About Me

I got my first Peace bear from my grandmother in 1997, when I only had a few Beanies. At that time, I had no idea how Beanie Babies were affecting the world around me. I didn't care about the high value of
Beanies, or even if they were retired or current. My Beanies
Babies were my toys, and spent more time on my floor or my
bed than the small shelves my dad had set up for me.
Needless to say, it didn't talk long for my Peace bear to take
on that well-loved look and lose his hang tag.
As the years went by, I began to find that Beanie Babies
could be found almost anywhere, due to their popularity.
My Ty collection began to gain independence from waiting
to see Grandma again to get the newest Beanie.
In December 2003, I decided that I wanted a mint Beanie
to represent the Peace Bear in my collection, and found a
cheep $2 Peace bear on Ebay.com. I immediately fell in
love with the soft, ty-dyed bear. Just a few days later,
I recieved a package from my Secret Santa from the
aboutBeanies.com message board gift exchange. Inside I
f?ound two more Peace bears (one of them can be seen with my cat) from someone who knew that I was taking an interest to what many Ty collectors already had: collecting Peace bears.
Now aware that many people had the
same love for Peace bears that I had,
I began to work on a new Web site
called Peace Mania. In a couple short
weeks, I had finished about ten pages
of Peace bear information, much of it
not very in-depth. On January 1, 2004,
I officially "opened" the site, with
advertising help from popular Beanie
sites like BeanWatcher.com, who has
been a great help to Peace Mania many
times.
In addition to collecting Beanies, I also write weekly columns for the local paper, design other Web sites, play trombone and sing in choir.
I hope you enjoy this Web site, and learn something from it!
-David Vogel, 15

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Here is my full Peace collection. Some of the highlights in it are the Hemporium 1st Anniversary commemorative, the Broadway Joseph Peace, the Peace Mania 1st anniversary commemorative Beanie and Jingle, the large and extra large Buddies, and to Garcias. I have a jumbo Peace Buddy on the way!

My first Peace bear that I got from my grandma in 1997.

Guess I'm not the only one in the house who likes Peace!