Happy Thanksgiving, Blog-o-land!
I am grateful for blogging and for all of you who read and respond here--thanks!
This, below, is Macy, according to the ripped tag.*
I got this stuffed bear off eBay, one in a lot of seven stuffed animals--only $7.99 for the whole lot--cheap, for eBay (though the shipping doubled the price).
(Most of the others I don't want--shall I get into reselling on eBay myself? Might be fun...)
BEFORE, below left:
Macy just out of the eBay box, squashed and dirty, but chipper--Macy's ears have jingle bells in them that still ring.
below right: de-stuffed and ready for a bath in the kitchen sink (I have taken to wearing a dust mask while removing toys' stuffing--I'd hate to look under a microscope at the old, wadded, chewed up material and see what's living in there)
AFTER, below:
Macy this morning, after a brief stint in the dryer on air-fluff, then a good vacuuming for more fluff restoration, and then... fresh new stuffing.
Ready to lead a Thanksgiving Day Parade!
I was so excited by how well he cleaned up, I took him to show my neighbor, who was home baking pumpkin pies.
"Cute," they said, "but aren't you being a little obsessional?"
"Obsession is just another name for passion," I said.
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* The tag is ripped, but looks like it would read in full "Macy's Associates". Looking online, this bear looks like the Cubbi Gund bears, made in the 1950s? --some have jingle-bells in their ears too.
"The Gund Company of Edison, N.J., the oldest stuffed toy company in the country... has been making stuffed bears since 1898."
--article in New York Times
I am grateful for blogging and for all of you who read and respond here--thanks!
This, below, is Macy, according to the ripped tag.*
I got this stuffed bear off eBay, one in a lot of seven stuffed animals--only $7.99 for the whole lot--cheap, for eBay (though the shipping doubled the price).
(Most of the others I don't want--shall I get into reselling on eBay myself? Might be fun...)
BEFORE, below left:
Macy just out of the eBay box, squashed and dirty, but chipper--Macy's ears have jingle bells in them that still ring.
below right: de-stuffed and ready for a bath in the kitchen sink (I have taken to wearing a dust mask while removing toys' stuffing--I'd hate to look under a microscope at the old, wadded, chewed up material and see what's living in there)
AFTER, below:
Macy this morning, after a brief stint in the dryer on air-fluff, then a good vacuuming for more fluff restoration, and then... fresh new stuffing.
Ready to lead a Thanksgiving Day Parade!
I was so excited by how well he cleaned up, I took him to show my neighbor, who was home baking pumpkin pies.
"Cute," they said, "but aren't you being a little obsessional?"
"Obsession is just another name for passion," I said.
____________________
* The tag is ripped, but looks like it would read in full "Macy's Associates". Looking online, this bear looks like the Cubbi Gund bears, made in the 1950s? --some have jingle-bells in their ears too.
"The Gund Company of Edison, N.J., the oldest stuffed toy company in the country... has been making stuffed bears since 1898."
--article in New York Times
lovely to see a revived bear
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a bath and fresh innards make! Looking quite huggable this afternoon, for an aged bear.
ReplyDeleteMacy — as in the department store?
ReplyDeleteI have their Thanksgiving parade in my mind and am imagining this bear as a helium-filled giant.
GZ& CROW: Thanks, yes, bear is revived and huggable!
ReplyDeleteMICHAEL: Well, I think it's Macy's Dept. Store--though I couldn't find this exact bear onlin, they have commissioned Gund to make holiday bears.
What a difference a bath makes! Always cute but now so clean!
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