1. To warm up an empty corner add bears in baskets with your  favorite dolls.  2. Add interest to a bookcase by reserving one shelf  for your favorite collectibles. Shown here are Marie Osmond's  "Olive May and Boyds doll "Karen" with bearstone"Prince Hamalot" and Archive bears.  3. Gathered together on a wingchair  with bear prints and favorite dolls

Having so many bears I have come up with several ways to display them. Simply lining my shelves with them side by side is ok, but I wanted to be a bit more creative with them. Since I had purchased Peterboro baskets from QVC, I set some of my smaller bears in the baskets with ivy and floral arrangements. These look nice as center pieces. I also use the larger bears in the taller baskets and sometimes drape some lace or pretty cloth over the back of the basket to accent the bears. I set these in a corner or by a chair for a nice accent. My favorite idea is to set the little ones up the staircase.I also arrange them in chairs with some of my larger dolls, sometimes with an afghan draped over the back. Of course they are always a cute addition to the door wreath as well. They just seem to add so much warmth to a room. I rearrange them on occasion and I never tire of them. I have included some pictures (shown above) of our bears taken by my old "tired" camera.......sigh, just hope ya can see 'em ok. Shari

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• Arrange plush or resins in an antique jelly cupboard with bits of lace or country print
• Arrange plush bears around the Christmas tree to hide that old tree skirt
• Place small plush ones sticking out of teapots or teacups for table arrangements
• Use bearstones and dollstones as accents on and around books in your bookcase
• Sit resins or small plush on shelves above windows for that country look
• Use small plush bears as Christmas ornaments. Just attach with ties of raffia
• Use small plush as accents for your larger dolls and bears
• Decorate your tall fiscus trees with white lights and smaller plush, tied on with raffia. Thanks to Sharon
• Hang small plush and baskets from wooden curtain rods for cute country look
• Use small plush as packages decorations
• Arrange plush or resins on your desk or around computer area
• Arrange plush in foyer on console for greeting guests
• Display plush and/or resins on fireplace mantle in the summer time with clay flower pots filled with ivy or summer flowers. Thanks to Becky
• I also collect stone crocks. Makes the crocks and bears look good when a bear is looking out of the crock... Thanks to Jean
• I collect old wooden crates which are great for displaying the bears. In addition, I prop them on my living room couch (we don't let the dogs in there). I hang the small ones on pegs which are attached to small shelves.... Thanks to CVPW
• I love my Boyds Bears which I have only recently started collecting. I sometimes work at my home office, so I have "decorated" my office with Bears. I have bears sitting on chairs, minature chairs, minature bike, in bookcases and on my desk. It makes my office a great place to be and I love working in there.......Thanks to Shirley
• I have many Boyds & other bears, and like to arrange them in antique wooden trunks. I put cardboard boxes inside the trunk to bring the height up (so the bears aren't buried inside the box!), cover it with a country check cloth and then start arranging my bears.They really look cute all snuggled next to each other, sitting on each other's laps, and some are even hanging out of the trunk.........Thanks to Sharon
• I have so many 1st editions, my husband built me wooden valances over my bedroom windows to hold all the resin ones because of my grand kids. He also made me a big wagon where my bears sit, all cuddled up with a huge bear he got years ago from a couple that made bears for gifts.......Thanks to Bonita Martin of Goodman, MO
• One of the ways I display my soft Boyd's are peeking out over the top of a bookcase in our living room. Whenever I go to a flea market, I find little toy wicker chairs, or even a small table just in case I want to put one on my end table. Here in my office on the window sill in front of me is the laptop bear and he makes me chuckle because next to him is the bear with her blueberry pie and he is so engrossed in his computer, he doesn't even notice... (My husband is like this.) ......Thanks again Bonita : )
• Here's a display idea from me: get an old wash tub and strip one of your large-clothed bears. Set his clothes in a pile so they're visible, and set him in the tub. Buy some of that cotton stuffing from a craft store, and fill it in so that it looks like bubbles, even placing some on his head. Then attach a bar of lye soap or a scrubber with a rubber band. This makes and ABSOLUTELY adorable display inside the bathroom. You could also have a large-girl bear like Clarissa or Lisa bathing a smaller dressed bear like Eddie Beanberger, or Huck, with their clothes laid aside, and the girl bear's sleeves rolled up........ Thanks to Erick.
• I recently visited Boyds bear Country in Gettysburg PA.  It is a wonderful place!  I wanted to use the shopping bag, which is a large brown paper bag with a boyds bear country logo on it.  So I put a box in the bag and arranged some bears "Looking out of the top,"  one bear,  Eggbert is even lowering a small bear out of the bag using yarn.  And F.O.B. 2003 bear, Allison Rose  is climbing out of the bag all by herself!  It makes a terrific "just got back from Boyds shopping" display!

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