{"id":788,"date":"2025-05-19T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsies.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:33:20","slug":"special-daddy-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budsies.com\/blog\/stories\/special-daddy-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Memories Alive With A Custom 3D Stuffed \u201cSelfie\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We are a professional blog site that may receive compensation or free samples from the companies whose products and topics we write about. We are independently owned, and the opinions expressed here are of the writer. To read the full disclosure<span class=\"m_3871386988213018798gmail-m_-8617071317998775876m_6395358718059566800m_-1181875628264808288m_2398834186456426554m_-7963167784855727402m_5932416644626819097m_-1456751208442766376m_1581871233107012892m_1472806233815635405gmail-m_8087146665919991394m_7411034297713208803m_6824544230197739978m_858532755732763294m_-7331023844342833447m_694271894908742242m_3956751813604887153m_4692906290255386792m_5983400281925266902m_6313770186097087906m_8369980430808604351m_2891289881539832181m_-6225507721893244553m_-7795067247139143933m_-7060677106117953453m_-5839335434733599834m_-1624522295779563265m_-2315779184632744403m_8673639176442545672m_2499868100915388402m_6384780637443166212gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.budsies.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/blog-disclosure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.budsies.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/blog-disclosure\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556818331726000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEzCIhvroDUzFDdNkLdF4_Pz26sw\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>______________________________<wbr \/>______________________________<wbr \/>____________<\/p>\n<p>When death strikes, not much is left behind. Some old clothes, stacks of crumpled photographs, or a seemingly haunting stream of photos on iCloud. It\u2019s a psychic loss as well as an emotional one, and for young children, the experience is also often marked by the loss of tangibility. When comfort is lost, sometimes the best way to fill a void is to create something in its wake. Something to hold onto and make you smile a little.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa McCann had her Budsie Selfies made so her children could hold their father, who suddenly passed away nearly two years prior.<\/p>\n<p>She found the\u00a0photo of her husband in his desk and uploaded it to the Budsies website, detailing his outfit from his signature glasses down to his favorite black hightop Converse sneakers. This was a special Valentine\u2019s Day present for her children to remember their father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><\/p>\n<h2>His Daughter\u2019s Reaction<\/h2>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hl9KFeKoyac\"><iframe title=\"Keeping Memories Alive With A Custom 3D Stuffed &quot;Selfie&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hl9KFeKoyac?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Calling her Budsie her \u201cdaddy doll,\u201d Cat likes to keep her Budsie in her bedroom, occasionally bringing him along as a chaperone to sleepovers or on trips out of town. \u201cShe likes to keep her daddy doll close at night,\u201d explained Vanessa. Afraid to lose her daddy doll, she prefers to leave him on her bed, where he can greet her when she arrives home and hug her, steadying and soothing her until she falls asleep.<\/p>\n<h2>Keeping Memories Alive and Huggable<\/h2>\n<p>The Selfies we produce here at Budsies are an evolution of the technological age in which we live. They say memories fade, but with a photo, needle and thread, and the love that goes into each Budsie \u2014 we work together to bring memories keep memories huggably alive.<\/p>\n<p>We are blessed to have the privilege to create a physical memento to ease the grieving process and do our part in satisfying the psychologically important need to have someone to run to and hold. For the McCann family, Budsies is a way to embrace, cherish, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">remember<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And we hope these memories never fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Selfie dolls were made to carry on a father&#8217;s memory <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[824,91,95,98,101,32,774,156,80,92,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stories","8":"tag-ad","9":"tag-budsie","10":"tag-budsies","11":"tag-creative-gift","12":"tag-custom-plush","13":"tag-custom-stuffed-animal","14":"tag-dongler","15":"tag-memorial","16":"tag-selfie","17":"tag-spotlight","18":"tag-thoughtful-gift"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Daddy Doll to Remember Their Father | Budsies Custom Gifts Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you lose someone, sometimes the best way to fill a void is to create something to hold onto and make you smile. 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