There's a Bear Carnival Over Here!

Meet Beethoven and Blue Bear, who love to attend parties and carnivals!

Beethoven is a bear from Vienna and Blue Bear is from Peapack. Both bears love the circus and to attend parties, Beethoven recently attended the Piccadilly Circus, he was named after the Circus star, Beethoven, who started at the Piccadilly Circus and eventually opened his own, Beethoven's Flying Circus.

Beethoven's favorite part of the circus are the cotton candy and the elephant ballet. Come join Beethoven at his next circus adventure.

Blue Bear, everyone's favorite bear, well at least to Ginny Le Bear who has a crush of Blue Bear as do some of the other lady bears. Today Blue bear is attending a party in Pink Woods and word has it, he might be named bear of the year. With all this buzz surrounding him, Blue Bear remains humble and loves to harvest honey on his honey bee garden, he even pays his bees wages, unlike some of the other honey garden keepers. Can't wait to hear what happens at the party.

Another party bear is Estelle, who loves a good dress up soiree, she was invited to Darcy Brimwell's Annual Holiday Soiree, the most talked about soiree of the year. The theme this year is royal pink, all are asked to dress in pink colors and wear crowns, Estelle is so excited about that. Here is a picture of Estelle where her pink best and a Bromley Crown, the finest crown makers in England.

All my boxes are made from handmade paper mache, paste, compressed paper mache boxes or wood boxes, tinsel or my handmade glass glitter, trims, embellishments and more.

Each piece is air dried for 3 days, sanded, painted and embellished. Look for more bear boxes coming soon. They are available in my store: Piddlestixs, 12 Morris Farm Rd, Lafayette, NJ 07848, some in my etsy and website as well.


Have a magical day,
Lisa!

P.S. See you at Flower Power Tuesday Tomorrow!

The New Boxes on the Block!

Lately I have been drawn to decorated boxes, ones with cute assemblages on each box top. After searching and searching for the right components for the boxes, I found some of the items were too cute to use only on one box, so once again I hand molded my items and poured some of them with paper mache, others pressed with my handmade clay and others with a blend of paper clay and apoxie clay.

The first of these new boxes are:
-Blue Bear's Party
-Lady Primrose's Tea Party


Blue Bear is on his way to a party in Pink Valley at Sammy Petalsmith's house located at the tip of Pinksby Mountain, where Sammy has set up a Pink Wonderland filled with sweets and treats!


Lady Primrose is on her way to a Garden Tea Party at Abigail Brewster's Arboretum in Sunnyvale. The Tea Party begins at 12noon inside the Climbing Roses Gazebo which will be glowing with Oriental lanterns and twinkling lights laced between layers of roses and vines.



Both were made from my molds and a paper mache mix, then sanded, hand painted and decorated, not to mention loads of glitter. Blue Bear's Party has vintage multi tinsel glitter I had from Woolworth's and Lady Primrose's Tea Party has fine German glitter from Art Glitter.

Hope you enjoy them!
Magic and Joy,
Lisa!