Today is National Teddy Bear Day!

a_trost

Here's some of my Teddy Bears...

My paternal grandmother made this one. I'm not sure when she made her or who she made her for, but I always played with her when I was at my grandparents house.

This is her without her clothes, so you can see what she looks like.

These are "Jerry Bears" named after Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. They all have names from Grateful Dead songs. I have a large collection of these.

Oops. I didn't mean to post that pic of the bear on wheels twice. I accidentally put it there and don't know how to remove it.

lelensp

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Nice teddy bear my dear friend.

Racoon7

Hi Elsa, thank you for such a lovely and very interesting thread 😍 Thank you @Diamond Lim and @Spinnifix for the tag.

I love all my teddies, but here are 4 of my special ones 🐻

Bertie would like to say "Hi!" 🐻 @Scooterpie and to all the teddy bears worldwide and their owners. "Happy National Teddy Bear Day"

Scooterpie

Hey there @Racoon7! I love all your teddies/fur babies!

Ditz would like to say hi to Bertie and every teddy and other fur babies and peoples too!

ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ A good day to all!

greddycandy

Happy National Teddy Bear Day everyone! Though I don't own a teddy bear anymore, I found these to be cute...

Ain't they just so cute!

bearwithme

@teresawallace44 - yes I definitely have a Teddy Bear collection and have been collecting for a very long time. I have well over 1000 teddy bears - I probably have 300+ Beanie Baby bears alone, s well as hand blown glass teddy bears (I have one I got from the Isle of Murano in Venice), and carved wooden ones (I have one I bought in Oberammergau, DE), and some that are made in metal (including very small sterling silver ones). I also have several French Limoges boxes that have Teddy Bears as the design.

Here are a few pictures. I have two small wall display cabinets filled with bears (between the two of them there are almost 150). At Christmas all my ornaments have a bear on them (there can be other things - but there must be a bear) and a bear tree topper and bear tree skirt.

This is of course only part of my collection. 😁🐨💕

Racoon7

Woah! what an amazing collection @bearwithme thank you so much for sharing, I really am awe struck!

I had the blue care bear when I was a child 😊

teresawallace44

Those are so cool @bearwithme. I didn’t realize you had that many bears. Keep on collecting. 💕🤗

I have been collecting hardback Stephen King books since about 1989 @Elsa and I have almost all his books and have read them all. I follow him on twitter also. 💕👍

Teresa 🦋🌺🦋