D'Lyell Bears

by Heather Lyell est 1991

Welcome to the D’Lyell Bears Web page! Heather Lyell is an Internationally renowned Teddy Bear Artist who makes her bears with husband Roy in Auckland, New Zealand. Her bears are proudly featured in Private Collections and Museums around the world and ‘Hermann Teddy Original’, the famous German company has manufactured many of her designs. In 2006 she started designing for a fantastic new British company called 'Charlie Bears' and you can find these designs around Great Britain and selected stores in Europe, America, Taiwan and Australia! Read more about us on the History page. We think we are the only 'professional' couple in the world who earn their living exclusively from making and designing bears!

Please feel free to contact us if you would like any more information on any of our Collectors designs as we would love to hear from you! For those of you who are visiting Auckland we have a show room in Central Auckland (only 20 minutes from the Airport) to view the bears. Please contact us to make an appointment and you may even like to stay at our Bed & Breakfast!

Site updated OCTOBER. Don't forget to hit your REFRESH or RELOAD or F5 button to update the pages on your computer.

Latest News - 20 years!

This is a major year for us as it is our 20th Anniversary making Artist Bears! We can't believe how quickly time has past and how amazing the last 20 years have been. Designing for Teddy Hermann and now Charlie Bears, exhibiting at shows around the world, being prized by collectors were only things I could have dreamed of when I started and I know Roy had little idea of the direction our life was going to take! We have met wonderful people all around the world and our bears have given lots of joy to our collectors - thank you all!!!!

We have had a great start to 2011, being the feature Artist in the German magazine 'Teddys Kreativ' with the cover bear and a 5 page article on us. We have also just had an article on us in the latest issue of the English magazine 'Teddy Bear Times'.

We had a great time at both the Frankfurt and Hugglets shows and it was great to meet up with so many of our collectors and meet so many new ones!

Christchurch Earthquake. Many thanks to all of you who have contacted us from around the world expressing your concern at the devastating earthquake in the beautiful city of Christchurch. While Roy & I are fine here in Auckland, we know many whose lives have been directly affected in Christchurch including Roys brother whose home has been damaged and job looks uncertain. This is a major event in such a small country where everyone knows someone who will be affected. On a personal note - our thoughts are with all of our friends and customers who live in Christchurch and surrounding area - our thoughts and best wishes are with you in these extremely difficult times.

At the bottom of this page you will find a list of Upcoming Shows we are exhibiting at.

We have 4 exciting ranges for sale on our web site.

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The ‘Bears of Yesteryear’ range. These collectors bears are all individual creations who will delight and amaze you with their charm. For our 20th Anniversary we have introduced a fantastic new concept where you can commission special pieces or Remberance Bears. Click onto Bears of Yesteryear for more information!

 
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 The 'Bear Wear' bears are beautiful additions using Heather's love of jewelery and handbags to accessorise the bears. Truely unique in the bear world and she even has a few boys to complement this range!
3 The ‘Monty’ & 'Heathers Friends' Collection. These guys follow on from Monty who Heather designed for ‘Hermann Teddy Original’. They feature our special magnets to enable them to hold unique poses. Spike along with his new companion Mr Prickles has friend called Rastus and a great new collection of poseable cats! Many of these designs are interactive and lots of fun for all ages.
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D'Lyell & BearZerk Patterns & Kitsets. For those of you who like making your own friends we have a great range of D’Lyell and BearZerk patterns and kitsets. Great fun for those of you who like to make their own special friends! We have lots of new designs for 2010 too including fabulous Gollies!

New patterns are Franklin, Hobson, Ruby along with new furs for the kits of Alvin, Holly and Champ.

 

Upcoming Shows 2011

D’Lyell Bears are attending these shows - looking forward to seeing you there!


Germany - Wiesbaden, Teddybär Welt 12-13 March 2011

Japan - Tokyo, Japan Teddy Bear Festival 19-20 March 2011 CANCELLED due to Earthquake!

New Zealand - Porirua, Great NZ Craft Show 13-15 May 2011.

New Zealand - Hamilton, Doll & Bear Show 21-22 May 2011.

New Zealand - New Plymouth, Great NZ Craft Show 3-6 June 2011.

New Zealand - Auckland, Great NZ Craft Show North Shore 10-12 June 2011

New Zealand - Hamilton, Great NZ Craft Show 1-3 July 2011.

New Zealand - Christchurch, Great NZ Craft Show 19-21 August 2011. To be confirmed - obviously things are 'complicated' in Christchurch at the moment!

Germany - Frankfurt, Teddy Paradies Teddy Weekend, September 3-4.

England - London, Hugglets Show, September 11. New for us!

New Zealand - Auckland, Freemans Bay September 2011

Taiwan - Taipei, Taiwan Teddy Bear Show November 2011. Sadly we can't make it this year.

All prices are in New Zealand Dollars (NZ$) and we have a currency converter on our order form for helping you find the amount in your currency. As an indication only NZ$1 = approximately US$0.80, €0.53, £0.47, ¥60, S$0.96 and A$0.74

We hope you enjoy our bears as much as we have enjoyed creating them. May the bears be with you!

Heather & Roy

P.O. Box 10178 Dominion Rd.,
Auckland 1446, New Zealand.
Phone: +64 9 6387 147
Fax: +64 9 6232 581
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