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Ileana |
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Such a
lovable face! |
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is my one and only collector bear Ileana. I probably paid way too much money for her but I
didn't care at the time. I wouldn't have gotten her if I hadn't picked her up the second
time, but as soon as I picked her up I knew I had to buy her. |
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makes this bear so special, and why I fell in love with her, is that when you hold |
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you are holding a baby. The body of the bear is weighted with bean bag beads. According to
the artist, it took a whole day just to stuff the head properly. As a fellow bearmaker, I
can really respect that kind of attention to detail. |
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So, Ileana sits on the top shelf in the corner of the living room
with her bottle full of baby powder. She is surrounded by a bunch of mystical Ty Beanie
Babies and the really cute Teenie Beanies from McDonald's, one of the first bears that I
made, and a bear my mother-in-law got for me on her trip to England. |
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