Hey everyone it’s Mother’s Day!  Do anything special for mom today?

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Going along with our little monkey of the month theme, we decided to make a Mother’s Day monkey amigurumi!  Surprise!!  Yeah, not much of a surprise but hey it’s a good idea especially if you’ve completely run out of gift ideas for mom this year.  Why not just make a hand-crafted and personalized monkey amigurumi for mom?  Moms always like what their children make them.  It’s like being back in elementary school and bringing home a teacher-forced-me-to in-class art project for Mother’s Day.  And with nothing else to do with it, mom will slap a magnet on it and show it off on the sustenance box:  the refrigerator!!!

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Well, hopefully you don’t think of it that way!    We love our mommies and I’m sure they’ll love anything you try to do to thank them.

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But if you really want to do something personal and special for mom, then take the crochet mom a Mother’s Day amigurumi approach.

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Of course, this monkey would not be considered a mom if it didn’t even have a kid monkey to go with it!

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What do you think?  Does the apron on our Mother’s Day monkey amigurumi make it look motherly?

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What’s mom going to bake today?  Cakes, cupcakes, pancakes?

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How about all of the above.    If any of you remember from my first few posts, those are NOT hats!!!  They are cakes!

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They can hold hands too!  Well somewhat…

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This is mom’s favorite lipstick.  And here is our little kiddie stealing mom’s lipstick and going for a joy ride~

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Oh, and don’t worry this family is still not complete yet!  Are we forgetting someone?  More monkey amigurumis to come!

Thanks to all of you for looking~ Happy Mother’s Day!  Maybe I should go and get a I<3MoM tattoo!  hahaa…ouch.

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What does that look like to you??

What about this??

The answers better be CAKES!!  not HATS!!!  So, these were some things I crocheted out of stringy thready stuff.  They’re supposed to be cakes, but most everyone I’ve shown it to thinks they’re hats!  The final count: 1/9 correctly identified these objects as cakes.  Isn’t that sad??  Is it really that bad…

I made more, but haven’t found the time to take pictures of them.  When I get around to it, I’ll post more.  In the meantime, are there any suggestions I can do to make them more cake-like?  I need them to be unmistakable!!  No more “I thought it was a hat” business!

Each one is about 1 inch in diameter, and 3/4 inch tall.  I even stuffed it with polyfil, so they’re nice and squishy!  I used the smallest crochet hook possible – no idea what size that is…and some weird stringy thready thing that I don’t know what it’s called.  Sigh, such is my amateur knowledge, I apologize.  Most of the decorations are made of felt and random craft trimmings I found lying around my mom’s craft stash.  The fruits I meticulously made out of cutting microscopic pieces of felt, gluing them together, and then sewing on lines.  Lots of work for the fruit, but I think it’s worth it. 

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