Teddy Bear

A golden plush teddy bear with curly textured fur, sitting upright. Rounded ears with soft pink inner patches, black bead eyes, an embroidered nose and mouth. No ribbon, no clothing, no accessories. About twenty-five centimetres tall. The fur is dense enough to hold its shape after being squeezed and soft enough that the person holding it does not want to let go. Twenty dollars.

$20.00 USD. Same day delivery, seven days a week, across all Bali locations including Ubud, Seminyak, Kuta, Nusa Dua, Canggu and Jimbaran. Standalone teddy bear, plush golden fur, classic sitting pose.

The Product Nobody Planned

I never intended to sell a teddy bear by itself. Bears existed in the shop as part of combo products. The three roses and a bear at $41. The single rose and a bear at $35. The triple combo at $56. Those bundles made sense to me as a florist because the bear supported the flowers. The bear was the sidekick.

Then a woman from Osaka WhatsApped me in November 2018 asking if she could buy the bear without the roses. Her daughter was turning four at a family villa in Ubud and she wanted something waiting on the bed when they arrived. Not flowers. Not chocolates. A bear. She had seen the bear in the three-rose combo photo and asked me to send the bear alone. I said yes, worked out a price, and Kadek delivered it to a villa off Jl. Bisma that afternoon. The mother sent me a photo three hours later. The daughter was asleep in the car seat holding it with both hands.

I listed the bear as a standalone product the following week. It sold eleven times in the first month. Most of those eleven orders came from people who had never bought flowers from us before and several of them came back within two months and ordered arrangements.

Who Buys a Bear on Its Own

Three groups, consistently.

Parents sending to children. A birthday at a Bali resort where a four-year-old or a six-year-old does not care about roses but will remember the bear on the pillow for years. I deliver standalone bears to family rooms at InterContinental Jimbaran, at Hilton Garden Inn Kuta, at family-friendly villas in Sanur and Denpasar. During school holiday weeks the bear outsells half the flower products because the senders are parents and grandparents, not partners.

Hospital visitors. Flowers have rules at hospitals. Some wards restrict them, some rooms have no surface for a vase, some patients are too unwell to care about an arrangement. A bear has no rules. It fits on a bedside table at BIMC or in a patient's lap at Siloam. I have had nurses tell me the bear is the gift they see patients actually hold onto. Literally. Hands around it during the night. Flowers sit across the room. The bear stays close.

Add-on buyers. Someone orders a flower arrangement or a bouquet and adds the bear at checkout for $20. The bear arrives with the flowers and suddenly the delivery looks like a coordinated gift instead of a single item. The gifts section exists because of this pattern. People who would never think to buy a bear end up adding one because twenty dollars turns a nice delivery into a generous one.

A Phone Call from Manchester

A man called the shop at 7am on a Tuesday. English accent, Manchester if I had to guess. He said his wife was at Maya Ubud with her sister for a spa weekend and he wanted to send something but could not decide what. He had been looking at the flower range for twenty minutes. I asked him what the occasion was. He said there was no occasion. He said he just wanted her to know he was thinking about her.

I asked if his wife liked flowers. Long pause. "Honestly? I have no idea. We've been married eleven years and I have never sent her flowers." Another pause. "She likes soft things. She sleeps with three cushions."

I suggested the bear. He laughed and said "Are you serious?" I told him about the Osaka mother, about the daughter in the car seat, about how the bear is the gift that does not require the sender to know anything about floristry or colour preference or vase availability. He ordered it. Twenty dollars. I wrote a card that said "From your husband who has never sent you flowers and chose a bear instead."

Kadek delivered to Maya Ubud at 11am. The spa reception team placed it on the daybed in her treatment room. She found it before her massage. The husband forwarded me her WhatsApp reply that evening: "Eleven years and this is the most thoughtful thing you've sent me. It's a BEAR." She took it home to Manchester. I know this because he ordered flowers three weeks later. Red roses. For her birthday. The bear broke the seal.

What Twenty Dollars Gets Wrong

Nothing. That is the unusual thing about this product. Flowers can arrive at the wrong moment, in the wrong colour, to a room with no vase. Chocolates can melt in Bali's heat. Wine has restrictions at some resorts. A bear has no failure mode. It arrives, it gets held, it stays. There is no wrong occasion and no wrong recipient. The four-year-old at the Ubud villa and the sixty-year-old at BIMC Hospital and the wife at Maya Ubud all had the same reaction. They picked it up.

The bear does not wilt. It does not need water. It does not need sunlight or shade. It does not expire. It flies home in a suitcase without requiring bubble wrap or a wet pack. A man from Singapore sent one to his mother at Courtyard by Marriott in Nusa Dua and she carried it through three airports on the way home because she did not want it in her checked luggage. It is now on her nightstand in Toa Payoh. I know this because the son told me when he ordered anniversary flowers four months later.

Pair It

The bear works alone and it works as an add-on. Add it to any flower order at checkout and it arrives alongside the arrangement or bouquet in the same delivery. The most popular pairings in our order data: bear with twenty pink roses and chocolates for birthdays. Bear with twelve red roses and vase for Valentine's Day. Bear with a tropical arrangement for new baby celebrations. Bear with a box of chocolates for children's birthdays where the parent wants a gift without flowers.

Browse the gift collection for other add-ons including candles and chocolates. For bear combo products that include roses, see the 1 Rose + Bear at $35, the 3 Roses + Bear at $41, or the 3 Roses + Bear + Chocolates at $56. For the full product range, see all products.

Care

None. The bear requires no water, no trimming, no sunlight, and no temperature management. Surface clean with a damp cloth if needed. The polyester fill dries quickly in Bali's warm air. The fur is colourfast so it will not fade in sunlight the way flower pigments do. If the bear gets wet in rain during delivery Kadek will dry it before handover. I have not had to replace a single bear for quality reasons in six years of selling them standalone.

Delivery

Same day delivery across all areas of Bali. The bear arrives in a clear cellophane wrap with your card attached. For hotel or resort deliveries, include the guest name, room number if available, and the resort name. For hospital deliveries to BIMC or Siloam, include the patient name and ward. Kadek coordinates with front desk, concierge, and nursing staff for placement. Delivery to Berawa, Pererenan, Bingin, Uluwatu, Tabanan, Gianyar, and Pecatu. Seven days a week including public holidays. Questions? Call +62 813 3862 5637 or visit the contact page.