From the Time website: A.A. Milne’s books—including the simply titled Winnie-the-Pooh, which was published on this day (October 14) in 1926—made Winnie the bear and his animal friends world famous, but they were not only the product of Milne’s imagination.
The author, along with illustrator Ernest H. Shepard, actually based his work on some very real stuffed animals—those of Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne. Although the book was published 89 years ago Wednesday (2015), the beloved character got his start five years before, when Milne gave his son a toy bear for his first birthday on Aug. 21, 1921. But that bear wasn’t named Winnie: he was initially called Edward. The name Winnie came later, from a brown bear that young Christopher Robin Milne visited in the London Zoo.
Amazingly enough, I don't have a new Pooh bear project to share, but I am in the middle of one, so I'll post it soon. And here's a project I made a few years ago...it's a little gift bag decorated with stickers a Pooh and Piglet die cut, using these die cuts from Jo-Ann.
Instead I'll post a little lettering practice I've been working on with words that remind me of Pooh Bear.
Happy Weekend!
Chark
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