Bear with me !

[Vienna]

Sorry but I seriously worry about some of the CB followers on Q`s facebook page. Not only are they asking for bears to be named after dead loved ones, or a bear in likeness of their dog who`se due to have puppies but one person has asked for a bear she can fill with her Dad`s ashes and then carry it around in her handbag.
I just don`t get this bear thing so any fans on here then please bear with me because I think some of these people are just nuts !

 

[Finsnan]

I think it's all very creepy!!

I have a few bears but just for the grandkids bedrooms to make them look like home.

 

[donna255]

It past creepy some time ago, now in just down right weird now

 

[shopperholic]

Sorry but I seriously worry about some of the CB followers on Q`s facebook page. Not only are they asking for bears to be named after dead loved ones, or a bear in likeness of their dog who`se due to have puppies but one person has asked for a bear she can fill with her Dad`s ashes and then carry it around in her handbag.
I just don`t get this bear thing so any fans on here then please bear with me because I think some of these people are just nuts !

I can understand the naming thing, what I don't understand is asking "Charlie Bears" to make a bear for you, which will no doubt cost in excess of £50. Just buy a cute bear from anywhere for under a tenner (there's lots out there) and call it whatever you like.

 

[shopperholic]

I think it's all very creepy!!

I have a few bears but just for the grandkids bedrooms to make them look like home.

I do like bears, cute ones though, not evil looking rabbit/hare ones that Charlie Bears have done, were you feel you have to sleep with one eye open.

 

[user 17461]

I can understand the naming thing, what I don't understand is asking "Charlie Bears" to make a bear for you, which will no doubt cost in excess of £50. Just buy a cute bear from anywhere for under a tenner (there's lots out there) and call it whatever you like.

I agree: buy some cheap bears, then make home-made name tags with the kids or grandkids on a rainy day and put the tags on ribbons around the bears' necks.

I bet the kids would appreciate having something they've had some input into than some overpriced stuff from QVC.

And filling a bear with a dead relative's ashes is just weird to me

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Apart from the creepy posters I've never got this asking CB or Kiping to make a bear/monkey after someone. As if a multinational company like Kipling would start a production of something with just YOUR name on it. Get a life folks!!

 

[Vienna]

It was the carrying her Dad`s ashes in a handbag bear which got me . Mind you knowing today`s commercialism it wouldn`t surprise me if they brought out a full range of handbag bears to hold dead peoples ashes.

 

[shopperholic]

And no doubt they'll name the bags to carry ashes around in "Ern" I don't know which is more disturbing actually, a bear bag, a bear bag to carry ashes around in or the fact someone would even contemplate it *shudders*

 

[Vienna]

And no doubt they'll name the bags to carry ashes around in "Ern" I don't know which is more disturbing actually, a bear bag, a bear bag to carry ashes around in or the fact someone would even contemplate it *shudders*

Oh it wasn`t a bear shaped bag she wanted, it was a small bear to fill with ashes which she could then keep in her bag and carry her Dad around with her.

 

[shopperholic]

Oh it wasn`t a bear shaped bag she wanted, it was a small bear to fill with ashes which she could then keep in her bag and carry her Dad around with her.

Ohhh I see, thanks Vienna, rather than carrying a bear around, wouldn't it be much nicer to put some ashes in a small pendant or something, much easier than carrying a bear, oh well takes "all sorts" as Simon Dairylee would say.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Isn't there a company who heat the ashes to a zillion degrees to turn them into a material they can make jewellery out of?

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Oh it wasn`t a bear shaped bag she wanted, it was a small bear to fill with ashes which she could then keep in her bag and carry her Dad around with her.

Imagine the scene - handbag left on the floor, toddler opens it up and sees wee bear, pulls it out to play with, he's a bit too rough and the next thing wee Jonny is covered in Auntie Mavis.

 

[shopperholic]

Isn't there a company who heat the ashes to a zillion degrees to turn them into a material they can make jewellery out of?

Yeah I think they make the ashes into diamonds, and I've heard of jewellers that melt gold jewellery and infuse the ashes then make the gold into a ring or pendant, I should imagine that would be pretty expensive though, not exactly your typical £24.99 gold ring from Argos.

 

[Little Jan]

It seems they can make anything into jewellery
You can have ashes made into diamondeek
Have ashes swirled in acrylic to make a pendent or charm
You can even have your baby's hair or breast milk made into a bead or charm

 

[ERICS MUM]

This whole thread is turning my stomach ! Diamonds from ashes, pendants from breast milk, bears stuffed with human remains. Yuck.

Mind you I'm squeamish about this sort of thing. Our lovely Mum died in March and my sister had to collect her ashes, I just couldn't face it. I have no idea what she's done with them - I suspect they are in her garden but I don't want to know because I couldnt go round there.

 

[Julie]

My husbands ashes and my favourite cats ashes are on top of my wardrobe. :mysmilie_19:

Tbh, I don't even think about it.

 

[alter ego]

I don't understand the obsession either. My seriously-in-debt-up-to-her-eyeballs friend paid £100 for a bear for her husband last Christmas.

I can understand it if you're doing it for your kids, but your husband, who is in the deep-**** debt situation with you? She wouldn't even wait to see if she could get it in the sales. I gave up worrying about her as soon as he told me this.

 

[donna255]

Yes, they can turn the ashes into a form of diamond. You can send them into space if you have the money, Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek had that done.

As for the handbag, as said what if its stolen or left on the bus?

True story: A friend's aunt died long ago and they kept her ashes(which are actually a very fine light grey powder), in a tin. Eventually they ended up years later in the kitchen cabinet out of the way(don't ask no idea), one day young family member was baking. Yes, she thought they were flour, lucky she asked why the flour was that colour before putting into the mix. The family decided to have them interred after that with aunt's husband who had also died by then.

 

[Kathy]

I don't think I have ever read anything as disturbing as this thread, of course it could be just me but the thought of carrying someones ashes around in your handbag is imho very,very weird....