A recent "challenge" as part of the Bead Guild of WA's monthly meeting was to decorate a Belvedere Bear from the Free the Bears Fund.  I was at the Reconnecting Arts & Community Event and wasn't able to get to the meeting to collect my bear, so he arrived in the post a few days later. This little "beanie bear" was a little thin when he arrived, so my first mission was to put him on a better diet and fatten him up a bit. Then I had to decide how to decorate him.  As a beader (and as this was a Bead Guild Challenge) my first instinct was to bead him from head to toe, but then (in my over-imaginative mind), he would have been saved brom being butchered or milked for bile only to send him to the streets as a tortured Dancing Bear. This would not do!  Then I thought if I had been a bear .... who had been locked in a cage or tied to a rope, what would I want to do if I was free..... ROMP IN THE WILD!!!! So that is what happened. My bear has been embroidered with a vine which has wrapped around him as he has rolled on the forrest floor and he has a bunch of blossoms on his bottom where he has sat in the meadow and wondered at the wildflowers and all the beauties of nature which he never envisaged during the terror and torment of his previous life.  Belvedere can now play near the pond, look at the fish, visit the vege garden and check out the strawberries, play in the flowers and get lots of hugs from the grandchildren. He, like many others the Fund has helped, can have a better life. If you would like to help the Free the Bears Fund, all donations are used 100% towards the bears.
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