Showing posts with label teddy bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teddy bear. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Miniature paintings of corgi dogs doing stuff they do like making gingerbread doghouses...

CorgiArt Nouveau

Waiting for the game to start

He made a gingerbread doghouse every year

He was having a duvet day
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Saturday, 5 November 2011

Greyhound morning - Corgi topiary - Paparazzi boredom - Sarah Docbear's waiting room - patient Golden Retriever

Into the morning


















Herding was in her blood, but topiary was in her soul















The paparazzi bored her

















Ever more bears came for Sarah Docbear's treatment


















He was waiting very patiently

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

There's no biz like Corgi biz ; teddy bear saga conts ; dog & teddy bear friends furever ; corgi practises what he preaches ; cats on safari

There's no business like Corgi business...

Like no business I know

















They became great friends

After the initial confusion, the Princess Serenity (who called herself Sarah) and Private Detectbear Dougal (known simply as Doug) became very comfortable in each other’s company. They didn’t tell each other their main secrets, though. Of course, Doug knew Sarah was actually the Princess Serenity, but she didn’t know he was a detectbear sent to keep her safe and to find out if she had any sibbearlings. Apart from that, they found that their regular meetings in the park provided them with the only chance they had of talking of their dreams. Doug told her all about his family. Sarah told him all about her studies (she was becoming a doctor of note) and the bear she’d met who made her happy but yet confused at the same time. His name was Beau. She wasn’t too sure where that relationship would lead, but she was sure her family wouldn’t approve. Beau came from a long line of honey gatherers, which, although a worthy (and essential) vocation, was not the ‘right’ company for a royal princess. At the same time, Beau had told her that his family wouldn’t approve of her because they didn’t want him going into medicine and if she continued to encourage him to do so, then she would be bear non grata with them, too. And, of course, he didn’t know that she was really the Princess Serenity either. The world was SUCH a complicated place!


















Friends furever (I've got actual cards in this design in my eBay and Etsy stores - as against the image being on a print-on-demand site - which, of course, it should be as well. So much to do, so little time...)

















Practising for summer

(he believed that practice made perfect)(and he believed he should practice what he preached...)


















Elephant-back safari holiday

(they were hoping to catch up with some of their bigger relatives and get the gossip)

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Window shopping whippets, greyhounds and teddy bears - and corgis...

Window shopping for whippets and greyhounds

(well - if you've got a lovely long, slim neck - might as well show it off)

















Window shopping for teddy bears

(Because teddy bears need teddy bears, too.)

(Although some teddy bears were round the corner staring into the picnic hamper shop window instead - they probably already had their own teddy bears.)

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Overtures - pup to fairy; fairy to pup; Byron the Black Bear Wizard from the Endless Night Forest

Overtures

















Byron - the Black Bear Wizard from the Endless Night Forest(on the night of the cubs' birth)




Unbeknown to everyone - or rather, known to everyone, but wiped from their memories - on the night of the cubs' birth there had indeed been more than one cub born. The teddy bear responsible for the disappearance of the others, and for everyone having their minds wiped of the memory - (except it would seem that of Fairy Bearmother Serendipity) - was none other than the notorious Black Bear Wizard from the vast darkness of the Endless Night Forest. No one quite believed in him because he'd not been seen in many, many years, but tales were told around camp fires about him when older cubs wanted to scare the stuffing out of the younger ones. The Black Bear Wizard's name was Byron.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Whippet and teddy bear soap addicts

They were soap addicts

(they were transfixed by the brilliant one liners and the realistic story lines)



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Corgi Pooh sticks, baby, Mr Cool cat, football training whippets, and fairy bearmother Serendipity

Pooh sticks

The 2011 World Pooh Sticks Championships take place on Sunday 27 March, 2011.

Of course, as we know, Tiggers don't like Pooh sticks - but we do.


















I know I'm cute

(when I'm sleepy, anyway)


















Mr Cool

(he was the cat's whiskers) (and he knew it)


















They took their training very seriously


















Fairy Bearmother Serendipity

She had many other names, too, coming from an ancient line of fairy bearmothers like she did, but she always shortened them all to Serendipity. She was Princess Serenity's fairy bearmother, which is partly why their names were quite similar. Sadly, Princess Serenity had never seen her bearmother because she didn't believe in magic. She was a cub of the modern age and only believed in science. This resulted in Serendipity being unable to do her job properly with regard to Serenity and so she'd had to hire Detectbear Dougal to keep an eye on her charge, and to find out about the other cub Serendipity had seen at the birth with her own eyes but which had disappeared without trace. No one believed in the other cub's existence and Serendipity sometimes found herself doubting her own eyes, too, and wondering whether it was time to lay down her wand and retire. She was a bit sad but tried to stay cheerful, nevertheless.

Corgis having a meercat moment; cat golf lessons; corgis throwing a fancy fur party; private detectbear and his family

They were having a meercat moment


















She was taking swing lessons

(- although she didn't hold out much hope for her game - she was inclined to agree with Mark Twain who reckoned 'golf was a good walk spoiled' - but she was happy to look willing until snooze-time.)



















They were throwing a fancy fur party

(and now they were waiting for pups to turn up - it's horrible when you're waiting and not knowing whether anydog will turn up or not and your bash might be a flop - but of course they always do in the end. (And then you have to wash all that colour out of your fur the following day...)


















His Secret - He was a Private Detectbear called Dougal

He knew she was really the Princess Serenity in disguise as a medical student. He had two tasks he had to carry out - he had to make sure she came to no harm, and he also had to find out if she'd really been the only cub at her birth as the entire family at the castle thought. He didn't know who his employer was. He'd received his instructions in a very covert manner, but he was being paid enough for this one job to retire and spend more time with his family which is what he really wanted to do. He'd had such a hard time trying to get anywhere near the Princess, though, that he'd finally donned a disguise and offered her a flower, knowing she was too kind-hearted to simply turn him down. Really, he just wanted to be at home, but when he took on a job, he always did it thoroughly. He was a bear who always saw things through.

(The picture of his family that he always carried in his wallet will be listed soon.)


















Detectbear Dougal's family

This is the picture of his family that he always carried in his wallet. He tried very hard not to bore people with stories about his cubs, but somehow the picture never stayed in his wallet for very long... His cubs were his favorite topic of conversation.

Kitten nursery school w poster paints; corgi ballet lesson; bowls; whippet quiet evening; teddy bear Princess Serenity's secret

Nursery school

(with lashings of glorious poster paint to splash around)



















Ballet lesson


















An afternoon on the green


















In the quiet of evening


















Her secret

She was really the Princess Serenity in disguise as a medical student. She didn't want to be a princess; she wanted to be a doctor, and she knew she couldn't be both. After years of arguing with her family, she ran away from the castle to start her studies. But she often sat in the park and thought about her family. She knew they'd be worried about her, and she would worry about them worrying about her because she loved them, but she couldn't think how to let them know she was all right without losing the one chance she'd given herself to fulfil her dreams of becoming a doctor.

(The next installment of the teddy bear saga ('His Secret') will be coming soon...)

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