These are the bears She started making one day close to Christmas. They each have a name a birth certificate and they are signed on the bottom and their serial number is on their bottom too! She has spent many hours at the sewing machine to make these for people who live and work here where we all make our home now. This one was made for the maintenance lady who has fixed our toilet several times. I guess I better stop flushing my cat toys down the toilet!
The orchid one was made for the maintenance lady who has fixed our toilet
several times. I guess I better stop flushing my cat toys down the
toilet! These were made as Christmas Presents for the staff here where we all live. The one on the left was made for Paula and the other two were made for John the repair man and Lisa the office manager.
The purple one She has kept for herself so far. Lots of people have oohed and
awed over it but it is still sitting in a chair here in the apartment.
We snuggle up with this one and the blue one on days she has to go to the city on the bus and is gone all day. These first two She hasn't given away and the really bright one went to a resident that is lonely living alone here but doesn't want to move back in with her kids. She has a kitty and she comes to visit us once in awhile.
These were both Christmas presents for two of the ladies that live here. The blue one was for our friend Kelly that comes around in one of those mobile chairs and has a wooden leg! We have never seen a wooden leg on a human and find it fascinating. The one with hummingbirds on it was for a very shy nice lady that feeds the hummingbirds and has four parrots in her apartment.
The pink one was made for a lady whose son comes everyday to care for her.
She is older and hardly ever comes out of her apartment and she has a
little yapper dog so we NEVER go visiting her in her apartment. But she
loves the bear she was given.
The Purple print one went to a lady who was having a real bad week because She found out that the lady collects bears. The one in the middle was made for a lady that helps people put their lives back together. She is helping our human not to be so aggressive and mean to people.
These two were made when our oldest resident suddenly passed away at 96. The one on the left went to the lady's Great Granddaughter that came here to visit very week. She took it to the funeral and held it all day because she really missed her GG. The other one went to the lady that always drove the 96 year old lady around all the time. She was a good friend and needed a friend that would not pass away and I believe the bear is being a very good friend to the lady.
These two bears were for a pair of Sisters. They have both lived in this area for their entire life and they each have their own apartment. The one with the necklace and pansy print fabric was for the older sister who always dresses up and wears lots of bling bling. The other sister is a bit plainer and hardly ever dresses up but she is a nice lady too. They really loved their bears.
This one was made out of vintage fabric for the lady that runs the lunch room here. She is in her 70s and yet she runs the place better than a younger woman could. She loved her bear as did the two helpers that got one too but I can't find the photo of those right now. She is in bed asleep and I can't really wake her up and ask where the photos of 2 of the bears are!
The bear in the middle was made special for a lady on her 90th birthday. She had seen several of the bears but didn't know she would be getting one for her birthday. Now she has the bear on her bed in her apartment. So many of the young people at her birthday party wanted the bear I don't know how long the lady will have it. She is a very nice lady and has a hard time telling any of the young ones no. But she loves that bear so much she just might learn to tell them no.
The bears have kept HER busy but she has read us lots of books too. First SHE read us a book called Princess. It was a very good book that told about how horrible woman are treated in Saudi Arabia. Then SHE read us Princess Sultana's Daughters that was a sequel to the first book. Then SHE read us Princess Sultana's Circle. They were all really good books but very intense. Now she is reading us the book The Help. It is funny to hear HER talk in a funny accent but she makes the book fun by really getting into the characters. Next I think she is planning to read us a murder mystery because someone gave her a whole box of them. Oh no the toilet just flushed and ladybug is right next to me ....Got to go for now
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