Time has flown whilst I have been having fun!

I have had a really busy, but wonderful, few months and here is a quick taster of whats been going on.......and before you get excited - absolutely NO bear making (sorry!)

We had 2 brilliant weeks with the Changfeet staying here. So many laughs and special treats, and now - very happy memories - despite Alana's swine flu episode!

We 3 girls had a great day out at the Radley shop, Liz Earle shop and then afternoon tea at the Dorchester (as you do!!) and we had a great evening out seeing Evita too. We joined with Vicky and Vianney for a day out in Bath and there were many fun evenings and silly games played too. Come back soon Changfeet, we love you! ♡☺♡

(and I am still trying to persuade Janet to start making her lovely Changle Bears again)

Meg is still as obsessed with her pond as she was last year. Much to Alana's disappointment, despite waiting with the camera for hours, she didn't oblige and fall in that time, but we got some sweet pics.

Andrew went off to Mexico at Easter with Urban Saints and Amor ministries on another house building mission and here is his finished house. We are so proud of him for all his amazing work fundraising, and then the actual build too. A family are happily living in it already.

I have been studying hard trying to get my head around chemistry for my aromatherapy qualification, but loving doing the treatments with all my wonderful essential oils. Its like being a witch!!! (well thats what my minister thinks anyway!)

And now I am a grand old lady of 50 having just celebrated my Birthday in the most beautiful place in the world, the Lake District. We had a lovely week, with gorgeous weather, lots of wonderful walks, red squirrels visiting most days, new born lambs all around and the gorgeous scenery and lovely food that makes it all so special up there!

And best of all was the knock on the cottage door on the afternoon of my Birthday and there were my children to see me!!! It was the most amazing surprise and treat ever! I am still stunned.

So thats why I haven't had time to make any bears for months!!

I promise to make one as soon as I can understand the chemistry and have learned all about the essential oils. SOON I hope!

I found this tonight, and thought I would share it with you.

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Not going to Hugglets this time........... BUT!!!!.........

Sadly I am not able to be at Hugglets Winter Bearfest next weekend. I always need the assistance of Keith to get there, set up, clear up and get home again and he is away so not able to do all that.

There are 4 new bears and I hope they will be up on the site this weekend, but just in case, here are their pics. The reason they are all looking up is that it had just started snowing and you can just see snowflakes on the cover they are sitting on!!

OH Yippee! I am off to Lincoln to be with Rosemary!

I am off to America to Tim!!

Woo hoo! I am off to America too - to Helen's!

If you would like information on materials and size etc please just email.

Really excited!!

I am really excited!

It is a while since I bought a new bear, and there are rarely any bears available from multi award winning Donna Griffin of Donna and the Bears so when I saw that she was auctioning 3 bears in aid of the appeal for Haiti earthquake survivors it seemed a good time to buy one.

He is on his way from Carolina now and should be here in a few days.

Here he is - Richard! The three bears are named after the Top Gear presenters, so I got the hamster!

Isn't he lovely? He will be coming to join little Dibley who I have had for just over a year now and love to bits. You can see him on her site, on the bear gallery.

Gorgeous, proper, traditional teddy bears!!

I still haven't finished my little gold bear yet. I never seem to get much time to spend bear making at the moment, it is very frustrating. I will post his pic in a day or two when he is finished I hope.

Bear making again!

It feels so good!

I finally started making a little bear today.

I just don't seem to have had the time and space to get near my sewing table for weeks and have been busy with so many other things. It was wonderful and I really enjoyed getting a couple of hours peace (well there were lots of interruptions but I soldiered on!) to get started on a little gold bear. Pics will follow when he is finished.

In the meantime, here are the same dogs who were charging round in the snow chasing sledges and riding on them!

Happy New Year - Snow fun!

Our local woods - it looks like Narnia doesn't it. Their footprints were the first in the snow apart from some deer.

The little dog laughed and had such fun........

Here is Meg enjoying the snow and sledging with Keith

on Saturday afternoon!

Internet Cache

I just had a very annoying few hours!

My friend told me he had updated my site, but when I looked it wasn't any different.

I tried everything but still got the old pics up and not the new festive opening page.

I knew it was there but for some reason I was just getting the page that

has been there for months.

So, I refreshed the page over and over, I deleted cookies, history,

bookmarks, more history, everything!!

Then I found a button to DELETE CACHE and lo and behold,

there was my new exciting page with the new bears on it too.

I don't know what it means and hope I haven't messed anything up but

at least I can see the new photos now!!

So if you aren't getting the festive vibe when the home page opens up,

maybe yours is stuck somehow too. They ARE there. I promise!!

Thanks Keith, you have done a lovely job as usual with the site!