"An Old Bear"

This artifact is a decorative sign made by Cat Bellew. The distressed cream-colored sign reads "An Old Bear Lives Here With His Honey" and has an illustration of a teddy bear in a blue hat sitting next to a bee hive.

The submitter offered the following story about the sign's creation: "There is a 9 year age difference between my parents, and so they always joke that Mom is the young cub and Dad the old bear. So, Mom made this sign to play on that family joke. For a while, the sign hung on the front porch, but now it is in the mud room."

Cat Bellew

Jennifer Enoch

Unpublished

Cat Bellew

English

2000-2024

Craft Sign

Paint, Wood

Posted

An Old Bear Lives Here With His Honey

The rectangular sign is cream colored, but is distressed enough that the wood is visible underneath. On the left side of the sign is a large bee hive surrounded by three yellow and black bumble bees. Sitting against the hive is a brown teddy bear wearing a blue hat. The words on the sign are stenciled in brown. There are two more yellow and black bumble bees on the upper-right edge of the sign.

Unknown

The sign sits in the creator's mud room on top of a large blackboard.