Makin' Memories with Zachary Bear®

That is what it is all about, Makin' Memories!

What is your next memory making occasion? Easter is coming up, April 8th. A photo gift lasts longer than candy. Then there is Professional Secretaries Week, April 22 to 28. This is a time to say the "thank you" that you should say more often. Take a look at our humorous "Stressed Out Secretary. We can personalize with a name and a place of business and put it on a mug, a mouse pad, a paper weight or other gift item.

May is a month that we better start getting ready for NOW! On May 6th we thank our Nurses and our Teachers celebrating a special day for each. We have Zachary Bear designs for teachers and nurses along with our collection of calligraphic art that speaks to the dedication of both professions.

Most important of all days in May is Mother's Day on May 13. Celebrate all that Mom has done for you on her special day.

Family Tree / Tree of Life for your Family Reunion

We have just posted a watercolor tree ready to personalize for your family reunion. When you add your information to this design it looks like a custom design for your family. Make shirts to where at the reunion, magnets and other gifts for favors. We even have an easy to customize invitation to the event, just fill in the blanks. You can get custom postage, too!


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Need more ideas, order the same design on different color shirts for different family group! Order a tote bag to give to the one who traveled the furtherest to get to the reunion. Fill it with travel supplies to get home with. Make other gifts for the oldest or youngest. Have fun with this design. Click in the panel to order through Zazzle. Customize this design with your family information. You may add the date or location of the event, change type style and color all online at the Zazzle site.

Make memories with Zachary Bear! This "Tree of Life" is a watercolor by Lori DeLeonardis-Aman, the creator of Zachary Bear. Use this tree design to make your reunion memorable.

Menopause

The diversity of Lori's artwork is amazing. She even has a menopause consultant! This design was requested some years back to honor a health professional.

We are all aging and change is factor of aging. We can worry and complain about charge or we can make light of it and help others ease into it.

So accept menopause for what it is... (what is it?) and celebrate it like a badge of honor. Below you will see our products available at Zazzle with this design. The cool thing about Zazzle (or should we say the HOT THING!) is the ability to add your own personalization. See how you can put your own message on the back of the mug or shirt or magnet. Buy something for yourself or something to share with a friend!

If this design is not what you are looking remember it is just one of over 300 titles with over 700 variations. Teacher gifts are already available at the Zazzle site or our Yahoo store and we will be adding spring sports soon! So click through and see how neat these designs are!

Teacher Totebag - Personalized

Wow - our new association with Zazzle gives you the opportunity to personalize your own products live on line. While we no longer print tote bags at our store in Webster you may not order a variety of tote bags from Zazzle with our Zachary Bear® teacher images.

The Elementary Teacher is available now, many more designs will be added soon. We will start you with a teacher name for you to edit (Be sure to check the spelling). You may also add more text blocks for the school year, grade or subject,favorite quote or a dedication. Have Fun...

See my gallery at Zazzle

Teacher desk name plates have been very popular and are still available through the Yahoo Store and will ship from Webster.

Zachary Bear and his friends are on Zazzle!

Check this out, it is our first item on Zazzle. What is cool is the technology for you to add your own personalization to our gifts. This is on line and in real time. COOL!

For clearity, ZazBear at Zazzle.com is a place for artwork by Lori DeLeonardis-Aman that features characters and subjects other than Zachary Bear®. This area will feature dogs, cats, lighthouses and more...

See my gallery at Zazzle

A Singing Valentine...

Is your funny valentine a singing one! Many barbershop men and women provide singing valentines. So what kind of a valentine do you get for your favorite barbershopper? One the celebrates their hobby. Click on the picture above to the the great gifts for barbershoppers or even children or grandchildren of barbershoppers. Many gifts to choose from, shipped direct to you from CafePress.

Zachary Bear® is all about Making Memories!

We are here to help you in many ways. We make gifts with Zachary Bear pictures, drawn by Lori Aman. We make gifts with beautiful calligraphic artwork by Lisa Fox. And we make gifts with your favorite photos and your artwork.

Valentine's Day Is Coming

Yes, Valentine's Day is coming on February 14th this year!
This cute golden retriever puppy was drawn by Lori and is available on a variety of gift items. She has been drawing Zachary Bear since 1982 and likes to have a change of pace from time to time. Lori has drawn many cute dogs and cats. This one is perfect to tell someone how much you love them! Click on the picture to see all the products this cute picture is available on.


Lisa Fox provides the beautiful calligraphy at the Zachary Bear Store. In addition to personalizing the Zachary Bear pictures she creates many inspirational pieces of calligraphy. To the right you see her "Love Always" which is available on many products. Click on the picture to see more.

In the beginning...

In the beginning there was a bear. It was drawn by Lori DeLeonardis-Aman while vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Lori, an elementary art teacher, she loves kids and she loves to draw. So with the encouragement of her husband, she created a bear character and named him Zachary.

She wanted to make a storybook character and write a book. But people liked the friendly bear so much, they asked to have pictures made for their children's rooms with the child's name on it. Soon Lori was in the personalized gift market. Lori's husband Bill started a company to sell her art and gifts. He took two parts of Lori's name (Lori DeLeonardis-Aman) to come up with Loram Productions. Bill incorporated the business and together they took the show on the road. The first sales were made at local art shows in the Rochester, New York area.

The first designs were mainly storybook style settings. Some of the first designs were: Evening Prayer, Goodnight Zachary, Bubblebath, to name a few. These designs were placed in mats which were 11" by 14" on the outside edges. To mass produce these images Lori first made a black and white line drawing of the scene. This line drawing was printed on watercolor paper and all of the original series were watercolored by hand. Name personalization was added and then matted and framed. These were the original Zachary Bear® Pictures, in the beginning.