Go Olga - Artist Teddy Bears

30/12/2023

Hello my dear bearmaking friends, I want to share my first YouTube video! I'm going to film more about bearmaking to tell about this kind of art and share my experience with other teddy bear makers and other creative people.

I hope you'll forgive me for my English ´(especially my accent) and for being shy in front of the camera 🙈

Thanks for watching and supporting my art! Please subscribe, so you won't miss the next videos. By the way, if you want me to share something special about teddy bear making, please tell me about it. That will give me more ideas about the further videos. Aaaaand... please wish me a bit of luck 😅

I wish you a very happy coming New Year and happy bearmaking! 🧸❤️

I’m happy to start my crafty channel with this beginner’s guide to bearmaking fabrics. Thanks for watching!I recorded this video for beginner teddy bear craf...

22/12/2023

Someone new is coming from my head to the real world. I even have a piece of matching piggy pink mohair 🐖

It's been a long, long time since I've sculpted something last time and my plasticine got hard. How I softened it was quite a show. I warmed it first with some heating pads, then boiled it in a pot and finally put it in a bag and jumped on it with both feet at once. I hope the piglet turns out worth the effort 😅

23/11/2023

Hello, my dear bearmaking friends! I'm happy to tell you that my new pattern is already in my Etsy shop. I also made a cosy sweatshirt for him, and its pattern is included.

I designed this bear for short-pile mohair (7-9 mm) like the Rainbow series from Schulte. It will look great made of any fur fabric with a short pile - straight and curled, sparse and dense, tipped or one colour.

I hope you'll enjoy the new pattern!
And by the way, there is a Black Friday sale in my shop for all my patterns and tutorials. You all are very welcome!

https://ogoncharova.etsy.com/listing/1617754109/armin-teddy-bear-pattern-text

14/11/2023

My new little teddy. Yes, he's sad. All my teds used to turn out happy before, but seems like we're going through not the happiest time right now. But I'm glad, I create again. It gives me so many good feelings. I wish you all to be strong and creative, my dear bearmaking friends 🤗 I believe that being creative is a way to make the world a better place ❤️

03/04/2022

Hello my dear friends. First of all I'd like to thank all of you who wrote me to ask if I'm ok ❤️ Thank you guys, please don't worry about me, at presents I'm not the person to worry about.

This spring I'm extremely busy working as a volunteer in a cultural & educational centre "Gorod" in Munich, helping refugees from Ukraine to come and settle in Bavaria.

There is a lot of work in the center - collecting, sorting and delivering donations, organising classes for kids, building a web-site with helpful information, supporting people who have no German with registrations and all paperwork needed, providing them with necessary stuff and food, and sharing our experience about how to start a new life in this country. And there will be more work to do and support to give.

I have to cancel my participation in Teddy Total 2022 because I spend all my free time in the center doing the volunteer job.

I hope I'll be able to keep making my bears little by little. And hopefully I could even stream again, when the situation will get a little bit easier.

I hope you all are safe and healthy. Take care, please hug your family, friends and your beloved teddies, and help someone who really needs it right now 🙏🏻

30/12/2021

My dear bearmaking friends, I'm sorry to say that, but my streams have to wait while my son is ill. Next stream will hopefully be in the beginning of January.
I wish you all a very Happy New Year and Happy New Bears 🎄🎇🥂🧸

03/11/2021

My new classic teddy. Made of wonderful soft vintage mohair. The collar is of silk. 33 cm (13 in) tall. He's available for adoption.

The bear's pattern is available in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ogoncharova

07/10/2021

I didn't show this bear hier yet. He's one of my recent classic bears. Love him very much ❤️🧸

The bear's pattern is available in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ogoncharova

06/08/2021

A panda bear! From scratch and pictures from the animal world. And still a little bit different. The panda is special, complex, long to make, and that's why probably so very attractive and lovely to me. His name is Bao. I was told, Bao means a treasure in Chinese. I don't know if's true, but I like the name. I want my treasure to be called Bao 😄

And by the was, to my previous post, he's made of alpaca. The plate with dumplings is hand made of wood, the dumplings are of polimer clay. The panda is reserved 🐼

18/06/2021

Well, one month on Twitch, it´s going good. I got affiliate, got first subscribers, started to grow my channel and add perks for viewers and subs. Created my own first set of emotes, added rewards for channel points. People come to watch, we have sometimes really interesting conversations and fun! And what is even more exciting, some of them are making their own teddies already! And I feel less stress now, and much more joy than in the beginning. Everyone who wants to learn bearmaking from me, or just wants to watch and learn something new - you all are beary welcome! 🧸

25/05/2021

My dear friends, I started to stream my bearmaking processes on Twitch. I speak English there to practise more. I don't have any defined schedule at present, but I try to go live almost every evening, about 9 pm Germany time. Follow me there and come to watch if you want to learn from me or just to know me better 😄

Teddy bear artist from Germany. I enjoy making teddies with my own hands. I'll be happy to tell about my art and share my experience with everyone interested in it.