Celeste the elephant visits the stuffed animal hospital for cleaning, repair, and a new wardrobe
Today I thought I’d share Celeste’s tale. She visited the hospital over the summer. Once upon a time, she was gifted to a baby girl, but after several decades, Celeste had lost her weight and her clothes and was popping seams all over. She was in danger even from the gentlest of hugs! Here are a couple of her many diagnosis photos:
Treatment involved many steps…
Step 1: a spa. You’ve all seen this, and it was important not only because of her stuffing and fur compression, but to determine her natural color for any transplants. Here she is in her bubble bath:
Of course when she was restuffed, she got a heart of her original stuffing, and it was gray as suited an elephant:
Step 2: Recover her footpads, repair her seams and get her chubbiness right. Here she is after seam repair and foot recovering and in her first chubbiness photo:
Her person wrote “She is looking fabulous!”
We ended up adding a bit more stuffing to plump her up.
Step 3: New velour tusks and a crown! If you know her story, or if you just wondered about the glue ring on her head, you may have seen this step coming:
The crown isn’t attached here, because her person was deciding between velour and felt. Her person wrote “Fabulous!! Love the crown!” She went for the velour. 🙂
Step 4: New clothes! Here she is all better and fashionably attired in clothes like she once had (or like you may’ve seen in her books):
Her person wrote: “Ohhh Celeste looks amazing!”
So she flew home — not far, just another part of CA. And a few days later her person wrote: “Received my beautiful Celeste juat now. Thank you so much for restoring her”
