Ellen Borggreve Design

Eyes...

Ever since I was a little child I have been the kind of person that is totally visual orientated....utterly and completely. My husband is much more sound orientated, which can sometimes be completely nerve-wracking for me. I can only live with very little music from very few artists, because everything else makes me go totally insane. Anyway....I live for visual stimulation, especially through arts... The work that people can make can move me so deeply, it can take my breath away. It can be works of art, like the paintings of Renoir and Van Gogh, it can be architecture like Gaudí's brilliant work (I am a huge, huge admirer of Gaudí's buildings...), it can be a beautifully made room divider or a extremely beautiful movie or TV series... I am just so grateful I have been blessed with good eyesight. Have you ever felt grateful just for being able to see the things you see? I am .....on a daily base. Of course, I am the contemplative kind of girl that thinks about stuff like this. Nothing delights me more than doing little else than being philosophical for a few hours.
The last few weeks I have been thinking about this fact even more. I have been having eyeproblems for 6 weeks now and it has worried me slightly. At long last I went to the doctor today and it seems something in my eye just tears, because of an allergy, which is believed to be work related. Hmmm....I was a little afraid he would say that :) It all ties in perfectly though....I am ready to make some changes in my work and this will probably cause me to make the changes a bit sooner.
I have been very busy though these last few weeks. I am finishing up my very last order and I am finishing up three new spring bears in super fresh colours. I so enjoy making these! I have a feeling that sizes might come down drastically in the near future, but that is all I want to tell you about it for now. It can all still go horribly wrong.

Just a little Caya update for those of you that read my blog just for that reason ...hahaha... She is doing fine, a bit sleepy, but fine. She looks like her father more and more every day, but that is probably because she wants to be rewarded for everything she does for us. If she makes me smile she thinks she deserves an enormous treat and as soon as she sees the smile I can just see her back legs taking a sprint into the kitchen where she will stand before the cookie cabinet with a tail wagging as fast as she can possibly rotate it....She is not getting any slimmer because of it. It is now a year since we heard she had weeks to live and I think she has been pretty happy about that diagnosis. Somehow she has worked out that she gets much more cookies since that day.
Well, have to leave you now...green bear alert downstairs....I want to give him his ears before dinner :)

E-Mail Troubles

Just a little message here to let you know that the source for my e-mail problems has been tracked down. Someone had sent me an e-mail in a size over 10 MB and that blocked my entire account. I am so sorry for the inconvenience!

There is another ongoing problem with private e-mails ending up in my spam box. My internet provider is aware of the problem and is trying to solve it at the moment. It has been a problem for 3 weeks now and I can find the e-mails, but I might respond a bit late. :(

White, white, white

I just finished this cute, one of a kind polar bear. He is one of my largest sized bears at 43 cm tall and he was made of some gorgeous Schulte mohair. Even though it might be Spring in this part of the world, Nieve (meaning ''snow'') needed a scarf and so I knitted him one of this wonderful pale blue yarn. It looks so, so fluffy!

Nieve has found a new loving home, thank you

Happy Easter!!!

Before I dive right back into my fluffy bits, I wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter! I hope the weather will be as glorious as it is here today!

I can't just have a post without a picture, so I'll show you what I have been up to lately... A picture of my Bambicrony Elf Shlphia. Gotta love that face! :)

Two polar brothers

I finally finished all orders on my desk. All of them were for either raccoons or polar bears... The two polar boys have now been finished and will travel to their new homes tomorrow.
 

I am working on a third polar bear that is as good as finished, which will be available for adoption in one of the upcoming days. He is larger than these two and made of super luxurious long and dense Schulte mohair. I'll show him to you when he is finished :)

Words Just Fail Me....

Every now and then I check the website of some artist friends and just now I visited Birgit Schmöde's website (Pinselbaer), which I often do. I met her a couple of years ago and we sent eachother e-mails every now and then, just chatting. Just recently she wrote to me asking for webdesign tips and I replied with my usual overload in words. Today, words fail me though...Birgit is no longer with us and I will miss her upbeat personality and her brilliant creations. I love her work. My husband fell head over heels in love with one of her elephants at Teddybaer Total and we of course came home with him.
As an ode to Birgit, here is my elephant made by her...

Oops, wrong raccoon picture :o)

Poor raccoon....I made the raccoon I showed you yesterday a new head last week and I uploaded the picture with the old head. Shame on me!!! Where is my head...??? Right, this is how mister raccoon should look like....Angelico new style...What was I thinking showing you a rejected face....?

Productive Days...

It is such a beautiful Spring day again and temperatures are up and rising. I love this time of the year. I love the little lambs, the goslings, the ducklings, but more than anything I love the pink blossoms on the trees...
I have worked not been outside much though, not even in the weekend, because I have worked as much as I possibly can. I finished three pieces of which one is available right now. He is a totally new more classical design, made of wonderful Schulte mohair (it has been quite a while since I last made a big bear of mohair actually), alpaca and synthetic plush snout. His name is Alamo and I really, really love him. I think this might be the beginning of the new direction I was looking for...The longer arms, the more classical shape and new fabrics. He is 38 cm tall and has my signature paw pads.

Alamo has been adopted, thank you!

 


This ordered raccoon was also finished....He is on his way to his new home now :)
His name is Angelico