Isabella is a 2½" teddy toddler with big eyes who is looking for someone to adopt her and love her like their very own...

She is made of beautiful ecru Malden Mills vintage upholstery velvet and has cream ultrasuede pawpads and footpads with gentle shading around the edges. She sits 2" tall.

Her big eyes are 3 mm onyx beads with dark shading around them. Her little nose is embroidered with black embroidery floss threated with clear beeswax. Her face is needle and scissor sculpted.

Isabella wears a tiny white felt diaper fastened with a brass safety pin. Her pretty pleated dress is made of red and cream check cotton fabric and is removable. It fastens with a tiny polymer clay button and thread loop at the back. She wears a matching bias-cut bow.

Isabella loves her soft little blanket, which I made from the softest, thinnest Dream Angel quilt batting, edged with blanket stitch. As she is still very much a baby, I have also given her a square of fluffy micro-fibre plush on which to sit and play.

I make a point of making my bear clothes removable whenever possible - I remember being very frustrated with sewn-on clothes on my dolls when I was little, and cutting off the threads that secured them. Isabella is definitely a bear for someone who likes to play with their bears! I have so enjoyed dressing and undressing her for her photo shoot. She changes from diapered baby to grown-up little toddler before your eyes - she is just soooo cute!

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