Okay, I did a post for, and it's named Teddy Bear.

I have my grandmother's old fur coat from Germany.

I would like to have a Teddy Bear made out of it. Is there anyone out? Is there anyone who can do this without

charging me lots of money? I would like to have this reminder of her. I do not need a big teddy bear and the

person can have the remaining of the fur to make other teddy bears for

Christmas or something. Please call and leave me a message.

We have an old school answering machine.

I do not check email much.

Here's my name and number.

That is Sheila LaPoint reading her posting on Front Porch Forum from back in the fall.

Front Porch Forum is an online daily community forum like a town bulletin board online.

Every Vermont town has one and this time of year there are lots of posts about town meeting

who and what people are voting for and why.

Here in Callis, someone is looking for a used pair of snow pants.

My friend Claire Dolan lives down the road from Sheila,

and when she read Sheila's post about the

teddy bear she called me and I talked her into doing it even though she's never

made a teddy bear. Claire's been on this show a lot. She has a museum in her

barn called the Museum of Everyday Life. It celebrates the many critical and

under-appreciated objects we use in our daily lives, like matches and safety pins.

Claire loves well-used and long loved objects. So it

seemed like a good idea to help Sheila turn one loved object into a new

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