URSA Awards 2025
20th Annual
Competition

"Reach Beyond The Stars"



Category 5

 

Animal Kingdom - "It's Not a Bear"- all sizes, any materials.

Large photographs are shown so you can see and judge each bear's details.

Entries are in order by the date they were received.

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See the ballot at the bottom of this page.

 

501

501

Lottie, short for Charlotte is an 11.2" (28cm) tall bunny made of vintage plush, stuffed with sawdust and natural sheep wool, she is slightly aged and has a wonderful brown glass eyes. Dressed in a vintage cotton dress.

Yunia Leliukhina - My Sweet Teddy by Yunia
Kyiv, Ukraine

 

 

 

502

502

Honeybelle is a 12" tall bear made from golden German mohair and felt. Stitched nose, cotter pin joints and glass bead eyes. Tentacles are made of metal wire and clay. Stuffing is poly-fiber and glass pellets. Double-neck jointed bear. The arms can bend and she has a pull-string music box at the back! Outfit is a brush-painted canvas with two handmade preserved flowers! OOAK


Man Yin Venus Chui - Venus Crafts
Swansea, Wales - United Kingdom

 

503

503

Flopsy is a 7" tall bunny made from a dense white alpaca with pink suede paw pads with toe detail. Her face has been sculpted, scissor trimmed and shaded. Hand painted black glass eyes and a pink embroidered nose. ​Filled with poly and steel shot. Fully jointed.  Flopsy wears a blue organza ribbon. OOAK.


Alaine Ferreira - Bearflair
Tapping, Western Austalia

 

 

 

504

504

Marquese Cat is 13" (33cm) tall with a hand sculpted clay head and hand stitched mohair body. Fully jointed. Blue glass eyes. Hand stitched repurposed fabrics and beaded panels, cuffs, boots and hat. Glass pellet and polyester filled. The saxophone is brass and gold plated rests on its original velvet inlay box. The music notes are made of wire that hang from the clock, treated for aged effect

Marnie Pantano - Love Bears All Things
Murrumbeena, Victoria - Australia

 

505

505
Stevie is a 7“ tall sea lion entirely crocheted with 100% cotton yarn in camel color. Stuffed with fiber-fil and has black safety eyes.

Natascha Sabo - LeftyBears by Natascha Sabo
Remchingen, Baden-Württemberg - Germany

 

 

 

506

506
Lily is a 7" tall monkey made from brown and beige viscose, with subtle toning and realistic hands and feet. Filled with wood shavings and glass granulate. Fully jointed for easy posing. Glossy black German glass eyes. Lily wears a thin muslin outfit trimmed with soft yellow organza, a silk ribbon at the collar with an organza bow on her head. She wears an antique-style metal button pendant. OOAK

Irene Tsaritson - The Teddy Beartson Collection

Freeport, Florida - USA

 

 

 

507

507
Tamed is a 9.8" (25cm) tall fox made from hand-dyed mohair and stuffed with soft cotton. 5-way jointed and armature in tail for posing. Glass eyes and a hand-sculpted polymer clay nose. A self-dyed yellow scarf, inspired by The Little Prince.

Sunny Lau - Teddy Castle
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong

 

 

 

508

 

 

508
Mallow is a 16” tall puppy made from luxury long pile cream faux fur with a light tip. English black glass eyes. Cashmere half paw-pads and inner ears. Delicately hand shaded. Scissor and needle sculpted. Poly and steel ball filled.
Hand sculpted and painted large shiny black nose. He is wearing a handmade ruff with gold tone bells.

Lynn Bowie - Madabout Bears
Dalry, Ayrshire - Scotland

 

 

 

509

509
Persian Cat Marie is 3.94" tall and crocheted from fluffy yarn. Stuffed with natural wool. Handmade glass eyes.
The paw pads and the nose are handcrafted from oven-bake polymer clay. Her whiskers are made of fine transparent thread. Cotter pin joints. Marie is a likeness of my niece’s cat. OOAK

Viktoriia Deputat - MopsHandMade
Potsdam ,  Germany

 

 

 

510

510
Napoleone and Sikara. Napoleone is a 16" tall lion made from mohair and Finnish raccoon fur. Needle felted face. Armatures in arms. Leather tufted pads. Wears an artist made outfit consisting of shirt, vest, jacket, pants, hat, and shoes. He stands on his own. His needle felted cougar friend Sikara artist needle felted 4" tall wired cat.

                         

Diana L Watts - Dibears
Naples, Florida - USA

 


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