31st March 2010

A fun little picture for you of the bears in a race!!

Well it is the 31st and I will be glad to see the back of this month. A blog should be ablout good and bad so I will have my little wallow. My brother died last week. He had had diabetes for around 12 years and his was the very worst form. He lost both his legs, went blind , had strokes and heart attacks and suffered a lot of pain. He is free from that now for which we are grateful but this is just to say that if you know anyone with this please get them exercising and eating healthy. Sorry about that.

It was also a month for lots of other grumbles but I won't go into those now and just count my blessings .

On the bear front things have been going very well. I have lots of orders and not enough time in each day but I am loving my job (job!!!) all the same.

I have added a panda today- a new design by me with a large centre seam head.

We are off to visit our daughter for a few days soon in Valencia where she is at university so I am really looking forward to that.

Take care everyone and have a lovely Easter

Hugs from me and the Little Scruffs

17th March 2010

I want to thank 3 people for nominating me for Sunshine Awards and they are as follows:-
Dawn Bevin @
http://dawnbevinsdesign.blogspot.com/

Sprinkles Sparkles

Gallimaufry
I very much appreciate it, thanks ladies!!

Sunshine Award RulesThe Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity inspires others in the blog world.To accept the award:

Place this award on your blog or in a post

Pass the award on to 12 bloggersLink the nominees within the postLet the nominiees know they have received the award by commenting on their blog

Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award.I guess we all know what it is like to write a blog sometimes, and feel like no one ever reads it, so the awards are a lovely way to show each other appreciation and spread the word :)

So here are my nominees:

Marijke van Ooijen

A Fenland Beary Blog

Delicate Sparkles

Designs by Isis

Diary of a Nutty Knitter n ...

Giddy kipper dolls

Helen @ The Beading Lady

incy wincy stitches

Inspired Brides

Blimey only managed 9 and it won't let me put any more- will put the rest up later as don't want to lose this lot!!!

11th March 2010

I am having trouble with my web hosting today and can't change my website at the moment. This is the panda I will be putting on later so please email me if you are interested. Hopefully normal service will shortly be resumed!!!!!!

28th February 2010

Wow what a lovely day I had doing the Hugglets bear fair today!!! Sold loads, had lots of shop orders and had a lovely time meeting people and seeing Marijke who I met in September and we had tables next to each other. We did a bear swop and I am now the proud owner of a beautiful bear which I will photograph tomorrow. Thank you Helen for coming on your long journey, it was great to see you and sock monkey is a favourite in the Grogan household. Julieann from Silly Bears in Aberdeen is just as nice in the the flesh as I expected and I enjoyed the day enormously.
I will get some more bears on the site tomorrow hopefully and speak soon
Hugs
Jean

23rd February 2010

Only a few days till the Hugglets bear fair in Kensington, London (this Sunday 28th at the Town Hall) and then things will get back to normal.

I hae been working flat out so that I have plenty of bears for it and there is no way that they will all go on the day so next week I shall be listing them all on the website http://www.miniaturemohairbears.co.uk/

Will blog next week when it's all over

Lots of love

Jean

Little Scruffs

26th January 2010

I will not have a computer for a few days so this will be the last post until maybe Sunday. Hopefully I will have a couple of bears to add on. I am just adding an image of 2 bears I will be taking to Hugglets with me. If you are interested in either of them let me know. They are both made from an old mohair pyjama case. i just love using vintage material. They are sitting on an old hankie saying 2To dear mother - 1951" I thought it would make a lovely Mothers day present.I think I should have been born 100 years ago. driving around in an old Ford Popular.... mmmm maybe I was!!! Actually there would have been no computers and no chance of me buying supplies so maybe not! Have a good week and see you soon xx

23rd January 2010

Hello and a quick Hello at that!! I have just spent a complete morning trying to photograph some bears and editing them with a new photo editing program. I haven't got a clue what I am doing!!!!! I have been really busy with orders this week so haven't got much up on site. I find the taking photos and uploading them to site takes up so much time that I think for the next few weeks with Hugglets coming up I will be doing a couple at a time. I will be keeping a few Hugglets bears a surprise - not that I have made any yet!!! Hubby will be away for a week soon so I am planning to hibernate and make, make, make.

Speak soon and have a good weekend :)