Where Have all the Teaspoons Gone…..

Long time passing.

Where have all the teaspoons gone?

Long time ago…

Where have all the teaspoons gone?

They’ve been thrown away at school when Mom was stupid enough to pack pudding for lunch…. everyone.

Oh when will she ever learn?

Oh when will she ever learn?

Sorry…. ’cause  I actually think that’s a really beautiful song… I’m just SO frustrated right now.  It’s more than just the fact that I have 18 forks, and like maybe 6 teaspoons… but that’s just what’s buggin’ me at the moment, and I thought I’d lighten the mood a bit.  If I don’t I might just explode!

 

Beatrice….

****UPDATE : BEATRICE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE****

Okay, here’s the post where my readers get to see that yes, I am a little bit… just a little bit nuts.  Those of you who are also teddy lovers, this will make absolute sense to you!  I LOVE to pretend that my little bears are real.  Especially the miniatures.  I see them as the tiny mythical type creatures that you might find lurking in your garden if you had a really great imagination.  You know…. like a fairy or a little hedgehog that talks and wears clothes.  So, when I get a chance to photograph them, I just love to take pictures of them in what I’d consider their “natural habitat,” the garden, the trees, etc… 

When I was a little girl, I really did believe, or at least I hoped, that when you walked out of a room, your dolls and toys might come to life and play.  One of my biggest hopes was that I’d catch them, just once.  I’d spend quite some time arranging everybody so they’d look like they were caught right in the middle something.  Then I’d shut the door and wait on the other side.  Of course, then I’d quickly open the door and if they were moving… or if anyone had changed their position, etc… I swear, a couple of times I think I talked myself into believing that I DID see someone move.  Just a little twitch out of the corner of my eye… but it COUNTED!  Yes it did. 

I think a big part of what I do now with the bear making is just an extension of that childhood dream…. to make something that looks REALLY real, and catch them, just once…

Click on the below link to visit Beatrice’s auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260237880962

I can’t believe I drank….

the WHOLE thing!  The entire pot.  12 cups of coffee today.  Uhhh… and I know that’s a problem.  Really.  You know, actually I think I’ve gotta say it was  11 and 1/2.  When I nuked a cup this afternoon, I accidentally set the microwave for like two minutes and it boiled over onto the glass plate.  I wiped it up and then drank the cup anyway.  Oh, I know that’s completely disgusting… both the fact that I nuked “leftover” coffee… and the fact that I drank it anyway, after I had actually boiled  the crap out of it.  I just put a LOT of cream in it to cool it down.  It just perfectly illustrates the depravity of it all.   I mean, it wasn’t even good coffee.

You know women that say when they eat the leftover stuff their kids leave on their plates that it doesn’t “count” as real food… I’m that way with coffee… none of the reheated cups “count” for me.  If I made another pot or went to Starbucks, well, that would count.  Now, I know that’s simply a justification.  I just can’t decide if it’s kinda funny, or kinda sick….

Panda Crazy

****  UPDATE : ADDISON IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE****

I think I’ve got a bit of a panda thing going on lately!  I think I made a panda or two the very first year I started making mini bears…. then not another for like 5 years!  Now I’ve done several in the past 6 months, with requests for more.  I don’t know why, I am just finding their little faces so expressive.  Plus, I can always steer toward non-traditional, “fantasy pandas” and play around a whole lot with their colors…

This little girl is Addison… and she kind of traditional as far as panda coloring goes… espresso and creamy ivory.  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260231542758

Addison wears a little scrap of buff colored lace i found in my scrap basket trimmed with shell-pink silk ribbon.  So pretty & feminine!  

Overheard…

Ben : “What’s a ployee?”

Miranda:  “That’s when you have to work for somebody else, and they are the boss and the other people are the employees.”

Ben:  “Oh, like Mommy….”

Now… I haven’t been an employee for a very LONG time.  Not wanting the children to be confused, I tried to further explain the concept. 

Me:  “You know, Mommy has a very important job, but she’s not really an employee. ”

Ben:  “Yes you are Mommy…  When I want apple juice…”

Grrr… do you believe that!  I had to laugh under my breath, but I did set that little guy straight. 

