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I Made a Teddy Bear

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Brooke’s obsession with bears has been pretty well documented on our blog. (Want to see Bear in his prime?  Check here and here.)

So maybe what happened next shouldn’t surprise me so much.

I decided to search our library for bear books.  One of them ended up being a book all about how to make bears.  I checked it out for Brooke because I knew she would have fun looking at the pictures of all the different kinds of bears.  Never in a million years did I anticipate I would actually use the book.

However, I should have known that Brooke would fall in love with the bears pictured on the pages…and her love would cause her to beg me to make her a bear.  I wasn’t sure my sewing skills were up to par, so I kept trying to brush her off hoping she’d forget about it, but it was no use.

Luckily, she took a liking to one of the easier bears to make.  After studying the instructions I started to think I might actually be able to make her a bear.

So I did.

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Meet Treasure Bear Ice.  He’s a treasure bear because his belly is a zipper so Brooke can keep all of her treasures zipped up inside of him.  He’s named Ice because I finished him the week that she was studying the letter “I” in school, and her show-and-tell needed to start with that letter.  “Ice” was the only “I” name she could think of.

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Luckily for me his flaws aren’t readily seen in these pictures so you will all be under the impression that I’m a great bear maker.

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Brooke loves Treasure Bear Ice.  She now drags him along with her other bear everywhere we go.  One day she said, “I love Treasure Bear Ice more than Bear.  It’s kind of like Andy when he got Buzz.”  I could tell she sensed she was betraying her old friend, Bear.  Then she added, “I still love Bear though.”

And thus begins Treasure Bear’s journey of getting as dingy and matted as her old bear.

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Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

5 Comments

  1. Jacob
    April 2, 2013 @ 7:41 am

    I am soooo impressed. It looks so good.

    This is EXACTLY why it is good Sarah’s etsy shop did not have a curtain-specific theme. I think you should add bears to the mix at The Crooked Branch!

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  2. Kim
    April 2, 2013 @ 9:52 am

    You are the BEST MOM EVER!!! Nice job, Rebecca. So glad to see that sewing machine is being put to lots of good uses.

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  3. sarah
    April 2, 2013 @ 9:46 pm

    Yes, I agree with Jacob. I wouldn’t have been so headstrong on adding the name “curtain” to the business name had I known bears were being made over at the Golden residence. Little Ice is the coolest bear your side of the trax.

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  4. Ann
    April 3, 2013 @ 8:16 pm

    Wow! Terrific job!

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  5. Gina
    April 7, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

    That is so cute! A Cinderella costume, curtains, teddy bear… I think you’re seriously understating your sewing talent.

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