40 of 52 - GIVEAWAY! He's the bear with no name....

Poor chap.  He has no name at all

See, he's all sad

Now, he's not going in my shop at all.  There was a fault in the sock that I didn't notice until I'd nearly finished him so after fixing that which left him with a rather fetching scar across his head, I decided he wasn't going in the shop.  But, I have plans for him.  He's going to have some adventures along with us and I'm sure he will get acquainted with Baby Bears in the coming weeks but he doesn't have a name!  And our naming efforts are exhausted by trying to come up with names for Baby Bears.

So, drop your comments here before Wednesday 3rd November at 5pm and tell me what you think I should call him.  And if your name is chosen, you can choose a mini sock bear from my Etsy shop to be all yours!

13 of 52 - New places to find me!

It has been a good week again around this bears' house! The to do list has been massive but i'm slowly working through it.

I have a whole bunch of new bears coming soon


I have also started to appear in some new place. If you want to by in pounds then you can find me on WowThankYou! And if you want to buy in Euros, I can be found on DaWanda!

Items are added to both of these stores on a regular basis so keep checking back.

7 of 52 - A Tough Week and a Giveaway!

This week has been rubbish! Sadly, I was made redundant from my job. Ah well, hey ho, move on to bigger and brighter things. Lots of job applications are flying around and when I'm not applying for jobs, i'm adding new things to my shop!

And I figured that whilst this was dubious grounds for celebration, I figured I would do a giveaway!

So this is your opportunity to get your hands on one of my original sock bears.

AND, there are even runners up prizes!

Three runners up will get one of my tiny bears which are not available in any of my shops yet.

So, as there are four prizes, there are four ways to enter.

1. Leave a comment on my blog telling me which item from my shop is your favourite (click on the 'comments' link at the end of this post).
2. Buy an item from my shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/ClareBears) - I know, i'm shameless!
3. Tweet the following message: RT @ClareBears I am entering the big bear giveaway at http://claresbears.blogspot.com/
4. Become a Fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ClareBears or ask your friends to become friends.

If you do all four, that's four entries and that's all you have to do.

The giveaway closes at 7pm (UK time) on the 8th March 2010. That gives you a whole week to enter. I choose winners randomly from a hat (or a random number generator if it's popular, who knows).

Entries open NOW!!

Happy New Year - 1 of 52

There's an ominous title!

Yes I plan to blog once a week for the next year. This goes completely against my resolution to NEVER make a resolution but if this is one small thing I can do on the way to world bear domination it's a good thing, right? I even have a calender of things I plan to write about and everything! Now, just to write about something every week! I suspect some entries will be cop-outs and just be some pictures of things I've made or new things I've found that I like. So in that vain, here are some things I made for the delightful Miss Maisy!

This cute guy was made from one of the pairs of socks she sent me! This is the other:

I hope she likes them!