More bears

This is just a very quick post to share more of Dawn's wonderful bears.

 

I couldn't resist a second page with the collection ehich you can grab at Dawn's store here

 

This page is dedicated to my very old bear. He is 50 this year and the photos show him then and now. Now he is flatter, has fewer features but is more loved.

 

There is NOTHING quite like a well loved bear and having their fur loved off is part of the magic.

 

I can't resist sharing this extract from one of my all time favourite books - the Velveteen Rabbit (if you haven't read it you really really must!)

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

 

 

and even cats like teddies

 

Comments

[Barb in AK]

Happy Friday the Thirteenth! :-)
Hope you are having a relaxing day and letting Nigel pamper you during your recovery.
Lovely little layout about your dear bear. I saved my bear for many years. But he was BIG... he was bigger than me as a babe. It just wasn't feasible to keep him, as he took up more space than my small house has for him.
My bear was stuffed with excelsior, so he wasn't very cuddly. ;-)
Karen, have you heard of Build-a-Bear? It is quite popular here. I have a [adult] girlfriend who bought 3 bears, has wardrobes for each of them, as well as accessories! No bear ever had it that good! LOL!! :-D
I must say, they are the softest, cuddliest things I've ever felt.
I adore the fact that your bear is still loved to this day, you display him in a prominent place, and you have made this charming layout about it. :-)