been waiting for attention. I have become involved with a wonderful group called <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.knit-a-square.com/"><span style="color: red;">Knit-a-Square</span></a> </span>who work very hard to help and support kids orphaned by Aids in South Africa. Please click on <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.knit-a-square.com/"><span style="color: red;">KAS</span></a> </span>to find out more about their work. Since I joined the group late last year I've had a great time breaking into my treasured yarn stash, (some of which was over 30 years old would you believe !!!) and knitting up a storm. It has been a lot of fun putting my stash to good use and creating simple but cosy garments and squares. Please check out their website, you might have a yarn stash that could help the kids too. I also visited South Africa in April and spent a magic four weeks exploring and travelling there with my daughter and granddaughters. We went on safari of course and here is a photo of a sweet little ellie we fell in love with and a pair of Cheetah brothers who along with their mother are being monitored as part of a research programme that will eventually see these young males moved and released into a new reserve, the father of these brothers was cruelly taken by poachers.</div>
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After getting back into the swing of things after our trip, I decided it was time for a big clean up and a new outlook .... so I moved my work room back into the main house. Phew! what a business but I'm glad I did it and I'm enjoying the new space and getting into bear making again.</div>
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I've always loved the old Australian teds in my collection and in particular a little Emil design made around 1945 - 1950. He's very sweet and obviously much loved by a previous owner who at some time gave him little pink eye brows no doubt with mums lipstick! it just adds to his charm. Anyway I decided to use him as a model for some new designs I wanted to try. I'm still working on these but here is a picture of 'Emil' and one of the teds he has inspired ... a work in progress.</div>
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Cheers for now, Robyn.</div>
Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-62795526126877053972011-11-23T14:48:00.000+10:002011-11-23T14:48:40.923+10:00Mango Time<div style="text-align: justify;">It is very warm and still here today and the humidity has been slowly building over the last couple of weeks towards our wet season ... but it also means our mangoes are nearly ready to pick ... that is if those pesky flying foxes leave some for us !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gbR80yx9xlo/TsxoxX4k7SI/AAAAAAAAAqc/FCEv96L8nxU/s1600/mangoes+006%254072%2540600+high.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gbR80yx9xlo/TsxoxX4k7SI/AAAAAAAAAqc/FCEv96L8nxU/s400/mangoes+006%254072%2540600+high.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s9-P68e0Pnw/TsxpQnPf-zI/AAAAAAAAAqk/PgIEuq59tYY/s1600/mangoes+001%254072%2540600+high.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s9-P68e0Pnw/TsxpQnPf-zI/AAAAAAAAAqk/PgIEuq59tYY/s1600/mangoes+001%254072%2540600+high.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Beary best wishes,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robyn.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <o:p></o:p></span></em></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-90321672501549918452011-07-05T11:06:00.008+10:002011-07-05T11:31:17.918+10:00Happy Days<div style="text-align: center;">My grand daughters are in the middle of a two week school holiday break, so it has been good to spend some time with them and catch up. Early last Friday morning we set off to <a href="http://www.rustysmarkets.com.au/index.html"><span style="color: magenta;">Rusty's Markets</span></a>, this is an icon in Cairns CBD, which sells beautiful fresh local fruit, veg., produce, and all manner of things from Friday through to Sunday. We like to get our supplies there as opposed to the supermarket so it's a weekly pleasure to go and shop.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Then off to find a yummy late lunch on the Cairns Pier, a lovely end to the day.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">The <span style="color: #444444;">Gold Coast Teddy Bear Fair</span> I attended 3 weeks ago was a very happy event even though we had unusual cool and rainy weather for the first day. For some reason the photos I took have not come up clear enough for me to post but <a href="http://www.kympattibears.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Kympatti</span></a> will be posting photo's of the event soon. I'm also happy to report two adoptions this last week that were a direct result of the show, so that was a nice post-script. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">During the week following the show I attended two workshops held in the <a href="http://www.kympattibears.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Kympatti Studio</span></a> at Broadbeach. The first was a terrific one day felting workshop with <a href="http://www.geriwilliamsoriginals.com/default.html"><span style="color: magenta;">Geri Williams</span></a>, entitled a Bunny in a Shoe ! and the second a two day workshop with <a href="http://bensonbears.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Linda Benson</span></a>. This was a wonderful workshop creating Linda's 'Gregore' who has open mouth, with tongue, open shut eyes, leather nose and leather trapunto paws detail, as well as extra neck and wrist joints. 'Gregore' kept us very busy indeed but Linda, in her inimitable easy going style, created a calm and very happy atmosphere. Needless to say I haven't finished my pieces but as soon as I do I will show you here.