I Want to Live in Hawaii

I was fortunate enough to visit the island of Kaua'i on my honeymoon earlier this year and have been pining to go back ever since. The beaches are so incredible there and if I could ever live there I wouldn't hesitate to leave the mainland. So I decided to make a cute little hula bear:



I decided she needed a fuzzy coconut top too! =)

The Camera is Still Dead...

...which really doesn't help when you're trying to blog!

I guess I'll have to get looking into a new one, but in the mean time I still have a few pictures stored on the computer that I was saving for a rainy day.

On a whim, I wanted to make hearts so I made a bunch and had nothing to do with it. After I started making bears I slapped some on a white bear and now he's just so full of hearts:




Maybe too much?

On another note, I'm almost ready to sell on Etsy. Just waiting for a few shipments of thank you cards and boxes and I'll be ready to be posting some items!

Springtime Bear

When you live in Chicago long enough to experience a winter (especially the winters for the past two years, which have been extremely cold and snowy) you start to dream about the summer and wait for that one day for the weather to change. In my daydreams I crafted some crochet'd flowers and a butterfly hoping it will bring summer closer. I'm convinced that it worked and it's the reason why it didn't snow in May! Here's my inspirational Springtime Bear:

Happy Chef

Inspired by my Top Chef addiction:



I especially like the eggs in the pan and his floppy spatula!

The Black Bear

This is my cute little Black Bear using an original pattern. He's holding a beehive and I tried to accent it with some bumblebees and honey spilling out of the hive.



He came out pretty nicely considering he's my first bear!