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April 14th Craft Day Journal making

Belle was a little apprehensive about the “ladies” we were doing craft with – [she has got a bit sensitive since her rude comment in the supermarket] I knew they were all happy for us to come to their craft day – They have all made a fuss over me lots of times before.

We arrived with our aprons and met everyone had a cuppa and a hot cross bun, and then it was work work work. Very exciting for little bears to get to use SHARP cutting things, glue (I kept a bit of a distance from it as I didn't want to get it in my fur) and all sorts of “tooly” things. The hardest thing in the whole day was choosing the papers to use in the project – there were hundreds of pretty paper, eventually we limited it to five or six and we were under way.

We had a short (?) break for lunch – wonderful fresh sandwiches, yum yum, afternoon tea, home made shortbread biscuits, but the rest of the day was paper here, glue there, pressing and rubbing and talking and laughing, and loosing tools and finding tools, and yet at the end of it all we had made two wonderful books, covered and bound by us – Belle and I [not to mention the others] though we were very clever little bears.

Home tired but happy little bears to a great tea, more hot cross buns and then fall asleep watching TV and listening to the humans chatter, to dream our beary dreams.

If you want to see all the fun we had just go to our photos

Belle comes to Mudgee
I have been waiting for this day for ages. Belle is coming to Mudgee to visit and to teach me how to fix my coat – It will be wonderful to have my coat back – especially now it is getting colder. I went to the shop, with my human to wait her arrival. I knew she would not be there for ages so I filled in my time leaving messages to all my friends on FFB and reading funny comments about their photos and adventures – this is the bestest of things to do. Belle arrived earlier than expected and I was SO surprised. She had a present for me - easter egg (yum yum,) in a SHEEPIE cup – how clever of her to find a sheepie mug, just for me -

The day one wanted no customers, we had lots and Belle and I got interrupted over and over.. Eventually we got to leave the shop and head home. I wanted to get the sewing machines out immediately ( In fact mine was set up, threaded and ready to go), but no the humans 'needed' a cuppa and a time out – we did get to share their hot cross buns, with lots of butter, so that was great.

We made an APRON first – they are very simple, so Belle's human, said to make and would be a good introduction, before tackling my coat. I soon discovered the “joys” of sewing- it is called unpicking- I don't think it is much fun undoing what you have already done , but this is what my human called it – “Bonnie unpicking is one of the joys of sewing” (– if anyone can ex plain that to me I would be forever in their debt). I did a lot of unpicking – it appears I am better at that than sewing.

After much laughing, talking, and a little sewing we had wonderful aprons. Belle wasn't too keen having me pin it on her to try it out, but she only got pins in her a couple of times, and I didn't cut her at all with the scissors. The humans said they needed to recover by having another cuppa before tackling my coat – Belle and I were ready for anything after seeing how clever we were at making aprons.

Guess what – more unpicking – it appeared that my coat still wasn't in enough pieces to satisfy Belle's human. The coat reassembly was a little tricky, and I am sad to say that I did get a bit cross at it, but eventually, after more unpicking, it started to look like my old coat. It is very thin in places we discovered and needed a little “darning” attention ( it is called this I think because every time another hole was discovered my human would exclaim “Oh darn, another hole”). Belle reckons that it wouldn't be hard to make a complete new coat if the wearing gets too bad, I would be happy to do that – but I AM NOT unpicking all this to make a template for the next one – whatever a template is...

My coat is done – complete and it looks and feels just like old.... I am a very happy little bear. Belle and I did have a bit of a falling out – one of us liked “ears in” and one 'ears out'. I am not saying who, we decided to get our FF friends opinion [see file] about which looks the cuter.

After more laughing and eating and talking (with our beloved coats on) we fell asleep [I forgot I mention we ate our chocolate egg along the way]. We fell asleep and dreamed unpicking dreams – well I did.