Betsy Bear Creative

01/03/2026

Just posted this on Explore, but here is a list of this year's Bear Celebration Days! Head to Explore.org on the days listed to learn or share about specific bears or Brooks themes during the off season. Thanks to Birgitt and Mariah for all their hard work putting it together!

12/24/2025

Seasons greetings and merry Christmas, bear friends! Whether it is a river full of salmon, a warm roof over your head, or peace on Earth, 164 Bucky and I hope Santa makes all your wishes come true. And if it doesn't happen, I think we can all agree to blame 151 Walker 😂

12/01/2025

Happy holidays! If you bought an advent calendar, you get to open your first door and see what bear is behind door #1. Spoiler alert, it's.... just kidding. I don't even remember what I ate for dinner two days ago. For those placing holiday orders, grumpy Electra has decided Christmas cut-off will be Friday, December 12th this year. USPS has already been a headache for about a month, and I want to ensure get your orders before December 25th!

11/26/2025

Psst... I rarely run sales, but I joined in on the Etsy Cyberweek sale through December 2nd. Select older photos are available at 25% off to make room for newer photos. Quantities are limited, so don't miss your chance! https://www.etsy.com/shop/BetsyBearCreative

11/20/2025

While I don't sell regular calendars, there are still a few Katmai Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendars available! Orders need to be placed in the next few days to get it to you in time to start the countdown on December 1st :)

This Advent Calendars item by BetsyBearCreative has 4 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Seattle, WA. Listed on Oct 24, 2025

10/21/2025

All of the 2025 photos are finally up on my Etsy store. Here is the remaining choices in addition to the ones previously posted! All are 8x10 prints, available for $26 each which includes shipping at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BetsyBearCreative. I am working to clean up the store for the holiday season, but as always, reach out if you have any questions!

10/06/2025

Housekeeping update: One of the reasons I started this small business was to offer affordable, high resolution photos of some of our favorite bears. I try hard to keep my prices low enough and raise them as little as possible and still make it worthwhile to run the business, but with the costs of rising materials and shipping, I have had to make a slight price adjustment of a dollar to my 8"x10" photos. As always, if this puts a print of your favorite bear out of price range for you, reach out and we will see what we can do to make it happen. And for happier news, I have finalized my choice of photos of favorites to print from 2025. Still working on updating my Etsy store for ordering, but here is a preview of half of the new photos! More new photos to come.

10/02/2025

I feel like I have been behind on everything since returning from Brooks. But I did remember our donation! For those that have purchased stuff from me, you know I donate a dollar from each item purchased and hold the donation until Fat Bear Week when Explore.org or Charlie Annenberg matches all donations to the Otis Fund. So a collective thank you for all who helped make this year's donation of $115. I decided to double your donations, which will then get doubled by Explore.org. Yay for our bears!!!

09/23/2025

Don't feel bad for me. I know I am fat and I wouldn't have wanted to take the title away from the clear future winner, 901, any way 😂

09/05/2025

The Friday focus to make it to the weekend. Happy Friday everyone (yeah yeah...still slowly working on my photos while trying to make the most of the last bits of summer)!

08/28/2025

I'll race ya... salmon takes the lead (for now)!

08/24/2025

Spotlight on a bear I haven't gotten many photos of over the years.... 99! I hear he went on a mini walkabout after I left but has now returned. So huge and yet SO CUTE.