Tiny Bears

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This photo was taken in December of 1992. I apologize for the fuzziness, but it was a Polaroid. Each polar bear is about 3 inches long. They are all sledding and wear scarves and ear-muffs made of pom-pons and a bit of gold braid. Their arms and legs are thread-jointed.	All the photos with the wicker sleigh were taken at Christmas of 1991. This bear is made from a fuzzy cloth with flowered cotton print for contrast.. He has embroidered eyes and is  about 4 inches small.
This was supposed  to be a bear, but using the larger shiny eyes made him look like a hamster, so I gave him a pink hamster nose & thread whiskers. His vest is a scrap of reversible quilted fabric.	This little fellow is terribly wistful. He's made of scrap fur (most of the tinies are made from scraps too good to throw away.)

This happy fellow has bright amber eyes.

The plushy upholstery material that made this bear wrinkled in his forehead, and so he became a Shar Pei bear (after the Chinese breed of wrinkly dogs). His contrast fabric is a gray, pink and yellow floral.

This bear was made from a pair of fur-lined mittens. I've no idea what sort of fur it was, but the mittens were so ugly no one wore them and I didn't like thinking an animal's sacrifice was to no purpose.

This bear was made from a worn-out mink collar. He has a few scars, but his fur covers them.

This wasn't too long after Berr Avon (in the silver tunic at back) had recognized his true identity.

The little bear looks a lot like Avon. This is not surprising, because he's made from scraps of Avon fur.

This 7 inch tall Mexican bear is wearing a souvenir sombrero from Epcot. I don't know why he looks so startled by the cats' drinking fountain.

Most of the tiny (6 inch tall) bears I made out of scraps one year were given away. This pinstriped fellow captured my heart, though, and so I kept him. His rose is a genuine dried rose- the only one I was able to salvage from a bouquet.