C & M's Bear Hugs
News Bulletins 2002
The studio is all decked out for Christmas. The bears are helping to decorate
the tree.
| 16th December 2002 | Christmas is
getting close, all the bears are getting very excited. The stocking are
already hung up so they are hoping that Santa will bring them lots of
presents. We are working on a new look to the site for the new year - so keep your eyes open. One new section will be pictures of our bear courses and some of the wonderful results. We will also have a gallery section, if you have any pictures of bears that you have made or any of our bears then please email them to us mailto:Webmaster and we will be delighted to put them in the gallery. No longer available: Lennox and Rutland |
| 3rd December 2002 | No longer available: Angel |
| 23rd November 2002 | We had a good day yesterday - the
first day of the Christmas market. Many people came though and I'm sure
that some bears were marked down for Christmas presents. New bears: Angel, Sugar and Nicholas No longer available: Roxanne |
| 18th November 2002 | We spent the weekend decorating the
studio ready for the Christmas Market next weekend. New bears: Lennox, Rutland, Christmas Belle and Leon No longer available: Rufus, Tip and Top and Todd |
| 1st November 2002 | New bear
adventure is now up, Green Ginger
goes painting. Updated the site to show we can accept credit cards through Paypal. No longer available: Muffin |
| 30th October 2002 | Maria's entry has won the Teddy Bear Scene EVA award - Bare Bear Category A - at Alexandra Palace last Sunday. We are now putting together an Awards section for the website - watch this space ... |
| 26th October 2002 | New bears: Vanilla, Starlet, Benson, Posie, Cecil and Huey |
| 12th October 2002 | Course dates for Spring
2003 are now available. New bears: Biscuit, Muffin and Scraggy Adopted before the site was updated: Dumpling No longer available: Dahlia, Flo and Mick |
| 13th September 2002 | New bears: Dahlia and Lavender |
| 7th September 2002 | Our first bear adventure Galahad's
Holiday in Hungary is now posted. No longer available: Festival and Blue Angel |
| 26 August 2002 | We had a good bear fair today. The
next Patchings Bear Fair will be on Easter Sunday. No longer available: Dermot, Eric, Oddjob, Sam, Leonard and Lilith |
| 25 August 2002 | New bears: Cherry
Jubilee No longer available: Cinnamon |
| 24 August 2002 | August Bank Holiday weekend already
- and Maria is busy getting ready for the bear fair on Monday. Galahad
(one of Maria's bears) took us for a holiday
in Hungary - story and pictures to follow, and then Green
Ginger went on a painting course in Wales with David
Bellamy - again story and pictures to follow soon. New bears: Blush, Dermot, Eric, 'Lil Blue, Oddjob and Sprouts No longer available: Sasha, Pierre, Magnus, Bailey, Bran, Tian-Tian, Dempsey and Yan-Yan |
| 23 June 2002 | New bears: Tip and Top and Bruno |
| 20 June 2002 | New bear: Festival Adopted before the site was updated: Grad No longer available: Citrus Blue and Bluebeary Candy |
| 18 June 2002 | The Festival is now over and lots of bears have new homes. The debris is all cleared away and things are getting back to normal. Maria has a couple of commissions to work on and she will then be working on some new bears ready for the August Bank Holiday bear fair. |
| 14 June 2002 | The first two days of the Festival
have gone very well. A record number of people have been round. Quite a
few bears have found new homes. No longer available: Sweetheart, Scrap, Duncan, Cub and Lemon Drop. |
| 8 June 2002 | Claire has been working hard at a
new beadwork section, the first pages are
now live so check them out and let
us know what you think. Claire will be expanding this section over the
next few weeks. The marquees are all up for the festival, the bunting is being put up and Patchings is looking very colourful; we are all hoping for good weather. |
| 5 June 2002 | New bears: Citrus
Blue, Cub, Farthing,
Sam and Spit Adopted before the site was updated: Port |
| 24 May 2002 | Our walking bear (front page) now
carries a Union Flag to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. No longer available: Tomkin, Sable and Parkin. |
| 16 May 2002 | We have added more elf pictures to the elves page. |
| 12 May 2002 |
  We
are delighted to announce that last night Claire's bead work was judged Overall
Winner of The
Beadworkers Guild Challenge 2002 and Best
in Category Sculptural, 3-dimensional, or free-standing. The theme was
"New for Old", Claire based her work on woodland plants and
creatures growing on a piece of wood. Here are two pictures of her
work, click on the pictures for a larger copy. All these pictures are
copyright © 2002 Claire Crouchley. Please ask for permission before using
them. |
| 9 May 2002 | We finally have a picture of the first two elves for you see, Maria has made five so far and will photograph them when she can find some better weather. |
| 8 May 2002 | Maria has made some wonderful
mischievous elves. Photos are being taken today so you will be able to see
them tomorrow with luck. The last Tiggy
sold over the weekend, Spot and
Dot yesterday and Tudor today. No longer available: Tiggy, Spot and Dot and Tudor |
| 28 April 2002 | April is nearly over, the trees are
all in blossom and the good weather is on the way. Maria has been busy
trying new ideas out - so keep an eye out for wonderful silk dolls and
other creatures coming soon. Claire is also busy working on the beading area of the site, she tells me that it should be ready soon. New bears: Flo, Hester and Scrap |
| 7 April 2002 | We had quite a busy bank holiday
weekend, although the bear fair itself was fairly quiet. New bears: Magnus, Bamboo, Sven and Mick No longer available: Petal, Sweetpea, Nixie and Henry |
| 24 March 2002 |
 We
are busy preparing for the bear fair, Maria has been selling bears faster
than she can replace them so she is working extra hard this week so that
there will be some bears for the fair. The bears are all excited and
taking bets on who will be adopted first. With spring underway it seems
appropriate that a young rabbit (right) seems to have taken to the grass
in the studio gardens.New bears: Petal, Tomkin, Tudor and Yan-Yan Adopted before the site was updated: Cedric No longer available: Terence, Xander |
| 9/10 March 2002 | New bears: Tiggy,
Nixie and Sweetpea No longer available: Darryl |
| 8 March 2002 |
 The
bear studio has had a spring makeover, all looks wonderful and ready for
the season.Updated the picture for the 7 inch bear course, course dates complete to the end of the year. Modified the java scripts that drive the main menus so that the menus will work properly on Netscape 4 and Netscape 6. New bears: Duncan, Spot and Dot and Terence Adopted before the site was updated: Leroy and Leana No longer available: Beatrix |
| 24 February 2002 | New 'About Us' page. |
| 10 February 2002 | New site layout went live. Flash 5
animation on front page and JavaScript menus for navigation. New bear: Bailey Adopted before the site was updated: Armstrong No longer available: Kahlúa and Christmas Beary |
| 8 February 2002 | New bears: Róisín,
Crispin, Sweetheart,
Darryl, Cheri,
Parkin No longer available: Liz and Beth. |
| 22 January 2002 |
Corrected course dates for the small Teddy Bear course -
the second session is on Saturday the 9th March, not the 7th as
advertised. |
-------------------------------------------------------------------
