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    From Bears to Beads

    May 24, 2018 5 minutes

    WENDY BERGAMIN LIVES IN Victoria with her husband and two sons. She taught secondary school arts and crafts for 13 years before she took long service leave and had her first son, when she started working from home. She now has two sons, a thriving bead and bear-making business and “absolutely no regrets about the decisions made regarding working from home”.

    HOW DID YOU MAKE THE LEAP FROM BEARS TO BEADS?

    I thought that I would be able to make little fishes and other beads to put around the necks of the mohair bears that I make. I also thought it would be interesting as it was very far removed from the sewing types of crafts which I had been doing since I gave up teaching.

    At the moment the beads seem to have taken over but I haven’t given my bears up. Iit never looked as good as something that I did want to make.

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