Wishing you a Merry Little Christmas!
Hello Lovely Collectors
Wishing you all a Merry Little Christmas!
Thank you all so much for your support in 2025.
We hope your bears,birds,animals or wall art bring you joy and smiles.
Thank you for follows,likes,comments and shares.
Warmest Wishes
Paula & Simon
xx
Christmas Collection
Hello and welcome to our Christmas Collection..
FORAGER
Forager stands at 4" high and is created from antique mohair hand dyed a faded brown.
He wears a old red cotton trousers with antique linen buttons.
His hat is made from cream jersey trimmed with antique crochet button pom pom.
Shoes are made by Simon hand stitched in red leather.
Forager has been into the woods collecting Fly Algaric Mushrooms.
These are very tiny antique mushrooms which were such a thrill to find.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
WILLIE
Willie stands at 4.5" to top of ear and 5.25"to top of hat.
He is created from antique mohair hand dyed in faded honey gold.
He wears a starched collar and bib created from a victorian collar with a
antique linen waistcoat with antique black glass buttons.
A striped cotton trousers held up with braces and antique black glass buttons.
Willie has a crumpled leather top hat
a new sculpted hat design by Simon made from victorian glove leather and hand painted.
His shoes are black leather hand stitched with leather soles by Simon.
He carries a vintage brass cane.
Willie is a character bear inspired by Hobsons Choice 1954 Film
Willie Mossop a boot maker played by John Mills.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
GINGER
Ginger is 4" high and created from antique mohair.
His fur is hand dyed a lovely shade of ginger spice.
He wears a silver French religious charm tied with silk ribbon
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
FERGAL
Fergal stands at 3.25" high and created from antique mohair in pale honey blonde.
He wears hand dyed green corduroy overalls with wool tweed scarf.
His shoes are tan leather hand stitched by Simon with leather soles.
He comes with a miniature green mohair Christmas tree a new sculpted design.
ONE OFF 1/1
St VINCENT
St Vincent is a tiny bear at 3.25" high.
Created from hand dyed mohair in a faded brown.
He comes with a vintage French blue enamel religious charm.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
JACK FROST
Jack Frost is a very tiny 3" bear.
He is created from soft white mohair and faded antique green mohair.
He wears a vintage winter wool scarf and carries some vintage berries.
He comes with a tiny white mohair tree.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
WINTER ROBIN
Winter Robin stands at 4.25" to the top of his hat.
Created from vintage plush and hand dyed antique mohair.
He has a sculpted face, wings and tail with a hand carved wooden beak.
We love making Robins this one has a different sculpted hat by Simon.
Winter Robin wears a crumpled leather top hat trimmed with a antique mushroom.
His shoes made by Simon are red suede leather hand stitched with leather soles.
He comes with some vintage holly berries.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
WINTER MOON
Winter Moon Sculpted Wall Art
By Simon
Created frome antique silk satin with vintage frosted bottle brush.
Mounted on dark purple antique silk velvet.
Vintage frame with domed glass.
5" Diameter
ONE OFF 1/1
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Thank you for visiting our blog should you wish to adopt any of the designs
please email me at
paulastrethillsmith@btinternet.com
or message me on facebook or instagram.
Wishing you all warmest winter wishes
&
Merry Christmas!
Paula & Simon
Christmas Collection coming next week...
Hello lovely collectors.
Just putting the finishing touches to our Christmas Collection.
Wishing you all Peace,Love & Happiness.
Paula & Simon
Spooky Collection
Hello welcome to our latest designs...
SPOOKY COLLECTION
MISS HAVERSHAM
Miss Haversham stands at 6.5" high created from antique mohair in old white.
She is a spooky bride with a nod to the character from great expectations by Dickens.
She wears a fine antique lace wedding dress trimmed with vintage white satin ribbon.
Her tiara is aged from antique marriage dome trimmed with vintage velvet flowers.
The antique veil is again from a wedding costume and trimmed with cobwebs.
She has antique leather shoes made from victorian gloves.Hand stitched with leather soles.
Miss Haversham carries a vintage floral wedding bouquet.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
SPIDER
Spider is 4.5" high and created from antique mohair in faded cinnamon.
A centre head seam. The faded mohair is worn away with age.
He is trimmed with a spider web and comes with his own pet spider EEK!
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
MAEVE
Maeve is 4.5"high made from antique mohair is dusty fade gold.
She has a centre head seam and is loosely jointed.
Maeve is a Irish country witch she wears a black & white loose weave
dress from vintage fabric.
Her witches hat is antique black linen and she comes with her broomstick.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
Rowan stands at 3.5" created from hand dyed antique mohair in faded brown.
He wears a pumpkin orange cotton jersey t-shirt.
Striped brown dungarees trimmed with antique black glass buttons.
Leather shoes in dark brown hand stitched with leather soles.
Comes with his tiny orange velvet pumpkin
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
OLLIVANDER
Ollivander stands at 3.25"high to the tip of his wizard hat 4''.
He is created from hand dyed mohair in cinnamon.
Ollivander wears a pagan star t-shirt which is age tinted in places.
Antique linen dugaress in old black with antique glass buttons.
His wizard hat is antique velvet trimmed with antique black star button.
He comes with his wooden magic wand.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
PICKLE PUMPKIN
Pickle Pumpkin is 3" high and created from dense black mohair.
He wears a vintage trim collar and antique linen spooky hat with antique linen buttons.
