The Teddy Bear Ladies Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell have become firm favourites on BBC series restoration series The Repair Shop but how did this dynamic duo first meet?
The Repair Shop will be airing this evening September 21 on BBC One at 8pm with a whole host of visitors arriving to have their beloved items given a new lease of life. Among them will be a 74 year old teddy bear called Goldie who has been a companion to three generations of the same family. Goldie has been with the family for every Christmas and birthday but after many years of love the teddy needs some TLC of its own from the shows Teddy Bear Ladies Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell.Many viewers are keen to know more about the Teddy Bear Ladies from the show and how they first teamed up to rejuvenate well loved toys.They first became acquainted after Amanda was running a teddy bear shop where she made her wares and sold them at various outlets.
Amanda found out about a newly opened teddy bear shop and went in to enquire whether they would sell her work. It was here she met who had recently started working at the shop. They said I think we were naive and I do not think we really knew where we were going. We were still finding our feet. Adding It was an unexpected meeting and the way our friendship developed. On how she first launched her teddy bear making business, Amanda said So there am last of my children safely ensconced in school and I decide I want to go into business on my own.
So to cut a very long story short I decide that my creative outlet will be best served by a small creative business, particularly wanting I can remember being particularly keen to some sort of business that encouraged people to have a go themselves to encourage children .Because I can remember at the time there was not an awful lot of activity opportunities in the curriculum for crafting, so things like that. I can remember wanting to do that and one of the hardest things for me was finding what vehicle that was that I was going to use and it ended up being teddy bears.
She said she chose teddy bears because they were a classic favourite among children of all ages. Julie also opened up about their first meeting saying I was quite scared. Not that you looked scary its everyday pink ladies walk in with pink hair. It was just that I was so new and I was trying to be so professional and my experience of actual artist bears was very limited.So I was very aware I had to be the one looking at your work thinking Is this good enough for my shop?
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