Cost: Free
Description
Do you have trouble displaying your teddy bear collection? Are your bears confined to boring rows on static shelves or tucked away in a back room? Well, bring those bears out and enjoy them!
Join three artists and collectors for an idea-packed session on how each of them use bears, quilts, and antiques from their personal collections to decorate their homes for different holidays and seasons. Joel, Terri, and Peggy will share their passion for collecting and incorporating their collections into their home decor with a slide show and real life examples. Whether your household includes small children or adults only, they'll have ideas that will work in your home.
If you have ever been curious about what teddy bear artists collect here's your chance to take a peek!
Joel Hoy
Terri Larson
About Once Upon a Needle
When these three friends, Joel Hoy - Joel's Bears, Terri Larson - Plum Street, and Peggy Fleming - The Pleasant Ridge Collection, found themselves transitioning to office jobs or raising small children, they missed the creative outlet, travel and camaraderie with other artists and collectors they had enjoyed as full-time teddy bear artists. Although their new schedules don't allow them to produce enough pieces to justify purchasing tables and travelling to teddy bear shows, they decided to band together to produce periodic Internet gallery shows. After much discussion, they came up with the name "Once Upon a Needle" for their new adventure.
See the website for how Once Upon a Needle works along with bios of each artist.