{"id":203,"date":"2015-04-26T19:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-05-03T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T03:15:10","slug":"off-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Off to Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to the <a title=\"Quinlan Convention\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinlanmuseum.com\/convention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quinlan Artist Doll and Teddy Bear Convention<\/a> next week. \u00a0The convention days are Thursday and Friday, with workshops and seminars and the public show and sale is on Saturday. \u00a0I have four gallery pieces (which I will put up in a post after the show), plus six other new bears for the show. Most all of my bears are one of a kind works now, as I just don&#8217;t like making the same thing twice. \u00a0There are\u00a0way too many\u00a0cool mohair styles and colors to try. So meet some of my newest creations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/darby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-204 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/darby.jpg\" alt=\"darby\" width=\"2517\" height=\"3017\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darby is 11&#8243; tall of curly gold mohair. Simply adorned with a beaded necklace that says &#8220;LADYBUG&#8221; and with a metal ladybug bell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sonny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sonny.jpg\" alt=\"sonny\" width=\"640\" height=\"806\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonny is 12&#8243; tall of beige sparse mohair. He proudly wears a medal, but won&#8217;t tell me what it&#8217;s for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/shelby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/shelby.jpg\" alt=\"shelby\" width=\"640\" height=\"804\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shelby is 10&#8243; tall of tipped grey mohair. Her bow is made from a vintage silk scarf that belonged to my mother, and her pansy pin is also vintage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gilbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gilbert.jpg\" alt=\"gilbert\" width=\"640\" height=\"815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gilbert is 4 3\/4&#8243; tall of tipped grey\/blue mohair. His boat is a thrift store find, spiffied up with a little paint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lottie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lottie.jpg\" alt=\"lottie\" width=\"640\" height=\"875\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lottie is 4 3\/4&#8243; tall of gold mohair. Her collar is vintage crochet trim and accented with a vintage blue button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rosebeary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rosebeary.jpg\" alt=\"rosebeary\" width=\"640\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosebeary is 4 3\/4&#8243; tall of blue mohair. She is adorned with scraps of vintage crochet trim and her wings are made from vellum paper covered with <a title=\"Ice Resin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iceresin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Resin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will be bringing a few more pieces as well. \u00a0They are currently in my etsy store &#8211; <a title=\"Elizabeth Taylor Studio on Etsy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/elizabethtaylrstudio\" target=\"_blank\">ElizabethTaylorStudio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to the Quinlan Artist Doll and Teddy Bear Convention next week. \u00a0The convention days are Thursday and Friday, with workshops and seminars and the public show and sale is on Saturday. \u00a0I have four gallery pieces (which I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,19,8,21],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bears","tag-artist-bear","tag-mohair-bear","tag-teddy-bear","tag-teddy-bear-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}