Thursday, October 18, 2012

A very sad looking Giraffe

My youngest brought down one very sad looking Giraffe the other week and asked if I could fix him.


All the stuffing had somehow disappeared from his neck.

So I performed some surgery and found a most disgusting mess internally.


Goodness knows what the brown stuff is.  I know this Giraffe is rather old and came from China but this stuff was horrible.  Whilst it didn't smell it was sticky.

So I stuffed a bit here and there.  Then I stuffed some more, and a bit more, and then some more still until the Giraffe looked like this.


I added some thin dowel to his neck too. He could do with some surgey on 3 of his legs (I did one but run out of stuffing), but otherwise he is now a very happy looking chap.


2 comments:

  1. My kids used to have that exact same giraffe!! I have just discovered your blog and am enjoying browsing through it. I had to laugh when I saw your pages of "things to be finished" and "things to be started".
    While I don't have the kits etc, I have my craft books/magazines with little sticky labels attached to all the things I want to make......last year when I counted them all I had sticky labels on approx 270 or so items!! Just never enough hours in the day is there lol

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    1. There's just something about looking thru craft magazines and books and dreaming of the projects you'd like to make. I would say nearly every book/mag I own has a dog eared page in it somewhere......

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