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Why do you make bears, toys and dolls?

Posted by Rikey Austin on

Why do you make bears, toys and dolls?
When I first started working at Alice’s Bear Shop I started as admin and opposite the desk was the doll in the bear onesie.  I couldn’t take my eyes off him.  I’m sure he was asking me to take him off the shelf and sit him on my desk. When I picked him up he felt lovely in my arms, he was the tradition doll, he had ginger hair poking out from under the hood on the onesie. I knew I needed to make my own doll and then the obsession started.

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Promises and how they changed our lives.

Posted by Rikey Austin on

Promises and how they changed our lives.

It was around a decade ago that we really changed the way we traded and began to trade as ethically as we could. To cut what is a very long story short, Unicef put out a report that told us, British children, our very own children, living in what is the fifth richest country in the word were also the unhappiest! read the Guardian article here That shook me, it really did. We aren't rich but my kids were given everything I could possibly give them, things I could only have dreamed of as a child, how could this be true? Well,...

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