Cees Bears
By B. B.
“I seal love in with each stitch” asserts Celia Newboult of Cees Bears. A natural-born care-giver,
Celia was at a loss when she had
to retire from nursing due to ill health.
Having tried flower arranging, stencilling, and nearly all other manner of craft pursuits, in 2002, she finally discovered that nothing
quite satisfied her like making
teddy bears.
However, Celia’s is a business
with a difference. This deeply spiritual and compassionate soul donates the profits from her
bears to charities, and two
which are dear to her heart –
Red Ridings Children’s Hospice
and St Barnabas Hospice – are
the main beneficiaries.
For Celia, this is a win-win situation, “I see my artistic
reward at shows in the eyes
of the new owner. The delight
is heart warming."
"Then I’m doubly rewarded when
I bring the money to the hospice and see their surprise too”, she explains. “I’m thankful God has given me the chance to do good through this wonderful furry, huggable world”.
Most of Celia’s bears are small
to miniature. In fact, her minis
are her most popular designs,
which she attributes to keeping
the designs “simple, yet adorable and affordable”.
“I suppose that is why folks come back for more, they like my work and they are supporting such a worthy cause”, she smiles.
A Cees Bear doesn’t hurry itself into being. A mini may take a few days, while bigger bears may take several weeks. Add plenty of hugs into the mix and Cee’s enthusiasm, and you can understand why they are content to hang around.
Describing each new bear as giving her a creative ‘high’, Celia is always looking for new challenges and, at present, is contemplating the idea of a realistic polar bear with teeth and claws.
“But that is for the future!” she laughs. “For now I am happy to just take things as they come. God’s wonderful bounty shows us many things to be happy with and we all need to seek within our souls to find that next bear”.
Cee does offer other artists' hand crafted bears and related items, as well as her own, on her website, www.ceesbears.com.
Editor's Note:
What some people don't know about Cee is that she has the innate soul of a poet and writes the most beautiful poems.
Active in several Yahoo online groups, Cee often consoles those who are going through tough times, sicknesses, or deaths
of a loved one, by emailing them
a poem written specially for the person who is suffering.
One of her goals, is to gather these poems together in the
hopes of publishing a volume
of her poems.
An admirable goal and one
which, knowing Cee, she will reach with ease.
One of her original poems is listed
below.
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REACH OUT
Reach out today
and touch someone’s heart
A friend for life, never to part.
Look to your soul,
dig all around
It’s amazing the love that you've found
Someone’s in pain
or crying alone
Be a good friend
and pick up the phone
A few moments
to talk with love
Sent to you from Him above
No one should suffer
or feel lost and adrift
So many folks who care
help their spirits, to lift
Love has no boundaries,
it fills us up, as it should
Go out today and share
all that’s good
Be glad, help heal
someone's heart today
Your turn may arrive
when dark days stay
Your friends, so real,
to help, will strive.
Good friends never part
Hugs
Celia Newboult
Cees Bears
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3428 Hillvale Road 
