I. Pinky and Snoopy, Part II
[For Part I, click here]
SNARP (Stuffed Needy Animal Rescue Project) got personal last night, as bink finished repairing her childhood stuffed animals:
The improvement to their feel (and smell) is more dramatic than to their appearance, with fresh puff replacing stinky, broken-down yellow foam.
bink washed them gently twice:
first in Woolite, and then with liquid Ivory soap--I think the Ivory was most effective.
Above: bink with Snoopy---his body was so threadbare, she made him a sweater vest out of an Argyle sock (Thrift Store).
BELOW: Snoopy and Pinky, all restored and dressed up:
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I worked on a cashmere sweater (-dress) for a kangaroo (bink says she needs pearls now);
and I restuffed and sewed new eyes on a donkey, supposed to be Eeyore, but he's the wrong color--Eeyore is grey.
From Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne--Chapter IV: In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
and half-fallen off, when I found him.
He wasn't saleable at the Thrift-Store, and hardly worth rescuing, technically, but I liked him.
Now he's soft and squishy. He's getting a bright scarf for winter too.
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Finally, here's Maura working on her Blackletter [Gothic] calligraphic script.
She's not a fabric person, but after her seven-month apprenticeship with a professional calligrapher, she's swift with a pen.
When I eventually get a pile of stuffed animals ready to re-home, I hope she will calligraph their name/story-tags.
[For Part I, click here]
SNARP (Stuffed Needy Animal Rescue Project) got personal last night, as bink finished repairing her childhood stuffed animals:
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| BEFORE AFTER |
bink washed them gently twice:
first in Woolite, and then with liquid Ivory soap--I think the Ivory was most effective.
Above: bink with Snoopy---his body was so threadbare, she made him a sweater vest out of an Argyle sock (Thrift Store).
BELOW: Snoopy and Pinky, all restored and dressed up:
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I worked on a cashmere sweater (-dress) for a kangaroo (bink says she needs pearls now);
and I restuffed and sewed new eyes on a donkey, supposed to be Eeyore, but he's the wrong color--Eeyore is grey.
From Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne--Chapter IV: In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
THE Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?"--and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do?" in a gloomy manner to him.This donkey toy was just cheap crap: stuffed hard with sawdust, eyes and ears and tail just glued on...
and half-fallen off, when I found him.
He wasn't saleable at the Thrift-Store, and hardly worth rescuing, technically, but I liked him.
Now he's soft and squishy. He's getting a bright scarf for winter too.
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She's not a fabric person, but after her seven-month apprenticeship with a professional calligrapher, she's swift with a pen.
When I eventually get a pile of stuffed animals ready to re-home, I hope she will calligraph their name/story-tags.
