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...

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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...

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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.