Hi, Today we will look at how your Teddy Bear gift is made.

We first have to chose fabric to make the Teddy Bear. We must have examined over 1000 swatches of Teddy Bear fabric and after much experimentation and rejection and garnering feedback from our Teddy Bear customers we have finally chosen the Ko-Hair fabric for our www.funkybears.com offering and for our two Top Teddys. We also selected a super soft plush fabric for our www.design-a-bear.co.uk Teddy Bears. This was all done on my trip to Shanghai, a truly modern and vibrant city where I met our chinese agent Leo and visited the factories that produce our Teddy Bears. After choosing the Teddy Bear fabric we selected a mixture of soft kapok and crunchy beans to fill the Teddy Bears this will ensure the Teddy Bear Gift has exactly the right feel to it. Deciding on the colours the Teddy fabric should was the next task and armed with a pantone colour swatch we made our choice. Once the fabric has been dyed it is cut using our exclusive Teddy Bear patterns and asembled using safety lock in eyes. When the Teddy Bear production starts Leo sends a representative to the factory to monitor quality control. While this is taking place hundreds of miles away production starts on the Teddy Bear jumpers and Teddy Bear hoodies. The yarn selected and dyed into over 20 colours and then knitted into a fine knit so they will take the detailed embroidery for your chosen Teddy Bear message.The fabric is then assembled into Teddy Bear jumpers and Teddy Bear hoddies.The pink Teddy Bear hoodie is our all time best seller. Another factory is printing the Teddy Bear passports, our full range of Teddy Bear greeting cards and our Teddy Bear Gift Boxes. Once everything is ready the Teddy Bears and Teddy Garments are sent to the container port to be forwarded on to our warehouse in Blackpool

Now this is where you come in, for it's your input that will make the Teddy Bear Gift so special. First you choose your Teddy Bear's colour and select a top to go on the Teddy Bear. Then comes the personal touch; you decide on the text to go on the Teddy Bear's top; choosing a heart, star and more than likely choosing kisses to add to the Teddy Bear's garment. This allows you to truly express yourself in a meaningful and sincere way. After all, it's your input that leads to the Teddy Bear's final, unique look! What or customers appreciate is that they can not only put in a name or message in any language on the Teddy Bears but they can also add the name of the giver(s).

Together we can create a beautiful, personalised Teddy Bear Gift. Not only do you get to decide on the Teddy Bear's personalisation message, but the next step also invites you to personalise the Teddy Bear's greetings card both on the front and inside. Once we receive your instructions, we input the personalisation message for the Teddy Bear's garment into an embroidery software program that converts your message into a stitching file. The Teddy Bear garment is framed up and the design outputted to the embroidery machine where a trace takes place to ensure perfect placement of your chosen design on the Teddy Bear's garment. All of this is done to make sure that your Teddy Bear looks exactly right, according to your personal specifications.

While the Teddy Bear garment is embroidered, we print your personalised message on the Teddy Bear's greetings card and print the Teddy Bear's passport. Next the personalised Teddy Bear, the custom greetings card and the Teddy Bear passport are all placed in the gift box and the Teddy Bear is dispatched to you. All of this is done with the greatest care to make sure that your Teddy Bear arrives in perfect condition. All of these extra special touches, put together with your input, really make our Teddy Bears incomparable – your Teddy Bear will become a fine example of your individuality, and is sure to become a cherished and memorable gift.

The end result of this collaboration is a totally unique Teddy Bear Gift –because your Teddy Bear is custom manufactured to your exact specifications, it would be impossible to find another Teddy Bear like it in the world- making it a fantastic present for a loved one, friend or family member.

We have, together with our valued customers, created tens of thousands of unique Teddy Bears from our own outlets, and those of our Teddy Bear producing partners in the UK, Spain, Mallorca, and Tenerife.

Please note it's your input that makes the Teddy Bear Gift so special. The reason your Teddy Bear is so unique is because you decide on how your Teddy Bear looks, what the Teddy Bear's garment says and what the Teddy Bear's greeting card says.

We hope you enjoy the creative process and will continue to use us for affordable, memorable Teddy Bear Gifts in the future