You Know You’re a
Bear Making Fanatic When…
• You pierce your finger with your needle and your first concern is that you may get blood on your bear
• You stare at people's faces for unusually long times, noting their eye and ear placement... and how it makes them look
• The best Christmas present you unwrap is a fat quarter of mohair
• You go to the local hardware store, and they ask you how many bears you’re making today
• You have mohair dust bunnies in every corner of your house
• The word Schulte is equal to and interchangeable with the word Tiffany's
• You could ladder stitch in your sleep
• You see someone in public wearing a fur coat, and you wonder how many bears you could make out of it
• You always seem to have a stray bit of mohair fluff rolling around in your mouth
• Before you actually buy anything, you stop and calculate how much mohair you could get for the same money
• You pin bear pieces together right before going to bed and, upon waking, machine stitch the pieces together… sometimes before making it to the bathroom
• People start bringing you weird fur items, like you're some sort of Humane Society for dead animals
• You see a dead raccoon on the side of the road and think, “Hmmm.... fresh fur!”
• While shopping for a new car, you check the trunk space first, just to see how many bear trunks it will hold (instead of suitcases)
• Your dreams are usually about a bear-related topic
• You specifically pick out clothes and shoes for your toddler that you KNOW will look good on a bear once they’re outgrown
• You fill the bathtub, and there are mohair fuzz and bits of thread floating in the water
• Your husband comes home, asks what's for dinner, opens the oven to take a peek, and sees NOT dinner, but your newly-dyed mohair, drying • You go to work, not realizing you still have a hemostat pinched on the collar of your suit
• You kiss your husband and poke him with the pins you have between your lips
• Your husband wants to make a bear, in order to spend some time with you
• You eye your cat, appraising his apricot colored fur, and wondering if it’s possible to needle felt the fuzzy remnants after you comb him
• More people know you as the "bear lady" (or guy) than by your real name
• You're in labor, and you read bear making magazines between contractions
• As you try to nod off to sleep, you see" puffy bears" jumping over a fence instead of sheep
• You realize your long hair Chihuahua is a perfect bear size, and think how much better he would look with a little needle sculpting
• You ask for a mohair coat for Christmas, just so you can cut it up and make bears
• You're not embarrassed to carry your teddy into the store with you, to try shoes on it
• You keep a roll of lint-removing packing tape at your desk, so you can clean up the mohair fuzz stuck to your work clothes, after bear making at lunchtime.
With thanks to:
Laura, Ellen, Nancy, Clare, Louise, Wanda, Karen, Steve, Amy, Lorraine, Kim, Jill, Marcia, Kirsten, Loretta, Angie, and Lauren
Reprinted with Permission from Edinburgh Imports Classroom
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