Checkie Bear

Here's my newest member who has just join my bear family. Please meet Checkie, with a vest and his lovely tie. Checkie is made from synthetic fur and has paws and foot made from suede. Because of his size, I uses rubber ring instead to join his arms and legs. Checkie was completed at 11am on Saturday, 22 oct 2011. He is a duplicate from Twins. I made him a simple vest and bow tie to go with his "what's happening" kind of look.

Bobbie Bunny

Here's Bobbie bunny with her little Pop-bunny as her brooch. Just finished her yesterday (17 Feb 2011) at around 9.55 pm. She is 1 whole bunny without joints. Now, she will travel with me in my car to see Singapore. Hahaha............
Hey, my daughter gave this bunny to her friends for her birthday. Bye-bye Bobbie........now you have a new home to go.

Tig-Funkie

Tig-Funkie, born on 11th March 2011, Friday measuring 17 1/2 inch in length has all disc-jointed for his limbs and a double disc-joint on the neck. He foot pad and paw pad are made from leather and has polyester filling. He is playful and loves to tells jokes if you ever listen to him closely. 

Jeju Teddy Bear Museum

Jeju Teddy Bear Museum is more comtemporary. Their bears are celebratory looking and well design.
Here are some of the pictures:

For more information, go to this website: http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/407
We booked a round-trip from seoul on Asiana airlines and stay at Hyatt Hotel. It is not a walking distance from hotel to the Museum. The nearest hotel will be Shilla hotel or Lotte Hotel.

Don't forget to visit the Ripley Museum just opposite. Another good Museum to look into.

Namsan Tower Seoul Teddy Bear Museum

Went to Seoul for 14 days Holiday in December. So, I am updating pictures to show all the Teddy Bears I have seen in Seoul. There are many of them but I will only pick a few to show you.
Namsan Seoul Tower Teddy Bear Museum showcase historical of Korea. Most of their bears are dressed-up in Korean clothes.

 To get there: get off at Myeongdong Station Line 4, exit 3. Climb up the hill behind the Pacific Hotel. Once you climb up the staircase of the hill, turn right and walk to the end and you will see the cable car. Take the cable car up to the Tower. Coming down, we took bus No 5 to Myeongdong Station instead. We have to walk down a steep hill to the bus station.

By Bus: take a bus at Chungmuro Station (line n. 3 or 4) or at Dongguk University Station (line 3), which will take you to the parking area of N Seoul Tower. Buses run every six minutes from 8am until midnight. You still have to climb a steep hill up to the Tower.


More information, go to this website:  http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=260067

Latest Oct Bear

01 October 2010, Friday - Golden bell is fully stuffed with polyester filling. She has no joint. A one piece bear with suede for her foot paw.

5 October 2010, Tuesday - Robin is a tiger bear. He has a movable head and limbs. Robin loves to jump like Winnie the Pooh, Tigger. He is one-of-a-kind lovable mini bear.

Furry Critters

6 March'10, Saturday - Bobbie in a sitting position, 13" tall made from synthetic fur. He is soft and huggable & can sit on a chair nicely as he has bended legs. He is lightly stuff and thus feels huggable too. Bobbie has a big chest as he is full of love and a charitable heart.

6 March'10, Saturday - MiniZen is 5" tall. he has a funky look. It shows that he is cool and adorable. He was given to a friend of mine and I hope he can keep each other company wherever they go.

Bean and his knitted scarf

Bean - 7" tall made from synthetic fur with 100% polyester stuffing and plastic pellets in his tummy. He spotted a pair of glass eyes and is fully screwed/disked jointed for a movable head and limbs. His scraf is knitted to give him the extra unique look.

Honey Bear

Meet Honey - 9 1/2" tall made form synthetic fur. Fully screwed/disked jointed for a movable head and limbs. He has 100% polyester stuffing and plastic pellets in his tummy. He also has a pair of black glass eyes. Isn't he adorable?? Mmm...what's missing is a honey pot for him. Anyone has one to spare?? Maybe should ask Winnie the Pooh?? Born on 29Aug09, Saturday.

Pippy and the Butterfly

Pippy - 10 1/2" tall made from sparse mohair, 100% polyester stuffing with plastic pellets in his tummy. Brown glass eyes with half closed eye-lids. It looks has if he is trying to shoo the blue butterfly away. He has an open mouth with his pink tongue and I did some shading on his paw and pads. Doesn't he looked fun and cute?? He is also fully screwed/disked jointed for a movable head and limbs. Born on 29Aug09, Saturday.

Hugs of Bears

See those cute little Bears? They are from the Alicia's Class. We moved to Mint Museum due to renovation at Spotlight. Some of the bears are mine and some belongs to the students but they have yet to finish their bears in time, so they have to bring them home to finished it. We will be able to see the completed bears next month. Anyone still not interested to do hand-sewn a furry bear for yourself or your darling loved ones??

August Furry Bears

Born on 6th August09, Thursday = Siro, 8" long lying down sleeping most of the time. He looks so comfortable. He has polyester filling and pellets for his tummy. His head and limbs are fully jointed with 25 cm disk cotter pins joint. His fur is synthetic fur and he has brown glass eyes. I particularly enjoy making him because of his different position of his arms and legs. Very interesting bear. Will make a bigger one next time.

Born on 7th August09, Friday = Meet my 3 "A"s - Alberto, 11" tall made of dense fur with pvc leather for palm and foot pad. He is musculine, looks very familiar, right? Found out that its from Star Wars trilogy, the ewok, caravan of courage. He looks just like the ewoks! He is fully disk jointed with screws so that he can stand up straight and carry the bunnies. He has an open mouth too.

