Archive for October, 2007
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007If you’re walking around the Old Factory building here in Shelburne and you hear someone exclaim, “You can do it, Peanut!”, one of the people you can thank is Milena Horozovic. I think the phrase was introduced to us by Lisa Martelle, but Milena’s one of the people who, as far as I know, really [...]
New! Design Your Own Vermont Teddy Bear Page
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007As we learned recently, there are many different ways you can customize your bear. If you’re really ambitious, you can fire up your sewing machine and make your Bear’s outfit at home. But even if you have superstar mad seamstress skillz, can you create a tattoo? And embroider it? And change the fur color? How [...]
Scarecrows Gettin’ Down
Monday, October 15th, 2007(Cue Bee Gees.) Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, stayin’ aliiiiiiiive! That’s what I heard in my head the other day when I came to work and saw Gerry Blair’s latest handiwork: Two scarecrows added to the harvest display, their fingers pointing skyward as if in a disco dance competition. When I first saw it two weeks [...]
The Sweetest Day for Everyone
Friday, October 12th, 2007I’m an East Coast boy, so when I heard that we were getting ready for Sweetest Day, I didn’t know what to expect. Do I have to be extra-nice to my coworkers? Do I brace myself for a mandatory feast of sugary treats? Do I walk around talking like a snowboarder? “Dude…sweet! That’s soooo sweet!” [...]
Scary Bear’s-Eye-View Ends Well
Thursday, October 11th, 2007You’re a black bear. You’re on the trail of something tasty, just following your instincts, when you suddenly realize that you’ve wandered onto something like a long, strange rock, and now there are all these scary creatures charging at you from ahead and behind. What do you do? What one bear did, on a Saturday [...]
Bake Sale Shares the Honey 2
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Maybe we should just get out of the gift delivery biz and do bake sales 24/7. I mean, I was just floored by the amount and variety of food available at yesterday’s bake sale benefitting United Way of Chittenden County. In addition to the complement of cookies, pastries, muffins, and breads, the Bear Crew pushed [...]
Bake Sale Shares the Honey
Monday, October 8th, 2007(Post title I wanted to go with but changed my mind at the last minute: “Bake Sale Raises Dough.”) As a follow-up to last Thursday’s bake sale fundraiser for United Way of Chittenden County, here’s an update from Jessica Proctor, taken from an email she sent to the Bear Crew. “The bake sale was a [...]
New Duds for a Fuzzy One
Friday, October 5th, 2007OK, so here are four different ways you could personalize a Vermont Teddy Bear. 1. Order a specially personalized gift teddy bear with custom embroidered clothes or tattoos. 2. Choose from any of the dozens of bear outfits and accessories we offer. 3. Have us make a unique, one-of-a-kind custom bear (think unusual occupations or [...]
Buses, Bears ‘n’ Bake Sales
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Fourth of October. Nine separate bus tours. One bake sale. It’s leaf-peeping season here in Vermont, and we welcome hundreds and hundreds of visitors to the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory. Today we’re expecting nine tours, and each tour can have more than one bus. In the spirit of making it better together (a major [...]
United Weigh: Karl Loses for a Good Cause
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007238.4 lbs. That’s how much Karl Kemerait weighed as his official weigh-in yesterday. Where he wants to be, however, is 163.4 lbs. And he’s turning it into a fund-raiser for United Way of Chittenden County (UWCC). Each of the next ten months, Karl will return to Courtney Griesser for an official weigh-in. For every pound [...]
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