Little Winter Blog Show!

Rudolf & Jim, two cute larger Tea cub Grizzly's! Trimmed, plugged and hugged to look vintage and old.
Both stand 6.5 inch tall, are fully disc jointed, have little glass eyes and have a very nice weight!

Rudolf's price is $ 239 Rudolf found a home! Thank you Lori ..
Jim's price is $ 239 Jim found a home! Thank you Kelly..

Shipping costs will be within Europe $9 and Outside Europe $14
Please e-mail me vivianne@gallibearcollection.com if you would like to order one of my bears.























Vince & Phebe, two cute Tea cub Grizzly's! Trimmed, plugged and hugged to look vintage and old.
Both stand 5.5 inch tall, are fully disc jointed, have little glass eyes and have a very nice weight!

Vince's price is $ 229 Vince found a home! Thank you Nathalie..
Phebe's price is $ 229 Phebe found a home! Thank you Anna..

Shipping costs will be within Europe $9 and Outside Europe $14
Please e-mail me vivianne@gallibearcollection.com if you would like to order one of my bears.
Or visit my Etsy shop :-))



Thanks for visiting!!!

Mr. Brown.

Mr Brown was placed in my Etsy shop yesterday, he soon found a loving home in the UK and will now live together with many other sweet bears and bear friends! He's so lucky :-))

A big ... big hug for the new moms!!!

Making a vintage looking ruff..

Previously I have been asked a few times, how to make the vintage looking ruff from the ribbons in some of my kits in my shop, so I thought lets make a few photo's when I'm working on a new ruff for one of my bears :-)



First take three ribbons in three different colors and make sure all three are equally long.



Now lay them all on top of each other and fold the beginning of the three ribbons inside.



Take a long needle and strong thread, pull the needle through the ribbons until your reaching the end of the ribbons.



Fold the end of the ribbons inside as well.



Now you have a ruff, I think it's still looking to new and perfect for my vintage and aged looking bear so I gave mine a coffee dye.



If you iron the ruff, it will make those perfect aged looking stains :-)



Now tie the ruff around the bear's neck, not to tight..



And finish here with a cute little rusty bell.



I used two also coffee dyed and ironed roses plus a rusty key to decorate my ruff.



It's that easy :-))

Only five more day's!

I'm giving away free Christmas toned Mohair & ribbon kits, with enough Mohair to make a little Elephant, Chopper bear or Bunny (from the patterns from my shop) Only Mohair and ribbon plus a sweet tiny rusty bell and a red rose!

Who will receive one?

Everyone who will be shopping in my "The Old Pincushion" shop for $50 and up (excluding shipping costs) will receive a Christmas gift from now until November 25
(go's only for items directly purchased from my "the old pincushion'' shop)

Wishing everyone a wonderful and creative weekend!

My bottles arrived!!

Bottles of Brown antique paint to age your Bear or Bear friend.
This is the antique paint I use myself to age and paint my creations, i have been using this for years end never found something compatible.

I have the bottles available in my Etsy shop now.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!!

New little arrivel..

Found a home via Etsy this afternoon, Thank you Nathalie!

Silly places my cats find to rest!

Further I wanted to share with you the following, two new colors for my Old Joy bear kits available!! A beautiful hand dyed Taupe and a white-stone on a dark Brown backing..

The new Kits are available at The Old Pincushion
Please note, I have only one kit with Taupe available!

Also I wanted to point out that all the patterns are sold separately, as you will be able to read in the item description, Most costumers read the description well and now :-) just thought I'd point it out again, simply to avoid any disappointments.

Almost forgot to tell about the Patina paint I use to paint and shade my bears! I will have bottles available hopefully this week!!

Wishing you all a happy & creative week!!!