By Miki de Goodaboom
Happy to announce that my Teddy Bear painting
Marlon Blanco in The Tour de Yorkshire”
has been published in the September/October Edition of the international magazine
“Teddy Bear Times”.
Marlon Blanco
Heather For The Ones We Love
By Miki de Goodaboom
(based on a photograph by “Go Teddy!”‘s reporter Ann La Mar)
Yesterday Ann La Mar went on a walk through her beautiful North Yorkshire Moor and picked up some heather for Truffle McFurry and me. She knows how much I love the heather, and as far as I remember, I have never seen some “live”.
Then she went home and had three of her lovely Teddy Bears sending the heather to Truffle and me. From right to left they are:
Marlon, Fluffle & Travis
What a heart-warming gesture!
I have already introduced you to Marlon, – his full name being Marlon Blanco-, from Spain but living with Ann in the UK now. I have painted him at different occasions, last time being at the Tour de Yorkshire.
But it is the first time I have painted Travis… he has a touching story, told by Ann:
“… He is small and cute his little patches are made of something like rain coat material and were going all hard and crinkly in Spain so I brought him back they feel better now.
A little back ground on Travis…..I went to my dentist one day and was sitting in the waiting area and in the corner of the room was an open box all I could see was two dark eyes staring at me. I went to look and there was a little bear starring at me with several others. My name was called so I went for my check up and came back to pay. I looked round and this little bear was still looking at me…..I had to have him…the receptionist said they were being sold for a local charity so that was it I bought him. In the back ground was music it was ‘why does it always rain on me! By Travis…..outside it was raining so he became Travis…..”
Travis is immensely lucky to have been adopted by Ann!
As for Fluffle, the big fluffy one in the middle, I will paint him again one day, and tell you his story then.
For now Truffle and me just want to add:
THANK YOU SO MUCH, ANN, MARLON, TRAVIS & FLUFFLE!
A Bike For Cousin Marlon Blanco
By Truffle McFurry
(Illustration by Miki de Goodaboom)
This is a special post for my lovely cousin Marlon Blanco, from the UK. But everybody else can read it, of course!
Last week his Mom, Auntie Ann, sent me a photo of poor Marlon sitting at the bottom of a beautiful crochet bike on the Tour de Yorkshire. He wanted to race the Tour on that bike, but the bike was much too big for him!
I suddenly remembered another lovely bike that I saw In France, during our last trip. A white rabbit was selling it, among other things, at the corner of a street in a village by Albi. If I had known Marlon would want a bike so much, I would have bought it for him. Mind you, everything is so expensive is France, and I have only 2 Euros in my Piggy Bank, sure it would have not been enough!
But I was thinking, if Auntie Ann cannot do a crochet bike for Marlon, and we cannot either, perhaps Marlon’s Dad could make one for him, out of wood, like the French one? And perhaps even In the bright yellow and blue colours of the Tour de Yorkshire?
Anyway, Marlon, Miki painted this bike for you. So, at least you have got one now, even if it is only on the paper! We hope you like it!
xx
Truffle
Marlon Blanco At The Tour De Yorkshire
Go Teddy! 