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">The girls are off in a swimming camp today, the weather is just right for that sort of thing here at the moment. We'll have a couple of days to do things together at the end of this week, then its back to school for them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Wishing you a beary good week,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Robyn. </div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-76442501225882396682011-06-29T08:59:00.000+10:002011-06-29T08:59:39.552+10:00Don't miss out<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bensonbears.blogspot.com/">Linda Benson</a> is having a giveaway ! So don't miss out, visit Linda's blog and name this cute little fellow to be in with a chance. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is Blue Bobby who will be at the show and looking for a new home ! Beary good wishes to you for a happy weekend coming up, I'll be sure to post pics when I get back home. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hugs for now, Robyn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-47113729092716376652011-06-06T10:10:00.006+10:002011-06-07T07:14:17.344+10:00WOW News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-QYwaG2Nlw/TewTbeqmE3I/AAAAAAAAAm0/yjBU64TaqcU/s1600/008+Auto+72+dpiblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-QYwaG2Nlw/TewTbeqmE3I/AAAAAAAAAm0/yjBU64TaqcU/s1600/008+Auto+72+dpiblog.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I'm very happy and honoured to let you know that my Ms.Musky-<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: serif;"><span id="gtbmisp_1" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0pt; border-left: 0pt; border-right: 0pt; border-top: 0pt; color: black; cursor: default; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;">Roo</span></span></span> has won the 2011 Australian Creative Design Award for High Achievement in Design and Workmanship Excellence. The theme this year was to celebrate Beatrix Potter and I tried to find an Australian character but in the Potter spirit .... this tiny tropical Kangaroo who lives in the rain forest ... a bit rat like but definitely a <span id="gtbmisp_1" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0pt; border-left: 0pt; border-right: 0pt; border-top: 0pt; color: black; cursor: default; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"><span id="gtbmisp_2" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0pt; border-left: 0pt; border-right: 0pt; border-top: 0pt; color: black; cursor: default; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;">roo</span></span> with a pouch, was the perfect candidate for me to imagine through Ms. Potters eyes ! I'm very proud to receive this award and appreciate it is a result of hands-on-judging ... with many thanks to Sandi Smith for creating and setting the high standards for these challenging awards.! Congratulations to Linda Down (Lombard Bears) and Ruth Bowman (Flutter-By-Bears and Friends) and Ina Smirnova (Bears and Roses) for their awards, and to all the participants !<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I have been repairing and cleaning this charming old leather baby boot in readiness for a Geri Williams workshop being held at the <a href="http://www.kympattibears.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Kympatti Studio</span></a> Broadbeach on the Gold Coast the week following <a href="http://www.kympattibears.com/show/visitor.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Gold Coast International Teddy Bear Fair </span></a>on 11th and 12th June. I've been sewing madly in preparation for the show, which is always a lot of fun but so are the workshops held over the week after the show. Geri's workshop is about creating a felted rabbit or bear who lives in a shoe and I'll be sure to post a photo of my efforts here when I get back home.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Time is running out for voting on The Peoples Choice Award in the Australian Creative Design Awards, so do hop over if you haven't already done so and vote for your favourite piece just click on the bunny below.</div><br />
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Although, like so many, I'm ever-so-fond of Beatrix Potters wonderful characters and their stories I had decided from the out set to try and create an Australian character but in the Potter spirit. <br />
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As we live in Tropical North Queensland the rainforest was a good place to investigate and low and behold I discovered there lives a diminutive little creature known as The Musky Rat Kangaroo.<br />
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This little mammal is the smallest and most primitive kangaroo in the world and has several features that reflect lifestyle and body form of their tree-dwelling ancestors. Most kangaroos are active at dawn and dusk, resting during the day, however Musky Rat Kangaroos are only active during daylight. At night they retire to a nest made from leafy twigs which they gather and transport in their short prehensile tails. Rain forest fruits are their favourite food. In good times these seeds and fruit are often scatter- hoarded or buried haphazardly, then later dug up and eaten. Of course not all seeds are recovered by the Musky so this actually aids in seed dispersal and contributes to maintenance of the rain forest ecosystem. <br />
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Musky Rat Kangaroos are unique in the kangaroo world because they give birth to twins and sometimes triplets, the young joeys spend about 21 weeks in the pouch after which they are evicted and spend more time in the nest where they are suckled by their mother when she returns from foraging. Musky Rat Kangaroos are only found in large remnant patches of tropical rainforest, and today their populations are believed to be vulnerable but secure. They have a distinct musky scent and go about their business on the rainforest floor gathering fruit and seed that lie among the leaf litter.<br />
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So I imagined my Ms.Musky-Roo dashing about, very busy indeed, wearing her best hat of course, and dashing back to all those children with a large basket full of favourite rainforest fruits.<br />
Ms.Musky-Roo is 9 1/2" (24cm) tall (a true life size). I hope you like her, I had a lot of fun.<br />
