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All my bears are lovingly designed and created by me out of the finest imported mohair and alpaca materials available. My bears display the highest quality of craftsmanship that discriminating collectors have come to expect in an artist bear and are displayed in collections throughout the world. About the artist... I have always been creative and can remember sewing and knitting my own Barbie doll clothes at the age of seven. My mother believes that I was actually younger than that. Yes...I was allowed to play at my Mothers and Grandmothers sewing machines unsupervised at that tender age. I guess I could have run over one of my fingers or something with the sewing machine needle...but I didnt; and I have fond memories of making tiny pot holders out of my mothers scraps for my cooking stove that we made out of a card board box. I made many of my own clothes in high school and during that time, also created soft muslin dolls with yarn hair and embroidered features. These creative endeavors continued throughout my life and eventually lead me on the path to making my first teddy bear. I made that first bear from a McCalls pattern in 1991. He was a bug eyed sad looking creature with plastic safety eyes and plastic joints, but I was proud of him and loved him all the same. During that time a little seed was planted that sprouted into the beginning of an idea.... I knew absolutely nothing about the teddy bear world, but it wasnt long before I learned about mohair and discovered that there were actual shows dedicated exclusively to the exhibition and sale of teddy bears. I avidly sought out and researched as many books as I could find concerning teddy bears and found the book titled, How to Make & Sell Quality Teddy Bears, by Terry and Doris Michaud to be the most helpful. I devoured this wonderful book! The chapters detailing construction, design and marketing were very instrumental in launching my career. It wasnt long before I was designing my own teddy bears and by the spring of 1993 - excited, nervous and a little bit scared - I exhibited at my first teddy bear show. Since then, I have never looked back.

 

Address: Ithaca, Michigan 48847
Telephone: 989 388-4022
Website: http://www.vickylougher.com/