Emaline, a new Ellifolks miniature mohair teddy bear is now in my Etsy shop. Emaline is 2 1/2" tall. She is wearing a handmade skirt of lace trim and a bead necklace of vintage glass beads. She has a peach-colored vintage millinery flower by her ear.
She is all hand stitched, and I dyed and shaded her red mohair. You can see her here.
I have added my new little Sullivan, a hand dyed and hand shaded miniature mohair bear, to my Etsy shop. Sullivan is 3 1/4" tall and is dyed a pretty ochre color. He is made of a sparse Schulte German mohair with hand shaded detailing.
Sullivan has big brown glass eyes and a distressed grey-blue silk ribbon scarf. He would love for you to visit him on his Etsy page here.
I have two new critters available for adoption.
Aleph is the first of my new Min-elli series. He is 4 1/2" tall of a sparse Schulte mohair that I dyed and hand shaded. He is wearing a copper and sterling silver chain collar. His limbs are cotter-pin jointed. He is available here in my Etsy shop.
Alice is a hand dyed rabbit of a sparse German mohair that I dyed and hand shaded. She is wearing a skirt made of vintage lace trim and a vintage lace trim scarf. She is holding a vintage millinery carrot. She is cotter-pin jointed. She is available here on BearPile.
I just joined Bear Pile and plan to add more bears there regularly.
Winnie is my first bear up for adoption at Bear Pile. She is 8 1/2" tall and is made of German mohair that I hand-dyed and hand-shaded. She is wearing a handmade skirt of vintage lace and eyelet, a handmade necklace with a vintage vegetable ivory bead, and a vintage rayon bow by her ear. She is cotter pin jointed and stuffed with excelsior and cotton batting. She has a small muslin bag with stainless and steel shot in her tummy for a nice weight. She is very loose jointed for a vintage feel, but can stand with help.
You can visit Winnie here.
I have added Thomas, a new mohair bear, to my Etsy shop. Please check him out.
Thomas is a reddish-brown bear made of sparce, distressed German mohair and has glass eyes with wool felt bordering. He has a primitive, vintage style and is hand dyed and hand shaded. He is wearing a vintage rayon ribbon scarf fastened with a vintage vegetable ivory underwear button. He is 8 ″ tall. You can see his Etsy page here.
Here is Henry with his aviator hat and boots. He is a 4 3/4" panda (6 1/2" with his hat and boots on). He is made of German mohair, a short beige mohair for his head and body and a bluish grey slightly longer mohair for his arms, legs, and ears. I hand-dyed and distressed him for a well-loved look. His hat and boots are 100% wool felt. His hat has wool yarn trim and cotton floss tassels. His boots have a vintage glass bead embellishment. I especially loved doing the distressing and detailing, and designing and making the accessories. Henry is now living in his new home in France.
Rennie, a 7 1/2" bear made of a sparse, beige German mohair that I hand shaded is now on my website. I made his crocheted wool scarf with handmade tiny pompoms and his wool felt slippers with crocheted tops and braided edges. You can see him here.
Rennie has my whimsical, primitive look with a little more traditional styling. I hope you can come visit!
Here is Celie in her white linen dress and a handmade antiqued copper necklace with two charm pendants that I constructed: a fine silver charm with a dark patina and three tiny embedded stones and a vintage mother-of-pearl button attached with a whimsical copper finding. It was great fun incorporating some metal work and one of my beloved buttons into this bear.