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All the entries are now available for you to view and to vote for your favourite in the Peoples Photographic Choice, voting continues until June 1st, so please visit <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bearartistsonline.com/tacdavoting.htm">here</a></span> to vote and see a wonderful collection of work. All the entries will be available for purchase from June 1st and winners of the hands on judging will be announced on June 5th.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bearartistsonline.com/">The Australasian Creative Design Awards</a> always offer a wonderful challenge for artists. Many thanks and congratulations must go to Sandi Smith for creating these awards and her diligent care in ensuring their integrity.<br />
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And a thank you to Martin Cohen and Julia Cooper for their great little book Rainforest Animals (Created, published and printed in Cairns)<br />
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Beary happy hugs,<br />
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Robyn.Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-50415994036154090692011-04-19T10:52:00.011+10:002011-05-28T08:12:39.062+10:00Friends hop in for a snack<div style="text-align: center;">These young wallabies hopped into our front garden this morning for a bit of a snack. After all our wet weather over this last rainy season our trees and shrubs in the front garden have just gone wild and so are providing good camouflage and habitat for all sorts ! </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> I haven't been idle over the last few weeks though and managed to finish and meet the photo deadline for the Australian Creative Design Awards 2011. <br />
This is a very exciting event and the chosen nominees are subject to hands on judging of their work by three independent judges who each write a critique on the piece for the benefit of the artist.<br />
The ACD Awards have attracted entries from around the world and I'm so looking forward to seeing what every one has come up with following this years theme, in honour and celebration of, Beatrix Potter. All the entries will be up for sale at the 3rd Annual Online Ball starting on June 1st. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Click on the banner below to find out more about this wonderful event.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Trust you are having a happy and creative week so far!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">cheerio for now,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Robyn.</div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-38842194372125662082011-03-05T14:12:00.004+10:002011-05-28T08:19:41.157+10:00In my garden this morningIt's a beautiful morning here, 30 degrees C or 85 degrees F depending on your location, a little bit cloudy and a gentle breeze so I took a little stroll around and found we have some lovely flowers blooming even though it is the start of autumn here!<br />
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Which has brought me around to reminding you about the up-coming 'Blooming Bear Show',</div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;">there are seventy five Teddy Bear Artists from around the world taking part so it's bound to be a great show for collectors, have a look at the show preview at <a href="http://www.teddiesworldwide.com/">http://www.teddiesworldwide.com/</a>.</div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanks Sandi , this was a lot of fun and your hard work, to pull it off, is well appreciated !!!</div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-16250662481325499892011-02-08T18:03:00.001+10:002011-05-28T08:21:45.163+10:00Be My Valentine a Sneek Peek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PfAuQ-8x8pQ/TVBwOXkUPkI/AAAAAAAAAbc/SO34DjO_-F8/s1600/Second+collage+400+wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PfAuQ-8x8pQ/TVBwOXkUPkI/AAAAAAAAAbc/SO34DjO_-F8/s320/Second+collage+400+wide.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Here is a sneek peek of my three bears who will be ready for adoption at this years third annual TBACA Be My Valentine Online Show. There will be 32 International and Australian artists participating and definitely a show NOT to be missed! The show will open on Friday 11th February at 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving time, and closes Monday 14th February at 8pm Australian Daylight Saving time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">A little footnote about Cyclone Yasi<a href="http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/bmv2011.htm"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our garden has taken a bruising, but other than that everything else here is intact after cyclone Yasi belted into the Queensland coast with the eye crossing the coast about 150 to 200 kilometers south of us last Wednesday night and rated a category five as it did so. It is heart breaking to see the damage so many have suffered who were in the direct path of Yasi and it will certainly be a very long recovery road, and some may never recover. We were very well informed about Yasi and were preparing three days before the cyclone arrived but nothing can really prepare you for the incredible power a system like that has. Here's hoping there are no more like that in the pipeline but we have been told we could expect another within the next two months. Miraculously all the little birds are back in business in our garden and the bad weather has brought on a flush of beautiful Birdwing and Ulysses Butterflies !!! Amazing ! we have their caterpillar food plants growing in our garden.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-20567594607129784892011-01-15T16:06:00.001+10:002011-01-15T16:10:00.243+10:00A little bit of Cheer<div style="text-align: left;">Here are some pics I took this morning while visiting our wonderful <a href="http://www.botanicfriendscairns.com.au/article/1">Cairns Botanical Gardens</a>, where we enjoyed a delicious breakfast in the little restaurant there to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It is always such a pleasure to walk around there and enjoy the beautiful gardens and environment. We needed a cheer up too, as the last few weeks have been devastating for Queenslanders in the path of the flood waters, and it seems Queensland is not alone as flood waters now also create havoc in the southern states, Victoria and Tasmania. We have been very lucky here so far and only experienced plenty of rain in Cairns, but our hearts go out to those down south who are feeling the full force of mother nature.