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It’s supper cold here so I turned my bed into a little nest!!🐾

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┈➤Personal stimboard ★

୨୧┊Note: the photo in the middle is my axolotl plushie so this is a personal stimboard based on him!!

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build-a-bear “season of hugs” bears !!!

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trans dress 👗 🏳️‍⚧️

trans dress 👗 🏳️‍⚧️

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Got checked in to the Gaylord, and went to Build-A-Bear! I stuffed Hamish, and also got Daffodil the colorful splatters cow c:

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living here now

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I do this!!! Here's BeeGee out on my college campus!! Everyone finds him lovely!!

I need carrying around a stuffed animal friend to be normalized

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build a bear werewolves 🌙 (howl-o-ween werewolf 2015, moons-a-glow 2014, howlin’ werewolf 2022, howl-o-ween 2021)

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some of my favourite outfits from dress-up today >:3

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A bit of a late introduction but this is Skylar (He/him) he joined us the last week of December. His hobbies include j-fashion, sewing, computer programming, collecting sanrio merch and watching anime. He's the brother to Merlin my purple bab frog ^.^

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Pochacco! ૮ ˶ˆ ﻌ ˆ˶ ა

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Plushie Restoration: Elmo and Winter

HELP I deleted the draft on accident so now I have to start over

Ahem

Recently I got some older Build a Bears off of eBay and decided to restore them!

Elmo is from the 2004 Sesame Street collab and stands at 19" tall!

Winter is from the A Friend Fur All Seasons 2007 collection and is 14"

Under the cut is the whole process I went through both for posterity and in case anyone wanted a step by step guide on restoring build a bears :)

Here are there before pictures!! They didn't smell bad which was a pleasant surprise; Winter did have a bit of an "old basement" smell but that came off in the wash so they both smelled a bit like soap

As you can see they're not in bad shape, just well loved over the last 17-20 years

First order of business was to unstuff them so they didn't get waterlogged in the wash! I used my seam ripper on their back stitches and found their original hearts, find a friend ID tags, and Elmo had a sound chip in him!

I wish I had a way to restore the sound chip, but since it's literally 20 years old I'll settle for keeping it as a memento

Ta da! Fluffless!

As for the washing process, I did a gentle cycle with a deep fill and All Free and Clear detergent

Insert the funny spin cycle photo

The drying process had a bit of trial and error: I eventually put them on the shoe rack so they wouldn't bang around in the wash (Elmo has big plastic eyes so this posed a very loud issue)

I set it to a 50 minute timed dry on the lowest heat setting and checked on them every ten minutes or so. I also found that you have to rotate them on the shoe rack so they dry evenly

Winter was dryer than Elmo a lot quicker, but after they were both only a little damp I took them out and got to brushing

I cleaned a wire dog brush and went against the grain until they were super fluffy again!

As you can see Elmo had a lot more debris than Winter!

After this I hung them up on hangers so they could dry the rest of the way overnight

The next day it was off to build a bear! I actually work there so my experience/process will likely be a bit different than the average person, but I'll still let you know both what I did and what you would likely do!

I added a sound chip to Winter and placed both their original hearts and a new one in them so they could be extra loved!

After they were stuffed (I like mine pretty firm), I closed them up with a ladder stitch and a kiss!

And there they are!! Fully restored build a bear friends. This was such a fun process and I'd honestly love to try it again with new friends sometime!

And here they are at their big brother BeeGee's birthday party. I guess it's their birthday now too!!

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How it started vs how it's going

BeeGee the frog turns a year old today 🥺

He was with me through one of the hardest years of my life and he's turned into one of my dearest friends

Yes he's a plushie but I'm so grateful he's in my life

Here's to another year together!

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Just realized my new babies are gonna have the same birthday as BeeGee, just a year apart 🥺

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Long post about the plush restoration process will be incoming in the next day or two 👀

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Update: found winter's voice line

It's gonna be interesting to see how many tries it takes to get it right but we'll do our best!

Also they're out for delivery already and I'm so excited!!!

Help I still need to find a voice line for Winter when he gets here

Him and Elmo are expected to get delivered tomorrow

I would have done it by now, I just get so overexcited hearing his voice that I haven't been able to pick one

I am looking forward to being able to restore them both; I know Elmo is from 2004 so it's been twenty years of love and wear for him