Next workshop on the 18th of February 2012
from 2pm – 5.30pm.
This workshop is for boys and girls from age 6 up. An afternoon of creative, sewing and stitching fun. These Monsters are great for hiding little secret messages into their pockets. We like to use them also for making monster promises to other siblings or mum and dad. Here are some images of our last monster workshop. 
Enroll now and contact Anke on info@bearessentials.ie or ring on 0877610537 or contact us on Facebook
Mohair Teddy Bear Craft Course for adults, mum & daughter/son
Or indeed grandma & mum & daughter/son
On Saturday July 10th at 1pm or alternatively Friday 16th of July at 1 pm – all materials and afternoon tea included. Read more>>>
A great workshop to do together with friends & family to create your own heirloom. Booking is essential – email anke@bearessentials.ie
Mohair Teddy Bear Making from 12th – 15th of July from 10 am – 1 pm for children age 6 – 16 for more information follow this link
This summer school is the only one in Ireland – where children can make their own fully jointed Mohair Teddy – a keepsake for years to come.
Crafts & Cookery Summer School from 19th – 22nd of July from 10 am – 1 pm for children age 6 – 16 for more information click here
September 11th, 2009
Anke
To design teddy bears and creating their own characters is just one way of expressing our creativity. Like an artist painting a picture or a potter building a vase it gives us the opportunity to invent, to form, to produce something new and unique. The innovative product is our reward and for me as a teddy bear artist the prize is that people like my creations and buy and collect them.
But a real thrill for me is when other people can experience the same then I do.
It is great when you can pass on your skills to people and it is exciting if they give you fine feed back on their experience.
A mum who took part in a course with her daughter wrote back to us with words like “We were impressed with our efforts” – “We were trilled and chuffed and didn’t think we had the confidence and skills to do such a great job.” Isn’t life to be there to experience it in full? To be able to do so we have to learn all the time and at all stages of our life.
This little girls is not even 6 years of age and embroidering her newly made teddy bears nose. And the boys get really enthusiastic about sewing. The ladies in the button picture show off their bears at a course I delivered in An Grianan in Co.Louth this August 2009.
