PREVIEW for BearHugs4U Show July 11-13

The theme for this year's Christmas in July show at 

BearHugs4U is Best Winter hat.
Here is my preview bear, Genevieve, a 12 inch 

beauty in all her wintry wonder. 

You may click on these photos to enlarge them.

 I hope you can join us!

New places to find Cobblestone Creations!

I have two new exciting online bear shopping venues to tell you about today.

The first is Artist Bears International, developed and run by artist extraordinaire Brenda Pollock-Smith of La De Da' Artisan Bears.  Anyone familiar with her bears will not be surprised by the elegance of this new site.

I hope you can take a moment to see all the extremely talented soft sculpture artists who are there.  Very soon the site will also offer auction style listings similar to eBay.  And there is a handy signup for the email list for the site.  

The second is a new online show site called eBearShow.com.  It will offer two shows a year, in February and August.  The premier show will begin Aug 15 and is titled "Cute or Quirky, Bears or Critters".  I'll be sure to post a reminder here.  Or again, this site also has it's own email list that you can join.

An Award for City Mouse

I am proud to announce that my darling little 

City Mouse took 3rd place 

 at the I/NTBAA Awards in England last month!  

And even more pleased to say she and her 

country cousin have found a home.