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My swap to Linda was a little bear called Greentwinky Jnr. who is pulling along his Christmas tree cart. He's made from silk plush and has handpainted eyes. I had a lot of fun creating him and his little cart especially for Linda B.</div><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We had a wonderful holiday and along the way came across sweet little Daisy a 1930's Chiltern. She decided she needed a sea change and now resides with the rest of the gang here in Queensland, which is a long way from Lewes in the UK.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">She didn't travel alone however but was in the good company of Ivan, a Pat Murphy 12" gently aged reproduction Ted who also made the journey to warmer climes.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Cheers till next time, Robyn.</div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-36022223992406438462010-05-11T10:45:00.002+10:002010-05-11T10:56:35.628+10:00OOPS!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Well I am sad to say I made a complete mess of my little panda's black eye patches. I decided to use fabric pens to colour them and ofcourse when the pen slipped on one eye and I tried to rectify the mark it left, all went askew !!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> Whoops indeed ! Needless to say after my efforts to remove the colour from the cotton backing the poor fellow has ended up with two big ' bruised blue' looking eye stains! So I have cut out another head but this time I'm going to sew his patches in...even though his head is rather small I'm hoping it will work. In my efforts I discovered that Copic Colorless Blender used straight from the refill bottle with a small paint brush caused the black ink to disperse through the cotton backing in a rather nice way so am going to play around with his poor little head, so to speak, and see what other colours etc. might do.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The trouble was the visitors didn't believe he was real and thought he was a plastic Croc put there to scare the tourists ! <strong>ROFL</strong> <strong>!!!</strong> It just so happened as they drifted closer to him one of the fellows in the boat caught a fish and in the process of landing the fish ended up about 5 feet (1.5m) from the Croc who promptly charged in with it's eye on the fish and possibly the fishers too! Well that put and end to any plastic Croc stories and made them realize just how careful you need to be when messing about in boats in Croc country !</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And last but not least another OOPS moment as time is fast running out before we leave next Tuesday for a far flung five week holiday. I have a few teds cut out ready to sew along the way and a very new and natty little notebook laptop so I can keep in touch with home AND also join in and enjoy the ACD Awards and the <a href="http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/fantasyballvenue.htm">TBACA online Fantasy Ball</a> don't miss it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Well it's certainly banana heaven here at the moment! We planted our banana plot over a year ago and as time went by and no fruit appeared we thought we had wasted our time. Then suddenly out of the blue we've had 3 beautiful bunches appear! The first to ripen were the small sugar bananas and they were just delicious, there were about 100 bananas in that first bunch, way too many for us so our neighbours helped us out.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Now the Lady Fingers are just about ready. It is very satisfying growing your own food and with some to share. Now the cyclone season is over and the humidity has dropped it is the ideal time to be out in the garden and the perfect time to grow vegies here in the tropics.</div><br />
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</a></div>Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190441072946497818.post-4089341741012546622010-02-22T15:36:00.000+10:002010-02-22T15:36:23.289+10:00Posties Been<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>It is still raining here in North Queensland and rather grey but the day sure brightened up when I discovered a package in the letterbox all the way from <a href="http://www.discovertasmania.com/about_tasmania">Tasmania</a>! Here are pictures of the little treasure I found inside !<br />
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</a></div>A big THANK YOU to <a href="http://www.bearlysaneteddies.com/">Sandi Smith of Bearly Sane</a> for another successful <a href="http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/">TBACA</a> Valentine online show last weekend. Sandi's close attention to detail and organising skills are what make the show such a pleasure for both collectors and artists alike. The Valentine show is also a fund raiser for the <a href="http://www.freethebears.org.au/">Free the Bears Fund</a>. Artists donate a bear for Bobo's Booth and all proceeds from the sale of the donated bears go directly to the Fund to help support rescued Sun Bears in Cambodia. <a href="http://www.teddybearsandcritters.com/bobosbooth.htm">Bobo's Booth</a> is still open so do drop by to see some great bears waiting for adoption.<br />
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</div> This was my 'Bear for Bobo' his name is DinDin. I really had fun creating him along with his cart full of fruit! He has been adopted by Leslie.<br />
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</div>and this is Stefano, a rather happy chap at 6 inches (15cm) tall carrying his Valentine Rose and still looking for his special someone!<br />
Cherrio for now,<br />
Robyn.Robyn@Mimas Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912346320523996619noreply@blogger.com1