Review of Renningers Animal Artist show

The Animal Artist Show at Renningers in Kutztown, PA featured, Bev White, Colin Richmond, Felicia Hymer and me, Darlene Allen.
We were given the White Room in the antiques building that also has the wonderful farmers market. If you want great food ok go there if you don't want to gain weight... Diet first, hehe! So many temptations!

The first piece of mine to sell was this elephant.


He is sitting here but stands on all fours.


This is Colin of Colin's Creatures working on his sheep. He also brought a pair of wonderful bulls besides the llamas and other animals.


This is one of Bev Whites larger pieces that she is known for. Bev also gave a bear making class that Saturday.


Felicia Hymer, the Bear Scout, brought a great variety of her artists work.


Great bird! And what about these needle felted owls!


Very cool , wish you could see the feet.
Our host was Dexter Renninger and he made us feel at home. There were fresh flowers all around and we got to use some of the antiques for our display. The extravaganza for April was also going on so I picked up some great finds. You'll have to wait to see. Hehe

Show Previews

I have three shows coming up starting this Thursday with the Animal Artists Show at Rennigers extravaganza in Pennsylvania.


I will have my new cone puppets, these ate a couple of the bulldog ones. There are other animals making an appearance in the series.


This monkey will be at one of the shows.
The Rennigers Show will be Thursday through Saturday. If you can, come see me, there will be four of us showing there.
I will also be at the Quinlan Doll and Bear show May 3-5.


Won't tell who this is but look for this one when you come to the show. Hehe.
My bears will also be at the Maitland show May 5th, my husband will be showing them for me. Can't be in two places at once! Looking forward to seeing you soon:)

Happy Easter and Passover

Be blessed as we celebrate Easter and Passover.


May there be joy in the reason we celebrate today and may you know you have proof you are loved.

Teddy Spring Show Review 2012

Saturday artists gathered in Timonium to present their new work to collectors.


These are a couple of my new ducks. Having fun with these.


One of my new bears waiting to find a new home.


Connie Stark of Honeybug Bears didn't have this cutie long, a very happy collector grabbed this bear right away!


And I know you saw this ostrich on Facebook, but I had no idea it was this big till Cindy McGuire brought it into the show. Oh my goodness, and it even had its own worm hehe!l
Rain kept some collectors home do here is one more thing you missed out on,


this wonderful old doll trunk. Well the show returns next year and so do I hehe.

What's New?

Well, went to the Winter Park Art Festival and they really had such good artists this year.


This bear is a sculpture made out of nails! The artist isBill Secunda and his website is weld art.comm so check out they other wonderful pieces he does.

We bought some photography artwork that was beautiful and had inspirational quotes by varied historical people. The lithographs were by artist emerson matabele. His work can be seen at emersonimages.com.


This is one of the pieces we got.

Also been getting ready for the Spring Bear Show in Timonium on Saturday at the Holiday Inn. Will have some new bears and some other new pieces. Oh, were you looking for a photo? Sorry I have to get back to work, hehe. Ok then just one.


Alright really have to get back to work. Hope to see you at the show!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

The luck of the Irish to you today! Guess I should have worn green pj's to bed last night, my husband pinched me before I could get dressed this morning!
It's a beautiful day here in Florida, sunny with blue sky and everything is coming into bloom. Hope you are blessed with a great day today.


From the bears and me:0)

Lakeland Show Review 2012

The Tropical Doll Study Club celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts as it theme for Saturdays show.


Lots if girl scouts attended and learned about collecting dolls and bears. They asked the dealers questions to complete their questionnaire forms and had fun.


This is one of my new duckys that sold.


This is a panda made by artist Pat Faibanks.


This is an old Steiff donkey one of the dealers had for sell. It was in great condition and so cute!

This show had good traffic as usual and dolls and bears alike found new homes.
The food is always good too but get yours early next year, people are catching on and they ran out of sandwiches! Oh but the cheesecake was still there when I ordered, hehe. I would show you a picture but it didn't last that long lll
Till next year, hope you'll be there.