This text presents a step-by-step guide to making a basic miniature teddy bear, with detailed photographs of the techniques. It provides a simple introduction to creating a selection of ten different bears and a collection of costume ideas so that the designs can be personalized for a variety of occasions and festivities. The bears include a birthday bear for each month, a Father Christmas bear and a bridal bear.
At present, there are 11,006 species of ant known. They are found throughout the world except at the polar icecaps, and it is estimated that their combined population makes up half the mass of all insects alive today. Ants have figured in fantasy as miniature armies, as models of good behavior, as infiltrating communists, and as creatures on the borderline between the realms of the organic and the machine. Ant experts have been hired to help solve problems with information networks.