Eden - new from my studio

***UPDATE:  EDEN IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE***

Another little faerie has stopped by to say, “Hello!”  Eden will be available on eBay through April 13th.  If you’d like to visit Eden on eBay please click the following link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260227938472

 

Wild Thyme News…

*************UPDATE:  Tanner is no longer available********************

Fallen just a bit behind again.  Grr… but I did get this little boy finished and listed.  I’ve fallen hard for this sweet little face.  I love the way you can muss up the micro plush pile a bit… looks so ragamuffin-cute!  Anyway, Tanner will be available on eBay March 27th through the 30th… just three days… so if he catches your fancy, visit him fast!  You can click the link below to visit his auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260224595319

For about two weeks now, I’ve been slowly chewing on the new and proposed changes that eBay will be making.  When it comes to change of any sort, my first instinct is to run the other direction, screaming and kicking if need be.  But, as a rational person, I know that change happens, and sometimes it’s actually for the best.  I’m slowly digesting all the nuances and figuring out how to best serve the collectors who have so graciously allowed me to continue the ever so rewarding art of making teddies.  If I ever get the eMail done, it will be on it’s way to the eMailboxes of every person on my mailing list.

Speaking of mailing lists, if you’d care to be on mine, just drop me a line and let me know!  You’ll get a note whenever I have a new bear available, or have important news for you.  I’d be pleased as punch to add you. 

wildthymeorig@aol.com

Did ya know soy sauce is made outta bugs?

Heard that one yesterday when the neighborhood children were playing with my kids in the frozen sandbox in our backyard.  Had a good giggle as I watched Miranda’s eyes grow to the size of saucers.  “Really, ewwwww, yuck!”  It got me thinking about all the absolutely ridiculous things that I actually believed when I was a child; crazy stuff I learned while listening to the whispering big kids in the back seat of the school bus. 

Here’s one that I actually STILL think about each and every time I see the commercial on TV.  It’s stuck with me that long.  In third grade, someone told me that if you weren’t Irish, and you ate one of the blue diamonds from a box of Lucky Charms cereal…. you would first turn blue, then die… right there on the spot.  Seriously.  And I totaly believed it.  If you thought you weren’t Irish, but you somehow survived, it meant that surely, generations back, you had an Irish relative that you just didn’t know about.  Crazy stuff.  My Mom refused to buy us those marshmallow cereals anyway.    

I also heard that Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers lip gloss was made from pony fat!  Uh… YUCK!  Never wore the stuff again.  “Love’s Baby Soft” perfume was made from pony urine.  I wonder if those pony/cosmetic connections were promulgated by older sisters to keep their pony lovin’ little sibs out of the make-up drawer…. hmm….

Something to think about…. how these ridulcous rummors begin.  I wonder how the soy sauce/bug connection began?  I like to find some justification for just about everything… it just makes the world a more comprehensible and orderly place for me.  No interesting,  yet plausible connection comes to mind….. have to mull that over a bit as I do the laundry, I guess.

Maybe a nice chicken stir fry would be a good diner choice for tonight! hehe….   

Desperately Seeking Spring…

I have to say, “Oh GOD thank you!!!!”  Truthfully, I always rejoice when Spring wakes her sleepy head.  But, this year, with our late snow storms, there’s just a bit more to rejoice about.  I am SO ready for winter to be over.  Apparently, most of the neighborhood is as well.  At least the Mom’s who trudge out the the school bus stop each morning. 

Our first calender day of Spring brought forth howling winds and a near white out blizzard.  Nice.  So we’ve all just been desperately searching for each and every sign that Spring might truly be on it’s way.  No robins yet, no daffodils, no warm breeze…. and thus we’ve started to rely on any sign at all… no matter how unreliable or gross it may be. 

“There were maggots in the garage garbage can this morning… isn’t that a sign?”

“Spring where are you?”

“There is a faint trace of dog sh*t smell as you walk by the Xxxxx’s house …. the Golden Retriever excrement is thawing …. must be over 32 degrees….. a sure sign that it’s warming up!” 

“Spring commeth!”

Seriously, it’s getting THAT bad.  But today, the daffodils are just sprouting through the snow, so I do believe that we shall have more pleasant bus stop conversation in the near future! YEA!!!

Newly available from my studio….

***Edit :  Chloe is no longer available**** 

 

 Little Chloe will be listed with eBay until March 16.  If you’d like to take a peek, and see a bunch more photos, just click the below link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260219022501