Bear On Parade Show Preview on 1st July!

I am proud to announce that Wayneston Bears will be participating in the "Teddies Worldwide - Bears on Parade Online show"! Yippeee!!!

You can see the show preview bears on 1st July and the event offically kicks off on the 15th July. "Bears on Parade" will feature 75 artists from 12 countries offering bears of all styles, sizes and colors to fit all budgets.

We hope to see you there =)

Hugs, Wayne

New place - coping well

Dear friends,

I have started my new job this monday, so far everything is good and running smoothly =)
The hardest thing to do is waking up early in the morning at 6.30am and I am still having difficulties adapting to the time change. My previous job was near my house, it starts at 9.30am and I can leave my house at 9am.

My current working time is slightly longer than previous one, every night after my work I felt so tired that I find it hard to work on my bears. I guess from now on I can only work on them on weekends :(
I hope next week will be better.

I am tired... I need more sleep!

The Bears on Parade show bears are almost done, I have completed 5 of them. Now I need to polish their noses and accessorising them before the show! I hope to complete them by this week, so that next week onwards I can work on some new bears or animals =)

I have also recently received some soft raw wool for needle felting from a lovely friend, I will try to find some time to do some experiment =) Thinking of them makes me feel so excited.

Please bear with me for not sharing any new creations these few weeks, I know it's hard and I feel uneasy for not sharing any updates with you... please come back again ok?

Maybe you could write me a comment to suggest any animals you would like to see me working on?

I hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.

Hugs, Wayne

Thoughts to share this week

Last Friday was my last day working day and I had a whole week break before starting my new job =)

I kept telling myself that I am going to make this week an experience to become a full time bear artist. This few days, I make bears for the July online "Bears on Parade" show and also catch up with school friends. I have met many people this week and I learnt a lot from listening and sharing.

I am enjoying this moment of the time because I am stress-free and doing what I want =) I wish I could enjoy this longer... I have been thinking a lot this week on what I want in life and have attended a few self enrichment inspirational workshops.

In the workshop everyone is so positive; it really influences you to be one of them. We shared our dreams and visions and shared how and what we have done to move towards our goals. We even created our own dream book with images. Everyone has a different story to tell and a different journey ahead to the end point. This is something I have always been searching for – what I want in life. Everyone has a dream but did not execute. As we age, our dreams become smaller and smaller, eventually it disappears with time :( We have spent so much time working in our life and therefore lesser time to think about our dreams and spending less time with our family. We have to work really hard in order to exchange time for money. I do not want to fulfil my dreams at the age of 60...

I have a dream and I am going to embrace it. I know what I want and I am going to succeed.
Let's think about what we want now and plan to act on it =)

Sewing a new Wayneston Baby =D

Jaslynn & Rowell are featured on Teddy Bear Review 2011

Wow, I received a PDF version of the latest TBR (August issue) and 2 of my monkees creations are featured on one of the page!

I am going to share the article here, click to enlarge. Hope that you will enjoy reading =)
Thank you and have a beautiful Sunday!

Jaslynn & Rowell is here!