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.

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

Latest News

We are just finalising our bears for the upcoming Zurich show and hope to see lots of our Swiss customers over the weekend. It will be a flying visit to Zurich as we arrive on Friday morning, set up Firday afternoon, work Saturday and Sunday and fly out on Monday. If anyone sees us sleeping over the weekend please prod us awake!!!

Home via Hong Kong and after only three nights home we drive down to Christchurch and Dunedin for the Great NZ Craft Shows. Then we will be preparing for the Taiwan show in November where Heather will be one of the competition Judges. This will be our first visit to Taipei and we are very excited to visit the city.

For our New Zealand customers, we will be returning to do many of the Great NZ Craft Shows around the country with lots of new patterns and kits. We have imported some fabulous new fur and we are sure you will be delighted with these new fabrics. We will also have a great collection of our Artist Bears. It was fun to see so many familiar faces from when we were doing the shows 15 (or more!) years ago and to get such a fantastic response from our collection. We look forward to aseeing you!

We are offering Bed & Breakfast! Come and stay with us and see where the bears are born in our central Auckland home.

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.

Upcoming Shows 2010

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

Germany - Wiesbaden, Teddybär Welt 13-14 March 2010

Japan - Tokyo, Japan Teddy Bear Festival 20-21 March 2010

New Zealand - Porirua, Great NZ Craft Show 28-30 May 2010 NEW for us!

New Zealand - New Plymouth, Great NZ Craft Show 4-7 June 2010

Australia - Gold Coast, Teddy, Doll & Craft Fair 12-13 June 2010

New Zealand - Hamilton, Great NZ Craft Show 2-4 July 2010

Switzerland - Zurich, Teddy Bear Festival 28-29 August 2010

New Zealand - Christchurch, Great NZ Craft Show 10-12 September 2010

New Zealand - Dunedin, Great NZ Craft Show 17-19 September 2010

New Zealand - Auckland, Freemans Bay 25-26 September 2010

New Zealand - Auckland, Great NZ Craft Show North Shore 15-17 October 2010

Taiwan - Taipei, Taiwan Teddy Bear Show November 21 NEW for us!!

Upcoming Shows 2011

Germany - Wiesbaden, Teddybär Welt 12-13 March 2011

Japan - Tokyo, Japan Teddy Bear Festival 19-20 March 2011

New Zealand - Porirua, Great NZ Craft Show May 2011

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$0.70, €0.55, £0.45, ¥60, S$0.95 and A$0.78

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

Heather & Roy