Dress #24 "Boy am I stuffed!"
-10 wire clothes hangers
-small gauge wire and copper phone wire, staples
-stuffed animals from my own childhood 1960 â 1975
-stuffed animals from my childrenâs early years, 1990 â 2000 or so
-happy meal toys of the stuffed variety, 1990âs
-animals purchased as souvenirs for my kids or for myself
-thread
-bib used by my mom when my son Travis was an infant, 1990
-wolf ears headband from my friend Jules who was VP of Marketing for Great Wolf resorts at the time
-exterior visible animals number 120 (or more as some are added when found around the house)
-interior stuffed items number 21 and include (fuzzy dice, flamingo golf club cover from 1986, 2 baby toys from my kids but never used by them, 2 of my own baby toys totally worn out, one large Barney doll
-one small rubber duck
No stand is used
Name tag is my first one from Joseph Horne company, in red because it was the Christmas season (September) when I got hired in 1984.
This dress is very heavy, closing in on 30 pounds! All of the animals are sewn to each other or around a support, no glue is used expect for the small pink rubber duck, the rest is threads. A support of coat hangers allowed for the weight of the animals to not collapse. The interior unseen animals are mostly multiples or ones that are so beat up they would not hold up. The two round animals became shoulder pads because they did not fit into the amorphic shapes of the others. Tags have been left on and used as is. I did remove many of the small ones from their McDonalds packaging as they were happy meal toys during the beanie baby era of 1994 or so.
-small gauge wire and copper phone wire, staples
-stuffed animals from my own childhood 1960 â 1975
-stuffed animals from my childrenâs early years, 1990 â 2000 or so
-happy meal toys of the stuffed variety, 1990âs
-animals purchased as souvenirs for my kids or for myself
-thread
-bib used by my mom when my son Travis was an infant, 1990
-wolf ears headband from my friend Jules who was VP of Marketing for Great Wolf resorts at the time
-exterior visible animals number 120 (or more as some are added when found around the house)
-interior stuffed items number 21 and include (fuzzy dice, flamingo golf club cover from 1986, 2 baby toys from my kids but never used by them, 2 of my own baby toys totally worn out, one large Barney doll
-one small rubber duck
No stand is used
Name tag is my first one from Joseph Horne company, in red because it was the Christmas season (September) when I got hired in 1984.
This dress is very heavy, closing in on 30 pounds! All of the animals are sewn to each other or around a support, no glue is used expect for the small pink rubber duck, the rest is threads. A support of coat hangers allowed for the weight of the animals to not collapse. The interior unseen animals are mostly multiples or ones that are so beat up they would not hold up. The two round animals became shoulder pads because they did not fit into the amorphic shapes of the others. Tags have been left on and used as is. I did remove many of the small ones from their McDonalds packaging as they were happy meal toys during the beanie baby era of 1994 or so.