This is a teddy eye masquer where I have personally removed all the eyes from these teddies to save the eyes from landfill but not necessarily the teddies.
I would someone buy teddy eyes, so we put them in our bead picker mix stand.
I created this head thing out of air drying clay and the bottom of a milk bottle on a rainy day.
I was cutting off teddy's eyes and I saw an opportunity to finish my project.
A lot of fun just choosing which one might suit this little guy because some of them gave him different vibes like angry cat vibe or scary critter creature vibe.
When we get donated teddies that are like dirty, they have old stuffing in, they have holes in, all of those reasons, health and safety, we cannot sell them so we only accept clean, undamaged, good condition, modern-ish, teddies, you know, if they're vintage we can put them in the craft shop and sell them to adults as craft supply rather than to kids of teddies.
But anything that has anything else that's a hazard on it, there isn't anywhere to recycle these.
So what I do is I will pick off nice bits of fabric, eyes, all these kind of things.
It costs us money to do that so we make a loss on all of this but at least we can sell with something.
I painted this guy's face, I decided to paint it grey to match the grey fluff around the eyes.
His ears are dark, took his eyes and then I took his fins and made them into ears.