
Dress 37 dimensional memories and craft
-child size Hawaiian shirt from summer camp prop 2006
-underskirt made of the lower legs of discarded blue jeans
-supporting the skirt is a king sized mattress cover held by rope
-picture wire, phone wire, fish line, thread, florist wire
-some items are: vintage ‘70’s leather belt, child’s bow tie and a macaroni necklace
-my 1976 bicentennial alarm clock, plastic bubble pipes of Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone, never worn baby shoes, and original smile buttons
-center dial of my Grandmother’s rotary phone, poodle shaped perfume bottle, my son’s first tooth cast and a binki, my childhood loom with the potholder still on it from the (late ‘60s)
-gifts my brother brought me from his trip to Europe in the summer of 1975…..
-wooden animal toys I got at the checkout counter of the garden store when I went with my Dad (early ‘70s)
-my original yellow and orange lion bank from the 1960s with money still in it
-pink ceramic paw print gum holder (you used to save it overnight)
-the famous “garage door”, never leave home without it
-Quill and Scroll, NHS and other honor medals from High School (1975-79)
-and so on…..and on…..and on……but I know all of it!
-name tag is my 1987 Smithsonian membership card (seemed appropriate)
I sorted boxes and boxes of treasures into categories and then put them into plastic bags that I have been saving. The bag of bags is the zippered plastic holder of a king sized comforter stuffed to the extreme…never know when you need one! Weight is the BIG issue with this dress so the bags are all wired or sewn to several layers of support to take the pressure off the body form. I thought this was the last one but……..
-underskirt made of the lower legs of discarded blue jeans
-supporting the skirt is a king sized mattress cover held by rope
-picture wire, phone wire, fish line, thread, florist wire
-some items are: vintage ‘70’s leather belt, child’s bow tie and a macaroni necklace
-my 1976 bicentennial alarm clock, plastic bubble pipes of Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone, never worn baby shoes, and original smile buttons
-center dial of my Grandmother’s rotary phone, poodle shaped perfume bottle, my son’s first tooth cast and a binki, my childhood loom with the potholder still on it from the (late ‘60s)
-gifts my brother brought me from his trip to Europe in the summer of 1975…..
-wooden animal toys I got at the checkout counter of the garden store when I went with my Dad (early ‘70s)
-my original yellow and orange lion bank from the 1960s with money still in it
-pink ceramic paw print gum holder (you used to save it overnight)
-the famous “garage door”, never leave home without it
-Quill and Scroll, NHS and other honor medals from High School (1975-79)
-and so on…..and on…..and on……but I know all of it!
-name tag is my 1987 Smithsonian membership card (seemed appropriate)
I sorted boxes and boxes of treasures into categories and then put them into plastic bags that I have been saving. The bag of bags is the zippered plastic holder of a king sized comforter stuffed to the extreme…never know when you need one! Weight is the BIG issue with this dress so the bags are all wired or sewn to several layers of support to take the pressure off the body form. I thought this was the last one but……..