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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Life

Movie crew on New Avenue, 1989*


In the sage words of my cousin Loren, aka the Groovy Movie Man:

LIFE
is a cereal.

And indeed it is:

Life cereal box showing "Mikey" from the TV advertisements**
Source: crookedhaloblog.com


I would like to suggest that, more often than not, this is really the case:

LIFE
is a serial.

In my 44 years, I have found that life is truly a series that happens in multiple parts and sometimes has reruns of the episodes you'd much rather forget.

Though I love creating my bears, life often interrupts and doesn't allow me to have any time for creativity. I designed my first teddy bear pattern and created New Avenue Crew in August 1996, 16 years ago, but I have had to take many periods of hibernation from bear making, both long and short, because of life's reruns. I recently noticed that the last post here on this blog was posted five months ago!

I don't know whether life will be settling down anytime soon, but with the cooler fall weather, I am feeling the need to pick up the fur and fluff and get busy creating a little someone. And I'd like to share more with you, like the sweet hairless bear I finished back in the spring. I'm thrilled to say that he's been included in a publication...but I'll save that news for another blog post.

Happy autumn to you, dear readers! I hope you can pause to enjoy the colorful leaves, cooler air, pumpkin spice yummies, and a little Crew in your life every so often.



*The movie crew, left to right: Dana, Jennifer, Loren, Sid, Debora (me), Cynthia. And yes, most of us are related: siblings and cousins--and one friend.

**Here's the Life cereal TV commercial I remember. Enjoy!

7 comments:

  1. Thank you Debora to share these pieces of life with us! Like you, I really love Autumn, I think it's a perfect time for bearmaking!

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    1. Hi, Agnés! It's nice to hear from you! I agree: autumn is a perfect time for bearmaking. Hugs to you!

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  2. I am glad you are enjoying my blog, Teddy Bears! :o)

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  3. Looks good, you have new crew members added in your team. I think fresh and energetic force will refresh your ideas in bear making.
    " I think therefore I am" sometimes daily stuff interfere our progress on moving towards the goal, but you still have dreams and you know what want to do, one day you would be there.

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    1. Thank you for visiting and commenting, Susana! I am happy for your encouragement. I just need to find those few minutes for bear making among the curve balls that life throws. :o)

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  4. I look forward to seeing who you create when you have the time, Debora! Congrats on your little published hairless bear, too ;o) Hugs, Janice

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    1. Thank you so much, Janice! I need to pick up my needle and get busy. :o) It's always such a thrill to have a little guy published; now I just have to wait for the magazine to arrive from overseas!

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