Melanie has been designing and making bears for over 14 years and several years ago ran a successful miniature bear making supplies mail order business but due to ill health had to regretably retire from the business but now we are back and better than before and are once again able to offer miniature bear artists a superb collection of fabrics for your mini bears. We are currently updating our site to include both bears and supplies under one roof the websites will be www.melanielouisebears.com and www.melanieslittlebearco.com. I will be adding handmade clothes for your bears, hand crafted needle cases, sewing bags along with my artist bears. Then we will be adding our hand dyed mini bear mohair and velvets. Please keep checking our website.