...steiff up your life!.......

....at this time of year...

the cabinet doors are gleefully flung open....

....and my festive steiff animals

are released to the world to be displayed, admired and enjoyed....

...when i first met my husband

he had strangely never dated a girl with a monkey cupboard before!?!

so i felt it was my duty 

to introduce him to the 'joys of toys'...

...one day whilst i was dragging him around a favourite bear shop

i was rather pleased when he fell in love with this rather splendid 

brown bear.....

....i secretly purchased him as a birthday present...

which turned out to be a canny move....

....as he loved him so much that this actually marked the start

of a new shared love affair with

steiffs on wheels!

....from that moment on we spent many happy hours 'bear hunting'

snuffling in specialist shops.....

....waiting for that heart stopping moment

when we'd find a new 'must have'....

...a little face that spoke to us.....

....we smile to ourselves now

because in the early days of our marriage 

we were really very hard up.....

...yet we chose to spend any of our spare pennies

on these guys!

....here come the boys!!

well there had to be monkeys of course!)

...once the children came along

our wheelie collecting came to rather an abrupt end...

...but we have never regretted those crazy, hazy days...

....and would recommend treating yourself or someone special

to one of these beauties as an extra special gift...

....look for that button in the ear....

....and you can be guaranteed a gorgeous lifelong friend...

....and a wonderful investment too!

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