How We Began

Welcome from All Of Us at A Teddy for Keeps!!! We’re happy to have you join us!

Currently, we are a group of 11 cross-stitchers who all met randomly through a message board on the DMC cross-stitching mentor site. We broke off to start our own little stitching group on flickr (a great photo sharing site, I may add), though we still stay active with DMC. From flickr we were inspired to start an organization that would help to bring a smile to the life of a child who has been abandoned, abused, or exposed to any myriad of conditions that has them pulled from the life they know and into wonderful places like Girls and Boys Town USA. There they receive the help they need to live their lives as best as they can. We proposed this idea of giving bears to the children on our forum, and then to the wonderful people who run these centers. All being in agreement, A Teddy for Keeps was born Oct 23rd '07!

We are now just over 1 Year Old! Everyone has pulled together and worked so hard to get this mission working! I'm happy to say we have also just delivered our second shipment of bears to the Pederson-Krag Center in NY, where they plan to give them out for Christmas to the children who need them most. To this date, we have stitched and donated 50 teddies! More t-shirts have been ordered and we are still going strong. I am so proud of All of You who have helped, and who keep us going.


Special Thanks To:

Thank You to All my Wonderful, Creative, and Talented Stitching Friends. You are all so caring and so generous! I am grateful and proud everyday for knowing each one of you.

Thank You to The Mascot Factory for giving us soft, beautiful bears at a very generous price. It allows us to give to many more children.

Thank You to The Pederson-Krag Center for ALL the services they offer to families in crisis.

Thank You to Boys Town for reaching out to more than 1.4 million boys & girls each year through their youth and health care programs.
Saving Children, Healing Families

Thank You to The DMC Corporation, without their web-site and message board, we never would have met and this project never begun. We also thank you for your free designs at www.dmc-usa.com, one is featured on the top right corner of this blog.


Sincere Thank Yous for your
Monetary Contributions & Support

Veena D & Girish B of Westford, MA
Cristin G of Placentia, CA
Diane S of Bransholme Hull, UK
Margaret N of East Yorkshire, UK
Elise & Ben R of Rosebud, MT
Terry & Fred V of Cimarron, KS
Stella S of Elmont, NY
Alisa B of Harrah, OK



- Michelle & Donna


Please continue to help us Grow!!
We NEED your support to reach as many hurting children as possible.