User:Ncbearlady

  Meet the Artist:     I am a 57 year old wife, mother of two grown sons and grandmother of one positively scrumptious grandson. I am happily living with my darling husband, two dogs and one cat in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. I have moved a lot in my life living nearly half of it outside of the United States in Europe and the Middle East. In the process, I have had more than a few professional incarnations. I have been a midwife with a home-birth practice, classroom teacher, computer programmer, secretary, bookkeeper, waitress and even a car sales person. I have always loved sewing and managed to use my skills in that area to put a little money in my 	pocket since I was seven and started making doll clothes for friends in the neighborhood.   A little over nine years ago, a friend drug me to my first bear show to get my mind off a health crisis in the life of my younger son, Seth. I 	designed my first bear, Mickey with his lady bug, took him to a show and the rest, as they say, is history. Now I am hooked on bears and happily designing and making the furry critters as fast as my little fingers can stitch them up.  <dt style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">In the last nine summers, my bears have appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell Show and found display space in five different retail stores in North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia as well as from my web site and at shows from Smithtown, New York to Austin, Texas. A grown woman shouldn't be allowed to have such a good time in public but I did and I do! </dt>