Pickle can sit inside his sculpted 3"high pumpkin or can be filled with halloween treats.
These spooky pumpkins are a new design made by Simon created from antique glove leather.
ONE OFF1/1 ADOPTED
SPOOKY MOON
Spooky Moon a sculpted wall art design by Simon.
Created in antique silver lame & sequinned textile trimmed with antique net.
5" diameter in vintage black domed glass frame.
ONE OFF 1/1 SOLD
FLASH
Flash is a halloween bat we were asked to create and his pumpkin.
Sorry but he is already adopted we just want to show him giving you a spooky flash!
Sorry ADOPTED
Wishing you all a Spooktacular Halloween.
Thank you for visiting our blog.
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Should you wish to adopt any of the designs please contact me by email.
paulastrethillsmith@btinternet.com
or message me on facebook or instagram.
Spooky Collection coming next week....
Hello lovely collectors.
Just a note to say we will have some new designs available next week on our blog.
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Spooky Collection
Thursday 23rd October
From 7.30pm
Witching you a Happy Halloween!
Paula & Simon
Summer Collection
SUMMER COLLECTION
WILD STRAWBERRY
Wild Strawberry is 3.5" high and created from hand dyed antique mohair in a berry red.
She sits in a vintage wicker basket decorated with antique wild strawberries and cream velvet roses.
The basket measures 5" from the base to top of handle.
Miss Wild Strawberry wears a antique french silk green ribbon.
She can also be displayed along side the basket with the postcard that inspired her design.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
SILENE
Silene is 4.5 high and created from antique mohair in pale honey gold.
This gorgeous antique mohair was originally a victorian table cover
quite worn in places so perfect for a old bear look.
She has a centre seam head and is stuffed with fine wood wool.
Silene is named after Silene Pendula flower.
She comes with a vintage French flower seed packet of Silene Pendula
and a small posy of vintage millinery flowers.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
PETUNIA
Petunia is 4.5"high and created from antique mohair hand dyed in pale dusty pink.
She has a centre head seam and is stuffed with fine wood wool.
Petunia wears a hand dyed vintage linen dress with embroidered flower motif.
She comes in a vintage wicker basket with a Vintage French Seed Packet of Petunia flowers
and decorated with antique velvet millinery flowers.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
Monsieur BLANC
Monsieur Blanc stands at 3.25" created from antique mohair in pale honey gold.
Antique mohair from the victorian table cover nicely aged in places.
He wears antique indigo dungarees and hand made tan leather shoes.
Monsieur Blanc a keen gardener has grown his own pot of Myosotis Des Alpes Blanc.
He comes with a tiny vintage terracotta pot and small packet of vintage French seeds.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
OLD MARINER
Old Mariner is 7" high created from antique mohair in pale honey ash blonde.
Antique mohair originally from a victorian table cover in dense mohair.
Old Mariner wears an antique linen sailor jacket
with a indigo blue cotton collar which ties with red ribbon.
On the reverse of his collar he has a lovely vintage clothing label Ship'n Shore.
ONE OFF 1/1 ADOPTED
STRAWBERRY THIEF
Strawberry Thief art bird stands 4" high and created from
antique velvet, antique mohair & vintage plush.
This is a new art bird design inspired by William Morris Strawberry Thief print.
We used a mix of vintage and antique textiles some hand dyed to give a really aged look.
The antique velvet for the wings were originally antique French Chateau curtains.
Strawberry Thief has a sculpted head and hand carved wooden beak all hand crafted by Simon.
His slippers are in dark burgundy antique velvet hand stitched with leather soles.
He carries his stolen antique wild strawberry in his beak.
Limited Edition of 3 Number 1 ADOPTED 2,3 available for order.
CELESTIAL SUN
Celestial Sun is a new wall art design created from antique velvet.
This wall art design is hand sculpted by Simon.
The velvet was originally from French Chateau Curtain is most gorgeous colour and pile.
Trimmed with antique gold lame fringing and mounted on textured silk velvet
in colour tones of the sunset.
Vintage matt black round frame with domed glass.
Limited Edition of 3 Number 1 ADOPTED 2,3 available for order.
Diameter Size 8" or 20cm
Frame may vary in size as these are vintage finds.
FLORAL SACRED HEART
FLORAL SACRED HEART
Floral Sacred Heart is a new wall art design created from antique velvet.
This wall art design is hand sculpted by Simon.
The velvet was originally from French Chateau Curtain is most gorgeous colour and pile.
This Floral Winged Sacred Heart trimmed
with antique gold lame fringing and antique millinery flowers.
Vintage matt black round frame with domed glass.
Diameter Size 6" or 15cm
Limited Edition ONE OFF 1/1
Frame may vary in size as these are vintage finds.
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About Me
Hello I am a soft sculpture teddy bear artist/designer creating vintage looking teddy bears and animal characters. I love using antique fabrics and trimmings and spend many happy hours looking for these treasures! The Teddy Bears I make have the look of well loved and cherished companions.I use antique mohair and vintage plush I adore the look of early old antique bears from Germany and ours have all the same attributes of those traditional classic bears with long arms and spoon shaped paws,centre seam noses,boot button eyes and with a slight raised hump on the back.We are delighted that a large collection of our designs are on display at the wonderful spielzeug-welten-museum-Basel Switzerland and the Izu Museum Tokyo Japan I hope you enjoy my blog....thank you for visiting.
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