Have you ever wondered where the name ‘teddy bear’ came from? Our name, Tambo Teddies, is fairly self explanatory but why ‘teddies’- where on earth did the ‘teddy’ come from to describe a soft, cuddly toy bear? Well, believe it or not, teddy bears are named after the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt!
Chances are when you purchase a Tambo Teddy it might just have the initials ‘VK’ on the bum tag and will have been created in the teddy bear workshop by Tambo Teddies Master Crafter, Verna Kruckow. The Kruckow family moved to Tambo in April 2003 and Verna started working part-time at Teddies in May of
Tambo Teddies are handmade from Australian sheepskins and the process of creating our gorgeous little friends begins when our skins arrive at the workshop in large boxes or wool bales. The skins are all unpacked, counted and sorted onto the shelves ready to be turned into teddy bears. Since we have taken over the
We have created a lovely range of Thomas Tambo Teddies especially to help raise funds for little Thomas Walsh and his family. Thomas Daryl Leslie Walsh was born on the 23rd December 2015 at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital. His troubled journey started after a tertiary ultrasound in Townsville at 32 weeks
If you ring up or call into Tambo Teddies chances are you will have the lovely Emma serve you. Emma works at Tambo Teddies three days a week and is enthusiastic about her job and about teddy bears in general. But this week Emma is away in Brisbane having a bit of treatment,