Also meet Adele (pink) 6" tall and Alonzo (blue) 5" tall bunnies, measurement including the ear. Love this cute little bunnies with a striking synthetic fur color. They are sewn at the joint area. No pins nor screws!

Born on 8th August09, saturday = Basso, 14" tall made from dense fur and has glass pellets in his legs and tummy. He is very soft and huggable as his fur is silky smooth. Basso's leg is fully sewn on to his body and thus do not need any joint. Basso means italian for "fat" as he looks like it. His head and arms are screwed on with disk joint.

Byron Bear

Byron is 7" tall. He is made from a fur I found at ArtsFriend. Don't really like the fur as it kept falling off. He has jointed cotter pins for his limbs and neck. But, I do like his shape though!

Mint Museum@Seah Street

The white Polar bear lookalike is made by Alicia, my bear making teacher while the other one lovingly looking at the smaller bear, well, not sure who did that. Have to wait till August for their grand opening.

Some of the olden days bear displayed at the museum.

I have always wanted to see our very own bear museum in singapore and I finally did yesterday with my girl. We had a set lunch at the museum cafe, nothing to boast about. The food is just so and so and the marble cheese cake is a bit tad too hard.

When we finally paid like $15.00 for an adult and $7.50 for student, we sent in expecting to see a 5 floor toys museum. Every floor is deck with wall glass cabinet of toys from back to the past era, like tin cans, (grandpa, please don't throw away your tin-can, it is worth much more now) and astro boy, godzilla, betty boob, flash gordon, batman, ultra man, etc, etc.......

When I finally came down to the floor for collectibles, I found my bears. Abit disappointing as I was expecting the old frumpy bear or really torn, used bear that I have seen in the magazine. Or some really fanciful bears made by our very own local bear maker. But what I saw was just old bears. That's it. Just old bears.

Sorry, will not pay to enter the museum again even for their grand opening. I think they should sort out local bear maker to make fanciful bears for display or local toy maker as well. Am sure singapore as many of those talent or hold a competition on toy making to attract more people to view the display. Still like the Korean bear museum. Must go one day to have a look. Miss it the last time I was there.

Queen Ovidia Bear

Meet my Queen OVIDIA - 12 " tall made of curly Mohair. She looks kind of a aristocrat with her shining nose. She has on a crystal crown and a furry shawl. She is fully jointed with screws so that her limbs is movable. I had so much fun doing all the bears in the class. Now have to take a break till August. So much things to do but hasn't done it yet...........

Hugs of Bears

Hugs of Bears from my class at spotlight. This was taken on sunday, 21 June. We had a good time looking at all the bears. Our teacher even got lots of enquiries for her classes and we also got lots of stares from the on-lookers. Guess they are all envious of us making our own furry bears. Hehehe...........

Dominca Bear

Meet Dominica, born on 21st June 2009, Sunday. She is 5 1/2 " tall that hangs on my bag. She only has movable arms and legs. Isn't she a cutie pie. She was given a swarovski mini pearl necklace with a rose clip and a red heart pendant. Love having her hanging on my bag. I have the inspiration to make one handbag bear for a long time and I finally did it. Hope that my bear will get either smaller or bigger............

Choco, Peppermint and Tobie Bear

More of my furry critters here. Did 4 last week but manage to finish 3 that are here. My panda have to wait a little more as I do not have the big size joint. Will have to make a trip to spotlight again. So, here's CHOCO, 12 1/2 " tall. Love it's fuzzie fur that are thick but I find it difficult to sew due to its thick fur. Sometimes the joint lines were lost in the fur that I am like looking for a river in the forest. :) Choco has a tummy full of plastic pellets. Initially, I wanted to try using pvc leather for his toes but decided to just leave it like that for the time being. Maybe next week will sew his paw/foot??? still thinking...........

Peppermint is 9" tall with all 5 x 25cm cotter pins joints. His green sparse fur makes him light to hold and he has a tummy of plastic pellets. His paw/food pad are made from white felt. A brother of Minty from my previous fuzzy critters. Peppermint is a birthday bear for my twin nieces. Will be giving it to them once I have a "show and tell" during my bear making class this weekend.

Tobie is 10" tall with all 5 x 30cm cotter pins joints. His furry brown fur comes from a shop at Arab street. They have just 1/8 m left over of the fur which I bought for $5.00. He also has white faux fur which I should have used it for his muzzle, just like Choco (see above) but I didn't. His inner ear is from my left over white acrylic fur. Tobie will also go to my twin nieces for their birthday present next month. He is just waiting for "show and tell" during my weekend bear making class. Hope they like all my bears :)

Minty Bear and Flopsie Bunny

Meet Minty Bear - born yesterday evening with Flopsie Bunny (see below). Minty is 10 1/2 inch tall. She loves orange, so I gave her a orange checkered ribbon. She is also wearing a necklace with a moon clip and red heart. Minty is so adorable and soft that she melts everyone's hearts.

This is Flopsie Bunny - 9 inch tall. Her name comes from Beatrix Potter, the tale of the flopsy bunny. Have you heard of the story? If you haven't, then go get yourself a copy of the story and read it. It's fun reading a book especially when you wanna relax. Flopsie is light and a cutie pie. Looking at Flopsie wanna make me do more bunnies......hehehe

Domino Bear

Here's Domino Bear, 9 1/2 " tall. Just born today(31st May 09, Monday. He is rather manly looking but with a cute manly face. Love the color of his fur. Initially have trouble sewing it as the fur kept caught together with the string. He is fully jointed thus have moving head, arms and legs.

Domino is actually a replica from Daffie. See how different each bear came out. Initially I lost the original ear template, so I have it substituted with another one. Maybe that's why it looked so different.